X-Plane PB8 is out

[Franz007 499]

That's quite strange, i did not observe any improvements in the FPS beetween this one and previous beta....

[jcomm 5,939]

But an email from Austin this morning gives me good hope to see the weathervane problem fixed, and the Pt-6 model coorect in XP11 :-)  Let's wait and see !

[uwespeed 497]

 

I also don't get any improvement in fps. And they are still quite low, despite I have a brandnew rig (GTX1080, 32 GB RAM, i7-6700K). It seems, the Nvidia Linux drivers aren't that good (threaded optimization and stuff is not even possible to switch on (easily) in Linux).

[ryanbatc 12,857]

XP10 planes are definitely better performing for me now. The XP11 Cessna is the same.

 

Especially I noticed glass cockpits are higher fps. That Bell 429 I just got had about 30 fps on the ramp now 40. That's a big gain.

[theskyisthelimit 48]

But and email from Austin this morning gives me ggod hope to see the weathervane problem fixed, and the Pt-6 model coorect in XP11 :-)  Let's wait and see !

Which email?  Did he state something i missed somewhere?

[jcomm 5,939]

Which email?  Did he state something i missed somewhere?

 

I asked about weathervane and the PT-6 fuel flow implementation.

[HighTowers 1,434]

Beta 6 and 7 seemed quite stable with short flights so decided to do a cross the pond in the FF 767. KORD LOWW. Unfortunately it crashed near the end of my NAT route. GRRR  Cant see why ocean would cause a crash. The log doesnt tell me much at all.

Performance is pretty good though and everything else seems to working as it should.

 

However the sky banding! ugh so ugly.  Weird moon like im flying into the twilight zone intertwined with being teleported.

[hjsmuc 393]

Try this against the banding:

 

set ("sim/private/controls/dome/kill_glares", 1.0)

 

I have no moon here and very small banding with this FlywithLua script line.

[Swe_Richard 1,172]

Updating from B6 to B8 gives me some nav-data error: "no procedures found i cifp folder..."

 

Worked just fine in B6..

[Jimmy RFR 406]

 

 

XP10 planes are definitely better performing for me now. The XP11 Cessna is the same.

Especially I noticed glass cockpits are higher fps. That Bell 429 I just got had about 30 fps on the ramp now 40. That's a big gain.

 

Extensive testing with a few different aircraft (all third party), in a few different places showed some uneven results. I think there's still some weird effects that interplay within the vsync setting, the AA setting, surrounding objects, and cockpit window glass on third party aircraft from XP10.

 

I posted a screen earlier showing my dramatic increase in frames in one particular scenery, with one particular plane. Reproducible results on multiple starts. However, switching to a different scene, with a bunch of static AI in front of me, and the issue was back... ~50's fps with no glass, ~30's fps with glass. Switching viewpoint out of the cabin in the same spot, immediate 60 fps.  Noteworthy that the default C172 is simply 60 fps in the same scene all the time.

 

Interestingly enough, the same aircraft (again using the vFlyteAir Traveler due to the ability to toggle all glass on and off) in Beti-X's CYBD Bella Coola with the exact same settings, simply pulls a steady mid 50's fps regardless of the visibility of the cockpit glass.

 

Now, it's easy to dismiss this all, since generally I'm pulling quite a high framerate, except that dramatic variance means there's something strange going on - it's either certain specific textures or objects, that when viewed through a semi-transparent texture with reflections, cause a drop in fps for some reason. It's not all textures or objects, just certain ones. It's noteworthy that they seem to have partially addressed this with pb7/8, because it means that it *can* be addressed.

 

I think that this is why some people are reporting fps increases and some aren't - it's varies widely depending on the aircraft and scenery in use.

 

One noteworthy thing about the new beta is that I found much less load was being placed on the CPU by using VSync. In pb6 using VSync caused a noticeable increase, which is now gone.

[MarioDonick 752]

10 bucks Ben won't fix the sky before XP11 goes final.

 

Ben already said it is NOT trivial.

[wiler 394]

I had to delete my xp11 folder after that update totally screwed me up. Hope I can get it back to like it was running in pb3!! 

[sd_flyer 6,045]

I have ATIS at LAX reporting wing 280 at 16 and active runway 07L and 07R. It seemed worked fine in beta 6. Also there are no runway number tags on the map (when zoomed in)

Does anyone else noticed that?

[strider1 575]

I asked about weathervane and the PT-6 fuel flow implementation.

 

And ?

[wiler 394]

can someone try to park at lhbp in pb8 and see what happens. I reinstalled xp11 from scratch and loaded it up and Budapest is messed up still. the plane is below the tarmac sitting on grass, its a very strange bug....