X-Plane 11.30 Beta is out!

[peloto 213]

B6 is out the oven, in the dish, ready.

[soaring_penguin 428]

1 hour ago, peloto said:

B6 is out the oven, in the dish, ready.

I did a quick flight around town, and at first looks, all the visual problems like 2D trees, missing lights, ... have been solved. On my system, performance is a bit better then 11.26 (UHD mesh would trash my framerate, making it unuseable, now I can fly without stuttering and a steady framerate of 25 - 30FPS around these regions).

As usual, for performance, you mileage may vary (as well as you expectations 😉 ).

Oh, and clouds are looking better and better, cumulus are more defined now.

Reflections and scenery shadows still bring framerate down.

Jan

[jcomm 5,890]

Had a CTD on the first start, but then all was fine and didn't happen again.

Tested with all add-ons.

Looks smoother than b5.

[Colonel X 1,428]

Any reason to uninstall Mister X's HD trees now?

[soaring_penguin 428]

1 hour ago, Colonel X said:

Any reason to uninstall Mister X's HD trees now?

no, the trees are still the same from 11.26, as far as I can tell.

[sightseer 895]

theres also a strange flashing in the VC of the Cessna with b6.  I think its the engine smoke effect.

On my system I cant load any previously working METARs (Load custom METAR from weather menu).  I think maybe a previous beta updater wasn't right because one of them told me that I had altered nearly every file it wanted to update and that's not normal updater behavior.

Im going back to 11.26rc2 for a while.  but things were looking pretty good (cloud lighting, overall lighting...still have the annoying sudden sky brightness changes when crossing specific longitude lines though: take off from KMTN and fly 240 degrees to KBWI at sunset - sky will darken right as fly over KBWI)

I think Im through with reporting bugs.  they really don't care.

Edited November 29, 2018 by sightseer

[Paraffin 2,197]

24 minutes ago, sightseer said:

I think Im through with reporting bugs.  they really don't care.

I doubt that's the case. They're just prioritizing the more critical bugs first, and Laminar usually puts minor graphics glitches lower in the "to do" list than bugs related to flight model and overall stability. It's a small team and they can't work on everything at once.

As long as we're not posting repeated instances of the same bug, which they explicitly request us not to do, then we're performing a valuable service with these bug reports.

[Griphos 138]

10 hours ago, soaring_penguin said:

Oh, and clouds are looking better and better, cumulus are more defined now.

I'm seeing a kind of repetition of cloud patterns I haven't ever noticed before.

Also, in the latest update, I get the strange flashing effect in cockpit noted above, whether from smoke effects or perhaps cloud textures impinging inside the cockpit, I don't know.  

[Dirk98 354]

I have terrible terrible performance in the heavy overcast or above. FPS drops in half. I know my AAx8 setting is the culprit. But used to be Ok (in the current stable version). Latest 11.30b6 here and no add-ons yet.

(6700k @4.7GHz gtx 1080Ti)

Edited December 2, 2018 by Dirk98

[Dirk98 354]

On 11/29/2018 at 8:59 PM, Griphos said:

I'm seeing a kind of repetition of cloud patterns I haven't ever noticed before.

Also, in the latest update, I get the strange flashing effect in cockpit noted above, whether from smoke effects or perhaps cloud textures impinging inside the cockpit, I don't know.  

Try a single propeller, it looks like it does blow dust/particles directly in your face in the cockpit. I'll try to change nVidia driver to the latest one 417.01 but it's something in the gfx rendering of the current XP11 beta.

Edited December 2, 2018 by Dirk98

[soaring_penguin 428]

4 minutes ago, Dirk98 said:

Try a single propeller, it looks like it does blow dust/particles directly in your face in the cockpit. I'll try to change nVidia driver to the latest one 417.01 but it's something in the gfx rendering of the current XP11 beta.

Yes I noticed this too with default planes. I think it is the new particle system again . We have also seen condens in the 737 cabin in a previous build.,

[jt8d9a 1,881]

Beta 7 is out!

[jt8d9a 1,881]

..works without problems.

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-11-30-release-notes/#Beta_7

[tonywob 4,768]

Thanks Nils

Sadly, I've come to rely on xVision too much, so I'm not updating to 11.30 until that is updated as well. Seems like a game of cat & mouse at the moment 🙂

[soaring_penguin 428]

There is a problem with the lod calculation. Buildings disappear and reappear without good reason, even close by.

Edited December 8, 2018 by soaring_penguin