3 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

Is anybody else really looking forward to it?

Honestly I don't expect much. I was expecting SU6 with trepidation because they promised they would fix the flyback bug. Now it's been pushed to Feb 2022.

DX12 is also mentioned as "SU7 + 2022" and the fact it will be switchable with DX11 makes me think of a wrapper type implementation (as Battlefield 1, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, etc.) therefore with no additional features and worse performance/stability for now.

I am glad they continue to update the sim and I liked the pop-in and morphing improvements + the cubemap reflections upgrade in SU6 but I continue enjoying it without thinking about updates too much... for me it's already in good shape and certainly absolutely the best sim on the market.

1 hour ago, Dominique_K said:

What, in Heavens,  does that mean 🤣 ? Asking for a friend ...

Try Vulkan with XP11 and that will give you the answer you are looking for 🙂

I just hope that the new weather engine improvements bring correct depiction of haze, visibility in live weather. That's all I am in interested in. 

33 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Try Vulkan with XP11 and that will give you the answer you are looking for 🙂

It did indeed make a difference. But, Vulkan was, I believe, a total re-write of much of the way XP11 works and took a long time. From what I'm reading, the DX12 implementation is more of an add-on instead of being baked into the sim. I guess we'll find out soon.

As is always the case with updates, temper all expectations you have.

What you should hope for is that the sim is in no worse a state than before the update and consider anything beyond that a bonus.

Edited November 15, 20214 yr by Matchstick

4 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

Finally, I think after this update we may get an avalanche of releases from some of the third party developers once they know the aircraft are fine for this update. 
Hopefully some of them would have had the opportunity to test beforehand anyway.

I believe most of us would be all in on that!

The flight plan re-shuffling upon a change of SID/STAR in the UI is finally fixed too. They promised this since SU5.

32 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

I just hope that the new weather engine improvements bring correct depiction of haze, visibility in live weather. That's all I am in interested in. 

Those are nice to haves.  What I want is contemporary accuracy and respectable ATIS/AWOS.

27 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

As is always the case with updates, temper all expectations you have.

What you should hope for is that the sim is in no worse a state than before the update and consider anything beyond that a bonus.

Zen and the Art of Expecting a Flight Simulator Update

1 minute ago, Dominique_K said:

Zen and the Art of Expecting a Flight Simulator Update

If that hasn't already been written then it needs to be ! :)

3 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

If that hasn't already been written then it needs to be ! :)

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😉

For me the sim is running flawlessly right now so the old saying comes to mind  - if it's not broke don't fix it .  

On the one hand I look forward to the update, I am interested to try the Porter and to see what this does with weather and flight dynamics. It certainly is a sizeable update. On the other hand, I have the sim running very, very well and have been enjoying flying and I do not look forward to what will likely be tens of gigabytes to download and install and then hope it all works out. I still have scars from sim update 5.

18 minutes ago, johnbow72 said:

For me the sim is running flawlessly right now so the old saying comes to mind  - if it's not broke don't fix it .  

I am with you, no CTD's, no stutters, good FPS, looks great, everything works. I hope is stays that way. 

Lets just say. I haven't deleted my P3D or X-Plane. Yet. But if this is a good update I will finally say good bye to these wonderful old sims....