11 minutes ago, rka said:

Agreed. I get fps in the 30s at KPDX with a rather powerful Windows PC. Would be interesting what a Mac with a midrange GPU can achieve there.

Read the last paragraph of

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/623722-maos-macbookpro-16-install-quirks/

 

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Read the last paragraph of

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/623722-maos-macbookpro-16-install-quirks/

 

 

 

 

Makes sense to have the Mac flagship PCs show a somewhat nice performance but it also shows there's probably not much headroom anymore. 

I find the performance on my box perfectly acceptable but obviously it's not exactly fast. 

The impact the number of world objects slider seems improved a lot as well, btw. I have all the right hand sliders on the right.

2 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

I know this is early access, but IMO, using the B737 FMC in their A330 is a sign that LR may have rushed XP 12 out the window a bit too early. Just my opinion though.

No its not. Building a FMS is. a lotnof work. Are you willing to wait 2 years for xp12 just because the airbus fms isnt ready. Far too many word not allowed people here. They said it will be added later.

I really like the water waves, night lighting, seasons, trees, snow and ice on the runways. Snow is better in XP than the other sim

I don't like the shimmering and blurry textures outside 

The cockpit textures are blurry and as you get closer the blurries go away

The cockpit lighting seems to go bright and then dark all of a sudden

What I dislike the most is the the clouds. They are way too light and blurry

 

This is  the site for XP11 English manual. Is there an English PDF manual? This would be a deal braker for me. I never purchased XP11 ever, didn't like the demo years ago.

https://x-plane.com/manuals/desktop/11/index.html

29 minutes ago, Best said:

I don't like the shimmering and blurry textures outside 

The cockpit textures are blurry and as you get closer the blurries go away

The cockpit lighting seems to go bright and then dark all of a sudden

What I dislike the most is the the clouds. They are way too light and blurry

All those this should be iron out during the beta run. That is why it at beta and not a version 1 release.

3 hours ago, jarmstro said:

so I'm hoping for better with the final release.

I think a lot of people will be disappointed with final release. Sure they can polish this early access release right up, fix the clouds, make the new effects look and perform better; but you run in to the same stumbling block, the ground textures. There just awful, as is the autogen. Sure, we can use ortho to clean that up, but for example I have true earth GB and it takes up 320GB of space. That’s JUST for the U.K! 
 

So, this is going to be an interesting journey. 

19 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I think a lot of people will be disappointed with final release. Sure they can polish this early access release right up, fix the clouds, make the new effects look and perform better; but you run in to the same stumbling block, the ground textures. There just awful, as is the autogen. Sure, we can use ortho to clean that up, but for example I have true earth GB and it takes up 320GB of space. That’s JUST for the U.K! 
 

So, this is going to be an interesting journey. 

I wont be. im in it to fly planes not count houses.

5 minutes ago, mjrhealth said:

I wont be. im in it to fly planes not count houses.

Such a naive statement. I won’t bother replying.  

I’m disappointed, I was hoping this iteration of x-plane was the one I would get my x-plane start in alongside msfs, unfortunately reading these comments and watching a few videos has made me decide to stay away yet again. 
I hope those who dove in are enjoying it though as I’m not an “us versus them” type person.

Cheers folks! 

51 minutes ago, BobFS88 said:

All those this should be iron out during the beta run. That is why it at beta and not a version 1 release.

I hope so. I was hoping not to need xvision and Xenviro anymore to make the sim look good. The only 3rd party developers I want to buy from is scenery and plane developers

39 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I think a lot of people will be disappointed with final release.

I think I belong to this group unfortunately. ;-(
I have been faithful to XP for a long time and have been very optimistic about the XP12 (and, despite the fact that it is early beta), I am disappointed overall.
Of course, new water, trees, seasons and clouds is a cool thing ... but I feel discouraged (after the last few years) after  refine my XP11 (which I think now looks great => much "nicer" than bare XP12), to start it all over: correct the ortho to make it work with the new water; improve lighting and clouds to make them look as good as with xVision (even though clouds are not 3D), get new versions of planes and scenery (sometimes for sure for $), ... etc.
Sure, I would like to enjoy all the benefits of the new XP12 once it comes out of its beta phase (e.g. rain effect on windows), but I don't think the bare XP12 will look as good as my XP11 now does.
What I see in XP12 should be in XP11.
It's a shame the XP11 is history, but I'm currently lacking the enthusiasm I had when switching from the XP10 to the XP11. 😉
I was 101% sure that I would buy the XP12 on the first day, but I think I'll wait a few months for things to develop.
I will see when flying in VR in XP12 becomes the pleasure I currently have in my tuned version of the XP11. 😉 

I made a couple of flights with LR and a VSKYLABS aircraft. The visuals of the LR aircraft were excellent. The water was beautiful and had an interesting transparency. Water landing and subsequent field landing were logged - nice. The only discrepancy that I noted was the water rudder controls were reversed. I am looking forward to the development of the scenery and the future of XP12.

I've never run any paid version of XP before. May I ask if 'ortho' scenery is free to download? I have a spare  NVMe 1 TB SSD sitting around doing nothing. I could plug it in to USB using a $10 adapter.

12 minutes ago, Best said:

xvision and Xenviro anymore to make the sim look good.

I personally don't think your going to need them either. We will have to see as the beta progresses. I was just watching Skymatix stream on the Zibo settings and he said to check periodically as there were some update to sim already. Those update are done by manually checking and re downloading the beta.  I can't confirm since my new system is not up a running at the moment.  

Edited September 6, 20223 yr by BobFS88