I am on the verge of buying XP12.  I have watched several videos where it looks like flickering is an intermittent but somewhat irritation problem at times.  Any comments from some of you who have used the produict?

I can't really comment on how you will use it - its still early access so there are several pretty nasty known issues that I have high confidence will be fixed to a high standard reasonably soon.

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Known Bugs

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• 1 Known Bugs
• 2 Bug Fixes
  • 2.1 Beta 5
  • 2.2 Beta 4
  • 2.3 Beta 3
  • 2.4 Beta 2
  • 2.5 Beta 1

• Incomplete or missing features in Alpha/Early Access:
  • Master-external visual networking
  • New XPLM APIs
  • Airbus A330 FMC
• In progress features:
  • Tuning lighting & fog
  • LIT textures
  • Performance
  • VR holodeck lighting
  • Far trees don’t look great
  • Better cloud shapes, especially cirrus
  • Performance tuning
• XPD-11214 Plane Maker CG/Lights/Tanks Position Markers Not Visible.
• XPD-12826 Joystick axis mapping symbols are missing.
• XPD-12879 Wake turbulence broken for 3rd party integrations.

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-00-release-notes/

generally they put a new build out every few weeks which fix some things and break others. such is flight sim.

What I can say, is for the last couple of weeks (save a lot of broken for me in beta 4) Ive hammered the xp12 R44 by vskylabs in every weather condition Ive flown in irl, and a few I would never even start the engine, in VR, absolutely flawlessly.

Also, if you dont have XP11 and buy XP12 from Laminars website your XP12 key will work on the XP11 installer, which is rock solid - if lacking in many of the visuals - and there is more than enough just in freeware to play with to keep you entertained every day for 8 hours until XP13 is released.

If you are concerned about such things, then don't get in yet. The only official stable version is 11.55

it's a early beta version of XP12 with several heavy 'issues'.

I enjoy it nevertheless, but YMMV

12 hours ago, PDX Flyer said:

I am on the verge of buying XP12.  I have watched several videos where it looks like flickering is an intermittent but somewhat irritation problem at times.  Any comments from some of you who have used the produict?

The flickering clouds and artifacts are terrible for me right now which almost make it unplayable! Everybody's machines are different, so I would download the demo and try it for yourself. Maybe you will have better results.

I haven't yet tried b5, however b4 gives me eye cancer inducing flickers in certain situations. 

I had a great flight down from KJFK-KMIA in the Toliss A321, clouds were much improved, and no sign of the pixelating clouds. This was in Beta 5

Appreciate the time you all took to respond.  Looks like it is a hit or miss thing.  I will try the demo for spending the $60.00.  Hope that LR will prioritize this and get it fixed for our community.

On 10/1/2022 at 11:54 PM, Car147 said:

I had a great flight down from KJFK-KMIA in the Toliss A321, clouds were much improved, and no sign of the pixelating clouds. This was in Beta 5

Did you use real weather, because it only happens with real weather in my case.

Jos

1 hour ago, beep747 said:

Did you use real weather, because it only happens with real weather in my case.

Jos

Yes

On 10/1/2022 at 11:37 PM, Swe_Richard said:

I haven't yet tried b5, however b4 gives me eye cancer inducing flickers in certain situations. 

Even under b6 I can not use my Toliss A321 at all because of the constant flickering of all display panels.

(Linux Mint, Ryzen 5900X RX 6900 XT)

 

flickering here too, someone give me a nudge when its fixed, thanks 🙂 

I've seen some of the videos; what I see with the ol' Mk.I eyeballs looks more like photostrobing flashing.

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