X-Plane 12 beta 13 is released.

[Jude Bradley 659]

 

Change-log below:

 

• XPD-13385 – Use in-place weather apply, not copy-mode on Vulkan.
• XPD-11775 – Far Tree Lighting is Washed Out.
• XPD-13405 – Super roughness on all terrain.
• XPD-13395 – Crash with unusable taxi network during reroute.
• XPD-13392 – Crash with AI with cancelled approach.
• XPD-13391 – Crash in altering active ILS when no flow is active.
• XPD-13384 – Crash loading airspace data from malformed atc.dat file.
• XPD-13361 – Map flight path is a mess.
• XPD-13234 – Requesting landing can crash when too far away from the airport with no prior ATC interactions.
• XPD-13406 – loading an old plane crashes the old 2-d panel with an old shader confusion.
• XPD-13402 – plane-maker key-shortcuts no longer assignable.. a problem for euro keyboards.
• XPD-13398 – From Bug Report: Fuel tank “moves with” list too long for window height (Plane Maker).
• XPD-13368 – UI: Update weather preset thumbnails.
• XPD-13365 – Maintain altitude messages too frequent.
• XPD-13353 – A330 spoilers deploy when in ‘armed’ position.
• XPD-13342 – Small jets were prevented from using many airfields due to hardcoded runway size restrictions.
• XPD-13330 – Beta Alia 250 has no battery % indicator.
• XPD-13325 – Remove openal32.dll in the X-Plane 12 Resources/dlls/64 folder.
• XPD-13314 – Issue with sim/operation/override/override_fuel_flow in recip engines.
• XPD-13270 – No feedback if ATC plan auto-route fails due to short distance to destination.
• XPD-13268 – F14 Tail hook does not ‘stop’ at the ground, but buries itself when in DSF tiles that do not contain open water.
• XPD-13257 – Flight path line on map is wrong.
• XPD-13253 – Stop flagging AMD discrete GPU with 2GB VRAM as having insufficient VRAM.
• XPD-13252 – Stop flagging cards with 2Gb of VRAM as having insufficient VRAM.
• XPD-13240 – Null shader error crash with X-World America.
• XPD-13176 – Gear “retracts” option in Plane Maker has odd behaviour.
• XPD-13155 – VKB Gladiator MK II config file from user.
• XPD-13088 – Engine cant datarefs are not writable.
• XPD-13032 – Rain glass objects visible thru clouds.
• XPD-12986 – get rid of unused resources.
• XPD-12848 – Windows missing with AI airplanes depending on the view angle.
• XPD-11362 – X-Plane_drm_12.prf gets accessed every frame on Steam.
• XPD-13359 – Landing gear suspension for B58 Baron too soft and other various flight model adjustments.
• XPD-13340 – Runway names in taxi instructions could be mispronounced.
• XPD-13280 – For ILS approaches the actual ILS heading should be used for vectors rather than the runway heading.
• XPD-13245 – Broken mip-map generation for 8k textures.
• XPD-13215 – Plane Maker Preview hidden by base model.
• XPD-13404 – Datarefs thrust_n and POINT_thrust read 0 for props.
• XPD-13377 – Misspelling in German.
• XPD-13177 – Bodies attached to gear have INOP offset parameters.

[GCBraun 2,416]

Hopefully the awful flickering is finally gone, even through I don’t see a related ticket in the change log. 

[Baber20 1,461]

X-Plane 12 Official Release Trailer Premiers in 14hrs

 

Edited November 15, 2022 by Baber20

[Baber20 1,461]

Ok did a quick test. I can say that this has been the best beta so far for me. Rock solid performance and improved anti aliasing.

Loving the frequency of these sim updates. Great job team Laminar !

[UKflyer 630]

gotta love this beautiful sim 👍

Edited November 15, 2022 by UKflyer

[Jude Bradley 659]

Still a bit to be done with interior lighting and some switch textures.

 

[UKflyer 630]

upper level winds are still really wild, making my zibo bark at me all the time

[MSFS Ralf 149]

Best build so far. FPS exploding.

[efis007 892]

🥱 ⏳

 

[ryanbatc 13,018]

9 hours ago, GCBraun said:

Hopefully the awful flickering is finally gone, even through I don’t see a related ticket in the change log. 

That's been one reason why I'm not flying XP atm.  

[jcomm 5,979]

The flickering doesn't really disturb me... I am too concentrated in testing how nice even some WW2 aircraft ported from freeware versions, all available through the ".Org", behave, sometimes revealling characteristics I was only able to find in DCS or IL2...

I noticed some positive changes in the ATC with beta13,  better interaction, more coherent and well formed responses / directives from ATC agents - default ATC in XP12 is shaping up well !

I also find sky rendering growing better from beta to beta.

I got an additional 140+ GB free in my sim disk ( 😉 ), so, I went ahead and used the installer to create a 2nd install of XP12 so that now I can apply beta updates and stiill keep the previous version for reference - and now I can also uninstall XP12 twice in a row 🤣...

Also pushed those gorgeous SimHeaven X-World enhancements into the Costum Scenery folder - am going to make a new donation to that guy because just like in XP11 times he has - again ! - made me smile when I load an approach into Lisbon 🙂

XP12 is a superb platform, and I am very glad and grateful to Austin and LR for having been able to get our hands in it, even in beta and with the necessary bugs and unpolished features, because it's really enjoyable even as a beta release.

I often read Ralf's ( @Ralf Maylin) private messages with attached screenshots of his really enchanting flights in the CL650 or, now, the Phenom 300 too !  Ralf built a new rig for XP12, and he is able to get outstanding performance !

 

Edited November 16, 2022 by jcomm

[tonywob 4,770]

6 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

That's been one reason why I'm not flying XP atm.

Yep, it's incredibly distracting for me and is currently a show stopper. Hope it gets fixed soon

[UKflyer 630]

no wind data today anyone else?

[UKflyer 630]

46 minutes ago, tonywob said:

Yep, it's incredibly distracting for me and is currently a show stopper. Hope it gets fixed soon

seems to be much better in this beta, couple of flights without the light show

[UKflyer 630]

8 hours ago, efis007 said:

🥱 ⏳

 

oh i've never seen that