February 20, 20233 yr Greetings pilots, the Hotstart Challenger has now fully convinced me, but it is not yet clear which simulator will be the best platform for this (ultimate) masterpiece of a simulated airplane that was ever been developed. The Hotstart Challenger goes beyond the Fenix Airbus, amazing and I always thought the Fenix is the ultimate aircraft simulation. What would you recommend as platform for the Challenger from the perspective of a graphics hound that aims not only for the best simulation but great visuals too, getting an older but fully established platform with full mod-support like XP11 where I can get OrbX scenery, national park and forest enhancements, volumetric clouds thanks to Enhanced Cloudscapes addon, and dozens of other mods and goodies... Or step into the brandnew XP12 with beautyful new graphics effects, nice rain wet asphalt nicer airports and more, but being stuck with a kinda boring and simple looking default scenery for months because it will take an eternity until OrbX Canada for XP12 is finally released?
February 20, 20233 yr Commercial Member Thank you for the compliments. If you have both XP11 and XP12, why not purchase the XP11 version, and get the XP12 version for free? We updated the XP11 version for XP12, at no charge.
February 20, 20233 yr XP12 hands down. Have not spent a single second actually flying in XP11 since the first public beta of 12. 7950X3D + 7900 XT + 64 GB + Linux | 4800H + RTX2060 + 32 GB + Linux My add-ons from my FS9/FSX days
February 20, 20233 yr Been flying it in XP-12 with, mostly no problems. It did CTD when trying to replay the landing but, other than that it works fine for me.. Anyone know if the HS TBM 900 is working in 12 yet? I know Toto has been working on it but haven't heard anything about progress. Bill Alderson
February 20, 20233 yr 1 hour ago, Bill Alderson said: Anyone know if the HS TBM 900 is working in 12 yet? I know Toto has been working on it but haven't heard anything about progress. Should be : Anyone know when TBM 900 will be out for XP12 so that I can finally retire my XP11! System Spec 1: Nvidia RTX 4090, AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Res 5120x1440, HP Reverb G2System Spec 2: AMD Radeon RX 7900XT, Intel I-9 9990K, Res 3840x1080, HP Reverb G2
February 20, 20233 yr 4 hours ago, Bjoern said: XP12 hands down. Have not spent a single second actually flying in XP11 since the first public beta of 12. Same for me. i9 12900k, RTX 3090, 32GB RAM
February 20, 20233 yr 10 hours ago, JetCat said: Greetings pilots, the Hotstart Challenger has now fully convinced me, but it is not yet clear which simulator will be the best platform for this (ultimate) masterpiece of a simulated airplane that was ever been developed. The Hotstart Challenger goes beyond the Fenix Airbus, amazing and I always thought the Fenix is the ultimate aircraft simulation. What would you recommend as platform for the Challenger from the perspective of a graphics hound that aims not only for the best simulation but great visuals too, getting an older but fully established platform with full mod-support like XP11 where I can get OrbX scenery, national park and forest enhancements, volumetric clouds thanks to Enhanced Cloudscapes addon, and dozens of other mods and goodies... Or step into the brandnew XP12 with beautyful new graphics effects, nice rain wet asphalt nicer airports and more, but being stuck with a kinda boring and simple looking default scenery for months because it will take an eternity until OrbX Canada for XP12 is finally released? I have XP11 with all the Orbx TrueEarth sceneries installed. All I have done is linked to those sceneries in XP12, so you can fly with them in XP12. CPU Ryzen 7800X 3D RAM 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz GPU GEFORCE RTX 4090 Monitor AOC AGON AG352UCG UltraWide G-Sync @ 3440x1440 Internal Storage 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD External Storage Three 4Tb HDs
February 20, 20233 yr 4 hours ago, Bjoern said: XP12 hands down. Have not spent a single second actually flying in XP11 since the first public beta of 12. think Ive had more "fun" in XP12 over the last few months than I did out of the entire run of XP11. So as much as I love to hate XP11, got to agree XP12 hands down. Oh, also: AutoATC Developer
February 21, 20233 yr is the hotstart 100% VR compatible, and with no VR controllers required but all mouse controllable? AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler. 60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking. very nice.
February 23, 20233 yr Author Thank you for all the tips! And especially the tip with linking the OrbX scenery to XP12 is important because nice satellite images is important for immersion. I have seen on the OrbX website that all stuff is only available for XP11 that´s why I thought XP11 might be the better choice. So this means for example this one: https://orbxdirect.com/product/us-washington-xp11 (dedicated only for XP11) will work in XP12? 🙂 Wonderful!
December 9, 20241 yr On 2/20/2023 at 5:11 PM, GoranM said: We don’t have an ETA for the TBM yet. Is this TBM X-Plane 12 conversion project still active? System Spec 1: Nvidia RTX 4090, AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Res 5120x1440, HP Reverb G2System Spec 2: AMD Radeon RX 7900XT, Intel I-9 9990K, Res 3840x1080, HP Reverb G2
December 9, 20241 yr Commercial Member 5 hours ago, Sims Smith said: Is this TBM X-Plane 12 conversion project still active? Yes. We are definitely very close. We've dedicated all our time to the TBM since V1.8 of the CL650 came out.
December 9, 20241 yr A good 2025 is coming: updated TBM and a new Cessna 525! besides this great CL650. Alexander Colka
December 9, 20241 yr 6 hours ago, GoranM said: Yes. We are definitely very close. We've dedicated all our time to the TBM since V1.8 of the CL650 came out. So, definitely Two Weeks, then...? 😉
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