I have no time for this kind of nonsense. Zibo will be grounded in my installation until it works out-of-the-box. yes I know it's freeware, doesn't make a difference for me.

Based on the great real pilot videos I have watched flying Zibo 737 I expected the product would be Payware someday.

11 hours ago, turbomax said:

I have no time for this kind of nonsense. Zibo will be grounded in my installation until it works out-of-the-box. yes I know it's freeware, doesn't make a difference for me.

Your decision OFC, but honestly, what is to take, say, 10 seconds choosing the default 737 or the Cessna or any of the LR default aircraft and then the Zibo, to then be able to profit from what is by far the best simulation of a modern 737 available for X-Plane 12?

Zibo is "study-level" and on pair with the most sophisticated products I used for similar aircraft in the various platforms I have played with along the year of simming. Just like the PMDG 737-600 was for MFS, this is probably the main reason I now use XP12 for, with the Toliss A319 in 2nd place - and I do like Airbuses over Boeings 🙂

On my WIN 11 PC.
Xplane11
No requirement to load the Cessna first to use Zibo737.

So, why does XP12 Zibo737 require the Cessna to be loaded first?

31 minutes ago, vonmar said:

 

On my WIN 11 PC.
Xplane11
No requirement to load the Cessna first to use Zibo737.

So, why does XP12 Zibo737 require the Cessna to be loaded first?

I don't know for sure but some say it's related to graphics issues. I though it concerned only AMD, but I'm on an RTX 3060 Ti and while I didn't experience it for a while it started happening this weekend, after LR repaired the problems with GRIB downloads, although I don't think it is related to that, OFC...

I also had a sim freeze when during a night flight I tried to change the time of day.

Other than that, I have completed 3 flights without any problems ( other than Cagarini obsturcting my windshield during cockpit preparation and short finals...), excellent performance and the new weather which, while still not absolutely perfect is around 90% perfect (data wise). Graphics don't bother me that much, but I even prefer it most of the time to what I had in MFS

 

Edited March 1, 20233 yr by cagarini

36 minutes ago, vonmar said:

So, why does XP12 Zibo737 require the Cessna to be loaded first?

Hmmm! I have a RTX3090 and it happens every time I try,  that's with W11 as well, so we all want know how yours is different ?

bob

 

56 minutes ago, onebob said:

Hmmm! I have a RTX3090 and it happens every time I try,  that's with W11 as well, so we all want know how yours is different ?

bob

 

Hi Bob,

What is the meaning when you say "I have a RTX3090 and it happens every time I try" ?

I have now tested XP12, Zibo737 on two WIN11 PC’s.
One uses Nvidia RTX 2080Ti 11GB and the other PC uses Nvidia RTX3070 8 GB.
Both freeze loading Zibo737 unless I load the Cessna first.


So, for now I use XP11 on one PC and only “test” XP12 on the second PC.

Still waiting for my XP11 payware products to become available on XP12.

 

10 minutes ago, vonmar said:

What is the meaning when you say "I have a RTX3090 and it happens every time I try" ?

Sorry misread your post, did'nt pick up on the 'xplane 11' in    .........     ' On my WIN 11 PC. Xplane11'

regards bob

1 hour ago, vonmar said:

Hi Bob,

What is the meaning when you say "I have a RTX3090 and it happens every time I try" ?

 

I have now tested XP12, Zibo737 on two WIN11 PC’s.
One uses Nvidia RTX 2080Ti 11GB and the other PC uses Nvidia RTX3070 8 GB.
Both freeze loading Zibo737 unless I load the Cessna first.


So, for now I use XP11 on one PC and only “test” XP12 on the second PC.

Still waiting for my XP11 payware products to become available on XP12.

 

The weather in XP12 is much more detailled / realistic than in XP11, so, while I understand that you keep XP11 for some addons, truth is the Zibo is just a few seconds away from the loading time in XP11  ** AND ** in XP12 you can benefit from a much more advanced weather simulation.

Also, after having spent more & more time playing with this amazing freeware 737 simulation, and watching various youtubes, I really think the Zibo is a Superb Project and one that really is well to the level, and actually above most payware options.

Edited March 1, 20233 yr by cagarini

I have never needed to load the 172 before Zibo's 737. But then again, I'm on AMD and on Linux.

7 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

I have never needed to load the 172 before Zibo's 737. But then again, I'm on AMD and on Linux.

Neither did I until last sunday 😕

I'm on Nvidia RTX 3060Ti, there was no driver or Win 11 update, didn't install anything new in XP12, only thing that changed was the fix to the NOAA GRIB downloads... They started working again and, at the same time when I tried to load a flight in the Zibo 737 EA 3.8, and the later 3.9, it hanged on start, so I recalled someone having suggested loading another default LR aircraft before the Zibo and it works for me...

7 hours ago, vonmar said:

So, why does XP12 Zibo737 require the Cessna to be loaded first?

No one knows, if you find out why they want to know so they can fix it 😛

I like the enviroment in xplane 12 and the ATC system, its a shame that x12 can not incorporate the zipomod B737-800 for us.I am 74, English and have been an armchair pilot for 20 years and enjoy very much indeed. I think that Little NavMap is the best freeware add on running with xp11/xp12.I live in the Philippines and in ex12, my local Airport - Mactan,Cebu RPVM the ILS pathways are missing ! I hope that they will update this area soon, I have tried to contact L.Research but they have no simple email system. Thankyou.

9 hours ago, PILOT30748 said:

I like the enviroment in xplane 12 and the ATC system, its a shame that x12 can not incorporate the zipomod B737-800 for us.I am 74, English and have been an armchair pilot for 20 years and enjoy very much indeed. I think that Little NavMap is the best freeware add on running with xp11/xp12.I live in the Philippines and in ex12, my local Airport - Mactan,Cebu RPVM the ILS pathways are missing ! I hope that they will update this area soon, I have tried to contact L.Research but they have no simple email system. Thankyou.

Dear PILOT30748, Mactan - Cebu ( LAPU ) does not have an ILS for runways 04 / 22 but rather non-precision VOR approaches for rw 04  as well as RNP and VOR approaches for rw 22.

I am not next to my XP computer but I will check later that the MACTAN VOR (114.30) is included, and if that's the case then you an get one of the RW04 or RW22 approach charts and use them to practise your approaches.

For the RNP approaches you need an aircraft equipped with the necessary equipment (GPS).

just about to try XP12 (understand there is a separate XP12 version) -so could anyone please provide the link to the base XP12 version?

also I understand from all of the above comments there is no single direct download for the latest version(?) - so assume I will need to install some patches over the top over this base version?(assuming there is no updater that your could run 🙂