After my disappointment with the ugly Duchess 76 cockpit by Thranda that I purchased recently from Justflight I thought lets have more fun this time and fly the default Kingair C90 instead. But to my surprise the button labels on the integrated Garmin GNS 530 are all fuzzy and nearly impossible to read, whereas they are all ok in the default BeechBaron. they are also ok when I pull the Garmin 530 out into a separate window, which then turns from a GNS 530 into a  x-plane 530.

 

Also, I can't select KORS Orcas airport in the Kingair default GNS 530, it lets me only select KORSA in Brazil instead. The Baron x-plane 530 version doesn't have that problem.

 

After some research, I found the BeechBaron has this Garmin folder

X-Plane 12\Aircraft\Laminar Research\Beechcraft Baron 58\objects\Instruments\Garmin

 

which is missing from the KingAir C90 and might explain why I am having this problem?

 

Another example of very fuzzy analog instruments: on the copilot side in the default Kingair C90: all fuzzy except the airspeed indicator.

anybody any ideas what might be wrong with my x-plane12 ? (steam version 12.09.rc5), latest Nvidia driver 551.46, Windows 11, RTX 4090, 4K resolution

 

It seems that the C90 is taking the instrument pictures, all of them including the Garmin 530, from within the file C90B_cockpit.png. The instruments there are drawn with much worst resolution than the separate image files for instruments in the Baron.

how can that be, is s anybody else seeing this or is it only my configuration? I can't believe they would ship the default Kingair in x-plane12 with such awful instruments.

Please stop getting artificially upset and hysterical over anything Laminar does not get quite right as it is massively annoying. Thank you.

 

Back to business:

Lightmaps are drawn from C90B_cockpit_LIT.png and the labels for the 530 are indeed quite fuzzy.  The quickest way to fix this is breaking out Photoshop and redrawing them. The slower way is filing a bug and waiting on Laminar to fix it natively.

The standby instruments are blurry because they are drawn like 2D panels, which does not offer much in terms of resolution. Quickest fix: Break out Blender, replace with 3D modeled instruments. Slower, but native way: File a bug.

 

Note that the default Kingair has made some strides since XP11 as the engine instruments used to be entirely 2D.

 

If none of the solutions strike your fancy, you can also stare at a G1000 in a C90 instead, by the way: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/89178-king-air-c90b-evo-g1000-blackhawk/

I have made a quick test doubling the size of the file C90B_cockpit.png from 2048x2048 to 4096x4096 pixels and the simulator loads the new bigger file without problems.

So I may have a little project sharpening some texts.

 

good choice

7 hours ago, Bjoern said:

The quickest way to fix this is breaking out Photoshop and redrawing them. Break out Blender, replace with 3D modeled instruments.

serious? I was hoping maybe someone had some useful solution because the default Beech Baron's GNS 530 is acceptable, but as I said before I bought a simulator, not an SDK or a DIY kit. please don't reply anymore if all you can contribute are your usual condescending comments. 

Edited February 10, 20242 yr by turbomax

2 hours ago, CPFL said:

So I may have a little project sharpening some texts.

if it turns out this low quality is indeed by design and not caused by some faulty configuration on my end, I am baffled how Laminar can ship a product of such poor quality when they present on their web site nothing but such high resolution cockpits:

 

considering they present only such high resolution cockpits on their web site, no one would even remotely expect such stone age quality as in their default KingAir, worse even than FSX was 20 years ago. If that is really by design and not caused by user error on my end, then this is bordering on misleading and false advertising:

 

"Our development team has spent 30+ years refining the rendering engine" 

"New in X-Plane 12 - This is flight simulation, done right."

  yeah, right. 

Edited February 11, 20242 yr by turbomax

I find it astonishing that after all your rants, you expect someone to provide a "useful solution".  

I was actually about to respond to your questions, but after your last post (the one above), you have confirmed there really is no point.  Like Bjoern said...

7 hours ago, Bjoern said:

Please stop getting artificially upset and hysterical over anything Laminar does not get quite right as it is massively annoying. Thank you.

 

3 hours ago, CPFL said:

So I may have a little project sharpening some texts.

if you are up to it, perhaps you can instead somehow include the default BeechBaron's Garmin 530 into the KingAir, as that one seems ok.

8 hours ago, turbomax said:

if you are up to it, perhaps you can instead somehow include the default BeechBaron's Garmin 530 into the KingAir, as that one seems ok.

You could just submit a bug report, really isnt that bad or so hard.

16 hours ago, turbomax said:

serious? I was hoping maybe someone had some useful solution because the default Beech Baron's GNS 530 is acceptable, but as I said before I bought a simulator, not an SDK or a DIY kit. please don't reply anymore if all you can contribute are your usual condescending comments. 

Then file bug reports.

And welcome to my ignore list. Greazer started to feel lonely.