SU15 BETA available now!

[scotchegg 4,195]

And there was me sworn off betas after losing over 900 logbook hours in an earlier beta…

[David Mills 4,774]

13 minutes ago, abennett said:

I guess time will tell if if the performance has been achieved by reducing graphical quality just like they have done in the past.

In two hours of flying, I noticed no degradation in graphics quality at all. And believe me, I was looking for it. Quite the contrary: Distant objects now look sharper to me than ever before. If there is any change to graphics, it is a positive change.

[FormulaJet 32]

WOOHOO Just tried and immediately noticed that I can taxi straight with minimal rudder/tiller input instead of correcting every 2 seconds and that on the a300, a339, fenix a320 while the c172 feels extra nice!

also takeoff rolls the plane goes straight ! Very noticeable on the a300, no more fighting the rudder!

great update, I’ve seen better smoothness on remote places or cities that are not too busy, except at KLAX A300 with fsltl traffic and multiplayer, performs the same as before.

[turbomax 3,286]

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

what we have is very good now.

so you were right indeed after all: "SU15 later this week". looking forward to a whole day of SU15beta flying tomorrow.

[MattNischan 3,778]

25 minutes ago, FormulaJet said:

Just tried and immediately noticed that I can taxi straight with minimal rudder/tiller input instead of correcting every 2 seconds and that on the a300, a339, fenix a320 while the c172 feels extra nice!

The new ground handling model is opt-in for developers and must be enabled and tuned in the aircraft CFG files, in order to keep backwards compatibility. Out of those aircraft, only the 172 has received these changes. The other aircraft are still using the previous model.

[GeoSkyman 59]

Hello any advise, SU15 Beta, smooth like silk, performance great, BUT cockpit camera pan, screen tearing. Any advise please?

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[mpo910 2,112]

1 minute ago, GeoSkyman said:

Hello any advise, SU15 Beta, smooth like silk, performance great, BUT cockpit camera pan, screen tearing. Any advise please?

Also smooth. I pan every time due the use of VR headset (Varjo with ppd set to 37) no stutters, even with TLOD set to much greater then 200 (tested up to 300 and even 400). FPS goes down a bit, logical and very acceptable at my end, but stays smooth. Same is applicable for 2d screen, tested that as well. 

Overall the whole sim is smooth as never before incl taxi und ground and large airports, even at klax with 50+ AI traffic around and LOD to 150 I get 37 fps in my headset (+5k pixels!). At 2d I get 60 fps in that scenario , and butter smooth. 

[stefanwa 19]

Loading times as stated really have improved on my side! Good update so far. If they could only fix the DX12 ground tiles  bug… 

[MarcG 3,010]

8 hours ago, turbomax said:

should have done one before updating for comparison. or perhaps you still have some of your old frametime stats benchmark? I knew we can rely on Capt_Piett's Benchmark.

I still have pre-SU14 benchmarks but not sure if I have the same settings now (method is always the same), I'm pleased by the performance increase most people are seeing but I'm mainly intrigued as to whether we've got back what we lost with that update.

If I get time this weekend I'll try and compare public Vs beta build with a benchmark or two, keeping in mind that during beta things can and have changed though.

[scotchegg 4,195]

Is it fair to say this beta is pretty near releasable?

[Greazer 1,324]

1 minute ago, scotchegg said:

Is it fair to say this beta is pretty near releasable?

Possible they could throw in some other features by March 12.  ie FSR 3.

[ConairMSFS 28]

2 hours ago, MattNischan said:

The new ground handling model is opt-in for developers and must be enabled and tuned in the aircraft CFG files, in order to keep backwards compatibility. Out of those aircraft, only the 172 has received these changes. The other aircraft are still using the previous model.

Found the new lines in flightmodel.cfg, and added them to xcub. Really nice to see it shaking during runup! Maybe I've just been lucky doing better than usual landings, but felt also less bouncy during touchdown. Later on going to try on other planes too.

Still having half a second stutter during approach at large airports, but much much better than before.

 

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[MarcG 3,010]

6 hours ago, xraythree said:

Thank you for responding mobeans. I get smooth stutter free performance, but this tile creeping in a cone below the plane saddens me, especially this late in the game. It didn’t happen in the past, but now always. I’m surprised there  is hardly any mention of it in these forums.

There is plenty of posts on this subject on these forums, as per usual everyone's specific bug wishes don't always get fixed but I do agree this is a major issue that should've been dealt with by now.

Personally my neverending wait for SU5/7 VR bugs to be fixed goes on, the Transparency of Live Weather Clouds Vs Presets that Seb said he would "look into" last year hasn't been fixed plus a multitude of other regressions from past updates.

Obviously they can't fix everything and I'm not asking them too, but it would be nice if they at least bothered to fix some of the bugs they introduced, especially the blatantly obvious ones.

[xraythree 23]

9 minutes ago, MarcG said:

There is plenty of posts on this subject on these forums, as per usual everyone's specific bug wishes don't always get fixed but I do agree this is a major issue that should've been dealt with by now.

Personally my neverending wait for SU5/7 VR bugs to be fixed goes on, the Transparency of Live Weather Clouds Vs Presets that Seb said he would "look into" last year hasn't been fixed plus a multitude of other regressions from past updates.

Obviously they can't fix everything and I'm not asking them too, but it would be nice if they at least bothered to fix some of the bugs they introduced, especially the blatantly obvious ones.

Thanks to you as well MarcG. I experienced such joy in this simulator, until this scenery tile issue reared it’s ugly head.