... because it's time to, XP week starting 😜

and it's the only decent civillian --> FLIGHT <-- simulator ...

XP12 is getting so nice graphics wise, and they ( LR ) talk about the new scenery in a rather convincing way, just as about code optimization, so I have good reasons to move... before the next in the cycle which can be either AEFS4 or MSFS or P3Dv6....

Last night took the Toliss 32N, then the VSL DC-3 and ended up with a couple flights in the Bell 212 and the VSL R-66... Wow, feels so so good, as usual... It's my preferred --> FLIGHT <-- simulator 😍

And also because we needed a thread to contrast with that other 🤣

Edited July 18, 20241 yr by jcomm

Just nice to see those FPS gradually getting higher and higher. There will be a fix for those altitude jumps next update or 2.

Yes kids it is finally time to jump on the XP12 love train.

I can understand if you had doubts before, many of us did for good reasons:

5 "short" years later we are finally have a decent flight sim

 

(yeah, I know Ive posted this video a couple times now, but I love it, and I generally watch it twice everytime I post it...)

really a good time to fork out for those hardware upgades to, grab yourselves an rtx4080, high end amd cpu, PSVR, 64GB of ram mobo case and install linux on it and get learning. Progress has been neck breaking - and is set to remain at the same pace or faster for the next 5 years at least.

Plenty to look forward to, even more to enjoy now.

1 hour ago, mSparks said:

Yes kids it is finally time to jump on the XP12 love train.

I can understand if you had doubts before, many of us did for good reasons:

5 "short" years later we are finally have a decent flight sim

 

(yeah, I know Ive posted this video a couple times now, but I love it, and I generally watch it twice everytime I post it...)

really a good time to fork out for those hardware upgades to, grab yourselves an rtx4080, high end amd cpu, PSVR, 64GB of ram mobo case and install linux on it and get learning. Progress has been neck breaking - and is set to remain at the same pace or faster for the next 5 years at least.

Plenty to look forward to, even more to enjoy now.

Hi

Agree with your commments.XP12 is amazing.

Do you think 64GB RAM is needed? -I have 32 GB and have held off upgrading because I didn't think all of it would be used by XP12.

Thanks

Jay

3 hours ago, jcomm said:

... because it's time to, XP week starting 😜

 

Funny thing; when I saw the title I chuckled for myself, thinking 'this is probably jcomm'

😅

14 minutes ago, Swe_Richard said:

Funny thing; when I saw the title I chuckled for myself, thinking 'this is probably jcomm'

😅

Yeah

He is our best leading indicate when good things are coming. 😁

1 hour ago, jkeye said:

Do you think 64GB RAM is needed?

its not a minimum requirement by any means.

But it gives you far more flexibility to use the machine without thinking about how much you are using. Linux is also pretty smart at keeping stuff in ram that may be needed later, the less it needs to swap stuff around the smoother everything runs generally, the more you can cache in ram for later the faster everything runs the next time you need it.

1 hour ago, Swe_Richard said:

Funny thing; when I saw the title I chuckled for myself, thinking 'this is probably jcomm'

😅

🤣🤣

5 hours ago, mSparks said:

Yes kids it is finally time to jump on the XP12 love train.

I can understand if you had doubts before, many of us did for good reasons:

5 "short" years later we are finally have a decent flight sim

 

(yeah, I know Ive posted this video a couple times now, but I love it, and I generally watch it twice everytime I post it...)

really a good time to fork out for those hardware upgades to, grab yourselves an rtx4080, high end amd cpu, PSVR, 64GB of ram mobo case and install linux on it and get learning. Progress has been neck breaking - and is set to remain at the same pace or faster for the next 5 years at least.

Plenty to look forward to, even more to enjoy now.

Yes nice water effects; unfortunately this was broken after 12.1 release; in that respect LR could have avoid the pain caused to a good numbers of xp enthusiasts;   it is a stark reminder of Msfs vicious cycle of breaking and fixing what was already working before the update + continue yoyo of performance fluctuation between cycles.

2 hours ago, arsenal82 said:

Yes nice water effects; unfortunately this was broken after 12.1 release; in that respect LR could have avoid the pain caused to a good numbers of xp enthusiasts;   it is a stark reminder of Msfs vicious cycle of breaking and fixing what was already working before the update + continue yoyo of performance fluctuation between cycles.

its fixed in 12.1, you have to rebuild the ortho with o4xp1.4 and xp12 water selected in the config. 

Uninstallation in 3...2...

12 minutes ago, mSparks said:

its fixed in 12.1, you have to rebuild the ortho with o4xp1.4 and xp12 water selected in the config. 

ok good news; just to ask (if you tested) water transparency work also again with the pol poly scenes (non ortho4xp) constructed; as it was also broken.

tx

Edited July 18, 20241 yr by arsenal82

49 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

Uninstallation in 3...2...

No way !

😜

50 minutes ago, mSparks said:

its fixed in 12.1, you have to rebuild the ortho with o4xp1.4 and xp12 water selected in the config. 

I just checked and draped polygons underwater still broken / not visible.

1 hour ago, arsenal82 said:

I just checked and draped polygons underwater still broken / not visible.

prior to 12.1 water was fully broken with ortho (gaps between the land and water that you could see into the void.

A lot of possible scenery fixes have been deprioritised because DSF is being replaced with all new shiney soon.