1 hour ago, Beardyman said:

watch pushback procedure

This really is caused by the aircraft model. If objects contain small gaps in their geometry, light sources from outside may bleed through.

So am I correct to assume this is a beta update and not automatic. So you have to sign on as a beta tester?

Wow, just wow. CPU frame times went from ~180ms to ~105ms now in new beta. Now my GPU is a bottleneck, hitting 170ms all the time (3090). Before 12.4.0 it was CPU holding GPU. On top of all, now it's incredibly smooth, no stutters, only barely visible micro-stuttering, which is fine. Just flew above Barcelona with X-WORLD in max details (medium LOD), very very smooth I must admit. I'm positively surprised, and this is only Beta 1. 

Will test VR later, I hope for the best. Until now it was unflyable for me with 3090 and Quest 3, couldn't hit even 35-40fps with barely medium scenery details and no AA.

Fantastic job Laminar!

Edited December 19, 2025Dec 19 by Pe11e

57 minutes ago, SayAgain said:

Must admit the XP default 182 feels more like a real 182 compared to MSFS 182

Default 182? 

28 minutes ago, Patco Lch said:

So am I correct to assume this is a beta update and not automatic. So you have to sign on as a beta tester?

Correct. No need to sign up for anything though. When you run the X-Plane Installer, simply tick the box beside "Check for new betas as well as updates" in order to get it.

If you have the Steam version of X-Plane, you can opt into the betas by right-clicking on X-Plane in your Steam library and selecting "Properties". In the popup, select the Betas tab and opt in to the beta.

33 minutes ago, Malaromane said:

Correct. No need to sign up for anything though. When you run the X-Plane Installer, simply tick the box beside "Check for new betas as well as updates" in order to get it.

If you have the Steam version of X-Plane, you can opt into the betas by right-clicking on X-Plane in your Steam library and selecting "Properties". In the popup, select the Betas tab and opt in to the beta.

👍thanks

2 hours ago, Patco Lch said:

So am I correct to assume this is a beta update and not automatic. So you have to sign on as a beta tester?

You're entitled to run a parallel/second install with the same serial number, and that's highly recommended.

There's usually at least a few "hiccups" with 3rd party addons that I wouldn't want to deal with when the Golden Release is running so well.

@Patco Lch ETA: you can just run the installer from inside your current XP directory. It'll pick up your current serial number and then one of the options will be to "Install Another Copy of X-Plane". If you slim down the continents installed, it only takes up about 40GB of space. 👍

Edited December 19, 2025Dec 19 by UrgentSiesta

Dev bog post about multi-threading: https://developer.x-plane.com/2025/12/the-glorious-multi-core-future-is-now-the-boring-present/

 

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While this goes on in the background, we are now also running the panels and avionic devices. This lets us effectively hide slower avionic updates, since X-Plane can go wide on crunching the scenery at that time. You will especially notice this with add-on aircraft that have very high panel draw times, but even our Garmin and built-in instruments aren’t totally free either.

Q4XP users might want to take note of this.

 

1 hour ago, Pe11e said:

Will test VR later, I hope for the best. Until now it was unflyable for me with 3090 and Quest 3, couldn't hit even 35-40fps with barely medium scenery details and no AA.

I've seen slightly better performance in VR, but nothing that won't require dirty tricks (i.e. dynamic LOD distance adjustments) to produce more than 30 FPS consistently.

Note: When in VR, make sure you switch of FXAA, as there is a bug at the moment that will cause a visual artifact.

Edited December 19, 2025Dec 19 by Bjoern

1 hour ago, Patco Lch said:

👍thanks

Make a copy of xplane folder before you do than yiu can run either

6 hours ago, strider1 said:

 And the Stars effect should not follow your head in VR, talk about Spatial Disorientation. 

Hmmm, this issue should have been fixed a while ago as far as I know, are you sure it still exists? Do you have the xpd number for it?

The way they've described this c check, now is absolutely the time to make sure all such persistent stupid glitches that are still around are reported and addressed.

Edited December 20, 2025Dec 20 by mSparks

9 hours ago, Beardyman said:

List is impressive, still to do on my wishlist:

- flatten airports ground to get rid of various problems

- Star Wars rain during night time

- outside lights bleeding trough cockpit

- winter time ground friction problem

- customized installation process

 

I got tired of the warp speed rain effect so I did something about it, looks 100% better now.
 

 

9 hours ago, Beardyman said:

Triple post, not sure what happened, keyboard didn't stick. Erase

 

 

Edited December 20, 2025Dec 20 by Mike_CFII_MEL

Ok, now get on to the scenery raster update, that should be the game changer for XP12

So what add-on was used to deal with weird rain?

Any add-on for removing some of the strange clouds?  Some of the clouds look great, but other absolutely horrible … look more like worms with hard edges.

3 hours ago, mSparks said:

Hmmm, this issue should have been fixed a while ago as far as I know, are you sure it still exists? Do you have the xpd number for it?

The way they've described this c check, now is absolutely the time to make sure all such persistent stupid glitches that are still around are reported and addressed.

The rain still follows my head movement, but it appears to have been improved since the last time I checked. 

I do not have a xpd number.