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Hi jcomm and everyone. I am not much into the art part, but there is a package called "EXT_california_lights", that can be extended with some effort, that I used in the past. I do not recall the name of the individual that posted them. By the way L-8 and Spins are no longer considered aerobatics as in pure definition. The Commercial pilots have to be able to demonstrate them and CFIs teach and demonstrate.

Hi everyone. >>1) Update drivers. Especially after your GPU swapping antics.<< There are no >>antics<<, read my posts. This is a different system that I use most of the time. I've been building my own systems since the mid 70s IMSAI - a few years. No, there is nothing wrong with my systems, it looks like we are about to start the "nothing is wrong with the cockpit lighting" thread. Fact is that: XP12 adds no additional real value vs XP11 Has many issues to be resolved. Go back an try XP11 and see how that feels like fluidity, most important attribute in a sim, and convince yourself. This kind reminds me of the guy that got 20FPS and never actually took of and landed, just used the Map and view the scenery from outside, and he thought that XP12 was great.

Hi. No, no OVC my system 4090/ 14900 is in the upper 99.9% of the upper performing systems. Most of of the time I run the 4080 which is about 2 % less but it's about 200 WHrs less. I can get 90FPS and still get stutters. Running in VR can be an experience, all those shimmering shadows, weird skies..., Edit: I think this is a good sim for users that have no idea on how an airplane flies, just get tugged along and watch all those expensive aftermarket scenery.

Hi everyone. Another sign of the times. I worked with a couple of guys that eventually went to work for NASA, many years ago. Very sharp, hard working, dedicated, patriotic individuals. They worked on most of older projects and things went very well. A couple of years ago I met a guy that wanted to learn to fly. Great I said to myself. I only asked him the questions I need to citizenship, DL... After a couple of hrs he looked like he just wanted to be in the plane for fun rides. No interest in learning, progressing... and I started asking him what he does for a living? He told me he works for a subdivision of NASA, and you cam imagine my horror. I suggested to to him to find another Instructor closer to the desire / wants that he had.

Hi Jeremy and everyone. I would like to get the version you have and try it? I am running on a 4080 and 1300 64, fairly low settings and I get all kinds of jitters. I call them spider web delays, poor response to my controllers, every so often I get sudden altitude drops, horrible ground performance with Xwind, flight dynamics in the air doing maneuvers like L-8, Chandelles, Ground reference, recovery from steep turns at low airspeed, inability to do a low vis. (0.5SM) toward the sun set when the Sun is low.. due to the see through, are not possible to do right, even in SL flight I get these sudden altitude drops, and I can name hundreds of other issues that are very subtle but most people will not know about / notice. The fluidity which is one of the most important requirements in a sim, to give you the real life feeling is not there... Jeremy, I am glad you like it. I cannot run it on my 4090 and 14900, 64 without jitters and the flight dynamics do not change, but It is my belief that XP12 has No additional practical value over XP11 and until LR gets their act together many users will have to suffer. If the real World would behave like the one in the XP12 many people would not even get close to it, and many may have died doing some of the maneuvers I mentioned.

Hi Jorn and everyone. I do not know how you use the sim and what system you have? The two main factors for the decision to purchase. If you are into looks and have a powerful system (at least 4080 and 13900) 12 should work. If you are using for training I would stay with 11. There is nothing of real value in the 12 version. You can download the 12 and give it a try but I would reactivate the ver 11 and wait at least the next update comes out, they say the aerodynamics will be better... There are many free addons for 11 and many will not work in 12. in addition the 12 will constantly harass you with the internet identification and if you are using it in an are with No internet (at an airport) 12 becomes useless. Good luck.

Hi Jeremy and everyone. If you need some better input from real World pilots visit pilotsofamericadotcom and post your questions for help in your area. Good luck and hang in there, it will get better.

Hi Jeremy and everyone. I am not sure where you live but you may be able to rent somewhere to stay sharp? You may also try to fly with a friend that has a similar acft. The 172 are a little less demanding, but keep going over your ACCGUMPPS (Accessories, Carb heat, Cowl flaps, Gas, Undercarriage, Mixture, Prop, Pump, Seat belts), during important phases of flight. Exclude what you do not need, but this can help in most of the complex acft. I assume it was a fixed gear? If true you can use some of the sims to help along, but I know there are not many good models out there. I had to build a 182 RG for the FSX to keep my scan, procedures.. going. I fly multiple acft and that makes it a little more difficult. I've had a fuel truck hit my acft, the tail section, while I was in it and a couple of other problems while I was on the ground, lucky I never had one hit me in flight. I know the feeling, it takes a lot of effort, planning, money to get a plane, but trust me, things can be much worse as you get older, not necessarily acft related. Keep enjoying what you have and shift some of the things to the sims, other hobbies, family until it gets repaired...

Hi. I would purchase: 1-XP11 CDs 2-XP12 CDs if you can 3-XP12 Digital from Laminar

Hi Jcomm and everyone. Another issue for me is the visibility see trough when you fly towards the Sun set, and limited visibility due to bloom / haze whatever you want to call it. There are some good scripts to help, but I use a few DataRefs that you can place in a .lua file and place it in the ... \Scripts, Play with the values and see what you like. --From here set("sim/private/controls/scattering/override_turbidity_t",1.0) set("sim/private/controls/scattering/single_rat",0.1) set("sim/private/controls/scattering/multi_rat",0.2) set("sim/private/controls/hdr/bloom1",-8.9) set("sim/private/controls/hdr/bloom_exponent",3.12) --To here

Hi Jcomm and everyone, Yes, 1244 has improved loading time, less CPU grinding, and a better terrain rendering, still work in progress. The worst offenders, in my system, and I have afairly high end system, are Objects keep them Low to Medium, Clouds medium, Shadows, Acft only, 3D trees and AntiAliasing, Rendering dstance also but I like it and I keep maxed out, you can crack AF mostly all the way, and It looks OK especially if run 4K. If you run VR turn FF Off and use AF. Foe some reason LR likes to start with Objects very high (max) and if add Ortho, in particular if you are a real World pilot, you, like me, may like to keep the Tree, Objects.. low. I found that high in any of the things that cover the terrain / Orthos, make it less real looking and renders areas unrecognizable.

Hi everyone. I use 4K 90Deg FOV. C172 X1000 digital. When I expand the forward view to have the instrument fill the screen UDLR the upper most knobs / NAV switches become inactive / you cannot switch NAV FREQs... If you reduce the size to include the backup instruments / round gauges, that area becomes active again. This is for information only to make sure stay informed, the Mack / need not concern themselves with it. We use that size screen mostly when we use VR, to make sure we can get a better view / readability of the small print. I have a Voice Command called Zoom VR that sets that size screen. Others that have tested can duplicate the problem. My educated opinion is that the area may not be covered / active in that configuration, but it should.

Hi. I suggest that you also look in other locations to find complaints about 'Lost settings..." that is related / the same as to what I describe. Everyone I know has that problem, and I get it in every system that I had XP12 in, never have / had those problems in the prior versions. There is no Error or Warning about it, it just does what it wants. Sometimes it load a flight to some weird locations in Europe.... I sometimes get the the layers of Wind as in the initial download / install... Yesterday I got a message about the "wrong type.." of .sit of a situation that was just created 2 days before with absolutely No change to the sim. Lucky you. Edit: I just remembered you are one the few that were saying that the cockpit lighting was a non issue?

Hi everyone. Another annoying issue with XP12 is that it loads whatever it feels like on start up, sometimes it gets the wrong clouds, or worse it does not load your Memory views (Ctrl 0-9) saved configurations, joystick (controllers) settings... which can be very time consuming. My work around is to use a batch (.bat) file (included below) to start the sim. I use it from my Desktop, (make sure the locations are pointing to the proper Folder/Files you have your data saved). You will have to Save your Good (Wanted) Preference that you want to load with this Start. This seems to be random and I am not able to find the reason why, it just looks like poor code, sometimes it marks all .sit/s as Paused... It can be very time consuming. Everyone of the people I interface with, have that problem, and I get on any of the systems I use. I hope it helps some of you. >>From here Xcopy ...Your Drive:\XPlaneLocation\Output\YourSavedPreferences Loc\*.* ...Drive:\XPlaneLocation\Output\\preferences\ /E /I CD ...Drive:\XPlaneLocation\ start "" "..Drive:\XPlaneLocation\X-Plane.exe rem Pay attention to the "" <<To here As an additional note the Reflections, Low visibility, Bloom and Shadows are an absolute pain in the rear someone must really like the psychedelic colors, I do not think that any of those guys are old enough get get them the 70s experience. I need something to Kill the Sun, and the reflections.. A work around for the reflections in very low visibility and low Sun angle, I just make my windshield completely transparent which can be an issue for some, simpler procedure is to make your *glass more transparent if the modify the "glass_inn.obj" for that particular acft located in your ... ...\Aircraft\Laminar Research\Cessna 172 SP\objects in this case for the C172... Portion of the "glass_inn_G1000.obj" follows. This works for any "*glass*. obj" file. Start file: "glass_inn.obj" below >>From here A 800 OBJ TEXTURE glass_inn.png TEXTURE_NORMAL glass_inn_NRM.png GLOBAL_specular 1.0 <<<<<<<< change this line to GLOBAL_specular 0.2 (or something less than 0.5 as you prefer) NORMAL_METALNESS BLEND_GLASS ... << To here