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Laminar is strongly against these type of plugins https://developer.x-plane.com/2026/10/on-hacking-our-engine-please-dont/ However, until motion vectors is implemented and the nice technologies it enables, I'd say why not?

A quick summary on dates 12.4.4 Final by October end 12.4.5 A minor release coming before December 12.5.0 First public beta before year end, long beta phase due to many changes 2027: Four main releases: ATC update, XP Store, tiled next-gen scenery, new airport assets and possibly motion vectors

don't even think twice, XP12 for 30$ direct from Laminar is a steal and you will get the exact same thing as Steam

Here is the thread https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/351073-1244 and a youtuber already shared the release notes for the alpha build...

Hopefully in years to come we will have the next gen scenery and none of this madness will be required any longer.

I am following the thread over on the org site and I see all developers are reacting quickly to any feedback, I expect this to become an excellent quality aircraft that will really shine once 12.5 with the new flight model is released. By the way it is an M500 not M600 like the title says. (G1000 vs G3000)

yes and reported, I just learned to ignore it but it is annoying.

This is how Venice, Italy, not exactly some obscure place, is rendered in a vanilla XP 12.4 If you are happy with the above then you are far away from what many simmers want in a flight sim. This is not to discredit the many excellent features of XP12 by all means, I just cannot comprehend how you can be satisfied with the current scenery. Even if you only fly airliners and only cruise above 30000 feet and never takeoff or land. Anyway, we know LR is working on next-gen but until then there is no alternative to some sort of aerial imagery. Also Jan, are you not partially employed by Laminar? Or an external contributor highly regarded by the team?

MSFS2020 : 1 min 43 sec (over 200gb in community folder) using the -FastLaunch option MSFS2024 : Did not buy yet

This is the explanation in discord: Unfortunately, due to copyright concerns, we cannot provide official/community support for Autoortho or Map Enhancement. The mods and helpers of this Discord have been assigned to lock/remove support requests. We suggest contacting the original authors for support queries. Apologies!

There is no paid version of autoortho. You are likely thinking of XP Map Enhancement. Keep in mind Laminar does not really like the use of these tools and immediately ban any discussion of them in their discord for reasons that were discussed at lengths here before

I would consider that a bug worth logging with Laminar

Funny how that article does not mention the biggest fix introduced with 12.4.1, the Vulkan crashes plaguing the AMD crowd. 12.4.1 running beautifully here. Thank you Laminar. Looking forward for what's coming next, Delta promised an updated roadmap by end of this week

The guy is still busy looking for the replay mode, somebody save him

FSR1 only for the time being. Anything higher requires motion vectors.

Thankfully we don't have DLSS nor FSR, no need to splash out a lot of cash for the latest and greatest graphic card 😁

Quick fix for you, uncheck the beta flag and make sure you are not running the SAM plugin, that should help a lot.

This video does not tell me anything new about X-Plane, I don't need confirmation bias. It does however tell me a lot about that youtube channel, has he been living under a rock until today?

Extremely rough by looking at that video, sort of expected being the first release. Hopefully it sells well to fund further development

Realops is available now

Seems like the developer got a bit too excited and promised a date he could not meet. Something unheard before 😁

Not true, there are many ways to overcome TPM and Secureboot restrictions. A 30 seconds thing. And there are many ways to remove the Microsoft bloatware that comes with it, again an extremely simple thing. But anyway, super off topic, sorry. Back on topic, I wish there were more developers like Marko from X-Crafts, he even made the previous gen E-Jets available for free.

Youtubers will love this!

There's over 38K airports in XP. A global tool to improve the overall look of these can only be beneficial

Likely years away, it is a massive change