Mountain Man

If you're on Linux or OSX then X-Plane 10 is literally the only game in town. Well, there's FlightGear, too, which is still a bit clunky even after decades of development, but it does have the advantage of being free.

Maybe I missed it, but did you try removing all plug-ins and running the simulator "clean" with no add-ons?

I'm getting very good performance with 10.30. While my framerates haven't dramatically increasted, the wildly fluctuating framerates I experienced in previous versions are gone, and my flying experience is very smooth and fluid.

I still seem to be having some problems. When I go to my home airport, the game indicates that it's downloading data, but then it eventually stops and I'm stuck on the loading screen. The default area works fine, but anywhere else isn't working so well.

Apparently TerraSync is supposed to work "out of the box" now with no need for user configuration. I hope that's true because I could never get it to work before.

One of the advantages of open source community projects is that they have the luxury of being able to "sweat the small stuff". I remember hearing a story about an open source developer looking over a professional developer's code and wondering why it wasn't better organized and thoroughly commented. The professional said, "I don't have time for that. I have a job to do. It doesn't have to look pretty, it just has to work and be delivered on time and on budget." That is to say that open source developers and professional studios are often working under different priorities.

Isn't Skymaxx Pro just a graphics upgrade? You need to enable real-world weather in X-Plane 10 itself if you want it to reflect the weather in your neck of the woods.

It's O.K. Bob the Builder said it first.

Just need Howard Shore's bombastic score playing in the background and it'd be perfect.

Um... O.K. I guess what confused me was your comment, "I want this in X-Plane 10!!!!!" Why would you ask for a feature that X-Plane 10 already has? It would be like P3D adding blade-element theory and you saying, "I want that, too!" That's why I was asking if you were being deliberately ironic. And if your intent was to compliment P3D users on their shiny new toy then why did you post it here instead of the P3D forum?

I thought X-Plane 10 had volumetric clouds and fog. I didn't see anything in that video that I haven't seen in XP10. Unless you were being intentionally ironic?

It's called a release candidate for a reason, and you can only get it if you explicitly tell the software that you want a beta version.

I leave it off. It certainly looks great, but it tanks my framerates. I like lots of objects and trees, but I can't have that and HDR.

Carenado's site is like porn for flight simulator enthusiasts.

Hey, thanks for the reminder. I had downloaded that ages ago, but for some reason I never got around to installing it. It does do a nice job filling in the gaps.