carrotroot

I'm really excited about the PMDG 737's arrival to MSFS. I don't have P3D, and was holding out many years for it to arrive on X-Plane. But now it's coming soon for on my new sim I'll definitely get it.

I'm really excited about MSFS2020 but kinda of disappointed that it might not support VR, which I can understand ... I hope that it will eventually support it, but not going to hold out hope for it. That's why I'm likely to keep using X-plane for the foreseeable future.

I recall the developers saying that you will have to wait until Vulkan/Metal. The other alternative is to run a different OS such as windows or Linux which has support for VR.

Update your version of x-plane! Why on Earth are you running such an old build? If you have been keeping up to date with your other system patches and driver updates, but fail to also update x-plane along the way, you are eventually going to run into compatible problems.

If the format of those files hasn't changed then they will still be compatible with the software.

Isn't there a more formal system to report activation issues than a forum? Forums aren't exactly the ideal place for customer support especially if the dev's don't frequent them.

According to your log file this helicopter is now giving you issues: G:\XPlane10/X-Plane 10/Aircraft/Helicopters/Bell 407 SP1/ As the plugin is crashing at this point

Its crashing because this file 'external_tanks.png' is missing, maybe try reinstalling the helicopter?

Apparently, the upcoming xEnviro 1.10 is supposed to have procedural-based snow build-up linked to live weather. However, if this software comes out in late-spring -- we're probably not going to be seeing much snow 😄

The scenery generated by W2XP is overlay scenery and should exist by itself in a folder in your custom scenery folder. You don't and should not need to import this into World Editor (WED) ... if you need to make an airport just create a separate folder for your airport and build it there, and then edit your scenery.ini file so that your airport folder is listed above the folder with the W2XP generated scenery. I suggest looking at some videos about how X-Plane's scenery works, this should give you a better idea of how you can add your own custom scenery to sim.

The next Xenviro will do real-time snow accumulation, even on orthophotos. Swapping textures for different reasons will soon be a thing of the past.

FSW's problem was that they closed the platform, made it purposely incompatible with ESP-based addons, and then proceeded to waste a lot of time re-inventing the wheel. Pretty much repeating the same mistakes that caused the demise of MS Flight.

I'm very doubtful that the inclusion of PBR would have resulted in any meaningful shift in the results of the survey, it not as a significant improvement as the move to 64bit was over a year ago. There are other factors at work for instance market availability, P3D isn't sold outside of Lockheed Martin's website, X-Plane is sold on steam and is often goes on sale for $40USD or less -- this lowers a barrier to entry for many people. Also, it's difficult to maintain 2 platforms (especially if the average user is spending around $200 a year in addons)... overtime people will tend to spend more time in a single sim.

I can run with shadows and full autogen without micro stutters, so I'm very happy.

If it crashed and you just left it at that without filing a cash report, then the issue might not get resolved. Squashing bugs is kinda the purpose of the beta.

Default with NOAA plugin for now but I'm interested in the next version of Xenvio, the new cloud engine looks pretty good from the W.I.P videos.

Laminar Research changed their policy towards Steam over a year ago. Now, Steam gets the beta's usually a few (2-3) days later. * The advantage of the Steam version is it's less expensive if you are buying outside the US, and it frequently goes on sale. Otherwise, you aren't missing anything other than a delay of a few days when a new beta is realeased. * Laminar Research is a lot more cautious about pushing out beta's to Steam, especially early in a beta cycle where it's not uncommon for them to remove a beta from their non-steam edition due to extremely serious bugs. With Steam it takes longer to undo changes of this nature so this is why they wait a few days to see if any serious bugs are reported first before releasing to Steam.

But...the 727 is my favorite plane! All kidding aside, this is something that LR has said will be fixed in the new particle system. But vulkan is a higher priority since all visual effects will be driven by it in the near future. People like to hate on VR for some reason because the belief is that it takes resources away from development of features that they feel are more important. However I don't agree with this line of thought. VR is what is largely pushing the need for a new rendering pipeline, Vulkan, the performance improvements will allow for a better particle system, which means improvements in weather, and other visual areas. The offloading of these from the core CPU frees up the system to do more complex flight models and AI. VR is a good thing, even if you never plan to use it, you will still be getting the benefits of the new technologies that are being developed for it. Kinda think of it this way, we spend billions to send a few people to space, but will I ever get to go to space... most likely no...but I get the indirect benefits of it (and more than just drinking Tang every day)

The rest of the questions (I think the majority actually) were about the Patent Troll. Anyways it definitely easier to read Austin :D

Wow! This is top quality work! Also I am really looking forward to your forest mod for California!

X-Plane 11

X-plane used to require that the dvd be in the tray every time you ran the software. However, they changed this disc check to once a week or so around X-plane 10.35. As for digital pin...I am one of those who sometimes gets the reactivation message from time to time. I do find it slightly annoying but much less than having to fumble around for a disc. I would imagine that the steam version doesn't have this issue... However you don't have access to betas with the steam version which may or may not be an issue for you.

I recall that LR will replace scratched disks if you bought directly from them. I don't know how far back... Maybe Version 9 since that is still being sold.

Especially when you are comparing a 1st Gen i7 to a 6th Generation part. Nice to see that X-Plane may benefit from having HT on with newer processors.

Any airport in Antarctica such as NZIR, the default install has no scenery south of 60.