Bjoern

@jcomm Save your money, I think this free toy here is perfect for you: https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/102317-psx747bridge/

Absolutely not, thank you. My XP12 is buttery smooth, but that could be because run neither Intel, NVidia or Windows, but AMD, AMD and Linux.

1) Update drivers. Especially after your GPU swapping antics. 2) Exclude the XP12 folder from Windows' anti-virus scanner. 3) Check if any background processes consume an absurd amount of resources and if yes, kick the offending programs out. 4) Maybe check if NVidia users on Windows require some special driver settings. 5) Investigate process core pinning for XP to avoid it running on Intel's slow e-cores. If that does not help, consider donating that high end hardware to simmers in need. XP11 can run on a pocket calculator.

You can't produce slop without AI. Because in order to even get a badly coded program to compile and work, you will have to do a whole lot of thinking, typing and trial & erroring yourself. That's called programming. If you have a programming background, AI is the musicians to your maestro because you understand what's going on in the background and can pinpoint and correct errors, but lots of people don't even know how an orchestra works or what music is, yet want to be the next London Symphonic Orchestra (ft. Sir Simon). That's not sustainable. The sites don't care, because a sold add-on means a few percent of commission. Slop detection is up to the potential buyer. Neither am I, but if it already looks like slop and reads like slop, it almost certainly is slop.

Your computer is perfeectly fine for X-Plane 12. Download the demo and give it a try.

The problem is that most new "developers" who publish plugins aren't developers, but people who have no idea about programming, but enough tokens puke prompts like "I want [plugin] for X-Plane. Make some product advertisement banners and write the documentation." into a slop generator and then lean back without any QA except "Well, it works", before clicking "Upload" to Github or the Org. And it shows on so. many. projects. Honestly, if I was the file library admin on the Org, I'd reject/delete every plugin that has an AI generated, unreviewed product description and banner because it's absolutely getting out of hand.

Sounded intriguing, especially since there is a Linux release, but after reading the included documentation, this comes with a few too many strings attached (including no VR) for me. Kudos to the authors for not having the slop machbine write their documentation. A rare thing in this kind of projects.

Aaaaand both of them aree gone.

Bought Jetstream's/Iceman's Chieftain a few days ago because I had an itch for an unpressurized, fast GA workhorse/pack mule that could not be ignored anymore. The praise the aircraft got from V1 Simulations (ex-real world Chieftain pilot) also did not help to suppress the urge. This was probably the most money I've ever spent on a GA aircraft, but so far it's worth it. The purchase went without hitch, installation was trivial and save for the standard Linux behaviour of not being able to copy-paste into plugin windows, activation went fine. It's pleasant to look at, sounds great and flys really well. Counter-rotating props make torque a non-issue and the panel layout is very good (unlike in the Turbo Arrow, where it must've been designed by the pre-school kids of Piper's employees), as everything you need for flying is in plain view and everything you don't neeed is not. The autopilot is as basic as it gets, but holds its heading, course and altitude just fine. Control wheel steering support also helps. Despite bringing a few plugins (control feel, weather radar, persistence, weight & balance, xlua, etc.), the frame rate impact on my system is very low. A bit worse than the default GA aircraft. The only complaint I have is that the startup sequence is tricky without hardware mixture controls and just the mouse pointer. The only method that mostly works for me without flooding the engine, is pulling the fuel pump breaker, setting the mixture, then pushing the breaker in again, count to three (sometimes two) and engage the starter until the engine fires. If the engine gets flooded, drain it, then try again. Jetstream/Iceman is still working on the aircraft, by the way. There is a beta channel on their Discord where you can download their Aircraft Manager* (Linux version of still has a folder detection bug, Windows version works fine with WINE) and try beta releases. Version 2.x.x will include a Garmin G5 (made by JFS/CIS), a dispatch sheet for flight planning and a maintenance system. All of this is still heavily work in progress, but will eventually find their way into all JFS/CIS aircraft. *Caution: On installation, Aircraft Manager1.0.8 wipes the Chieftain's folder clean (except liveries and _prefs.txt).

X-Plane caters to three different operating systems, three GPU vendors and outputs via two (or three, if OpenGL still counts) different rendering APIs. Now add motion vectors into the mix that may require some more internal branching of the pipeline to offer a legacy path for compatibility plus two different upscaling algorithms with four to five different generations, with the later ones only running on certain hardware and your shrub of complexity suddenly exploded into a hedgerow. Not to mention potential strings that come attached to some technology (like DLSS) and that Laminar's rendering eenginee team only consists of so many brains and fingers. I think the amount of internal engine rewriting will be close to what was required for the Vulkan support in 11.50.

Love me some turboprops for puddle jumping, but love has limits when it comes to price tags.

More: Looks well made, but $70 for nothing but the pax model...I don't know.

Wrong subject for this thread.

v1.2 is available from the Org store. After that, it should be possible to update X-WP with the Skunkcrafts Updater.

Price point will be around $70, btw. https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/352651-deltawing-simulations-atr-72-600-price-reveal/

"Boats_1.dds" from the "Mods" folder must be copied/moved into "XP12_libs/sim objects/ships". And while you're at it, copy/move the four folders from "Mods" into "XP12_libs/1200 forests" or you'll run into other errors. These messages are normal.

Have you ever thought about that historic weather might just be an XP exclusive feature that a plugin primarily coded to MSFS' standards might just not support (for now)? Because you can nor support what you do not know about.

This is like a "Hey, let's meet and talk" message from your ex after he/she ran off with another.

A $80 add-on can't even get its yoke size right? Wow.

Why not simply post the URL? https://community.x-plane.com/

Just needed something to drive the point home, because I think it's stupid to switch off a CPU feature for one app because it's shoddily programmed and deny the benefit to all the others which are not.

Disabling SMT/HT is like cutting your car's engine in half. Surely it lowers fuel consumption and heat generation, but on the other hand, the remaining cylinders have to work a lot harder to get the weight up to velocity.

Yes, as otherwise you will get farmland and grass polygons over your orthos.

Heh. As we say in German: "Dogs who get hit start barking". Consistent indeed, because that's the same verdict I've been reading about them since, uh, FS2002 (or was that FS9)? At least Thranda made something usable out of their (admittedly still very easy to look at) 3D and textures, so let's be glad that, at least for some time, at least the XP10/11 crowd got their money's worth.

Sigh. You're neither entitled to "good" add-ons nor to continuous development of add-ons (features, bug fixes) nor to infinite compatibility with future sims. Developers control the pricing and product development route and if you don't agree with that, simply leave your credit card in the wallet and buy something else. Keeping the price non-discounted is actually a good move, as it keeps as many customers, who'd buy it exclusively for use in an unsupported sim, away as possible. Also, most aircraft from Carenado's collection have more modern equivalents from other developers anyway.