RobH Posted June 30, 2020 Report Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) OK so I got TerraMaxx a couple of hours ago. The problem I'm having is that it's just not working with X-Plane 11.50 B11 for me at least, as soon as I select what season I want and go to load it in then it just sits there with the loading new scenery message forever ( ok maybe not forever as that's a long time ) I let it sit like that for more than 15 minutes and nothing happens so I have to ctrl-alt-del and use task manager to quit X-Plane. I did find a sort of work around which isn't ideal, if I turn Vulkan off, load X-Plane using opengl, change the season and it loads the textures in around 20 seconds, then if I enable Vulkan and quit X-Plane then launch X-Plane again I have whatever season I set in opengl but with Vulkan enabled which is a royal pain as that means if I want to use another season I have to do all that again and of course the Auto option isn't an option if I use Vulkan as it just locks up at the loading season textures message. This is an X-Plane install with no custom scenery or planes, no plugins other than TerraMaxx. I'm at a loss what to try next to get TerraMaxx working in Vulkan. Anyone got any ideas ? Edited June 30, 2020 by RobH Quote
Cameron Posted June 30, 2020 Report Posted June 30, 2020 58 minutes ago, RobH said: I did find a sort of work around which isn't ideal, if I turn Vulkan off, load X-Plane using opengl, change the season and it loads the textures in around 20 seconds, then if I enable Vulkan and quit X-Plane then launch X-Plane again I have whatever season I set in opengl Thanks for that datapoint. @sundog ? Quote
sundog Posted July 1, 2020 Report Posted July 1, 2020 When you load scenery for the first time under Vulkan, X-Plane undertakes a lengthy process to compile shaders for it. You end up taking that hit when you switch seasons, at least for the first time. 15 minutes sounds excessive however, and this sounds like it may be a bug in the X-Plane Vulkan beta. We are using X-Plane's API's for reloading scenery (XPLMReloadScenery) and my guess is that it doesn't work as expected under Vulkan. I'll file a bug report with Laminar about it. For now, you should stick with OpenGL with TerraMaxx or use the workaround you identified. Quote
RobH Posted July 2, 2020 Author Report Posted July 2, 2020 Ok thanks. I did end up just letting it sit for a while but 40 minutes passed and nothing happened. I will for now just switch from vulkan to opengl and back again. Quote
sundog Posted July 2, 2020 Report Posted July 2, 2020 It definitely looks like a bug in X-Plane 11.50b13, possibly related to the Vulkan memory manager. I filed the details with Laminar. Quote
RobH Posted July 16, 2020 Author Report Posted July 16, 2020 Just to let you know it's still not working with beta 15...... Quote
sundog Posted July 17, 2020 Report Posted July 17, 2020 17 hours ago, RobH said: Just to let you know it's still not working with beta 15...... We filed the bug and provided all the details they asked for. Just not something they've gotten to yet I suppose. Quote
sundog Posted July 29, 2020 Report Posted July 29, 2020 Just confirmed this will be fixed in X-Plane 11.50 beta 17! Quote
RobH Posted July 31, 2020 Author Report Posted July 31, 2020 I can confirm that TerraMaxx does indeed appear to be working with b17. 1 Quote
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