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It's on the list of things to add, as is regional water colors. In time!

I decided to wait, and went ahead and deleted the demo from my disk. Here's what I posted on the developer blog, after they posted the "tips for better framerate" post. thanks for this post. I did exactly as described. However, I still think there is a problem with X-plane 10. I am running the latest version 10.03b. I have 8 cores all running below 50% average, and GPU never exceeds 75% usage with HDR on. I get 30 fps at KSEA sitting on ground blue skies. As soon as I reach 4000-5000 feet, FPS descent to 10!!!! 10-12 fps. GPU is the same as well as CPU. there is definitely something wrong. I can’t be out of RAM for sure.. I have WAY more than 4 gb. If I put everything to default, and HDR on, and 40% clouds, I still can’t MAX the GPU Activity, nor the CPU activity, nor the memory ? How am I supposed to find the “bottleneck” ????? It has to be Bus speed. Anyone here knows how I could check that ??? Here's the response I got back on the blog: Chris Serio says: December 9, 2011 at 6:32 pm No one’s denying that there may be something that can/should/will be improved in the sim. You did exactly what you’re supposed to and you now know that your bottleneck is not your CPU or GPU or RAM…so perhaps it’s bus bandwidth. You can try to reduce things that consume bus bandwidth. This also means you can INCREASE your settings so that you consumer more CPU/GPU and make the sim “prettier” without hurting performance so long as you don’t increase bus traffic. We’ll be getting to performance tuning soon where we can talk in more specifics and we’ll have tools to help figure out what’s going on. In any case, I have to let go. I spent too much frustrating time trying to improve for flyable sim. TO me, having to reduce the number of roads to improve FPS is ridiculous. Less roads mean a lot of houses, line up in the green environment with no roads leading to them, which to me.. is not PLAUSIBLE at all. Until 10.XY comes out, when they fix this, I will certainly not spend any money on X-plane 10. I switched back to version 9 now, flying high in the sky :-) at 50-55 fps at 3840x1024, all maxed out settings. what a deception Patrick

Your Item's StatusYour item has left our acceptance facility and is in transit to a sorting facility on December 10, 2011 at 8:24 am in PORT ORANGE, FL 32127. - so it's ALMOST leaving the country? Ha, then another 15 hops across the globe. Good job I'm busy on other, MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS for scenery, you're all gonna love this one!! It is, I believe, revolutionary for BOTH sims, the world is about to get more spectacular, if it works out...

yes. About the same here. Some settings are affecting Big time the fps, some seems to be just ignored. For example, chaning the anisotropic filtering to 16X from 2X AND , at the same time, increasing the amount of roads, treees and objects, affected the whole fps by... 1.5 to 2. TWO!!! wtf. However, turning off HDR made a big difference... until there were clouds. I think its easy to summarize..... there is a problem with Clouds AND/OR HDR. If GPU and CPU are not the bottleneck... what is ???? certainly not RAM ??(coughing 64 BIt) For me, turn HDR off, I get at least 18-20 fps. NO CLOUDS.. turn clouds on, go back to 12-13 fps. Turn clouds off and turn HDR on, same... 10-12 fps. Both on.... its slideshow and maybe its worth repeating my specs i7 core Windows 7 64 Bit 24 Gb of RAM (useless in 32 Bit environment) ATI Radeon HD 5870 PCI 16x I'm still pretty disappointed. I find myself flying XP10 for 10 minutes and switching back happily to X-plane 9 to fly happily with maxed out settings, at 250 knots in a mix of sun and clouds..........at 35-40 fps Oh and should I mention the few bugs too ? Like my plane loads at KSEA and move backward slooowly until I apply throttle no cars on the roads for the first 30 seconds of every flight. and yes... I have the latest catalyst drivers I think they've got some homework to do. I'll certainly let them do the homework before I even think of purchasing it.