diamonddriller

I've had some odd crashes very lately (on loading XP, but very occasionally during a flight). Using XP on a 5K iMac with 32Gb or RAM and a 4Gb graphics card. I wouldn't have thought memory was an issue, but with a load of scenery and plugins, who knows? Today, it started happening again, and I noticed SMP was the culprit at the end of log.txt. I moved the SilverLining and Real Weather Connector folders out of plugins, and order was restored. I then deleted "settings.dat" in the SilverLining folder, and put each folder back. All seems OK again. We'll see.........

Looks really great. This will really make a difference with on-line flying on PilotEdge, etc. The sudden transitions of weather were annoying, and jarred with the otherwise very immersive experience. Finger poised to click on the purchase button!

This will really transform the experience. Well done. Can't wait

I like to use X-Plane's real weather options. Usually, SkyMaxx Pro reflects the METARS that are downloaded. Sometimes, however, it is completely wrong. For example, I had real weather showing pretty clear skies in S. California the other day. SkyMaxx Pro gave me a lot of clouds, lightning and thunder at the very airport that was supposed to be virtually CAVOK! I disabled SkyMaxx, and the weather I then saw in X-Plane was as per the current METAR for the field. Using 10.36 in OS X 10.10.4 (iMac). So, does anybody know why these discrepancies appear? Today, SkyMaxx Pro gave me exactly the weather that the METARs showed.

Speaking of the manuals, mine are still dated 2013, despite the 1.2 update. This means that none of the improvements or new features are documented in the package, but we have to read forums to know about them. A new customer would be disadvantaged, unless the manuals should have been updated when I did the installation, or X-Aviation has them on their website.

As a further, I have experienced a remarkable recovery. The iMac went to sleep with the stuttering XP running, and when I returned to wake things up 10 minutes later, XP was still running (of course) but the frame rate was fantastic, and there was not a stutter to be seen........ I have shut down XP and restarted it, upped the resolution, etc., and it seems OK so far. As for later, or tomorrow, who knows?

There are several of us iMac users, particularly with mid 2011, 27" , 16Gb ram and ATI Radeon 2Mb graphics cards, who are now getting stuttering and varying frame rates under Yosemite (even 10.10.1). These faults are making XP unusable. I'm praying for a resolution to this soon, and am having to use a Boot Camp installation while I wait, as well as (and it's slow...) booting from an external HD with Mavericks on it, and then using my internal HD's X-Plane installation. Not good