OlaHaldor

Starting to worry about X-Plane 10 not arriving at all before christmas. The tracking status is still Miami, and was last tracked December 7

Here's my setup atm.

I had that very setup once. But I sold it. I'll see if I can fix a photo later on..

Your graphics card could without a doubt be replaced with something that actually gives better performance. Even though it's supported, you would benefit with a better gpu. A new CPU would help a bit too. Since you're on a E8400 today, you can upgrade to a quad core CPU without changing motherboard and ram.

It just updated. "Processed through sort facility" in Miami.

My german is a bit rusty. As in "I don't know the language". But I guess the simulator is only in german too then?

A new simulator? Came across this new simulator through another forum. Looks interesting. Especially the eye candy. Who knows what the dynamics are like. But look at this video, there's a party where they simulate different winds. Look at the flags to the left in the video... WOW.......... http://www.aeroflyfs.com/images/neuehp/_afs/video/flugphysik.html As far as I can see, not for sale yet.

Yeah, Austin sent an email about that, that's how I was informed it was shipped. I kind of regret I ordered with the regular (slower) shipping, yet I would be broke if I had ordered with the express shipping. Guess I just gotta wait a week or so.

I find that the GPU isn't the bottleneck, really. I have a GTX560ti 1GB RAM. With most of the settings turned up pretty high, the render settings window shows me I'm using only about 800mb RAM. The CPU and GPU load isn't more than about 70-80% I'm not sure why I'm not seeing more use of them though. Hopefully it's a demo thing, and it will get better when they start crunching bugs and stuff for the full installation.

Wow! Happy for you. Wonder how long the trip from USA to Norway will take with the cheapest shipping.

Yay, I see it in the tracking information now. It's "Processed at USPS Origin Sort facility" in Columbia, South Carolina.

Nothing too spectacular. I was showing off XP10 to some friends and on a forum. They were bashing at XP not looking good at night. I disagree. I see no reason to buy applications that will convert day for night or some kind of addon like for FS9 or FSX to add street lights and such. I'm IMPRESSED. The XP10 universe is so full of life. Just too bad the thumbnail is screwed up and YouTube made the video a bit dark..

I found that my quad core i5 doesn't have more than about 80% load too, RAM isn't the bottleneck, nor is the GPU. hmm.. I also found that if I lower the amount of objects, I get worse FPS than with "tons". Very, very weird, but I don't mind the details.

I believe I read somewhere (official) that all airports will have some details like buildings and terminals. Not sure what it means, but hopefully it'll be at least a bit more than default XP9 scenery.

I took XP10 for a go. With this view I had about 1 14-18fps.. Wonder what might help. Anyway. I enjoyed the short flight from one airport to another.

I suggest you make it a video tutorial in the end. I can only speak for myself, but learning by text can some times be quite hard compared to see how it's done.

Flying X-Plane on a MacBook, I'd get one with at least i5 CPU.

For anyone still wondering; the main difference I experienced between HDR on and off is that the jets have heat blur when HDR is ON. And the frame rate went way slow.

OK, just got home. So far I'm thinking "wtf have they done to the controls?". I used to have WASD to pan around the cockpit and external view, but in external view, the camera behaves just like in 3D cockpit: rotates around its own pivot. I liked to pan around and view the plane from different angles with the same keys. Having spent a few minutes investigating this, turns out I can't do that at all. I have to set up a new set of keys just for external panning. And where is the "Tower view" option?

I didn't put much effort into learning the camera controls before I had to take a real flight this weekend. Would you mind either showing in a video or make an article about the camera controls? Waiting on the return flight now. Will definitely jump straight into xp 10 when I get home.

When will the development tools become available?

Ordered..

I love it! Man I wish I had those texturing skills. Kills me to see my unfinished models. Hey btw, I picked up LWCAD 4 yesterday. Looks good! Very interesting feature it can create UVs as you model. Will try this on a new model and see if it will make any sense for X-Plane use.

Hmm I dunno about that. It's very far away and it's at a strange angle, so I don't get much of the walls or anything.

No, 60D. If I couldn't flip the monitor and rotate it as needed, panning around would be way worse than it was. Yeah, I've heard that about IS too, but it worked well. I figured I'd switch it on due to the loose soil I was standing on, as well as the wind gusts. That's probably the last time I'm spotting from that very location, since they're building a new road. It was an open construction site. No barriers. So I didn't really feel like we were trespassing, yet we came so close to the fence!