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I will look periodically but this is one of those situations where you pay $80 but cannot use all that you pay for. To use everything you must spend Hundreds of dollars. This is not unique to X-Plane and has become a fact of PC life. Obviously my video card is not useable with this product. However, I complement X-Plane for releasing a demo that saved me $80, for now. Hopefully they continue to keep it patched so if any improvements help me I am aware of them.

My GT240 is only 530 FurMark points so I will have to look elsewhere for flight simulation.

Ah, now XPlane 10 may cost me several hundred dollars. Hmmmmm. Yes, I understand keeping current with technology but the price/benefit is a consideration. May pass until there is a bit more product maturity. Thanks....

I have played with the XP-10 Demonstration but I am disappointed in my FPS versus the elderly FSX. I have a train simulator (Trainz) that has a choice of OpenGL or DirectX. OpenGL is very poor in this instance with 1/3 the frame Rate (FPS) of DirectX. I suspect the disappointing performance I see in the demo is because of OpenGL. Are there some nVidia control panel settings I should look at? Windows7 32 bit, 4gb memory, e8400 3ghz dualcore, nVidia gt240 512mb - overclocked.

Despite some issues this aircraft is destined to join the list of classics. It is a missing link in a long chain of single engine GA aircraft developed for X-plane where its attention to detail has set the stage. Rather that just slapping a solid color here and there we actually see something that doe not resemble a model aircraft but a real one. For me the interior is extremely important visually. If it is not believable (many are not) then the delete key gets hit even if I paid for it. The quality of the airplane is actually measured in the interest expressed to make it better. There is a saying in the U.S. Navy that "a bitching crew is a happy crew". Silence means a mutiny is afoot. In X-Plane it means there is no interest in the product.

Uploaded with ImageShack.us Loaded with 350lbs of human cargo. Weather clear and calm. Set RPM as shown on the panel gauge at 2200rpm. Note the read out at top left for RPM??

Just to be sure - I just tried the plane again and left the throttle at max. It climbed at 1100ft per minute at a speed of 80 knots for several minutes. Tach reads 2700 and the digital data output (on screen) agrees. I was mis-reading the tach numbers before. However, the powerful engine giving the climb rate above does seem odd. I think I saw where you said that you found something. Awaiting that fix. Thanks

I may have missed it but what is the meters/pixel resolution? Same question for HD Tuscon?

I looked at the RPM on the screen data output. The gauge read just over 100 rpm too high.

I am not taking an absolute position on the reality of the "clean" windshield. At the factory that is a "real" windshield but with some tint. 6 months of use later it may not be. However, if the owner of the aircraft was annoyed by a dirty windshield they might spend the money to replace it periodically. Some nutty people do nutty things. I prefer the clean windshield so I can see the countryside as clearly as possible. Fortunately, I did not have to spend any money for my "nutty" obsession for a clean windshield! ;D In the other direction the person who created the XP aircraft did "spend" time making the windshield dirty thus meeting his objectives of maximum reality for an aircraft that must be old and used since they have not been made for a few years. Nothing wrong with that so long as I can find an alternative.

In this file: C:\X-Plane 9\Aircraft\General Aviation\4Forces Cessna 152\objects I blocked this file by changing its file type with some zeros: Windowin.00000obj It is a very crude approach and XP will give you a minor error when loading a flight. Ignore it. I am sure there is a more elegant tactic but I prefer to use the product rather than play programmer.

Cleaned my windshield.

Level flight, 112 knots, 2900rpm, altimeter 29.8, weather calm, 38fps Should have continued that throttle at black band on the shaft of the control - cruise setting? Not sure if this is good or bad. Someone said earlier their personal 152 had similar RPM readings. However, FSX or XP planes I have seen (GA types) top out at 2500rpm.

Level flight, 112 knots, 2900rpm altimeter 29.8, weather calm, 38fps

My windshield remains dirty. If I owned a plane that would be replaced.