VirtualGAaviator

I've never heard that Austin personally has ever had an issue with .org, so I'm not sure he'd 'disfavor' it. While not grabbing .org when he grabbed .com might be considered a missed opportunity today, the environment at the time was probably different. Austin focused on the core product rather than ancillary details, IMO. The environment has changed since then. MSFS has demonstrated the value of attaching a shopping cart to the simulator, and I can't imagine that some of the staff haven't heard or experienced some of the war stories surrounding the .org. I have my own war story with .org, so I'm personally delighted to have a place to purchase products that do not support .org. Plus, I might no longer have to deal with extracting .zip files into folders. However, I'll always opt to purchase a product from X-aviation.com even if it's available at X-Plane.com.

Sweet!

I've learned that when I'm having an issue with anything in life, I should ask, Not what X can do for me, but what I can do for X. Maybe an approach to identify your issues, and report them as a bug for the next update might be a better approach. Just saying...

@Jim Michael I am finally back to flying, and my machine is running better than it ever has. I wound up throwing enough money at the problem. First, let's address your suspected issue. Your CPU is apparently damaged. Don't get your panties in a bunch; there is a fix (I enjoy being long-winded some days. I realize I could answer in 2 or 3 sentences) You will need to contact Intel and RMA the CPU. Unfortunately, you'll have to jump through the hoops that they'll put in front of you. If you're lucky, you may be able to return the CPU to the store it came from. I'd had mine for 3 months before the damage got unbearable. Yup! That's the fix. A new CPU. Here's my take on the CPU issue. Intel's CPU overheat protection system apparently does a terrible job. It's supposed to throttle down to avoid overheating. Mine apparently did throttle down because the system felt much slower than it should have, but I kinda ignored it It didn't throttle down enough to avoid heat damage. Why did your CPU overheat, you may ask. That's a great question. I choose an air-cooler. I'd read good things about the Noctua NH-D15 cooler, but the heat from the I9-14900 family was apparently no match for it. I bought a 2nd I9-14900 (the KF version as opposed to the K this time) and was able to run X-Plane beautifully with the NH-D15 installed. Since Intel claimed the issue was heat damage, I decided to go with a water cooler, the Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360. To my astonishment, the computer seemed to run much, much faster. I can finally see 80 & 90 FPS with relatively high graphics settings (albeit in cruise only). I'd never seen more than 45 FPS with the air cooler and Vatsim was a non-starter since I couldn't keep 20+ FPS, Anyhoo, I finally got my I9-14900K from intel, swapped it back in the computer and I couldn't be happier. I should mention that it took about 3-4 weeks from start to finish with Intel. Seems their reply time, (in my case) was about 3 or 4 days. Each email was prefaced with an apology for the delay in responding. Maybe they've sped up the response by now. Here's the reply you'd hoped I'd given - Heat damage. RMA or return the CPU, get a good water cooler. Hope this helps and good luck!

Care to bring me up to speed? JF from Just Flight? Posted where? Converting what?

Agreed. My story is quite similar. In 2017, when I started X-Plane I, too, was impressed with Carenado's aircraft. Then I learned how light on systems it was. I abandoned Carenado's PC-12 and started flying STMA's PC-12, which looked more like an XP10 version. Nevertheless, STMA's systems went a lot deeper and worked closer to the real aircraft, despite the antiquated textures. Back in 2020, I did a comparison of the two aircraft which highlights how lacking the Carenado version is.

Wow. I like what you've done with the screens. You might want to drop a comment into Russ Barlow's YT channel. He's been working on solutions for AirManager for years.

Interesting issues. Please consider posting a bug report regarding your issue here: https://www.x-plane.com/x-plane-bug-report-form/. It may be a low priority but at least it's something they'll know to address.

Yup. Perhaps I should have choosen AMD . ASUS approved my claim so I should be getting the ASUS Maximus motherboard back soon. I would have purchased my own label rather than ASUS's shipping label. except I would have needed to add $500 worth of extra insurance. Anyhow, I've been working for days trying to RMA my Intel i9-900K processor. I think I have one more hoop to jump through before they'll take it back. In the meantime, I've purchased an I9-900KF CPU and the sim runs. The CPU was the root of my problems. My computer woes are costing me a fortune. If it wasn't for missing simming I'd waited. Guess I'll get in a flight now. Cheers.

Nice channel, Jordan.

Not only is X-Plane not dying, it's expanding. Laminar Research is busy adding features and human resources. XP12 is just now finding its footing (after a year or so major changes) The next update (12.1.0) ought to bear this out, but even then 12.1.0 it is just a starting point. I think it's going to be the ultimate flight sim. However, the other sim has some really impressive non-aircraft add-ons, at this moment in time. Some of those add-ons actually makes me envious. I'm smart enough to give props where props are due and, MSFS has earned some props because of these non-aircraft add-ons. Kudos to those devs. A side note should be Laminar's mention of its "modern collector" which I think it going to be the real game changer. From what I understand, it going to move the sim toward true multi-core processing. I tend to avoid conversation about which sim is better. Simply stated, each sim is different. The bottom line is that X-Plane is far from dying.

Ditto. You hit the nail on the head. For the record, I'm not a developer although I do play around in Python from time to time.

Yup. That's true of a lot of freeware and some payware. Nevertheless, there's still freeware that is worth the time and energy to explore. Remember, it's people like us, who develop the freeware and upload it. If you were to create and upload an airplane, you'd be under no obligation to maintain it. Personally, I grateful that I can find some great free stuff.

What a fiasco? Whew! So I RMA'd my ASUS Hero Maximus Z790 motherboard. ASUS received it, claimed it was damaged (which I can assure you, it wasn't when I shipped it) and sent me an invoice for $663.00. That's close to $70.00 more than I paid for the motherboard. The damage they cited is a corner of the wafer that is broken, something I find it hard to believe happened in shipping. The damage, IMO, is more consistent with mishandling. I ordered, received and installed a Gigabyte Aorus Z790 motherboard. To my surprise and horror, I got the same results. BSOD and frequent application crashes. Therefore, I concluded that I sent ASUS a perfectly good motherboard and the real culprit is the CPU. Perhaps this theory is part of an active imagination, nevertheless; I present this theory anyway. ASUS received the motherboard, tested it and couldn't reproduce the issue. The tech, decided to create a real issue, rather than return it as received. Yeah, I know this is wayyyy out there, but I'm trying to make sense of how the board got physically damaged. Anyway a tech, during a phone call, suggested that I allow ASUS to file a claim on my behalf for the damage (I purchased the shipping label from ASUS). That's where I stand at the moment with this... crap. At this point, I've replaced the SSD drive, motherboard, and finally the memory. The problem is apparently a faulty i9-14900K CPU. Yesterday, I started to process, with Intel, to RMA it. Wish me luck!

I'm still dead-in-the-water with my flight sim rig. I've concluded it's got to be a hardware problem so I'm going to try to RMA the motherboard. The issue I'm facing now is this: I've reverted to my old computer with runs a i7-6700K CPU and a 1080Ti graphics card. Both a licensed copy of XP11 & 12 runs on the computer. However, I have a ton of add-ons that are registered to the misbehaving (preferred) computer. I don't know if I can transfer the addons to the old computer and back to the preferred computer if I get it working. To make matters more complicated, I also have an i9-12900k CPU, a separate motherboard (the i9-14900K and i9-12900K sockets aren't compatible) and 64gb of DDR4, sitting around. Again, If I were to deploy that hardware, I'd still have the problem of using add-ons since it'll technically be a different computer. Kinda sucks simming without my favorite addons. I've RMA'd the 12900k motherboard last year and it took about two weeks to get it back. If you're wondering why I'm hanging onto all this hardware - I lend the hardware to my EAA chapter during our Young Eagle events (I need to finish the build on the 2nd computer).