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X-plane: The voyage of discovery begins........
EHM-2381 Ted:
OK.
I looked at that tutorial and what I wanted to do was edit the exisiting panel getting rid of some of the silly stuff and adding the important bits like radar alt, GPWS etc. When I open the plane maker and select 2D and attempt to import the panel I get just a blank template.
I will poke around the forums some more and elsewhere and see if I can find a better guide.
Also I am not sure what is going on with the frames but it started snowing at CYCG (nice looking effects) and got that silly gfx warning. Now correct me if I am wrong but my gfx card is a 1Gb card and according to the resource load my current settings were at like 400Mb loaded. Whats going on with that? I find the actual gfx rendering setup slightly confusing in all honesty as it appears to keep changeing dynamically.
I will have to screenshot the weather/rendering page and perhaps one of you might know whats going on there.
Once I get sort of comfy with things I'll ask less questions but this is a very new interface and as you guys are experienced perhaps I can avoid some pitfalls while I climb the learning curve.
EHM-1997 Alexander:
--- Quote from: EHM-2381 Ted on March 08, 2011, 08:51:20 pm ---Also I am not sure what is going on with the frames but it started snowing at CYCG (nice looking effects) and got that silly gfx warning. Now correct me if I am wrong but my gfx card is a 1Gb card and according to the resource load my current settings were at like 400Mb loaded. Whats going on with that? I find the actual gfx rendering setup slightly confusing in all honesty as it appears to keep changeing dynamically.
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Probably not a memory issue but could be a cpu bottleneck, or a driver issue. Make sure your gpu drivers are up to date. I don't have a problem with snow, but then I'm not sure what your specs are.
If the drivers are up to date, then throttle things back a bit until you get higher frames. CYCG is not a location where you're particularly stretching things, especially with the freeware Twotter.
EHM-2381 Ted:
I seem to have things quite stable and fluid.
X-plane is absolutely gorgeous at nightime as I did a test flight out of Heathrow over London and the sky is actually dark and the ground effects lighting is simply stunning.
The significant downside I can see thus far is that despite loading an enhanced EGLL the terminals and taxiways really don't match up well with reality so online jet or turboprop flight between significant airfields may be an issue as taxi/docking accurately is fairly important. And I am not wild about the default aircraft beyond the Piper (which actually flies well and has a decent virtual cockpit) and I find the downloaded Twin Otter rather bleah (although the flight model is about the same as ours under FSX.
I am going to research a strong payware model (likely the MU-2 or one of the PC-12's) and have a go. I will also get the freeware x737 and see how that model works depsite the lack of a 2D pit just to get a proper feel for a proper jet aircraft in the sim.
It seems to me so far that where Xplane utterly shines is in the area of prop/turboprop flight and the sim fluidity
Just as a side note I have also just ordered and will be installing FS9 :D. I also got the PMDG 737 6/7/8/900 package for a song from Amazon at the same time. I was reluctant to do this but as my F1 ATR, QW757, FSC, and REX all came with installers for FS9 what the heck. Why not have at least one sim that can run at max fidelity given my current hardware ;).
I can easily see myself using FSX for the Twin Otter/PC-12 as those planes are just awesome and smooth....as is the QW 757 for the most part, the heavy metal stuff like PMDG on FS9, and the MU-2/PC-12 under X-plane for when FSX/FS9 begins to become irritating.
I'm still in the process of getting the controls sussed out and mapped properly to my stick/HOTAS. And how the heck can I disable or change the assignment of the scroll wheel on my mouse away from throttle control!
More rambles as I experiment some more. I am getting tempted to check out Mars lol.
EHM-1997 Alexander:
The default planes in x-plane 9 are meh.
The payware is hit and miss. Definately get the MU-2 as your first xp9 payware. The flight model is amazing and the plane is lovely right now with a sweet cockpit update coming. Just learn to use trim! It looks to be far better than the two payware PC-12 models currently available for x-plane.
Try this: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=11933
And this: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?automodule=downloads&showfile=11835
This is coming:
There's a great bunch of payware on the horizon too - Saab 340, Dash8-Q400, ATR72-500 (by the same guy that made the freeware F27 linked above), 777, 737-200, 747-200 and 747-400
You can't disable / remap the mouse scroll to my knowledge - shame, just don't touch it, use your other hardware instead!
Lets look forward to xp10 as well: http://www.x-plane.com/blog/2011/03/lots-of-testing-lots-of-absurdity/
Also have a read of http://xplane10.wordpress.com/
EHM-2381 Ted:
Ahhh thank you for that Robin link. I just did a little hop from Heathrow to London City and back again and thats a terrific cockpit-and is it ever a handful to fly in high winds. I am beginning to appreciate just how tricky the flight models are and its nice to fly a little plane with a sensible cockpit layout-and good thing I can read French for the main manual as it took some trial and error to get the canopy shut.
I think I am going to get the PC-12....the latest edition from Shade Tree Micro as thats an aircraft I am quite used to flying. I also intend to pick up that recommended scenery package as its a nice offer for that whole WILD division area. While the MU-2 looks great I'll hold off on that one as the reviews suggest it is quite a difficult aircraft to manage.
I am still tweaking the gfx here and there trying to get the best balance of eye candy-versus-flight visuals and am just about there. Still getting my controls sorted as well as there are quite a few options regarding view modes and zooms I am getting my head around.
If this is a teaser of what V10 might bring-all I can say is wow and look out MS Flight lol.
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