The XPlane 10 demo version is now available !

***Ferry_vO*** · November 26th, 2011, 04:14

Did a bit more testing, this time in daylight. I turned the settings down a notch, mostly to default with 2xAA and 8xAF. Still would get only 8-15 fps all the time, and that on a i7 920 @ 3.2 Ghz, 6 Gb ram and a GTX560Ti and a screen resolution of 1680x1050..
One nice thing missing from Ms sims are the cloud shadows on the ground, but I suspect those are also a framerate hog. Can't seem to turn them off though.
Tried a few different aircraft too; the King Air is the best one I've seen so far and flies OK. The Lancair is an empty shell (No interior) and flies like it's completely weightless. Weird!
The Phantom is actually pretty good and handles OK. (Still feels too light.) The Sea King helicopter is a very low res model, even without a VC! The smallest touch of the throttle and it went ballistic, completely out of control.
Elevator trim seems to be an issue; no matter if I assigned a set of buttons to it or an axis on my stick, all aircraft couldn't be trimmed down to a level attitude.
Wish I could say it was a good sim Bill, because I would like to see some decent competition for MS, but this just isn't it for me..

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**txnetcop** · November 26th, 2011, 15:25

I went over to TechCorp today and put this on their i7 980X on the X58 MSI Big Bang XPOWER 1366 motherboard with dual Zotac 50101-10P GTX580s and 6 GB of Corsair Vengence DDR3 2000 mhz Triple Channel memory...I am not allowed to publish all the specifics because we are only allowed to report to mfgs but OMG IT FLIES!!! WOW and looks SWEEEEET! I will never be able to afford a setup like this to fly it but it was impressive with everything turned all the way up! I was getting 60fps in every circumstance.

We need to remember you guys this is only the demo before we start making harsh decisions. I did have some trouble setting up the Logitek G940 Flight system but got some help from Laminar Research techs and it worked perfectly! They are going to include some help in the final product to set this flight system up.
Ted

**Lionheart** · November 26th, 2011, 18:59

We need to remember you guys this is only the demo before we start making harsh decisions. I did have some trouble setting up the Logitek G940 Flight system but got some help from Laminar Research techs and it worked perfectly! They are going to include some help in the final product to set this flight system up.

Ted

Thanks Ted.

I hope that this is truly the case and the production model, or first update will be void of the bugs. Glad to hear it was running good on a super computer. That is light in the end of the tunnel.

Wish I could say it was a good sim Bill, because I would like to see some decent competition for MS, but this just isn't it for me..

Ferry Vo

Roger that Ferry. I gave it many tries this morning and last night. Not for me either. Put it this way, XP9 runs much nicer. Some of the models textures were horrible, grim. But maybe its a setting that was on. For me, nothing looked like the screenshots. The homes had missing lawn items, the clouds were not there, etc, etc. It was a let down for me. Trim also didnt work.

**Lionheart** · November 26th, 2011, 19:02

Some more screenshots.

One of the bugs from last edition that XP10 has here is the odd 'pivoting/turning' of the plane when parked on the tarmac ready for takeoff. Idle seems to 'vibrate' the plane in a turn on its Y axis.

***Ferry_vO*** · November 27th, 2011, 02:36

Originally Posted by txnetcop

We need to remember you guys this is only the demo before we start making harsh decisions.

If you pay, the demo becomes flyable for more than ten minutes so it is basically the same product. But like previous versions I'm sure there will be plenty of updates.

Originally Posted by Lionheart

One of the bugs from last edition that XP10 has here is the odd 'pivoting/turning' of the plane when parked on the tarmac ready for takeoff. Idle seems to 'vibrate' the plane in a turn on its Y axis.

Noticed that too. Even the 747 does that. Also the control surfaces seem to have a life of their own on the ground.
The empty cockpits are a bit odd too, when looking at the exterior model.

**Lionheart** · November 27th, 2011, 09:11

The empty cockpits are a bit odd too, when looking at the exterior model.

Ferry vO

If only Austin knew that he could be using Poser to make simple Mark IV people to place in the interiors, super low polygons and they look great!

Oh well...

***Daube*** · November 27th, 2011, 10:32

On another forum a user made some extensive tests on this XPlane10 demo, trying to find the good balance between graphics and performance.
He first of all disabled the AA and AF (set them to low levels) and forced them via NVidia Inspector, exactely like we do for FSX or FS9 for example.
Then he carefully increased the settings. At the end, he managed to get some good visuals and smooth FPS, well above 20's.

The fact is that XPlane is not like FSX, the settings are not the same, the way to adjust them and the consequences are not the same either

I will not judge XPlane10 from this demo, I know it's a very basic version and I know XP usually receives quite a lot of updates for each version. Focusing on the features, I'm very pleased by what I can see in the various posts here and there. The perf issue is temporary. The airplanes are early beta versions too. I'm still in the "wait and see" attitude, I'll decide much later if "this sim is not for me"

**paiken** · November 30th, 2011, 17:41

It's nearly unusable on my rig. Some really strange things happening with the graphics. Noticed on the xp site that there are some pretty big issues with graphics engine and they are "working on" fixing them. I'm somewhat baffled that they didn't have some sort of beta program to catch the big things before they released the demo version. Then again, Austin and company never did things in a "traditional" manner.