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Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:42:52 +0000

And the award for best Ground Simulator goes to FSX. Now back to the what we’re interested in Flight Simulation and the award for that goes to………………

Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Dom

Dom — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:16:08 +0000

Non-existant roads? Have you got them turned up? Even my country road is reproduced in X-Plane.

With photographic scenery installed, X-Plane does a wonderful job of putting default roads on top of the photographic roads.

If you want screenshots I can supply them.

Lastly; if you want to run FSX on your mac; just dual boot with Bootcamp which is part of OSX; has been for over 6 years.

The days of having to buy a PC for FSX when you have a mac are long gone.

It’s what many of us mac users do.

Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Charles H.

Charles H. — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:37:40 +0000

I like FSX a lot and have spent much more on add-ons for that than I have on X-Plane. I was never really looking to make a change. However, once I upgraded my computer and started running at 5760×1200 there are performance bottle necks in FSX that I couldn’t overcome. I tried overclocking my CPU to 4.6 and with my 2 GTX 680′s I still could not get good fps. There are many thing I miss about FSX but X-Plane gives me playable FPS at 5760X1200.

Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Joel Johnson

Joel Johnson — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:22:19 +0000

Yeah… the ethics thing rattles me a bit, I’ll grant you. I “got” it 5 years ago when I read one of Austin’s “here’s what I’m up to these days” thingys and he said that he still considered X-Plane to be his sandbox to do as he pleased. But since then he’s wooed some of the big guns into play (Aerosoft/Carenado…) and told the MS crowd that XPX was the next new simulator and I wonder if this is still his prevailing attitude.

If I was the Chair of the Board and he was the CEO, and there were shareholders, well….

Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Michel K.

Michel K. — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:49:11 +0000

I agree on the Crowd-sourcing vs pay to develop something and complete it… That was my main frustration after buying XP9 and then XP10… Laminar does bits and pieces of features and throws the half done software as a pseudo-alpha on the public to patch its missing bits and pieces… Yet no one from the public can complete the core features in any of the versions out there… And updates come to fix things that are performance issues mainly… Not to complete the software… This is a development philosophy that I find questionable in its ethics…

Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Breadwild

Breadwild — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:24:24 +0000

I agree with the original OP in that X-Plane scenery is funky at times, especially the random tall buildings in a tiny desert town in Nevada, the polygon shorelines, the weird clouds, and non-existent roads. But I have a Mac and no intention to buy a PC for FSX. That said, I am a real-world pilot and think the flight dynamics and navigational stuff is right-on. I just pray X-Plane will get better and better.

Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Daveduck

Daveduck — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:34:26 +0000

Good to see you back in the commentary cockpit, Simon.

These are perfectly valid comparisons: The current best of FS vs. the best of XP. The larger point being that it will be quarter-to-never by the time XP ever looks as good as FS. And as always the bottleneck is Austin and his preference to crowd-source mediocrity rather than pay for professionalism.

This comparison *is* apples and oranges in a more important sense, though. FS developers are sensibly managed businesses. Laminar’s X-Plane is an extended hobby, and we can like it or lump it as we may.

Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Daveduck

Daveduck — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:25:32 +0000

How is it ol’ Simmo’s duty to help X-Plane’s “cause.” It’s commercial software, not a political movement.

Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Michel K.

Michel K. — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:16:21 +0000

I doubt Laminar will embrace another engine but it could be a great thing to do. Outerra is a wonderful candidate but I got to a point where I support the evolution of Outerra as a World engine stand alone by itself before adding any physics library… Unlike present simulators where the world is done just enough to support flight dynamics, Outerra is world simulation where any dynamics could live… And yes the XP clouds are great examples of puting the written theory and code over the feel and results on screen… FSX walls of clouds bitmaps look more natural indeed even the default ones… XP clouds even with their preached technology, seem to me like cottons candy…

Comment on Why I still don’t fly Xplane by Simmo W

Simmo W — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:11:48 +0000

And yes, I see reasonable potential in outerra too. They’re already testing the Oculus Rift on it as well, very progressive coy. Austin should admit he is wrong and work with outerra to replace the terrain engine. Sure, that’ll happen! Just like he’ll abandon the cloud puffs..