X-Plane 11.5 major update

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X-Plane 11.5 major update

#1 Post by Keith Baxter »

How does this affect us??
@Corjan some feed back please.
Should we make a backup just in case or is AM up to speed with the new features?

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-11-5 ... cL94SzojYk

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Re: X-Plane 11.5 major update

#2 Post by Corjan »

Hi,


In theory this should not effect anything AM related.
Plugins should stay backwards compatible.

If that is actually so has to be tested.


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Re: X-Plane 11.5 major update

#3 Post by Keith Baxter »

Ok

So if we choose to run valkan on windows AM will do the same?
A little more incite please, on how this all works.

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Re: X-Plane 11.5 major update

#4 Post by Corjan »

Hi,

AM just sets/get datarefs and commands, that has nothing to do with the rendering part of X-plane.

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Re: X-Plane 11.5 major update

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@Corjan
In theory this should not effect anything AM related.
Plugins should stay backwards compatible.
If that is actually so has to be tested.


Please test and advise. Thanks

LR says like this:
Not all add-ons are compatible with Vulkan and Metal. In particular, when Vulkan and Metal are enabled, 3-d drawing callbacks and map drawing callbacks are not sent to plugins. If an add-on appears to not work correctly, you can disable Vulkan and Metal and restart X-Plane.

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Re: X-Plane 11.5 major update

#6 Post by Sling »

I'm with Corjan. The AM plugin doesn't do any drawing it simply communicates with an external application over IP. So its very likely to be un-affected.

For what its worth I will not be updating my xplane until most of the current shortfalls are addressed and i know from others that its stable. There are some popular plugins in the list of ones with known issues so many of those who like to use those plugins will probably be doing the same.

It should be tested though and I'm sure the guys will do that before 3.7 is released.

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Re: X-Plane 11.5 major update

#7 Post by Ralph »

As suspected, because this is purely an update on rendering, it has no effect on our plugin.
I was a bit sceptical, but my all-in-one crappy desktop PC went from 26 FPS (2560x1440 Radeon RX550) to approximately 45 FPS, it fluctuates a bit between 40 and 50 FPS. So that's a more than a 70% increase of frames :o

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Re: X-Plane 11.5 major update

#8 Post by Keith Baxter »

Ralph wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:17 am As suspected, because this is purely an update on rendering, it has no effect on our plugin.
I was a bit sceptical, but my all-in-one crappy desktop PC went from 26 FPS (2560x1440 Radeon RX550) to approximately 45 FPS, it fluctuates a bit between 40 and 50 FPS. So that's a more than a 70% increase of frames :o
Ralph,

Yes peeps are raving about the frame rates.
Seems like there is a lot to be had by using Vulkan. Am should consider vulkan for AM4. then I can have many displays running of arduino lol lol :roll: :roll:

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Re: X-Plane 11.5 major update

#9 Post by Corjan »

Hi,

With AM 4.0, we will switch rendering library and we will also have Vulkan support.

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Re: X-Plane 11.5 major update

#10 Post by Keith Baxter »

Corjan wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:24 am Hi,

With AM 4.0, we will switch rendering library and we will also have Vulkan support.

Corjan
Corjan

You just convinced me to buy it. Was going to give it a skip without the nav features.

Will it work on RPi?

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