I recently switched from an Nvidia card (GTX780Ti 3GB) to an AMD card (RX580 8GB). The improvement I expected wasn’t really happening. X-Plane still uses OpenGL and AMD’s OpenGL support kind of sucks. I really hope Vulkan will improve this. I also don’t want to pay double the price for an Nvidia card with 8 GB, so I’ll ride it out until X-Plane supports Vulkan.
read more...Today I’ve been to FSWeekend with a friend. It was nice to see what other people have built and which products will be released in the near future, like the Honeycomb Throttle Quadrant.
read more...Today I installed Xchecklist, a checklist plugin (obviously 😛). This plugin will present checklists based on a clist.txt file that can be specific to an aircraft. The files are written in plain text and can be modified with any decent editor. Since I almost exclusively fly SSG’s B748, I searched for a clist.txt specific to this plane.
read more...I found a good video about Ortho4XP on YouTube this week. I’ll embed it here so I can find it again if needs be 🙂
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