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Reports from the field:

• Strange shading on aircraft that blinks with the lights: this is a bug with the aircraft self-shadowing code. It will be fixed in the final but in the meantime you can either turn off your lights or disable self-shadowing (in Settings | Display | Aircraft).
• Autogen perfomance (stutters) : we recently found and fixed a bug in the way vertex buffers were being handled for autogen that helped stutters significantly.
• Nav light strobe rate: yeah, it's wrong. Will fix.

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2006
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• Anonymous
  August 12, 2006
  Thanks, Mike!
  About the Autogen Vertex handling-is that something related to back walls being rendered in the buildings? Just being curious...
  Regards,
  Martijn
  
  
• Anonymous
  August 12, 2006
  Oops forgot the link:
  
  http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=248&topic_id=14617&mesg_id
  
  Martijn
  
• Anonymous
  August 12, 2006
  Mike,
  
  Instead of a preview or demo, you guys could have given this to the community as a Public Beta.  At least that's the way everyone seems to be treating it anyways.    
• Anonymous
  August 12, 2006
  While you're talking about lights. All lightsources are still (as in FS2004) totally fake and won't work with 3D glasses. This and improved flightdynamics was all I expected from FS X. :-)
• Anonymous
  August 12, 2006
  While your talking about screen corruption....
  With my multi-monitor setup, I create a new view (any type but spot is the most obvious) drag it to the second monitor and the graphics gets all messed up - artifacts all over the place... Seems to be better if its looking toward the ground (the sky is worse)..
  
  Other than that, this demo is great - the performance in dual monitor mode (even with the corruption) is fantastic compared to FS9.
  
  One other problem, in Vista July CTP (64bit) the game in unplayable - the "loading 100%" screen keeps flickering ontop of the display - making it impossible to play... That may be the beta2 Nvidia drivers I guess...
  
  My system:
  AMD 4400+, 2Gb RAM, NV 7800 GTX, Xp 64bit & Vista 64bit (July CTP)
  
  Keep up the good work - really looking forward to the release of FSX :)
• Anonymous
  August 12, 2006
  WOW! I am so happy to see some of the changes in the demo! The water looks fantastic, the planes look fantastic, the skies look great; I'm really looking forward to the full release!
  
  Also as an Australian I am over the moon at the screenshots of the new Australian scenery - it looks like the FSX devs have done a marvelous job, as it really does look like Australia! Yaaay! :-) :-) :-)
  
  I have one tiny comment about some of the autogen dynamic scenery - I clocked some of those cars driving around the island at over 140mph! That would make them all F1 cars! Some of the speedboats also seemed a little bit too speedy - they were hard to catch even in the ultralight!
  
  Oh, might I add that the ultralight is tremendous fun? I love it!
  
  Cheers, and thanks for what looks like a fantastic product!
  
  Adrian Esdaile
• Anonymous
  August 12, 2006
  The navligts, at least on the Baron, are positioned a bit outside the wing.
• Anonymous
  August 13, 2006
  Maybe I'm missing something, but in the demo at least there is no Settings | Display | Aircraft :)
  
  But you can turn off self shadowing by editing FSX.cfg or editing a saved settings config.