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Beta Update - Released!  X-Plane beta 10.40b7

Laminar Research has released beta 10.40b7. So run your updaters! (Steam users cannot upgrade till 10.40 goes final).

This is mostly a bug killer download covering video, weather (mostly METAR and high winds), ATC refinements and note the

"OS X anti-aliasing was running at 1/2 the selected setting when 4x or higher anti-aliasing was selected. If you liked how your sim looked and don’t want to lose frame-rate, cut your AA setting down" as mostly the AA was not working efficiently well enough unless you were in 8x, so set your setting lower now.

And that Nvidia artifact render issue has also been addressed... Here is the details courtesy of the Laminar Research Developer blog

Fixes for Beta 7

  • Metar wind headings now interpreted as true degrees
  • Recorded AVI movies can now be opened on OS X
  • References to QuickTime movies in UI changed to AVIs.
  • Fixed crash on start with old Intel GPU drivers on Windows.
  • Fixed sim going into demo mode after a valid product key is entered.
  • Worked around rendering artifacts on Nvidia GPUs in HDR mode with clouds and shadows.
  • OS X anti-aliasing was running at 1/2 the selected setting when 4x or higher anti-aliasing was selected. If you liked how your sim looked and don’t want to lose frame-rate, cut your AA setting down.
  • Grass runways blend with terrain better.
  • Fixed longitude tracking and clicking on the planet map.
  • On startup, QuickFlight screen does not have ICAO pre-typed into airport list, so the entire airport list is visible.
  • ILS and VOR visible on carrier in local map.
  • Fixed erroneous 99 in middle of default apt.dat file
  • Fixed authenticating product keys on Windows when user’s login name has non-ASCII characters
  • Fixed hard crash when loading seriously damaged OBJ8 files – errors are now safely logged.
  • Data output range and distance now reflect ground speed – if you use these for theoretical airplane performance measurements, set calm winds.
  • ATC Who’s Online window always show a name next to a frequency – no more blanks
  • ATC Who’s Online window: If a single controller can be contacted on multiple freqs, we only “recommend” (with an asterisk) the first freq.
  • ATC Who’s Online window updates now occur once/second (not once every 10 seconds)
  • Fixed LSND UDP message
  • Fixed handling of flooding VEH1 UDP messages
  • Fixed French translations
  • Ordnance menu removed for aircraft that do not have ordnance
  • Replays include slats. Note that this means you cannot mix and match X-Plane 10.40b7 with X-Plane 10.36 for situations or multiplayer.
  • Ridge lift lowered to about 1,000 ft or so, as it apparently is in reality
  • Fixed crash taxiway has blank name with no trailing space in apt.dat
  • Time of day tracks properly in replays
  • METAR sets clear layers lower when the weather is all-clear. This improves upper level visibility when using real weather.
  • Fixed text outside box in Plane-Maker
  • Fixed lightning strikes shooting between cirrus cloud layers
  • Engine air density effects now applied to after-burners, which were too powerful before at high altitude.
  • Pressure altitude offset changed from 1,000 feet per inch HG, which it has been wrongly set to for 20 years, to 915 ft per inch hg, which it should have been all along
  • X-Plane no longer uses port 49002
  • Fixed zoom on ACF in local map
  • Cloud puff types seeded so visuals match master machine
  • Glider beeping noise no longer persists when other airplanes loaded

Stephen Dutton

6th August 2015

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