Stephen Posted January 2 Report Posted January 2 X-Plane v12.1.3 goes Final! Hello and welcome to a New Year 2025! To start off the year Laminar has gone final with the latest X-Plane release of v12.1.3... and it comes with a fresh new intro image, hands up all those who hated the Cirrus SR22 brooding horrible start to your X-Plane Application, we are now back to the Boeing 737-800, cheers to all that. The focus of the v12.1.3 update is on the ATC (Airtraffic Control) with a load of ATC fixes and the important SID/STAR routing. A great change is the Separate Sound devices for aircraft AUDIO and ATC audio, as it now allows you to have aircraft sounds on the desk speakers, and also the ATC on your headphones! Loads of Weather improvements (NEXRAD recalibration, METAR/GRIB rework, altitude jump fix) and new small scenery addition in KJRB Downtown Manhattan Heliport. The inclusion now of a X-Plane Identity (which a new login system for X-Plane and a stepping stone to the XP Store), some A330 Autopilot improvements and UI (User Interface) changes. Issues with sudden altitude and pressure changes during mid flight have also been resolved. Additionally, improvements have been made to cloud visualization and interpreting METAR information and wind data. Errors related to the NEXRAD display for document number G1000 have also been addressed. The User Interface also got attention... Active runways are now shown in green (grey are non-active), embedded Taxi-routes can now also be toggled ON/OFF Parking ramp selections now have stand data in, name, type, purpose, size class and equipment. New was the X-Plane Identity it added an option to create an account and to link your current license to it The account is shown on the top right of your "Main Menu" page. I will note that if you update your X-Plane Application, you have to also update the X-Plane Identity as well, it is just a resign-in to make the account active. The full list of changes can be found on X-Plane.com. or X-PlaneReviews full v12.1.3 details are here. I didn't expect v12.1.3 to be a long beta, since it's release mid-November 24, in running only a few weeks before going to RC (Release Candidate) releases, I was pretty correct here, but there was also AMD graphic cards and Improved stability for NVIDIA Graphic Cards (Device Loss Errors) added in as well, and both were consistently addressed through the v12.1.3 beta and RC periods for future stability. Linux dependency issues had to be dropped in support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Please consider updating to a newer release of Ubuntu if you are still on version 20.04 LTS, as it ships with quite a few outdated libraries. Notable is that X-Plane is celebrating a "30 Years" anniversary in 2025 (1995), and obviously Laminar are going to shout about it a lot in 2025, which is a great thing in the long history of the X-Plane Simulator. Laminar Research comments of the year... "New updates crammed full of content, new faces to the Laminar Research team and more friends in our community. Some interesting announcements from Montreal and Vegas, and a few secrets we have not yet revealed..." I don't know if to be excited or scared about that last comment? Laminar also noted that next coming... "12.1.4 will be a minor release called 'The Flightlessons Update.' Welcome to the New Year 2025, X-Plane style! ___________________________ NEWS! by Stephen Dutton 2nd January 2025 Copyright©2025: X-Plane Reviews (Disclaimer. All images and text in this review are the work and property of X-PlaneReviews, no sharing or copy of the content is allowed without consent from the author as per copyright conditions) All Rights Reserved Kiwiflyer 1 Quote
Henk_Bac Posted January 9 Report Posted January 9 Hello Stephen, Your review on X-Plane 12 Final seems exciting. When will it actually be released and fit for updating? Regards, Henk Quote
Stephen Posted January 9 Author Report Posted January 9 15 hours ago, Henk_Bac said: Hello Stephen, Your review on X-Plane 12 Final seems exciting. When will it actually be released and fit for updating? Regards, Henk v12.1.3 is already out... just update your X-Plane via the installer, v12.1.4 is coming soon! Quote
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