Here is an update on the progress of the development of "Vulcan" a replacement for OpenGL: https://developer.x-plane.com/2019/12/v ... dtV9hiNlI
Vulcan will be used with X-Plane 11.50 (That's the plan anyway).
Now if you are not quite sure what all that tech talk was all about, here is a link to a article that explains the benefit of Vulcan. Enjoy!
https://developer.x-plane.com/2016/03/w ... evelopers/
Laminar Research "Vulcan" progress report
Laminar Research "Vulcan" progress report
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Re: Laminar Research "Vulcan" progress report
I did a couple of test circuits at KSEA and Vulcan is a game-changer. first, with my settings as they were in 11.41, I noted about a 25 frame per second increase with Vulcan. Second I was able to max out the world objects and reflection detail sliders for the CPU and also the lighting and texture sliders for the GPU and still get about the same performance I had with open GL
Re: Laminar Research "Vulcan" progress report
I'm going to hold out for awhile. Give them time to work out the bugs. I'm pleased with performance with 11.41 This has been such an improvement over FSX. Flight characteristics are so much better, as are graphics.
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Hub Manager WSSS
X-Plane 11/12, ActiveSky-XP, Navigraph Charts
Sr. Master Scenery Designer Award
75,000,000 lb Cargo Award
20 Year Service Award
Computer: Intel i7-8700k 3.7GHz 6 Core 16GB / NVIDIA GTX-1080