stu7708 244 Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 There's a demo of X-plane 10 available for download at the X-plane website. Edit: And judging by some of the files downloaded by the installer it comes with the Saab AJ37 Viggen!! Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 The download is taking it's time.. The installer downloads from five servers at the same time, and I'm still only getting aroud 110 kilobyte/sec. Estimated remaining download time right now: 5 hours! and it's been runing for about 2 hours already... Guess I'm not the only one downloading at the moment Link to post Share on other sites
rabbitc 0 Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 It'll be interesting to see if this new version prevents you from barrel rolling a 757 at 25 rpm Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 ouch.. well, I decided to abort the download for now, there was no way I could get it down before I go home from work. I'll give it another go when I get home tonight. Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 996 Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Good spot America has the day off, so I guess it's better to wait a while... Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Thanks for the heads up Left it running in the background Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 If, like me, you find the download speed of the installer for the demo a "tad" on the slow side I found this link on the Avsim forum where you can download the demo in one 1,9 gb zip-file. http://www.chip.de/d...e_31525841.html Current download speed, 3.31 MB/sec Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Downloaded, unzipped only to find out it's set to german language.. So, now all I need to do is figure out how to change that Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Looks good at first glance, but I need to setup the controllers and reality setting properly.. taxiing a 747 felt like handling a wet soap. And the planes I've tried so far felt and looked worse than the FSX default planes. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Hi Micke, I am downloading both at the moment, only 2 minutes left on the "German" download did you manage to set it to English? Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 I love the 147 page manual, printing it out now, come to daddy! Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 996 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Mine's running at about 3K/second. Started lunchtime yesterday, it might be finished tomorrow Unfortunately Micke's link is only for Windows, so it looks like I'm stuck Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 And Micke's link is for the German language version , where's Jack when you need him! I still have the other download running. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Got the English version by torrent in 1hr 30, leaving it on to seed for a while. Definitely quicker than by direct download. Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 I found it using the manual. If I remember correctly it was under a menu option that included the word warning or alert that was the same in german. Link to post Share on other sites
rabbitc 0 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Looks good at first glance, but I need to setup the controllers and reality setting properly.. taxiing a 747 felt like handling a wet soap. And the planes I've tried so far felt and looked worse than the FSX default planes. Yup...I see X-Plane touted all the time but 'blade element theory' aside, I've never seen it outperform the equivalent MSFS platform...even on flight dynamics. It's all fine to say that it's 'more accurate' because it calculates the plane geometry rather than it being coded in as with MSFS - but what if that geometry calculation isn't quite getting it right? Also, X-Plane is woefully bad on accounting for airframe stresses and aileron effect. Yet every release I always give it a chance. X-plane (for me) is like the 'cocktail olive' of Flight Simulation. Every now and then you get a hankering for half a jar, you enjoy it and then you go off it for another year until next Christmas. Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 996 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 There are some comments over at Aerosoft saying it runs like a dog. I'll probably leave the download running in the background. It's unlikely I'll have a chance to play with it before Sunday anyhow. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 It runs like a dog with the settings on ultra high with teh 747400. may need to create a profile in Nvidia Inspector After 10 minutes it carries on flying but with no joystick input and a nag screen. Link to post Share on other sites
rabbitc 0 Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 It runs like a dog with the settings on ultra high with teh 747400. may need to create a profile in Nvidia Inspector After 10 minutes it carries on flying but with no joystick input and a nag screen. Thanks for posting, Mut... I looks OK I suppose...but against FSX (if we're talking about competing on visuals) the textures just seem a bit dated to me. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 There's no competition on visuals at the moment FSX is far better in all departments, one thing I do like are sloped runways and jet blast effect in X-Plane. Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 996 Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 Well, I managed to bet the 747 to go round and round on the ground for 10 minutes till me penny ran out, and blew some tyres in the process. I couldn't get it up though. So to speak. As it were. Next time I'll try plugging a joystick in. (oh dear, it gets worse!) Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 I couldn't get it up though. So to speak. As it were. Next time I'll try plugging a joystick in. (oh dear, it gets worse!) ....Just like a bad Carry On scene! I haven't tried using it without the joystick, I had the going around in circles thing too. There are some controls to iron that out. The helicopter flight dynamics are interesting, awful cockpits, no VC and couldn't find the controls I was looking for. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 Having seen some pretty interesting vids and pictures recently on mutleys I thought I would have another look, out of curiosity ,at X-plane, so started to download the demo, well it proudly announced it was downloading from 3 servers simultaneously, WOW !! however the best speed each of their 3 servers could muster was about 175kb/sec giving an average download of 450-500k this is not at all impressive and like others here after seeing the time to finish the download repeatedly going up from 77 to 95 minutes I gave up after about 75 minutes. just to make a comparison I had a look at PB and found the whole prog there, all 55gbs worth, so again out of curiosity I started to download it---------at 1300kb/sec.!!! ie 3 times the xplane speed after about 5 minutes I stopped the download as i have better things to do with my p.c. and as curious as I am about XP I still think it is 3 years behind FSX and gradually falling further behind as the fsx dev's find new ways of bypassing the old fsx engine. But I do find it a bit sad that a company that is theoretically trying to get a foot hold in the flight sim market can only anti up a really pathetic download speed that must put off loads of potential customers, me included. Link to post Share on other sites
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