X Plane 11 50 Vulkan - Do Reflections Matter?

Hi, is this ORBX London City airport only or do you also have other addon scenery for London?

nice and interesting video, it seem SkymaxxPRO will come with an update compatible with Vulcan, maybe that will helps in the frame rate and/or rendering ....... thank you

Vsync under Linux makes user events (i.e. mouse drags, hat switch button) lag by about a tenth of a second. Turning it off gets rid of the lag. I've reported the issue as a bug to Laminar Research.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 😉 No more stick people graphics Yaaa, No more buying tons of airports, scenery, add-ons they will ALL come standard! Better get to some serious work X-Plane!

You can go direct to settings Without first going to Flight Configuration. Just go to the top right of the screen!

Hope this is not too irrelevant, but coming from the FSX world, my biggest frame rate killer was AI traffic. Are the airplanes I see on the ground AI traffic or static models? I notice that nobody talks much about the impact of AI traffic on the sim, so I wonder if everybody is using static models instead of real AI traffic. The biggest issues that keep me away from X-Plane are poor AI traffic, poor ATC, and no seasons. While FSX didn't completely nail AI traffic and ATC, I loved how the skies were filled with traffic, and you could hear all the gen av, airline and military traffic on the radios. If frame rates are this mediocre with little to no AI traffic, even with Vulcan, looks like X-Plane has a long way to go.

Me , on my computer Vulkan loads very wrell but it is not always efficient. Sometimes I get ordinary frame rates , I quit x-plane , then restart this time vulkan will tremendously increase my frame rate on the same scene with the same aircraft. Is is the instability of the beta that causes this or what ?

Hi Luna great helpfull video, are you using any 3rd party addons with these test. I'm using Orbx EGLC + Orbx TrueEarth Great Britain all in VR ( Oculus Rist S ) to test.
System Spec: GTX 1080Ti , AMD Ryzen 7 3800X overclocked to 4.3Ghz and Corsair Vengence 3200 RAM (16gb). grapichis in game Vaulkn are set to medium. It's taking over 15 minutes from starting the game to being in the cockpit.....then it crashes every time...without vr its in the 65 fps..in vr its at 42fps..but then i have to send the crash report...now send 12 of them...

Don't know much about Vulcan but I thought it was supposed to speed up frame rates, especially with VR, maybe there needs to be more testing done?

go straight to the graphics settings dingus, are we to believe your a sim guru?

Nice video Wayne

Interesting analysis there, it seems it's taking away at least 15fps which doesn't seem worth it, especially for VR

I believe the reflections settings higher up are for how frequent the refelctions refresh in seconds

You may look foward to fs2020 it runs better with good visuals.Seeing no reports of performance on their wish list on their page indicates how well optimized the new sim is!

I been watching all the fs2020 and vulkan update is really disappointing for xplane 11.

I turned reflections off. Too much impact and no obvious gain.

Very good video, one thing to note, it matters what plane you fly. I tried several planes and the more digital gauges, the lower my frame rate. Seems 3rd part vendors need to optimize add ons. The Eclispe 550 from Aerobask, eats up at least 10 to 15 frames for me, turned off the digital displays and my frame rate shot up.

I never bother with Vsync. My monitor has a refresh rate of 120Hz, there is simply no way the sim frame rate will ever get anywhere near that. The reflections looked ok, a bit unrealistic at times in my opinion but the price is way too steep for me. I drive a 43 inch ultra wide and I am already down to 28FPS in London with Orbx maxed out without reflections. I think in your case 30FPS is perfectly flyable though and its probably worth having the reflections on.

Thank you so much for the video!

If you look at the data output, you can see it's the CPU that's the bottleneck for you, not the GPU. CPU sits at around ~0.03 (*1000 = 30fps). You should disable your cloud plugin and try again, it might be the reason your CPU usage per frame is so high.

Very nice video. Very intresting, which london scenery are you using for the city center?

I certainly thing good anti aliasing settings matter the most though. Been broken since 11.26...

Still not fixed after a long time: Sawtooth shadows, poor surface reflections, unconvincing clouds, washed out scenery colours, still rather poor frame rates, ridiculous ground steering and instability, wallowy flight models in small aircraft, pitch control too twitchy, too much "bounce" in pitch after strong pull or push on joystick. I just don't understand why so many say X Plane's core flight model is "better" than FSX or P3d. It isn't. It's just a myth created by X plane staff and people who either are not pilots, or by pilots who don't understand what a sim can achieve with decent flight modelling, but believe the hype.

Such BS. I have a 9600k at 5Ghz and a 1080 yet i get 30 FPS max in london with Orbx on 11.50 -.- Did you start with a fresh install of 11.50? Also, any tweeks to Nvidia control?


Thanks :-)

scenery?¿

Imo reflections waste of time with too much performance loss

Thanks for posting that... quite useful info. Is it possible to get rid of the lens flare?

I am having a weird issue with Vulcan in that my ground tiles at range before they fully load in flicker like crazy at times. No idea what is causing it and with Vulcan disabled it stops. No Ortho or any scenery installed asides from default.

What resolution screen do you have?

Would upping the visual effects also increase the reflectivity?

hi there sir how did you dim lights please

Honestly I can't understand how your CPU stuggles 3x more than your GPU to render static scenery. Same on my rig (Ryzen 9 3950x RTX 2080 Ti). This doesn't make sense at all, they need to do a big CPU performance pass soon.

How do you change the light setting without going into time of day menu?

NO INSTALL BETA STUPID

PC Specs:
i7 9700K overclocked to 5.2 Ghz
Galax Geforce 1080ti

The Walkie-Talkie building he was referring to was transparent when it first came into view.

Nearly all these videos of X-Plane run with no shadows and most with little or no reflections. Personally I don't really want to run any flight simulator where I have no reflections and no shadows. If all you do is fly at 30,000 in airliners I suppose its OK but otherwise not good enough when I have an i9 and 2080 and 32 gigs.

Your frame rates are changing more because of the time of day you keep changing, not the reflections, you need to do the comparison at the same time of day.

Lighting environment and reflection look lightyears ahead in MFS2020. Give up Laminar.

Vulkan doesn't make sense to me I have a GTX 1060 3gb (not bad but not the best) when I increase the graphics over medium, I run out of memory and the sim crashes unlike on OpenGL where I can have a much higher settings without a crash, the textures on Vulkan are for some reason super blurry like worse than OpenGL on minimum, whats the point? they added Vulkan for better performance but if the people on medium specs like me who need that extra fps boost have to run the sim in that crappy state and hope to god that the sim doesn't run out of vram then whats the point I can do that on OpenGL (decrees the settings) and it will still look better and give me the same fps boost, like really what's the damn point if the guys who need fps boost cant benefit from the engine...

Strong Like to Brasil brother !

Err.. Drop from 45/40 Fps to 27/33 Fps, IMO that´s a lot of Fps.

I get lots of flicker it sucks Balls..

Hey! Can my i7-8700k (no OC) and RTX 2060 run it in maximum?

How are you altering light mid flight?