X-Plane – v12.2.0 Beta 5

Some day’s ago there was a new update in the Beta program for the other flightsimulator X-Plane v12. It’s now on beta 5. Here’s the forum-topic. Below the Fixes & Enhancements:

Aircraft

Piper PA-18 Super Cub

  • Liveries now load correctly again (XPD-16826)
  • Transponder knobs function properly again (XPD-16825)

ATC

  • Voice packs updated to AIRAC 2504

General

  • G-Load camera effects are now disabled for external views in VR (XPD-16806)
  • Left and right eye views in VR are now correctly aligned (XPD-16784)
  • Balloons will no longer spawn in Class B airspace (XPD-16844)

Graphics Core Engine

  • Improved texture paging and memory handling (XPD-16855)
  • Added additional output when using the –aftermath command-line parameter

Graphics

  • Fixed an issue where magenta light appeared on the right side of the screen when using a widescreen monitor (XPD-16796)
  • Fixed a cloud shadow issue that caused patterns on the ground (XPD-16787)
  • Improved brightness of clouds, especially overcast conditions (XPD-16722)
  • Improved rendering when flying through clouds (XPD-16749)
  • Aviation flashlight now works as expected (XPD-16829)
  • Improved rendering of nearby clouds in VR at night
  • The sun, moon, and stars are no longer visible through thick fog or cloud layers
  • Improved rendering of the sun and moon (XPD-16843)
  • Metal bars on radio towers no longer turn blue when viewed against clouds (XPD-16745)
  • General improvements to cloud rendering (XPD-16295)
  • Improved performance of the cloud compute shader

SDK

  • XPLMDestroyAvionics no longer causes X-Plane to crash (XPD-16895)

And thanks to the YouTuber “Swiss001” you have to see this. With some ‘simple’ software you can make X-Plane 12 a way much better:

Do you have any experience with this add-ons?

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