Just Like Election Night

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I went home after work last night and monitored the forums to see who had a chance to download and try the demo--lot's of folks, it turns out. As expected reviews varied but I think they were mostly positive. What's been facinating to me reading all the threads is trying to determine what people were expecting because clearly different people had different expectations. More on that later. I have work to do.

 

However I do want to point out a few more gotchas that have emerged:

  • Some people are complaining about the default graphic settings. There is a bug where AMD Athlon PCs get down-graded because of the way they report their CPU speed. AMD users check your settings.
  • Problems with CH Products peripherals. A few last minute fixes (including a peristent 'Brakes' message for CH rudder pedals) did not make it in time for the demo. These should be fixed in the final release.
  • Ground textures don't look hi-res. Two things here: first, we don't default to 1m textures except for very high end systems-check the Terrain Texture Resolution slider in your scenery settings; second, we have a bug where we don't render the ground detail texture when you have your water detail set to any of the Shader 2.x settings--try a 1.x setting if your ground looks blurry (this should be fixed in the final product)
  • The virtual cockpits have some switches that don't appear to be hooked up. Yup--still working on those.
  • Install problems with MSXML4. Hmm, gotta dig into that some more.

I also need to check out a pinned thread at AvSim where folks are recording their problems with the demo. Keep the feedback coming!