Quoting: lucifertdarkI had one of the older versions before Steam was a thing, never could get past crashing on take-off so I'll probably give this a miss & NPC passengers around the world heave a sigh of relief.

Do you mean a program crash, or you would crash the airplane?

If it's the latter, I'll say again, X-Plane is not an arcade game, it is a flight simulator intended for real-world pilots and flight simulator enthusiasts who enjoy a realistic experience. The software now includes some basic tutorials for "newbies", but my advice has always been that the real X-Plane manual is a pilot training handbook and operating handbook specific to the aircraft you want to fly. Basically, you're going to have to spend some time learning to fly a real airplane in order to get the most out of X-Plane.

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Quoting: GuestMy benchmarks are waaaaaaaay less impressive, and I have Windows in there as well. Version 1.1 of Mad Max has much lower OpenGL performance, artificially making Vulkan look a lot better. See my post for the numbers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/62ilrk/ [External Link]

Well that's a bit disappointing.

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Quoting: MaCroX95

Quoting: sigzdoesn't perform very well at all on a 770gtx with latest drivers (378.13), worst experience than opengl, framerate is really unstable and low.

These drivers are actually the last "stable" drivers. Driver 375.39 has some vulkan patches that significantly improve the performance (was having same issues like you do)

378.13 gives me better performance. I tested against 375.39 and lost roughly 10 frames per second across the board in Vulkan.

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Quoting: ShmerlWhat engine do they use? I'll test the demo shortly.

It's their own proprietary engine. They've actually been building on the same base for many, many years, but with each major release, they'll throw out whole chunks and rewrite them from scratch. In v11, the lighting and effects rendering got some TLC and are dramatically improved over v10. They've also worked hard to make the engine more efficient for more stable framerates, and by all accounts, they've succeeded. Now that the XP11 code has been "locked" for final release, they can start the process of optimizing the code to turn it into a well oiled machine.

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GTX 760 2GB

Hollow Point
OpenGL: 49
Vulkan: 86

Stronghold - Tyrant
OpenGL: 22
Vulkan: 32

Cutscene - Hope, Glory, and Dog is Dead
OpenGL: 49
Vulkan: 72

Cutscene - Landmover
OpenGL: 55
Vulkan: 80

Impressive. Most impressive.

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I'm not sure what you mean by "ultralight planes", but there is a selection of general aviation aircraft, including the legendary Cessna 172 which is small and easy to fly. But this isn't a video game, it's a flight simulator, so you have to know something about real aircraft operation to get the most out of it. To that end, X-Plane 11 does, for the first time in the series, include some basic flying tutorials.

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Holy crap, are you really seeing a double and TRIPLE performance increase? Wow! I might be able to turn on some of the advanced effects I had disabled.

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I bought into the beta as a Christmas gift to myself and have really enjoyed flying. The software was in pretty good shape even back in December, and it got better with each beta release. Anybody who is familiar with X-Plane knows that the sim will be continually improved over the next several years and that the "Point Zero" version is just the baseline. They're still planning to release one last patch for version 10 (the previous version of X-Plane), so they support their software like few other developers. Plus X-Plane is just a great piece of software engineering.

I fly using a CH Products Eclipse Yoke, and it's a great experience.

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Quoting: razing32

Quoting: Mountain ManGoG has had a Linux version of Planescape Torment for some time. It's a Wine wrapper, but it works perfectly.

Couldn't you technically install it with GOG installer and then load the files into GemRB ?

Probably. I've never used GemRB.

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Quoting: finaldestI may just (for the very first time) request a steam refund.

Last I checked, I still have the game in my library, and I do enjoy playing it, but I may ask for a refund out of principle because dropping a previously supported platform is unconscionable. I can somewhat understand not releasing future expansion packs for Linux and Mac, but dropping support entirely? There's no excuse for that. The question is, will Valve give refunds? Because a lot of us are obviously well past the 2-hours/7-days time limit.

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