On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:51:49 +0100, C wrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 19:44, Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed, and X-Plane is a *very* good simulator. I've owned version 9 for a couple of years now. :)
I started buying it on version 8 :-) It's come a long way since then. I've purchased several aircraft and quite a bit of the extra scenery addons - my personal favorite is "Inside Passage", the scenery for Vancouver and Vancouver Island area.
I saw that when it came out - haven't purchased any add-on stuff yet, been pretty good with it with the defaults and free aircraft from the forums.
Unfortunately, the current Catalyst driver doesn't work well with 12.1 +GNOME3 on my new system (Radeon 4200 HD video controller), and XP10 doesn't work with the radeon driver.
But their support agrees with me that it *should* probably work with the radeon driver, so they're trying to help.
Ouch, that is going to hurt. I've tested the Demo on my nVidia GTX260 and it works quite well.
That's good to know. I just bought a new system (a refurb HP system with a quad-core Athlon CPU and 6 GB of memory), and I think I'm probably going to replace the video card. I'll keep that nVidia card in mind - I've been thinking I'd probably go nVidia as I've generally had better luck with those drivers.
I've helped out the LR developers a little bit (email conversations and testing changes) back around the end of the v8, beginning of v9 time frame, helping them work out the Linux issues at the time... things like even mounting the DVDs were a significant issue with the older releases. They are a good bunch of devs :-)
Indeed they are. I've been very impressed - would love to see a 64-bit version so it can cache more of the scenery, though. Sounds like it might be on its way during the 10 cycle. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org