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Hightower:
Forgive me if this is repeated, but I did search, and there was references a few years ago...

The existing older airports that are not dx10 compatible, are there any plans to upgrade them to be dx10? Im not asking for a new airport upgrade, just that things work while running in dx10. I have the shaders fixes in place as per avsim, so by day it works fine, but dawn, dusk, and night have problems.

Im far from being a programmer or even understanding it, but my I read that it is just a matter of adjusting the shaders textures. Perhaps its a big job im not sure, but more and more people are switching to dx10 now that the fixes are available.

I have KORD which misses alot of stuff. LAX is pretty good, and YVR is outstanding.

Thanks

virtuali:

--- Quote from: Hightower on February 22, 2013, 09:45:26 am ---Im far from being a programmer or even understanding it, but my I read that it is just a matter of adjusting the shaders textures.
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No, it's not.

If it was so easy, you would see way more airports compatible with DX10, while our recent ones (KDFW, KLAX, CYVR, plus JFK) are amongst the few. For airports that were made using FS8 code, which means LSZH, LSGG, KORD, KLAS and all Hawaii airports, it basically means reworking most of the ground polygons.

This means we'll have to undertake this one step of a time, while doing the airport remakes that we'll do it over the years, to keep them current with the airport current status.

Right now, we are updating JFK that, incidentally, didn't need a DX10 update to begin with, but had to be updated anyway, I guess the next likely candidate for an upgrade might be KLAS, so we'll surely take time to make it DX10 compatible too.

We are strong advocates of DX10, but these things takes time, eventually everything will be DX10 (and DX11, for P3D 2.0) compatible.

Hightower:
Thanks for the reply and explanation

forostar:
FS DreamTeam - I just want to echo how much all DX10 users appreciate your efforts so far! A big thankyou, particularly for the mere fact that you actually recognise that there is an appetite for the upgrades - unlike some other major 3rd party developers who shall remain nameless  ;D

For those of us with slightly more humble systems, the ability to use a fully-functional DX10 airport at night and reap the performance benefit, can be the difference between total immersion (as at JFK) or frankly, what in DX9 is basically a slide-show at 10fps.

Really appreciate it guys. Good work!

Brian S:
Thanks for the DX10 update!   KLAS would be great in DX10 and with new terminal.

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