Laminar Research releases X-Plane 11.50 final Laminar Research, creator of the X-Plane flight simulator franchise, is proud to announce the final Vulkan/Metal update of X-Plane 11. After many months of converting our graphics engine and beta testing, we are today announcing the final release of version 11.50 for the X-Plane desktop platform. Vulkan (PC) and Metal (Mac) are rendering level APIs that change how X-Plane interacts with the graphics card. They are faster than OpenGL that X-Plane has used in the past. Overall, most users will see improved frame rates and reduced stutters when using Vulkan or Metal. In X-Plane 11.50, there is a check-box in the graphics settings that enables Vulkan or Metal, and a restart of X-Plane is necessary for the change to take effect. If for some reason a user can’t use Vulkan or Metal, OpenGL is still available by simply unchecking the box. Numerous bug fixes, enhancements, and new airports are also included in this release.

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X-Plane 11.32 Released



X-Plane 11.32 continues the evolution of the desktop version of X-Plane. Over the years it has always been the policy of Laminar Research to continually improve X-Plane, providing the most realistic flight simulation available, with flight modeling so accurate that it has been adopted by numerous commercial aviation organizations.



X-Plane 11.32 continues this evolution by incorporating the newest technology available in computing and graphics processing, resulting in breathtaking visual and dynamic effects.





These are just some of the major features included in the update to X-Plane 11.32.



NOAA Mirroring is fixed. This fixes real weather downloading.

More stability fixes

New ATC voice system.

Particles editor for aircraft.

Autopilot & aircraft systems updates includes: Propeller feathering, Anti- and de-ice systems, Oxygen system, Vacuum systems and many others.

Improved industrial zones in US autogen & reorganized library.

Flight model improvements

Experimental Flight model UI option

Shader system rebuilt as part of port to Vulkan.

Panel resolution increased to 4k.

Updated airspace to 2018 & Navigraph default data 1708.

Added sector altitudes in VFR map.

New UI for manually setting joystick curves per axis.

Situation files get you close to landmarks for quick sight seeing.

Custom joystick configuration files.

New and updated global airports: now a total of 8,247 full 3-D airports, including hundreds of new and improved airports in this release.



X-Plane 11.32 update is now available to all X-Plane 11 users on both the Laminar and Steam sites through X-Plane 11 update feature.



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