I just posted new versions of the installers with a few bug fixes. Let me try to clarify the situation.
The X-Plane installer and updater have been merged. The installer is now capable of updating. One app does it all now.
Therefore:
- If you bought a copy of X-Plane, use the X-Plane installer to update your copy of X-Plane. It will require a DVD or USB key, just like X-Plane does.*
- If you are just trying the demo of X-Plane, re-run the demo installer – it will update your demo.
- Or, easiest of all: just go to the “About Box” in X-Plane and let X-Plane check for updates and run the entire process. Simple!
The newest installer is here; if you haven’t bought X-Plane 10, the demo installer is here.
* Why does the full product require a DVD or USB key to update? The answer is that it will download files that are only part of the full installation, not just files that are part of the demo. This is part of our migration toward being able to update scenery and other full-sim features online.
* Aww the old individual updater never needed authenticating with a disc or USB key. Can’t the installer be made to detect if you have the demo or the full version installed? There must be files that are fundamentally different or is the global scenery simply absent on the demo version? How did the old updaters work?
Well one can have demo and full version both installed in separate folders.
Once you have the real X-Plane (e.g. you have a USB key or DVD) _there is no demo!!!_
So you can have multiple installed X-Plane copies with different scenery and even different versions. But none will be the demo, and the updater may try to TURN a demo into a full version!
Sir, I am deployed to Afghanistan, and have very low bandwidth in my hooch. I recently ordered X-Plane 10. I had X-plane 9 loaded and it never really worked properly. The problem is not my computer, I have a brand new Alienware 17r3 with NVIDIA graphics card. I learned how to use the NVIDIA card to target the use of the graphics card with specific programs, but X-Plane 10 doesn’t show up. Also how, specifically do we upload the update 10.03? I keep getting the unzip error on updates. Please help.
Hi,
Please contact tech support at info at x-plane dot com. Sorry, but this blog is _not_ tech support.
Is the installation of the Aerosoft airports a one-time event, or will it happen everytime from now on ?
(I tend to delete some of them because of better freeware or own conversions, and would end up with double scenery packages after updating).
Markus
please ignore; just saw your answer on another post. sry
If you delete them, they will come back.
I am looking into a way to manage scenery packs that would not require renaming or deleting them – that way, the update can run without forcing the packs on you, and you can get the scenery you want.
I ran the update yesterday and it did not work with my v10 USB key. Is that one of the bug fixes you refer to? Also, can you date stamp the installer on the web page so we know what is the latest version? Right now I have to download and unzip the installer to determine the date. I did get an outdated installer from one of your links yesterday.
Perhaps just the date of the installer next to the download link would be sufficient. Or even better, maybe a version number embedded in the name would work.
Well, the b2 installer is screwed up – on OS X the about box lists 3.1b1 but the log file tells you the correct 3.1b2.
Hi Ben!
I know it is off topic, but do you also have horrific low fps with your radeon 7970… ? I have got the 7950 and cannot play xp10, even if i switch down to the lowest quality settings (10-15 fps) max @innsbruck…
Is it worth trying to play with the settings or is it better to wait for the patch?
Nice work on the new updater/installer. It ‘feels’ much more coherent than the previous workflow.
If the Installer and Updater are one and the same file, why are there two download links x-plane.com? Yeah, they both point to the same location:
>i>If you are installing your X-Plane 10 DVDs, do not use the installer that comes on Disc 1; instead, download and run the installer/updater to install the DVDs. If you already have the full version of X-Plane installed and want to update it, you can download the installer/updater.
It should say something like,
If you are installing your X-Plane 10 DVDs or updating an already installed version of X-Plane, download and run the new combined installer/updater, which should used instead of all previous installer or updater files.
The lack of a Preview Post, Edit or Delete button is a pain in the ass!
Nice idea combining the two installers.
Why is it the Mac OS X version always hides the menu and dock when in the foreground?
Will the new “installer” update older versions?
If so, why is the old “updater” still available on the website?
When updating my Windows copy, I was current with 10.03RC2. It wouldn’t let me update and change my mind so I could try the latest release candidate. The OLD updater is still provided on the website, which is linked to by….the old updater!!
The nomenclature change is confusing. Me? I would have called the same application the updater *and* the installer. And updated the Laminar website.
Change is not always fun, eh? Sometimes the flow is the place to be. 🙂
Wait – where do you see the old updater?
The new updater will update any old versions to 10.03 or 10.04r1.
Just to recap:
I could not update to the latest RC or beta since I was current with the latest stable release from within X-Plane. At least that was the case with 10.03RC2.
When I launched the old *updater,* it gripes and suggests I go to the main X-Plane site to download a new updater.
I followed it’s link to the X-Plane.com site to see if the new installer/updater would work.
That was here: //www.x-plane.com/downloads/x-plane_10_update/
The good news is that this page is now different from what I saw yesterday. I verified this using my browser history.
Like others, I agree that the new application works well.
I think that the new terminology I’m seeing – “Installer/Updater” will catch all the old dogs resistant to change.
Thanks, Ben.