A few notes on beta 4, which went live today:

  • Austin fixed a bunch of METAR parsing bugs.  As before, please include the METAR and airport any time there is a METAR parsing issue.  There were a few common cases that were broken in beta 3 that caused most of the bug reports, so we should be in better shape now.
  • Philipp fixed a pile of bugs.
  • I did not.  My C drive died again, and I am ordering a new PC now.  So unfortunately I can’t look at AMD or Windows performance bugs until I get new hardware.
  • This build contains a rework of our cylindrical projection code – this is a feature that our Pro key enables; we’ve been working with customers for a while now to design the new system.  We’ll be working out the kinks over the rest of beta.

One last note on METARs: when X-Plane finds a METAR with “unlimited” visibility (e.g. 9999, CAVOK, etc.) it will look at the temperature-dewpoint spread to determine the humidity, and then pick a visibility distance that is lower when humid and higher when dry.  So under truly dry conditions you should get a less hazy view, while visibility will continue to be constrained on humid days.

Update: the 32-bit Mac version of beta 4 won’t run due to a build configuration problem. We’re working on it now, but I’m guessing it will be 36 hours before we get beta 5 posted. 🙁

About Ben Supnik

Ben is a software engineer who works on X-Plane; he spends most of his days drinking coffee and swearing at the computer -- sometimes at the same time.

13 comments on “X-Plane 10.30 Beta 4 Is Out”

  1. Hi
    Cannot launch 10.30b4 32 bit in mac os 10.6.8 . b3 was fine if I recall
    Is this the end for 32 bit? will quicktime in 64 bit ever materialise?
    T

  2. Thank you for all your efforts. You make me proud to be an X-Plane pilot.

  3. There are some great build threads on the .Org recently about building an Uber PC…..just sayin, Ben. 😉 You deserve the very best, naturally.

  5. In regard to METAR bug reporting, where can I find the exact last METAR that X-Plane has processed for a particular airport ICAO code?

  6. Hi, and thanks for the new update.

    I’ve been wondering about whether it’d be poddible to use live lightning data in XPlane.

    There’s this map that displays it:

    //www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

    Maybe you can use that data to display lightning as it happens and on the correct location? Just a fun idea, I thought 🙂

    Anyway.. just a quick report.. ever since Xplane 10.3 my computer seems to be running out of memory when i run Xplane. Is 6 Gb ram still enough to run it properly?

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