The beta journey of the next major X-Plane 12 patch continues with a second iteration, focusing on improving on the first build from a few weeks ago.
The patch, which is numbered 12.4.0 and is nicknamed “C-Check Update,” is supposed to bring a nice round of overall polish to the simulator by Laminar Research, on top of significantly improving the default Airbus A330.
And the second beta iteration indeed improves the A330 further, on top of bringing a plethora of fixes to improve the experience.
You can find the full patch notes below.
- Fixed the display of QNH on the PERF APPR PAGE of the MCDU (XPD-17627)
- Always allow the entry of values on the PERF APPR PAGE regardless of the current flight stage (XPD-17634)
- Fixed an issue where selecting heading mode would disable ALT CRZ (XPD-17673)
- Fixed several drawing issues on the ND
- Improved autopilot turn rate
- Enabled CLR button on the transponder
- Several other minor improvements
- Fixed missing ATIS for some airports (XPD-17630)
- Fixed an issue where wind speeds greater than 99 knots would not be displayed correctly on the X1000 (XPD-17651)
- Updated global airports to fix various mesh issues (e.g. VNLK – Tenzing-Hillary / Lukla Airport)
- Improved docking behavior of Ground Vehicles
- Added a new dataref to indicate if Tobii Eye Tracker is enabled (
sim/graphics/view/eq_tobii_eyetracker) - Fixed 10 nm approach startup option (XPD-17640)
- Fixed a crash when using the first monitor as a 2D panel only (XPD-17629)
- Fixed an issue where mouse clicks where not handled correctly when using 2D panels fullscreen (XPD-17644)
- Several stability improvements
- Fixed an issue where MSAA 8x caused visual distortion (XPD-17573)
- Fixed an issue where FXAA caused rendering issues on the right eye screen (XPD-17638)
- Fixed a crash when closing windows created by plugins (XPD-17624)
- Fixed an issue where calling XPLMCreateProbe could cause a crash (XPD-17652)
- Improved internal handling when subscribing to resizable arrays using the WebAPI
You should keep that this is a beta patch, so it’s designed for testing and not to offer an optimal simulation experience. Download it at your own risk.
At the moment, we don’t have any information on when the patch will be officially released, nor about how many beta builds there will be before that happens.
X-Plane 12 is currently available for PC.
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