60 GB update with no NEWS? What the heck?

[dohh]

ANy idea what this is?

[Maki Nishikino]

XPD-14979 – Crash on ex-vis if main menu is enabled and scenery is not up to date
XPD-14980 – X-Plane immediately crashes on startup when launched through the installer on Windows

Possible scenery update too.

[dohh]

Surprised these are 60 GB worth of "fixes", though. YIkes. Hope the scenery updates, if that's part of this update, account for a lot of it. THank you, Maki!

[Maki Nishikino]

No problem!

[RÓWNY GOŚĆ]

why a 60 gb updaate ?! i dont even have that much

[Feurum]

Rip my VATSIM flight

[RenegadeNine]

Mine is only 25gb so it must be the 12.09 scenery update as I only have 2 scenery regions installed.

[horizon]

Is it 12.0.9 update available now?

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Hor1zoN:

Is it 12.0.9 update available now?

It's in beta.

Originally posted by remiwicek:

why a 60 gb updaate ?! i dont even have that much

"12.0.9 comes with a global scenery update! We’ve re-rendered the scenery with slight improvements. Including slightly higher and more accurate mesh fidelity, new autogen/forestry updates and flattening issues with some airports. Users will be notified in the sim main menu if a scenery update is available to download."

[dohh]

I just finished the huge update D-L, verified the integrity of Steam's XP12 files, restarted my PC, and then the game itself.
The game looks exactly the same in the 3 areas I tried out (NYC, Paris, and an official DLC I had purchased, St Croix). I don't notice any texture ,environment, or water changes to speak of. Game looks goodas always, but to me at first glance in these 3 areas, it looks exactly the same as before.
Also, I noticed significant changes in how LOUD the game makes my fans run compared to when I played XP 12 yesterday...BEFORE this huge update. Yikes. Optimization, please!
Browsing (Steam's XP 12) game files showed my scenery paks have been updated as far as I can tell, although the game still shows version 12.8 RC3 on main screen, and not 12.9 version, which is weird (I had thought this HUGE update was for 12.9 fixes and a scenery update?).
Is there anything I'm missing? Game update took a while but finished, and verifying game file integrity (Steam) also finished with no errors. I have many DLCs installed, and all global scenery files installed, as well. WHat was supposed to be "updated" re. scenery?

[phobos2077]

Isn't 12.9 available as a beta? Have you tried switching to public_beta?

[Echo Kilo]

Originally posted by dohh:

Surprised these are 60 GB worth of "fixes", though. YIkes. Hope the scenery updates, if that's part of this update, account for a lot of it.

Yes, it's that global scenery update which makes the update so big. I think it's 60GB only if you have all the regions installed.

[dohh]

I am not using any betas, I wait for full releases of updates. SO I guess the huge update yesterday was still for a 12.8 version (3?), and v. 12.9 is not yet officially released. Very confusing for steam users.

[Darnulf]

still wonder when they add the remaining parts of the globe that got no terrain yet but airports in the area ..far north in Canada, Greenland and Scandinavia and way south like some of the antarctic research stations.
some - like me love to fly remote regions away fromn the traffic and imo world scenery should cover all of the planet if MSFS can do it xplane should really do it as well

[Saab Jitsu]

Originally posted by Darnulf Thunamgarul:

still wonder when they add the remaining parts of the globe that got no terrain yet but airports in the area ..far north in Canada, Greenland and Scandinavia and way south like some of the antarctic research stations.
some - like me love to fly remote regions away from the traffic and imo world scenery should cover all of the planet if MSFS can do it xplane should really do it as well

While I agree Xplane should have it all mapped, Microsoft owns Bing Maps and, is Microsoft so implementing it's own map code into it's own flight sim code wasn't as big a hassle as it may be for Xplane. By all accounts it was a pain in the butt for them, but not nearly as difficult as it would be for Xplane

[дима_КГБ]

Its the DLC's, yo have to download after the game itself