The Aerofly RC8 released on the IKARUS website

bartokwhite · March 9, 2019 at 11:38 AM

Hi, is there an update on release of Aerofly RC8 for Mac OS? We're all waiting in expectation. Thanks .

admin · March 9, 2019 at 1:07 PM Official Post

We are currently in Beta testing, if we don't encounter any major issues, we will release aerofly RC 8 as soon as possible.

bartokwhite · March 10, 2019 at 10:22 AM

Thanks for the quick reply. That's good news.

stevenmc · March 13, 2019 at 6:10 AM

If you need any beta testers I would love to contribute. I use a FrSky QX7s and Playstation 4 controller. My main interest is in simulating the Mavic 2 Pro but I love all of the flight models. You have done an outstanding job.

I am also interested in creation tools on the Mac with Cinema 4D as the origin app.

Steven

Dimeball · April 2, 2019 at 8:43 PM

If that's possible, I'd also like to join the beta testing for Aerofly RC 8 for Mac. Any update on the progress for Mac?

raadgie · April 3, 2019 at 11:53 PM

Cannot wait a Mac version!

admin · April 4, 2019 at 7:41 AM Official Post

We hope to release aerofly RC 8 within the next 1-2 weeks if Apple approves it, but this is usually not in our hands.

Dimeball · April 4, 2019 at 9:51 PM

Quote from admin

We hope to release aerofly RC 8 within the next 1-2 weeks if Apple approves it, but this is usually not in our hands.

That is good to hear, and quite fast!

8thelephant · April 5, 2019 at 9:33 AM

Quote from Dimeball

That is good to hear, and quite fast!

I'm waiting too. New models look great

stevenmc · April 13, 2019 at 5:31 AM

Any additional update? Will it be next week?

I am literally checking several times a day.

I love your product.

admin · April 13, 2019 at 12:46 PM Official Post

We are currently waiting for Apple to review Aerofly RC 8. Unfortunately they had questions what Aerofly RC 8 actually is, it's quite a non standard App for the Mac App Store.

Dimeball · April 15, 2019 at 8:52 PM

For the ones waiting for a Mac release. I can currently see RC 8 in the App Store.

philmoz · April 16, 2019 at 9:22 AM

Mac version of RC8 is very disappointing

Looks like it's based on the FS2 code and has the same tearing and stuttering in the display.

Even at Low & 50% settings the display is not smooth - unlike RC7 which is super smooth even at Ultra 70% on my Mac.

FPS counter shows a solid 60 frames.

This is on an iMac Pro with 32GB Ram and Vega 56 GPU - it should really not have these issues.

At the price being charged this is pretty poor (IMHO).

admin · April 16, 2019 at 9:41 AM Official Post

@philmoz: The rendering speed of Aerofly RC 8 should be much faster compared to RC 7 as we are using Metal API for rendering. Can you let us know if you have solid 60 FPS or do you observe some FPS drops? Is there a difference in the 'smoothness' when comparing fullscreen mode with window mode?

philmoz · April 16, 2019 at 10:26 AM

No frame drops that I can see - however the OSD does not scale for the iMac display so the text is tiny and hard to read.

No difference between windowed and full screen unless I make the window really small (< 1/4 screen).

admin · April 16, 2019 at 11:01 AM Official Post

philmoz: Ok, please give us some time to investigate the issue. What you observe, is that like a tearing of the screen?

The text size you mentioned was chosen small on purpose, we might have to change that on those high resolution iMac displays if people don't like it.

philmoz · April 16, 2019 at 11:28 AM

I'm seeing screen tearing - visible break where objects and terrain is sheared horizontally (same as reported for FS2).

Also experiencing stutters where frames appear to be dropped (although FPS counter does not change).

I appreciate fixing things like this can take time; it's not totally unusable (but not as smooth as RC7).

One thing is the plane does not appear to be affected, only terrain and objects. Even if the plane is close and quite large it remains stable; but I can see tearing in the background behind it.

admin · April 16, 2019 at 12:15 PM Official Post

@philmoz: Ok, this seems to be a bug we have already reported to Apple but doesn't seem to be fixed yet. We have a work around for the tearing issue but would to do some test firsts. If you are interested we can send over a beta version for you to try. If that's the case please drop us an email at mail(at)ipacs.de.

philmoz · April 16, 2019 at 12:19 PM

In case it helps here are some screen grabs from Xcode Instruments tool with a Metal Trace.

RC7 - Appears to be double buffered and maintains a steady frame rate aligned with VSync.

RC8 - Appears to be triple buffered; but the display doesn't seem to be able to maintain a steady rate. VSync alignment looks odd as well.

admin · April 16, 2019 at 12:40 PM Official Post

We received your email and will be preparing a beta version. If you want you can run the same tests again with that version.