Phoenix V2 beta

[raptorheli2]

if it's not life like be aswell with microsoft simulator.

pretty hard to crack a heli and improve when i can't practice it on a sim. the very reason i bought it. anyways, your missing the point....ALL other sims do this.

cheers

[Oli]

Well it all installed fine (Vista Ultimate 64bit) and runs ok unless i try to change any of the graphic settings? Doesnt matter if i lower things or raise them, as soon as i hit apply i get one of my screens go blank and then about 3mins later the PC reboots itself. Its not a lack of graphics power, or drivers as i got the latest from nvidia. Tried in SLI mode and single GPU?

Also in the calibration set-up at the start it says not to toggle the idle up switch, but then when flying idle up doesn't work?

Oli

[chemicalbro]

well i tried online earlier and there is one thing that is SO annoying its untrue.
every time a new pilot joins it pops up a message "welcome to phoenix online"
bang in the middle of the screen (which just happens to be where your heli is 90% of the time) maybe theres a way to turn that off but i couldn't find it.
it also seems a lot slower on multiplayer now, it was bogging down to 17 fps at some points... on 1.05j the online norm was 70-80 fps for me.
I tried turning all graphics settings down to low but it only impacted the frame rate by about 2fps. on the whole the sim seems a lot more resource hungry.

I tried out the rex 700 and also found it to be tail heavy.... a bit of trim sorted that though.
had a few crashes online also... the error that popped up was something to do with the sim vertex buffer. (i sent the error report to phoenix)

ashley it would be great if you could pool the comments together and send to the phoenix guys.
that way they don't have to trawl through a lot of mails saying the same things and it should speed up the time to fix the problems.

the old recordings will not work in v2... the new ones save in a different format.

[Ashley Davis]

just had a chat with John at Phoenix and it seems I found some problems, just talked through them all and it's being sorted. So for the moment probably not worth looking for new issues as I think we just nailed the main ones and they are working on fixing.

[andylinney]

Well, I was REALLY looking forward to trying the beta out, the new features looked great and I was keen to have a play with a few new sites and models. I'll not bother downloading it for the time-being having read this. I really hope they do get the bugs sorted, it's the very reason they release a Beta and I think we're all used to to it just working and expected the same this time.

I'm also really surprised at some peoples postings on this thread, not exactly a friendly community on some points, the idea of the beta is to enable the users to establish the problems and report on them, what better place to do it than on here so that they can be fed back in a constructive manner rather than via countless emails all describing the same few issues.

I wonder how long it'll be until the next sim comes out and we all start the process again???

[raptorheli2]

andy, some excellent points.

just one thing, when has pheonix ever released something that is not BETA? everything released is BETA. i'm all for that as the users tend to find the bugs much quicker than a dev team does and we get to play much earlier than if the dev team were finding all the bugs. win win as far as i'm concerned.

cheers

[Ashley Davis]

The thing I would say is this, let's not be negative about a beta. The whole point is it's not ready, if you don't want to potentialy have it screw up on you then don't download it. However, don't also be disheartened when those who do download it find problems. If need be those of us who are testing can give an indication as to when it's running 'good enough' and then those who were not keen can download and have a go as well without too much worry.

[cambs flyer]

I think the guy's at Phoenix do a superb job fixing bugs and improving the software as a constant ongoing project, I've just loaded the new version and I have to say I prefer the older version this time round.

The upgrades will be ace when corrected, and we all know it'll be sorted within days, at the end of the day forums like this is a vital source of information for companies like phoenix to improve and update there software as and when needed.

Great job fellas, and many thanks.

[Arky]

lol im so unlucky installed it, it asked me what language, click english and it crashesh "this program is not responding" lol time for a reinstall of pheonix :/

vista home premium

was looking forwards to motion sickness :d

[cambs flyer]

lol im unluck installed it and it just asked me what language click english and it crashesh "thi program is not responding" lol time for a reinstall of pheonix :/

Whats tickled you Jason? are you having big probs there mate?

[chemicalbro]

in the meantime... I've re installed 1.05 and also did a clean install of the beta to a different partition on my HD.
that way I can run the beta also and if I find any more problems i'll report them here.
its good for comparisons too.

all in all its looking good once the niggles are sorted.
I prefer the new interface. and the weather profiles is a nice touch.
the most annoying thing for me so far tho is the popup message on multiplayer (i assume that it should only pop up on the joining persons screen and not everybody in the session...probably an easy fix no doubt.)

[raptorheli2]

i have not tried the multiplayer, is it smoother online? i found it quite laggy at times when more people joined.

cheers

[Arky]

Whats tickled you Jason? are you having big probs there mate?

yup just a few m8

no biggy though i just reinstall the whole lot :/ and leave the beta alone for now

[davidwright77]

I have been using Phoenix now for over a year. With all of the problems I have been experiencing, not just with the weather, but with flying site problems at the Lords Hill / Penhill flying site near Shaftesbury, it has been a real 'life saver'.

I downloaded version 2 of Phoenix and had real problems. I therfore have reverted back to 1.05j for a while until the problems are sorted.

They can only be sorted if the 'experts' among us are constructive enough to help the developers over these problems.

So please help the developers of Phoenix make the aircraft fly as near to the real thing as possible. This will help people like myself who are new to helis make the transition to reality a less painful experience.

David

[garynitro]

Hi, running a game on-line now called Hill Side!
But don't think it is working as no one has joined lol.
And, yes i have allowed it through the Fire Wall ;-)