Das nächste Update für den Fenix A320 wurde veröffentlicht. Neben Performance-Verbesserungen wurde an den Panel States und der EFB-Stabilität gearbeitet. Und wer den Fenix noch kaufen möchte, soll jetzt auch mit Paypal zahlen können.

Knapp zwei Wochen nach dem Release des Fenix A320 und einem ersten, schnellen Update kommt der nächste Patch. Das hat Fenix-Frontmann Aamir Thacker jetzt im öffentlichen Teil des Fenix-Discord bekannt gegeben. Vor allem bei der Performance sollen sich Fenix-Kund:innen auf das Update freuen können: 

• More performance improvements (up to 25% w/ an average of 16% across our testers
• CPU on Quality/Balanced showing the most improvement)
• Installer fixes/improvements
• Lots of crash fixes (start-up etc)
• Better panel state behaviour (spawning at gate will be truly cold & dark now)
• Keyboard F/CTL support added, we’re continuing to work on hardware bindings etc
• Added cockpit texture quality option to reduce VRAM usage (low VRAM cards will see FPS improvements from this)
• EFB general stability and load-in improvements, pushback fixes amongst others

“Während wir beginnen, die Usability-Probleme zu beseitigen, richten wir unser Augenmerk auf Produktverbesserungen”, schreibt Aamir außerdem. “Erweiterung der Hardwareunterstützung, Speichern von Flügen, Autoflight – im Grunde alles, was unserer Meinung nach besser sein könnte.” Und dafür hätten er und sein Team bereits eine Roadmap:

• Deployment, Stability & Performance. Get as many customers running the Fenix A320 without significant errors, crashes, or performance issues. – Clean & Tidy. All the little things that’ve come up over time that weren’t super high priority, but regardless should be addressed.
• Improve & Build-upon. Start improving what we have, treating the release as a ‘base’ to add more features, improve existing ones and generally keep the aircraft cutting-edge. This will include external engine modelling, autoflight enhancements, displays improvements and more.
• Expand. Once we have a CFM A320 that lives up to our expectation, we will then be strapping some more bits to it. Some pointy bits on the ends of the wing, and some more powerful bits under the wing. From there who knows…

Das Update kann wie immer über die Fenix-App heruntergeladen werden. Hier schon einmal das Changelog:

[SYSTEMS]
○ Several startup crash fixes
○ Kill gateway if already running
○ Add graceful gateway shutdown
○ Reduce Hoppie request rate, stop requests if invalid logon
○ Fixed issue with autolaunch not working
○ Set parking brake initial state in more reliable way
○ Add messages about incompatible 3rd party add-ons
○ Force initial state for Runway spawn to Ready
○ Tiller blending adjusted, ramps off at a shallower rate
○ Sign in error messaging improved
○ EGT to ambient temp during cold and dark
○ Suspended hang when closing the MSFS is fixed (requires working exe.xml)
○ Suspended hang when entering or exiting the flight is fixed (requires working exe.xml)
○ Parking brake is now reliably set when loading plane
○ More reliable external power hook-in in Cold&Dark
○ Platform multithreading option is now automated
○ Optimized displays
○ Fixed misaligned displays in certain GPU configurations
○ Improved default state stability when spawning
○ Fixed certain instances of Fenix Launcher crashing on startup
○ Fixed certain instances of “bad load ins” with semi functional systems
○ Keyboard F/CTL support added
○ Config option added: Thrust Handling: Detents/Incremental
○ Future-proofing setup improvements (should show a message if Fenix is open, but requires open Fenix to be 1.0.2 or higher)
○ Fixed default panel state being reset when applying settings in launcher
○ Dave no longer allowed to use company microwave
○ Default panel state being applied much faster
○ Cold&Dark now doesn’t leave some stuff unset
○ Fixed engine glitches on Cold&Dark start
○ Improve MSFS perf when running Displays on CPU or iGPU
○ Process priority tweaks
○ Tweaked DirectX threading settings
○ Implemented cockpit texture quality option
○ Per-livery config
○ Mostly fixed SELCAL/Registration (still not 100% reliable)
○ N2 goes ‘XX’ correctly on EWS
○ Added simulation rate increase up to 2x (for now, will increase it as we do more testing)
[EFB]
○ EFB general stability and load-in improvements
○ Fixed pushback issues, pushbacks should now just work
○ Fixed issue with non-reconnection of EFB with Fenix restart
○ Fixed day/night button on Navigraph app