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Introducing Honeycomb Alpha Flight Controls

by Calum Martin on 6 comments HardwareNews

Honeycomb Aeronautical is a brand new hardware developer who is focusing on creating quality yokes and throttles for a reasonable price. The premise behind their designs is to ensure maximum comfort, usability and durability for a range of different aircraft types and configurations.

In the video above, you can see it in person as Nicki demonstrates the product.

It’s due to launch very soon for a price of $199.99. As we get closer to release, we’ll be sure to cover the product in more detail.

For now, head to their website for more details.

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NVIDIA Drivers 381.89 – Community Agrees it Appears to Fix VAS Leak

by Calum Martin on HardwareNews
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We've kept a close eye on recent NVIDIA drivers lately, especially after some fixes and posts from Lockheed Martin regarding leaks from some more recent drivers. Thankfully, the community are reporting that the latest drivers 381.89 are working extremely well for most users after testing. Mike Moskovich on Facebook also described it as a "376.33 driver replacement".  Another user of the social
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P3D Nvidia VAS Leak Fixed?

by Ryan Parry on 7 comments HardwareNews
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Nvidia released a driver update for their GeForce graphics cards, version 378.49 which was reported to leak VAS. They later released another update, version 378.66 which fixed the leak but still had P3D running high VAS usage. The only solution was to roll back to version 376.33 and hope Nvidia fixed the issue. After being a little annoyed, I actually took
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Cockpit PHD Having Boeing 737 Pro Set Sale

by Calum Martin on add comment HardwareNews
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Cockpit PHD are currently having a great sale where you can buy their Boeing 737 Pro Set for Dual Saitek Throttle Quadrant for just $99.99. This is a great deal, especially if you're looking at improving your immersion when flying the PMDG 737 at home. Seems like a great deal for what you're getting, especially if you're after more budget
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X-Plane 11 System requierments released

by Timothy Thomas on add comment HardwareNewsXPL
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Laminar Research has released the Minimum and Recommended system requirements for X-plane 11.

Minimum

  • Intel Core CPU, 2 or more cores, 3.0ghz or faster. Or an AMD Equivalent
  • 8GB of RAM
  • Nvidia Direct X 11 capable Video card. Or an AMD, or Intel with at least 512MB VRAM

Recommended

  • Intel Core i5 6600k at 3.5ghz or better
  • 16-24GB of RAM or more
  • Nvidia Direct X 12 capable video card. Or AMD or Intel with at least 4GB of VRAM
    • GeForce GTX 1070 or better, or Similar AMD card

Supported Video cards

  • Nvidia GeForce 400 series or newer.
    • 600 or newer recommended.
  • AMD HD5000 or Newer.
    • HD7000 with GCN Core or newer recommended.
  • Intel HD2000 or newer.
    • HD4000 or newer recommended.

Supported Operating System

  • OSX 10 or Newer
  • Windows 7, 8 ,or 10 at 64bit
  • Linux: “While X-Plane 11 will run on Linux, we don’t provide support for specific distributions; if you want to run on Linux, you will need to try X-Plane on your distribution to see if it is compatible. With that in mind, we have developers using Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS successfully. For Linux, we require the proprietary driver from AMD or NVIDIA to run X-Plane. You may be able to get X-Plane to run on the Mesa/Gallium driver with an Intel GPU, but this is unsupported.  We absolutely do not support the fully open source drivers for AMD and NVIDIA.”

Even the minimum requirements are quite steep; As to why this is so we do not know. X-Plane 11 is expected to be released later this month. And just as a reminder if you purchase X-plane 10 from their website you can get X-plane 11 for free.

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