MSFS & X‑Plane fixes
iniBuilds pushed Dallas–Fort Worth v1.0.3 for MSFS 2024 which explicitly fixes runway dirt issues, and X‑Plane 12.4.1 Beta 2 landed with stability improvements and addon‑compatibility notes for simmers. Those two patches are the key hotfixes this week if you're running heavy sceneries or libraries. (x.com) (x.com)
iniBuilds’ support forum lists a v1.0.3 release for the Dallas–Fort Worth (KDFW) scenery. (forum.inibuilds.com) The prior v1.0.2 update explicitly adjusted taxiway paths around runways 17R/C and added improved dirt and grime across ground textures, changes that were distributed via the iniManager and iniBuilds announcements. (fsnews.eu) Community threads on AVSIM and the official Microsoft Flight Simulator forum logged visual junk between runways and reports of heavy object pop‑in and stutters at KDFW after release, which prompted the rapid aftermarket patching. (avsim.com) Laminar Research pushed X‑Plane 12.4.1 Public Beta 2 (released March 17, 2026) as a focused stability build to reduce specific crashes and regressions. (forums.x-plane.org) Beta 2’s changelog highlights concrete fixes including METAR text clipping on the X1000 MFD, a resolved shader‑cache deadlock, a time‑zone lookup performance bug when flying over Ukraine, and aircraft/avionics tweaks carried over from the 12.4.1 branch. (forums.x-plane.org) The public beta also adds an SDK change to log the offending plugin name when a plugin calls SDK functions from outside the main thread (Windows only), and Laminar reiterated that crash reports should go through the official Bug Reporter because the build is explicitly unstable. (forums.x-plane.org)
