Update: RealFlight Evolution 10.10.138

RealFlight version 10.10.138 is now available as a free release for all Evolution users. It adds support for the new 2025 Quarterly Content Pack 1 DLC, plus many improvements that have only been available in beta versions until now!

Release Notes:

Features

• Added support for 2025 Quarterly Content Pack 1 DLC
• Added Image Quality setting, located here: Settings -> Graphics -> Display -> Image Quality
• A new material definition system for content creation (more info is available in the Designer's Corner forum)

Rendering Improvements/Fixes

• Reduced color banding in the sky. This is especially noticeable in VR.
  • Sky dithering improvements are an example of something made possible by the update to DirectX 11
  • Turning up Image Quality has the potential to negate this improvement

• Reworked rendering of stars in the night sky, making color differences more obvious
• Added a subtle flicker effect to the stars
• Added support for more elaborate blinking light behavior on aircraft
• Added resolutionScaleOverride console command to allow fine-tuning the new Image Quality behavior
• [84757] Moon flickering when water is enabled is improved, but not completely fixed
• [84798] Fixed shader compositor and shadow rendering errors related to certain props

• Replaced Challenge and Training menus with updated versions
• Added keyboard & controller navigation support to remaining in-challenge dialogs (e.g., level begin, level complete, level failed)
• Added high-quality aircraft preview images in the main menu
• Added DLC as a filter type in the aircraft and airport selection menus
• Possible fix for UI lag that occasionally coincided with RealFlight gaining and losing focus
• Introduced a missing setting to control whether the multiplayer simulation sound reduction setting is applied in MP sessions
• Improved names, description text, and the enabled/disabled functionality for multiplayer sound reduction settings
• ESC works to close the main menu after saving a custom color scheme
• Load Flight Recording menu item is disabled while a recording is in progress
• Names of enabled/disabled-type settings are slightly altered for greater clarity
• Alt-F4 keyboard shortcut now exits the sim while in the main menu system
• Misc. other improvements

Other Improvements/Fixes

• Sound: If master mute is enabled ('M'), exiting the vehicle editor does not unmute ambient environment sounds
• Sound: Fixed spurious prop strike sounds that sometimes played incessantly in the vehicle editor (and which ignored muting)
• Sound: Ambient environment sounds do not play in the vehicle editor
• Import: Protected against crashes from certain malformed data
• "E-flite 2840" torque generator is properly capitalized

Aircraft

• Blade 150 S: Visual tail rotor wobble is eliminated
• E-flite Air Tractor 1.5m (all variants): Wingtip strobe lights blink correctly
• Hangar 9 Aermacchi MB-339 60-85N Turbine (both variants): Vehicle description lists the correct brake channel number

How to Get It
Steam will detect the new version and automatically update RealFlight when it thinks your computer is not very busy. You can trigger the update manually if desired by completely restarting Steam. Right-click the Steam icon in your system tray and select Exit. Once everything closes, run Steam again, and the update should complete.