X-Plane 12
Ultra-Realistic Flight Simulation
X-Plane 12 is a simulation, flight and 3d game
developed and published by Laminar Research.
Released on December 17th 2022 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Ukrainian.
It has received 3,804 reviews of which 3,165 were positive and 639 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 77.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified X-Plane 12 into these genres:
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Requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or 11
- Processor: Intel Core i3, i5, i7, or i9 CPU with 4 or more cores, or AMD Ryzen 3, 5, 7 or 9.
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: A Vulkan 1.3-capable video card from NVIDIA, AMD or Intel Arc GPU with at least 2 GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 23 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC
- Additional Notes: NVIDIA: GeForce 900 or newer, driver version 510 or newer AMD: AMD Radeon RX 500 or newer, driver version Adrenaline 22.2.1 or newer. Intel: Arc GPUs only
MacOS
- OS: MacOS 12.00 (Monterey) or Newer
- Processor: Intel Core i3, i5, i7, or i9 CPU with 4 or more cores, or AMD Ryzen 3, 5, 7 or 9.
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 500 or newer, driver version Adrenaline 22.2.1 or newer
- Storage: 23 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Varies
- Processor: Intel Core i3, i5, i7, or i9 CPU with 4 or more cores, or AMD Ryzen 3, 5, 7 or 9.
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: A Vulkan 1.3-capable video card from NVIDIA, AMD or Intel Arc GPU with at least 2 GB VRAM
- Storage: 23 GB available space
- Additional Notes: We have developers using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and newer successfully, however we don’t provide support for specific distributions. We require proprietary GPU drivers. Intel: Arc GPUs only
Reviews
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As a long time player of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Prepar3d V5, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I've hung up my saddle (except for Prepar3d V5) with the previous sim's, and will likely not be purchasing MSFS2024. Here is why: - 2020 has issues with pitch sensitivity - X, is outdated of course, and is Co-aligned with X-plane 9 - MSFS 2020 uses bing maps to correlate terrain features and textures, looks great, however the airports and lighting require extensive tweaks to look right, even putting hundreds of dollars in add ons to get the right feel. - 2020's flight model is more or less like a game, doesnt feel right at times, especially fighting winds, the aircraft doesnt act like its in a column of air. It almost feels too stable, like the aircraft isnt effected and is just powering through whatever winds it encounters. I've put thousands of hours across many flight sim's in my life, X-Plane 12 provides a challenge to even experienced virtual aviators, and will give you a more real feel you have been desiring. I'm writing this as im cruising in the Zibo 737 actually. I appreciate X-Plane 12 because of these reasons: - more free addons, instead of buying into people unfinished scams in msfs 2020. - With VisualXP, World Traffic and Auto ortho (Map Enhancement) you get the same ground textures of MSFS. (Easy install too) - With X-Plane's Extensive blade theory, and Austin (the developer) being a huge nerd, we are able to enjoy a realistic flight sim with proper airfoil reactions to wind. You can even go to his youtube channel where he explains how everything works and what he did to make the flight sim move realistically. - Clouds look like actual clouds, often whiting out with lighting, providing a realistic glare with the bright sky sometimes they are funky though. - General Aviation flying has never felt more realistic, and with the airfoillabs 172, or any equivalent GA addon, you can almost experience what its like to fly a real GA plane. - Airliners face difficulty on approaches too, with the blade angle theory it even effects AI on approach as you can see the traffic wobbling or using a crosswind to land. not stagnant aircraft that look like they are flying on rails, they are also effected by winds too. - Lighting on air frame surfaces provides more realistic reflective detail CONS: - The buildings are not all put in like msfs 2020, but no one really pays too much attention to that. - The sim has performance issues sometimes, not recommended to run on a computer that is not built to handle it. - Anti Aliasing is a little wack. It makes everything look pretty jagged, and trying to run it at the max setting will be hard on any PC. In review: MSFS 2020 doesn't have as good of flight physics, and is just eye candy. X-Plane can be configured to have just as much eye candy. X-Plane has far better flight dynamics. I hope Austin will review and update to add NVIDIA DLSS support. With multiple modifications X-Plane can be made to feel pretty realistic, I will drop my plugins and addons below. - Active Sky XP - Visual XP (dont run the weather with ASXP active) - Map enhancement (North America, Asia) - Better Pushback - Terrain Radar - World Traffic - AviTab - XPRealistic (adds headshake/aircraft effects) - X-Camera (Track IR Support) - Jardesign Ground Handling (Ground vehicles and catering) - Airfoil Labs C-172 (Digital) - Zibo 737 (Best 737 mod) - Levelup 737 (works with zibo tech, so its the same, just different variations) - FlightFactor 767 (nuff said) - B747-8i - Flight Factor A350 (wonderful coupled with Cockpit texture mod and Mango Studios Soundpack) - Toliss A321 (And NEO Extension)
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After the disaster of MSFS 2024, i decided to switch to Xplane 12...Although the graphics might not compare out of the box, everything else is amazing, the physics, the huge amount of failure options to chose from. with a few payware and also freeware mods. this is quite the sim!!! and they are always improving. 100% recommend this over MSFS 2024 if you are looking for a real sim!!!
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I started with flight simulators way back in the 90's when fs was delivered on a 7" floppy disk. The "earth" was a green expanse with white lines denoting runways. I thought this was marvellous and sent my wire frame aircraft up over the green expanse below. Since that time I had almost every version of MS Flight Simulator, Prepare 3D, FSX, FSX Acceleration, IL Sturmovik, World of Flight and some I can't even remember. Even Combat Flight Simulator! With the demise of FSX, I really thought that was the end of my flight simming days. Then I discovered X-Plane. OK, I only started on X-Plane 11 and immediately loved it. After doing thousands of hours I was satisfied with only loading Africa scenery. I took the decision to stay only in Africa, and South Africa. Not that I have anything against other parts of the world, but I spent many, many hours in Europe, the USA, Oceania and now at my age, i settled down to my own country. And I love every moment of it! The sheer pleasure of trying different aircraft, amazed at the time and energy developers put into it. The precision of the avionics, the hours spent on perfecting the different aircraft was staggering! I did not even have to look at other flight simulator platforms. X-Plane had it all. Lastly. Austin Meyer became a household name in the x-plane community. I can't remember a senior developer exposing himself as much and putting in as much as Austin. Something I did not experience with all the other available flight simulator platforms. At 75 years of age, change does not come easy anymore.
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Having played DCS and combat sims for years, I picked up and played MSFS since launch mostly flying General Aviation type aircraft like the Cessna 172 or the Caravan 208B. In 2023 I moved to airliners starting with the Fenix A320 and not long after I got a bit fed up with the wobbly, sensitive and bouncy flight model in MSFS. Where everything reacts instantly and floats down the runway due to sudden jerk motions with even the slightest pressure during the flare. Then I switched to X-Plane 12 to try it out paired with the ToLiss A320. Graphically, I was spoiled. It took quite a while to get used to X-Plane's scenery having come from MSFS where everything looks real. As far as X-Plane is concerned, the major city that I live in barely even exists. As for the flight handling and modelling, it was a night and day difference. Planes feel like they actually weigh something in X-Plane. They demonstrate inertia, resisting your inputs to a degree. Since then I've racked up lots of hours and picked up aircraft from the likes of ToLiss (A319, A320, A321 and A340), FlightFactor (777v2, 757, 767), IXEG, X-Aviation and X-Crafts. Lots of great aircraft. I've improved the scenery with Ortho4XP combined using Sonny's LiDAR sources for terrain elevation and X-Plane, naturally, has begun to look better with each update that Laminar have released. Yes, X-Plane is expensive and I'd say that MSFS is generally more accessible. If you don't have money to burn, or you plan to fly VFR only with GA, then I'd pick MSFS. However, what X-Plane does give you is a flight model that actually feels like you're flying a plane and not something that displays virtually no inertia, reacts instantly and is far too sensitive.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☑ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
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Online players
499
Developer
Laminar Research
Publisher
Laminar Research
Release
17 Dec 2022
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