X-Plane 12 is out

Feek · 5 Sep 2022 at 20:19

... well, it's "Early Access" as from about ten minutes ago so effectively public beta.

The website hasn't fully updated yet, the Windows installer is here and the Mac installer is here.

I know we have a fair few flight simmers in here, I don't know how many fly X-Plane but I've been looking forward to this release for quite some time. I've been flying it on and off since V5.

If you buy XP12 during the early access period, you also get XP11 as well.

Feek · 6 Sep 2022 at 08:17

picnic · 6 Sep 2022 at 09:10

Will be interesting to see how this runs on Apple silicon. Will download the demo to try tomorrow.

muttclugg · 6 Sep 2022 at 12:23

picnic said:
Will be interesting to see how this runs on Apple silicon. Will download the demo to try tomorrow.

Has it been optimised to run on Apple Silicon? Might give it a go if that’s the case.

picnic · 6 Sep 2022 at 13:25

muttclugg said:
Has it been optimised to run on Apple Silicon? Might give it a go if that’s the case.

The buy it page ( https://www.x-plane.com/desktop/buy-it/ ) states

Universal platform support (Windows, Mac with Native ARM Support and Linux)

But the system requirements made no mention of it.

Chaos · 6 Sep 2022 at 13:56

picnic said:
Will be interesting to see how this runs on Apple silicon. Will download the demo to try tomorrow.

12 natively supports Apple Silicon, they mentioned it in a Q and A around 1:05

azazl187 · 6 Sep 2022 at 14:01

What does it actually look like?

picnic · 6 Sep 2022 at 14:53

@Chaos - thanks

Feek · 6 Sep 2022 at 17:18

muttclugg said:
Has it been optimised to run on Apple Silicon? Might give it a go if that’s the case.

It's a Universal app.

Remember it's still an 'early access' so technically pre-beta.

DEL 707 · 6 Sep 2022 at 20:55

azazl187 said:
What does it actually look like?

I have no interest in the game, but I looked it up for u.

azazl187 · 6 Sep 2022 at 20:56

DEL 707 said:
I have no interest in the game, but I looked it up for u.

Haha yea sorry I should have come back and said id already done this

Feek · 21 Sep 2022 at 19:22

azazl187 said:
What does it actually look like?

It's never going to look as pretty as MSFS (that's a given) but it's not bad. For me, it's not about the eye candy as much as the flight model. It's been a long time since I flew any light aircraft in sims and I'm finding it really enjoyable to plonk about in a basic Cessna, watching the world go by.

imtoooldforthis · 22 Sep 2022 at 08:09

Can’t go back to playing ghetto looking flight sims after msfs regardless of whether it does the flying bit better or not.

Feek · 18 Dec 2022 at 11:10

imtoooldforthis said:
Can’t go back to playing ghetto looking flight sims after msfs regardless of whether it does the flying bit better or not.

Depends what you want, to me, an accurate flight model is more important.

Just flew all the way down the M4 corridor from Heathrow and as soon as I reached Wales, it started raining *sigh*

One 48 · 19 Dec 2022 at 02:06

Hi Feek

Been tempted to give X-Plane 12 a go, but owned XP11 and some earlier versions and never really got into it, spent a fortune with ORBX especially for XP11 scenery, but time after time and as much as I tried, just found the whole sims clunky interface irritating and dare I say its actual world quite sterile.

I agree, XP series has always had from out of the box the best stock real life flight modelling, especially for light GA type Aircraft, but for me it wasn't enough and after a while I deleted XP 11 from my rig.

As regards FS2020 ... LOL when it first came out and some of the tease videos showed, we could be forgiven this was going to be the perfect sim right out of the box and on day one too, LOL, no way

I do still hold a candle for FS2020 though and enjoy it within its limitations, its going to have a long life span apparently, so hopefully and sooner rather than later the worst of the bugs will be quashed.

HOWEVER ... bought two PMDG products for FS2020 now, namely the DC-6 and the first released 737 600 ... I'm no airliner simmer, but had to see what a quality outfit like that could bring to MS2020, and whilst I've flown them and they seem fine, am no airliner sim enthusiast, but with the usual bugs to be sorted, they seem well regarded?

To put things in perspective here, am no real life PPL but lots of flight time in a real Piper Warrior 3 that I've put use into sim flying and also my sim flying gave me these opportunity's to fly that aircraft at old RAF Kinloss flying club with an experienced pilot who was impressed with my sim knowledge, night hours too ... good times indeed.

But Feek, if you don't know already, A2A have been working hard to get their ACCUSIM working with FS2020 for their soon to be released (at last) Accu-Sim Comanche 250, A2A's new ACCUSIM module will apparently work outside of what the FS2020 sim does and not rely on its flight dynamics, recent word is they want to introduce this tech to XPlane too.

My fingers are crossed