I am running x-plane 11 on my Mac mini.. 8 gb ram.. I'm not sure if it's a Intel 3 or 5. It runs just OK...but with rendering options quite low.

 

I'm thinking about buying a secondhand iMac... With better specs than what I have.. Or a Windows 10 big desktop box.

 

Your thoughts on a preferred OS and optimum hardware specs for x-plane 11 are appreciated. Thanks.

 

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

 

 

My current and insufficient hardware is this: 

  Model Name: Mac mini

  Processor Name: Intel Core i5

  Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 2

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 3 MB

  Memory: 16 GB

XPlane 11 is mostly CPU bound. It doesn't multi-thread very well (but we wait for v12 to start fixing that).

So multi-core at this point doesn't help as much as pure unadulterated clock speed.

I would recommend a Windows machine with at least an Nvidia 1060, 16GB RAM (32 if you can), and the fastest clocked processor you can find (i7-7820X or something)

(oh and if you like your scenery make sure to get a seriously big SSD drive)