Bournville Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bournville Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdietz Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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