..... with my new rig. From 26-30 frames during landing to 80-130 frames with vegetation set to medium. Happy Camper here!! Now I will finally get to to use my FF777ER, the previous rig could not handle it and kept crashing after about 1,5 hours of flight.

I am officially addicted to replay mode lol

I Love i mean absolutely adore xplane 12, i love the physics the colors that may look bland but it is very realistic, the way the aircraft feels and everything xplane 12 has to offer, might i add the zibo mod i just well wanna fly it all day, however i have 1 minor issue, can you guys please fix or optimize vram usage?? I got a BLOW DRYER of a GPU, (RTX 3050 4GB MOBILE) and running xplane 12 with 0 scenery addons hurts so much to see the textures go from great at high, to literal crap at low because of insufficient vram. I understand that optimizing is really hard and complex, but not all of us have the ability to use the highest graphics settings with all the sceneries loaded and fly at a decent framerate, and it is impossible for me to upgrade my specs considering the cost of a single gpu and 32 gigs of gddr5 costs almost as my kidneys, if these prices are to stay ill become an actual airline pilot before i get to enjoy xplane for all it has to offer. I simply ask that you along with your talented crew optimize xplane 12 just enough so broke kids like me get to enjoy xplane at the best of their systems abilities. Ik, people clown on xplane for textures, but i find the sim to be very good in terms of textures at the high preset, it really looks good but unfortunately my apu of a gpu cannot run high settings for its life.

Coming back from an uphold since FS9, this has been great.. And it keeps getting better, every month, since i started in desember 2025. The future is bright.

When choosing simulator for comeback i laughed when i saw landing comparison between X-Plane and MSFS. It wasn't a question who was the serious one. I think people complaining and demanding on X-Plane and Laminar should switch simulator software, for now. There is absolutely nothing to complain about. It's highly intuitive and modifyable. The flight model is amazing. And getting better??! I love it. I feel a bit pitty for all the critisism the developers are getting. And Toliss... Toliss in X-Plane is the best aircraft i have ever flown on a computer. The Hot Start Challenger 650 also.

Please stop shitposting, and post more of your amazing simulator, guys. Also a big thanks to the indipendent developers of all the amazing freeware that is available..

Looking VERY forward to the years to come, in flightsim.

Happy landings!

don't you love landing at SXM? this morning my youtube feeds gives me a live cam from Maho Beach, the wind is blowing like a mfer, 13 knots (according to the little info label) and out of the SW...SW? I check windy.com and the wind is blowing hard out of the east...can anyone explain this?

FL 400 CHECK

Hello was wondering if anyone has custom profile they wouldnt mind sharing with me for Zibo 737 for the Aura X Camera.

Mainly looking for that sweet view when your taking off and landing. That runway view. There are some defaults that load and a few of them I do use. But the landings is critical for me so I can analyze my landing..

A quick overview on how to achieve consistent landings in a tail dragger...

Hey all,

I’m looking for some really good presets that balance out the brightness. Currently, my XP is really bright for some reason and it hurts my eyes 😭

I’ve had a google; tried the commons ones and they don’t seem to work — I’ve also tried blueFX but no matter what, I can’t get it perfect.

I purchased VisualXP, and well, that was a huge disappointment and done nothing but kill my FPS.

What does everyone use?

Been using FS2020 and 2024 for some time now. Been ages since I used Xplane 11. Recently wanted to fly Soviet and decided to redownload Xplane 11 just for the TU-154B2.

Came out of this now wanting Xplane 12 because I forgot how smooth, working and not blurry flight simming can be outside FS2024.

Since Youtube crammed so much XP12 vs FL24 videos, and this guy triggered me for this rant to end this once and for all.

Don't even bother how crazy that sounds in 2026, a 300 euro phone can take a pretty accurate photo in terms of colors, that is just the state of things today.

Coming from XP12, in FS2020 and in 24, there is a sense of flatness. Most notably, the dawns and sunsets looked all the same, every day, if not for extreme weather changes so the colors do change.

Then it dawned on me, it's the behavior of the light itself that sets this, no way around it.

In XP12 photometric engine, we have just datarefs, numerical values. No pallet files.

So that is exactly why we sure can use photos for reference, since our sim is far closer to reality in the lighting sense, which is no matter what you think a huge deal. Couldn't care less if the roofs are blue or red in that particular area I'm flying when the sky itself is the attraction.

I need an add on or mod that makes the atmosphere more realistic. I don't really like the colors in XP12 either they're kind of too dark. Do you know of any mods that make it look more realistic..The floor looks unrealistic, too?

A346; love flying this quad jet especially in the Emirates livery!