X-Plane 12 Graphics Settings | Complete Settings Guide
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- This is the complete settings guide for X-Plane 12. In this video, I will take through each graphic settings, and how it affects visual quality and performance. Also, I will provide you with recommended X-Plane 12 graphic settings for high, medium and low end machines based on hours testing the sim with difference settings. Please do note that X-Plane 12 in "Early Access" and things are subject to change. I will make updates to this settings video as and when necessary based on the evolution of the sim over time.
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Video Timeline:
0:00 - Intro
0:16 - X-Plane 12 Early Access Note
1:32 - Texture Quality Settings
2:05 - Ambient occlusion (SSAO)
3:56 - Rendering Resolution FSR (Supersampling)
4:24 - Antialiasing
5:14 - Anisotropic filtering
5:35 - Cloud Quality
6:43 - Shadow Quality
9:39 - Rendering Distance
12:40 - World Object Density
14:22 - Vegitation Density
15:55 - High End PC Recommended Settings
16:52 - Medium End PC Recommended Settings
17:40 - Low End PC Recommended Settings
18:43 - Final Remarks
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Excellent explanation of all the settings and great video Q8. Thank you.
Hey there XP72 how are you doing my friend. Thanks for stopping by, glad you liked the video. Stay safe my friend!
Fully agree! Thank you as always!
Yeah
I was positively surprised by my M1 performance
Really, really, really appreciate you taking the time to put this together. It's been a huge help tuning X-Plane 12 on my machine. Thank you!
Glad it helped. Happy flying and thanks for watching!
An excellent explanation of those settings that are not always intuitive, you make it crystal clear and the high/medium/low end machine recommendations will certainly be very much appreciated. I will certainly refer to this video when I move from XP11 to XP12. Many thanks for your great contribution to our community.
Thank you for your kind words!
A really excellent and comprehensive guide. I'll share this with my Discord members cheers!
Thank you for your kind words and for sharing the video. Appreciate it!
You always do a wonderful job on these Sam. This guide and your guide for MSFS are masterpieces for how to to get the most out of your setup
Glad it was useful for you. Thanks for watching!
Super my friend !! As always well prepared, explained in a nice and educational manner, leaving no important factors behind. Of outmost value for us, facilitating the introduction in a new complex environment. A million Thanks, you are the best !!
Thank you for your words and motivation. Truly appreciate it my friend.
Q8pilot - what a great explanation of the numerous settings available in XP 12. This would have taken a significant amount of time to research...really appreciate the time and effort you have put into figuring all of this out, so we don't have to 😁
This was what I was waiting for, thank you very much!
Thank you for watching, I hope it helps.
Excellent and informative. You Sir are to be commended for taking time to do this. Invaluable information!!!
Thank you for your kind words and for watching the video Jack!
Just what I was looking for! thank you very much for putting this together!
Glad this was helpful. Thanks for watching!
Thank you, great job I have been fiddling around trying to get it right. So glad you did for us all.
Glad this was useful and thanks for watching!
Great video. So much time figuring my graphics and settings. Finally figured out my medium settings for my pc. Thanks bro more power to you
Thank you for the thorough explanation. As usual, you make it so much easier for the rest of us. Some of the settings (shimmering clouds), led to me uninstall the demo and stick with XP 11. But I'm definitely going to give it another go now. Cheers!
Glad this was useful for you James and thank you for your kind words.
Thank you for a straight forward explanation of settings.
This is the type of class content that made your channel big. Good stuff
Thank you for your kind words!
I'm so glad you have also interest on x-plane, because you explain it really well, and I'm one of your fans since last several years ago. Thanks so much for being on the web. 🥰👍✌
Thanks for watching and for your kind words and support!
Great piece of work and an excellent narrative! It all makes so much more sense. And, X-Plane 12 is much more enjoyable - thank you!!!
Thanks for watching!
Man, you make some sweet videos. You got a great voice, good music and great content well-presented.
Thank you for your kind words.
Thanks for your recommendations. Very helpful in my case.
Great video, really helped me set my machine to its optimal capabilties, can really enjoy xplane12 now
Thank you very much for this. X-Plane 12 us now a lot more usable for me.
Exactly what I was looking for. I love when that happens! 💙
Thanks for this video! I was persevering with 30fps with many settings on low (like clouds, veg etc). Frustrating as my machine is 1/2 decent. I changed to your medium recommendations and now getting 50-60fps plus a way better visual quality experience - you are a legend!
Glad this was helpful. Thanks for watching!
Perfect! Well worth the wait. Thank you, Q8.
Thanks for watching my friend!
Thank you so much for that great explanation. One more time an excellent video!
Thanks for watching David.
Another masterpiece to put in the library. Thanks.
Thank you sir!
Many thanks
Very helpful
I love your videos 😊😊
I wish u the best 👍👍
congrats on 100k!
Hi. Very informative video and I set up my X-plane 12 sim exactly according to it. I get about 35-38 fps at maximum settings. The video helped me a lot. Thank you very much and have a good flight
Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!
Hi Q8. Thanks for the instructional video. When it comes to teaching you are still the best. THANKS
Thank you for watching and for your kind words. Glad you found this helpful!
Very useful explanations, thanks a lot!
Thanks for watching Peter!
Extremely helpful. Thanks for posting!
Thanks for watching!
Stumbled across your very helpful video. * subscribed *
Welcome.to the channel my friend!
Perfect as always. Thank you Q8.
Thank you sir, appreciate it!
Excellent presentation! Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
This is the perfect explanation for setting up X-Plane graphics. Beautifully demonstrated with concise and easy to understand instruction. Thank you!
Thanks for watching and for your kind words!
Excellent explanation!
very intuitive and helpful, thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Great video! Thanks, Osama!
Q8Pilot always the best. I have screen captured and made notes to use once I get home from work. Thanks SO MUCH !!
Thank you for your kind words and for watching the video!
God BLESS you Sam, and thank you so much for this!! 🥺 Thank you for explaining what each setting means and what I can compromise on without it looking bad. It finally runs good without terrible frames. We really appreciate these videos! 🙏
Glad this has helped you. Happy flying my friend and thanks for watching!
Very nice, the sim will get better over the coming year.
Thanks Glenn, I am sure it will.
Great video... Keep up the good work thank you very much !
Thanks for watching!
As I'm now starting with XP12 I'm watching this now and it's so nicely put together! Did you do full sim restarts between changing settings? Or is this no longer required to get a good "clean" change as it was in XP11? Many thanks!
Thanky Osama. Great Video!!
I always love your video. Thanks a lot, for your effort and your help.
Thanks for watching my friend!
@@Q8Pilot How do you put the parking cone around the default cessna ?
Very very helpful!
This is a very useful video. Worthy of a like.
Thank you Jack! Appreciate it.
Very useful. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
great job! very useful😊😊
Glad it was helpful!
Another great video. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
very useful...thank you
Excellent! Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Your videos as always is a joy to watch. Just out of interest, I have upgraded my PC to an RTX 3070ti but still getting 30fps. Is this because of my i7-8700k processor?
Very useful ! thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Ótimo vídeo..me ajudou muito.
Thanks very much Sir!!!
Thanks for watching my friend!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thank you, Osama, - top stuff and appreciated as always! 😊
Thank you Patrick!
Great guide and explanation for graphics settings. The only thing that I find to be different for me is the use of VRAM for Texture Quality. I have a 3080 with 10GBs of VRAM and I don't get more than half of the VRAM usage when this slider is set to MAX. Even in dense city areas like London or New York, it doesn't go higher. Personally, I think there is no need to reduce this if you have 8GBs of VRAM or more.
I have the 3080 as well and an i7 processor, I just cannot for the life of me seem to get a decent balance of the settings. Would you mind advising what settings you have selected?
@@harry-tq6td I have Texture Quality - High, Antialising - 2x MSAA, Rendering Distance - High, World Objects Density - High. All the other sliders are set to max (right side). Mind that I'm not rendering 4k so the load is a bit less for my GPU. Despite my comment above, I kept the Texture Quality to high because Vulcan is decreasing the resolution of textures to avoid filling up the VRAM. I would say if you are GPU bottlenecked try to reduce Vegetation and Shadows a bit, if you are CPU bottlenecked the World Objects are the main factor in CPU load. And if you are in 4K try to play with the FSR Supersampling slider to cut down on the load of the GPU.
Thank you Sir.
Thank you sir for watching!
Hello Q8Pilot, thanks for the nice explanation like in all videos I saw in the last years. Question, It is possible create a video for nvidia-graphics settings in xplane12 some day, I guess it will help many simmers, including me 😀 By the way, your Intro of your videos is amazing (video&music)!!
I will make a video once the Sim reaches at least RC1.
Thank you, very much.
Thanks for watching!
very good video...thanks a lot
Thanks for watching, glad this was helpful.
I have a P6X58D Premium i7 930 plus MSI Geforce GTX 1050Ti & 24 GB Ram
which worked great for XP 11.I followed your settings here for XP12
@ "low".Seems not bad,not great but O.K.Having been a Private pilot in Canada
it still will work without spending a lot more for very little return on performance.
Getting close to 25 FPS in several areas.Advice welcome from everyone.Thanks.
Excellent.
would the 2020 m1 macbook air be considered low-end for Xplane - 12?
I was watching your videos (as I always do) and considering the changes to my X-plane 12 settings when it dawned on me --- "HEY, wait a minute. I just upgraded to an RTX 4090, 32G DDR5 RAM and a 19-12900K CPU on a 2K monitor. Why am I being namby-pamby about this as if I were still using my Commodore 64?" Well, I just pushed those settings to the wall, and I tell you, I don't recall X-Plane looking so beautiful and being so smooth - 80-110 FPS. I don't mean to brag, but for once I listened to my kids who said, "Dad, stop being so cheap." What fun!!!!
Have fun John and enjoy. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Excellent presentation! I have a question , do I have to delete my current Plane 11 from my computer in order to install X plane 12?
Thank you! No both XP11 and XP12 can co-exist.
Hello! Really helpful video 🎉
I was struggling to determine what would be best for my device, and this really helped!
I’ve came to the below decisions. I’m using a 24 inch iMac 🖥️ with M1 chip and 16GB ram. Also having a thrust master throttle quadrant and joystick plugged in. Can you please review them for me? Thanks!
texture quality: maximum
Ambient occulusion: ultra unless fps issues shows
Rendering resolution: Max sampling
Antialiasing: 2x or 4x
Anisotropic rendering: 16X
Cloud: maximum
Shadows: medium
Rendering distance: medium-high
World objects density: high-maximum
Vegetation density: high-maximum
Thanks
Thank you for this video. At the moment I'm flying in XP12 with a Mac Mini M2 and 24Mb RAM. My graphics settings are the default. Regularly, in mid-flight, my mouse becomes uncontrollable and therefore the plane too. If I open another program it also behaves strangely. The computer does not seem to heat up abnormally. I'm going to start lowering the default settings as you recommend and see what happens. Good day. Frank. PS I flew with the Mustang P51-D from Verona to Innsbruch via the Adige Valley and the Brenner Pass.
Thanks sharing capt. I have recently buy it and it really looks different in my system. I don't like it comparing xp11. It looks so dark. Additionally, I keep xp11 installed and I can't seperately adjust graphic settings for xp12 from Nvidia panel. Does anyone have idea about it? İs it normal? Should I remove xp11?
Thanks for the great video settings overview! There definitely seems to be something going on with M1 Macs and XP12. Even when I use your lowest settings with the XP12 Demo, I barely get 9 FPS.
Comparing this to my XP11 setup with Orbx ortho scenery, custom KPDX scenery and many other add-ons, I have the graphics settings cranked up higher and can easily pull 30 FPS.
Pretty disappointing how poorly this runs on Macs. Hopefully that will improve as we get closer to an official release of XP12.
Exactly!!!! XP 11 runs better and it runs on Rosetta Emulation, XP 12 is native and has worse performance, so disappointed
I’ve been very disappointed with stuttering on an M1 Ultra Studio as well. The machine should easily handle XP with most settings maxed or almost maxed - yet I get nasty stutters with all of the settings adjusted lower. XP11 doesn’t have the issue at all. Fingers crossed it will be resolved. Because Austin is a Mac guy, I’m sure they’ll work on the Mac-specific bugs soon.
I have a MacBook Air M1 and I'm using my keyboard as I've just started today, but I cannot find out how to steer with the keyboard, would you know which keys I use to steer with please
I am late but I wish there was a bit more context on what to consider a e.g. high-end PC. I am planning to get a new PC very soon, with an RX6600 (8GB VRAM) and 16GB of Ram. Would that be a mid machine? Other than that, a very helpful video, thanks ❤
I found that disabling the check "Enable 3D vegitation" actually improves the performance quite a bit without any visual impact.
Thank you for the work of explaining all the settings! What is disturbing for me is that your high end PC renders about 30 to 45fps and not more.
I remember in XPL11 with the default aircraft and high settings I had nearly double FPS and no stutters and now the performance has been cut in half basically.
This is normal in Early Access. I remember the same issue in XP11 Early Access and pretty much MSFS for a long time after release. Things will be ironed out with time.
This.
They are going to have to optimise XPL12 a LOT before I consider moving across. I don't mind the blurry / wip cloud tech or some of the visual issues but the sim has to perform flawlessly, especially when compared to the hardware requirement of all the other flight sims on the market (MSFS, DCS, etc.) which run much better than this.
Thank you!!!
Thank you for watching sir!
Excellent and informative. I'm able to get 30+ (which I'm happy with) with all settings to max BUT am seeing horrible aliasing, even with AA and AF maxed. Time to look at tweaking Nvidia control panel settings...any suggestions?
Make sure Texture Resolution is set to MAX. You can reduce AA to 4x.
Nice scenery , where is this place ?
Great help! How can you move the time? I still can't find those controls. Or you need some add-on for that? Thank you very much! :)
You can move the time by pressing "L" amd "K" use Shift + K and Shift + L to move the time quickly. Happy flying!
@@Q8Pilot Thank you very much, Captain! :) I'm gonna try. (Y)
I have 4k monitor , for FSR should i go with off or ultra ? its puzzling for me with what you have explained , Thanks
Ultra should give you thr best results and a good balance between visual quality and FPS.
I have Ryzen 9 3950X 32gb ram and a 1080ti, In the same scenario as the video on everything low I get 40fps. Max I get 20 fps, but everything else I do it just stays around 30fps mark. I guess it needs more optimization as it seems most sliders don't really effect performance but they do the visuals.
What do you recommend for people using Nvidia DSR to upscale 1080p to 2k and 4k for the in game FSR setting?
I haven't explored this yet. I will test this out and provide my recommendations in due course.
Thank you for the settings video. That really helped a lot. Cheers!
everything I see on this video is without any plugins/ addons ? is it just x12 out of the box? awesome video btw
Yes thats plain vanilla X-Plane 12 no addons.
THIS GAVE YOU AN IDEA ABOUT HOW CRUDE STILL THIS LAUNCH IS
Thanks. Try this setting with Zibo or FFA320 at default EGLL with VR. 😁
Question, for an ASUS F15 with 8GB or VRAM. What texture quality is suggested?
Meduim
I have a 2022 MacBook Air M2.Which texture etc should I sue? There is no VRAM concept on those Macs
HI again my friend, a question to the master himself. When flying x-plane 12, regardless of settings, I find the clouds way too bright. The cockpit balance is perfect but outside it is more or less a white wall. Do you have any idea if that is a Beta-bug or something that is possible to adjust? Many Thanks Q8 !!
Hey there Leif, this could be a beta bug. The clouds need a lot of work and the overall sim colors seem under saturated. What is your current draw distance settings?
@@Q8Pilot Many thanks for your rapid answer !! Maximum. I have all settings on max and no problems with FPS. I have also tried lower settings but no change. I agree with your comments in the video. Some sliders does not really change a lot.
Are those for 4k? I am looking for how much vram to use for 1080p, please tell me
Great video! I'm thinking of the medium settings for me. I have a Intel I5 CPU boosted to 4.5, a EVGA 1070 GPU, 2 TB M.2 hard drive and 32 GB of 3000 RAM and a 2K 34" wide screen monitor. Do you have any thoughts for my setup? Many thanks for your great videos.
Hey Lewis, thanks for watching. The Med settings may work very well for your setup. Of course, this will not be exact, so you may have to tweak things around a bit to hit the sweet spot. But this should be a good guide to get you started.
hey I have almost similar specs except 1070ti and frames drops below 20 when the weather is a bit naughty
@@Q8Pilot Thanks! Lewis
@@Q8Pilot Thank you Q8! I really enjoy your videos.
Hello Q8, I’m having really jaggy textures on X12, I’ve applied the TAA tweak but doesn’t seem to work , any suggestions?
This is an issue with Laminar's rendering. I have the same issue.
As usual a great video. I fell I have a medium to high end PC and can run at ultra but with 18fps to 22fps. After your video and medium PC settings I am now at 30 to 32 fps. Much better. Thank you. again for your instuction.
(AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor
ATI AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (MSI)Graphics Card
4-Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory)
Glad this has helped. Thanks for watching!
Hi
I download xplane12 on my iMac Monterey..and I MA have some issues with graphics sitting some times its slow some times its lagging not responding pebbles...I don't know what to do and it's my first time to download flight simulator on my iMac...so this anyway you can hple me how to do the sitting...thanks
Regards
Salim
Would like to see this redone using a city that is a challenge. Like Las Angeles or Manhattan Island
Thanks for the video. I currently have Nvidia 2080 Super, was going upgrade to AMD 6800 XT but probably will wait til AMD release new 7000 gpu series later this year.
Hey, i really need your help, my X-Plane 12 texture is very blurry, I already adjust the setting and it still doesn’t fix.
Great video! I just wish LR to improve the mesh, landscape as soon as possible. We don't need the level of detail of MFS but just improve for something more real...
Xp12 is insanely amazing and i am fully invested in it but yes the mesh for sure, its coming so im not worried about anything. Best sim out there!!!!