X-Plane 12 System Requirements

X-Plane 12 system requirements state that you will need at least 8 GB of RAM. If possible, make sure your have 16 GB of RAM in order to run X-Plane 12 to its full potential. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an AMD. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 23 GB of free disk space available. An Intel Core i5-12400T CPU is required at a minimum to run X-Plane 12. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core i5-8600K to play the game.

X-Plane 12 will run on PC system with Windows 10 or 11 and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions.

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