X-Plane 12 System Requirements

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. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 23 GB of free disk space available. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an AMD. The minimum memory requirement for X-Plane 12 is 8 GB of RAM installed in your computer. If possible, make sure your have 16 GB of RAM in order to run X-Plane 12 to its full potential.

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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