

Low visibility daytime conditions in X-Plane 12 are naturally darker than sunny days, but also still lighter than night time flying. The new lighting engine also requires us to take a new approach to low visibility flying conditions. The intensities of these lights are calibrated using spec sheets from the FAA. approach lights, runway edge lights, PAPIs, etc.). We are finishing up a very careful pass over a wide variety of light sources – urban lights, street lights, and most importantly light sources that affect pilots (e.g. This includes updates to how we do night lighting and artificial light sources.

X-Plane 12’s lighting engine is completely photometric and runs in true HDR at all times. Here are some details on our recent development work.

Once we make this transition, anyone who wishes to participate in Early Access will be able to purchase a license of X-Plane 12 and use the new sim right away. Once we complete all of the open development tasks, there are still plenty of bugs to fix.Īt some point during this bug fixing process, we will transition from the closed private alpha to an open “Early Access” beta program. Lower the resolution further and you get a blistering 125 FPS at 1080p Ultra.There’s a lot more that is already completed, too – this is just a window into our current work. But perhaps you feel better served at 1440p, where you would get 95 frames per second on Ultra 1440p. In summary, Ultra graphics setting is highly achievable with this GeForce RTX 3080 card, but what monitor resolution are you looking to play X-Plane 11 at, because you can get 57 FPS at Ultra 4K. If you are interested, this is a cost of $12.26 per FPS, assuming we take it based on the GPU’s launch price.Ī GPU like the GeForce RTX 3080, in a PC with 16GB system memory would be well set to get strong FPS at 1440p even on Ultra graphics settings.]: So we expect you are likely to consider running the game in 4K or 1440p. Which is at High settings on 1080p performance.īut then the GeForce RTX 3080 will get a solid big screen performance at 4K, with 57 frames per second. We can see that when playing X-Plane 11 with a GeForce RTX 3080 will get a very strong 175 FPS. Low Vs Ultra GeForce RTX 3080 Performance Review
