March 3, 20179 yr I am interested to learn if the Mac Pro is a reasonable option for running XP11 on the Mac platform. I understand that the FirePro graphics are not the greatest, but it seems that the multicore Xeon cpu may be a good fit for XP11. I know that the iMac is probably a better choice for this (and I know many will suggest a PC as being an even better choice) But I am interested to hear from somebody that actually runs XP11 on the 2013 nMP. Thanks
March 3, 20179 yr Moderator Well I have a 2015 Macbook Pro which is not quite the same machine of course and I can say that performance is just awful, which is one of the reasons I picked up a Windows machine with a 1070, which runs fantastic. I don't think it will run particularly well on this machine. It's a real pity Apple have decided shrinking their computers and working on iPhones are more important than upping the performance, because other than that, they are great computers.
March 3, 20179 yr I have a 3.5 Six-Core Pro with the D500. It's pretty dreadful. X-Plane now resides on my ugly, stupid, noisy, clunky monster Windows rig I built for simming. A shame.
March 3, 20179 yr Moderator It's interesting that the main developers of X-Plane use either Mac or Linux (The default scenery comes from the HD-Mesh Linux guru Andras Fabian). I've never found the performance of the sim good on these platforms, but in Windows 10 on a decent cheap in comparison machine it's incredible. I have recently enjoyed watching some popular YouTubers like Froogle try out X-Plane 11 and be in constant amazement on how good it looks
March 3, 20179 yr Author Thanks guys, Tony, I currently have a 2015 MBP 13" with the Iris 6100. Although this is not even close to being a reasonable GPU for gaming, I have been able to tweak out a usable config in XP11 that allows me to fly with an FPS of mid 20's to mid 30's. This performance is achievable without running HDR and on a clear day. I have begun creating Ortho4XP scenery 17 zoom and without any autogen I can get into the 40's. Do you have the AMD on your MBP or are you Iris 6100 or Iris Pro 5200?
March 3, 20179 yr Moderator I have a a dual GPU. NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB and Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB (Shared Memory). In XP10 I generally used HDR and had about 20fps. I have run XP10 on this machine for some time quite happily, but XP11 does not run well and has forced me to go back to Windows. With a GTX 1070, I get around 40-50fps in XP11.
March 3, 20179 yr Author Thanks Tony, good to know as I have considered getting this nVidia MBP before. Do you run XP11 in Bootcamp or OS X ?
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