July 8, 20232 yr I got a 32 inch tv for 1080 sim by Vizio. Not a great tv but it improved some things right away, instrument panel and asphalt was clearer.... but there is some occasional blurring here and there in the distance....I am on an M1 Mac mini 16 gig ....if I put together a decent PC set up with say at least a 5th gen ram capability motherboard and compatible chip and maybe an AMD 6700 series or better GPU..do you think the Vizio will reflect the quality parts or is just a crappy tv...?Is the Mac known for GPU mediocrity..? I would be happy with a very clear and responsive 1080 experience, don't need 4K... Edited July 8, 20232 yr by 4df5
July 8, 20232 yr A friend recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro 16 M1, and runs XP12 at medium / high settings at a much higher resolution than my 1080 in a Ryzen 5600x + 3060 Ti... His only problem is that many addons aren't still M1 compatible ... Heck, with a single processor, which is highly efficient electricity consumption wise, he does what I do with two ( CPU + GPU )... If I were rich I would buy a Mac for sure and leave Windowze behind for sure... I would then be forced to play only XP, Aerofly or Flight Gear, or Aerowinx PSX, but.... well, XP12 would be good enough... 🙂 Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
July 8, 20232 yr I have briefly played with XP12 using my Macbook M2, but the performance was much, much worse than both of my rigs. X3D + a beefy GPU is imho the best combo for simming. PC1: AMD Ryzen 9800X3D | Zotac RTX 5090 SOLID | Asus TUF X670E-Plus | G.SKILL 64GB DDR5 PC 6000 CL30 | 4TB NVMe | Noctua NH-D15 | Asus TUF 1000W Gold | be quiet! Pure Base 500DX | Noctua NH-D15S | LG OLED CX 48" + 2x Acer Nitro XV240YP 24" + 2x 15.6" Touch-screen Panels PC2: AMD Ryzen 7500F | Asrock 7900 GRE Challenger OC | Gigabyte B650I AX | Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000 CL36 | 1TB NVMe | CM Hyper 212 | Corsair 750W Gold | Lian Li TU150 ITX | SAMSUNG Odyssey G9 49" Winctrl Ursa Minor Sidestick + Ursa Minor 32 Throttle & PAC - Thrustmaster Boeing TCA Yoke - Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog - Honeycomb Bravo Throttle - MFG Crosswind Rudder Pedals - TrackIR - Stream Deck XL + Stream Deck Plus - Winctrl MCDU + 2 MFD's - Meta Quest 3 (VR)
July 8, 20232 yr Moderator I'm on a Macbook M2 Max and for me the performance of X-Plane is fantastic, but this was the top-of-the-range device at the time (I think it still is). My only gripe is that I can't run much else, there isn't exactly a large library of compatible games and running Windows games is mostly impossible now (Can't use bootcamp due to the different CPU architecture)
July 8, 20232 yr 18 minutes ago, tonywob said: I'm on a Macbook M2 Max and for me the performance of X-Plane is fantastic, but this was the top-of-the-range device at the time (I think it still is). My only gripe is that I can't run much else, there isn't exactly a large library of compatible games and running Windows games is mostly impossible now (Can't use bootcamp due to the different CPU architecture) My M2 is a regular one and I was getting around 30-40 fps in medium settings using default scenery and aircraft. Have not even tried 4K with high-end aircraft, AI and ortho... PC1: AMD Ryzen 9800X3D | Zotac RTX 5090 SOLID | Asus TUF X670E-Plus | G.SKILL 64GB DDR5 PC 6000 CL30 | 4TB NVMe | Noctua NH-D15 | Asus TUF 1000W Gold | be quiet! Pure Base 500DX | Noctua NH-D15S | LG OLED CX 48" + 2x Acer Nitro XV240YP 24" + 2x 15.6" Touch-screen Panels PC2: AMD Ryzen 7500F | Asrock 7900 GRE Challenger OC | Gigabyte B650I AX | Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000 CL36 | 1TB NVMe | CM Hyper 212 | Corsair 750W Gold | Lian Li TU150 ITX | SAMSUNG Odyssey G9 49" Winctrl Ursa Minor Sidestick + Ursa Minor 32 Throttle & PAC - Thrustmaster Boeing TCA Yoke - Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog - Honeycomb Bravo Throttle - MFG Crosswind Rudder Pedals - TrackIR - Stream Deck XL + Stream Deck Plus - Winctrl MCDU + 2 MFD's - Meta Quest 3 (VR)
July 8, 20232 yr I tried gaming on a mac and went right back to windows where I did custom build. Flight Sim PC - OS: Windows 11 Pro. CPU: i9-13900K. RAM: 64GB. GPU: NVidia RTX 4090 OCFlight Sim Xbox - Seriex X, 3TB
July 9, 20232 yr Author prices for PC builds should plummet in 24-25'. maybe.....then it will be worth it to build a hi end PC and have both....
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