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Jun 10, 2002
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Planet Earth
This sucks... the system requirements page on the X-Plane site says the following...

X-Plane 8.x is a 3-D accelerated program, which means that it needs a decent CPU and a 3-D accelerator card to run. 3-D accelerator cards are designed specifically to do high-speed graphics, so they work many times faster than your CPU ever could. The 2 languages of 3-D accelerator cards are OpenGL and Direct-3D.

All Laminar Research software uses OpenGL. You must therefore have a 3-D accelerator card that can run OpenGL to use our latest software.

:mad: :( :confused:
 
Ive done it - I picked up X-plane 8.40 the other day - when I picked up my (latest Macbook)

It works fine - except some slowdown in highdetail scenery areas (with buildings etc) - but its totally useable.

V7.0 scenery is even better.
 
cighh said:
Ive done it - I picked up X-plane 8.40 the other day - when I picked up my (latest Macbook)

It works fine - except some slowdown in highdetail scenery areas (with buildings etc) - but its totally useable.

V7.0 scenery is even better.

Doh, just ordered X-plane and a MacBook. Hope it works OK !, still I can aways play it on my AMD, or Linux box which have decent graphics cards :rolleyes:
 
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