X-Plane has powerful display capabilities. If you are pursuing various spectacular scenery and beautiful skies, the hardware requirements are quite high; you definitely need to buy a high-end graphics card with a large amount of video memory. However, since I mainly pursue the realism of flight, I have turned off many settings. Below are my personal settings for your reference (click to enlarge).

You can see that basically none of the special effects settings are checked, and the number of objects on the ground is also set to very low. This is mainly to ensure smooth flight movements.

Additionally, my machine is a Mid 2011 27-inch iMac with an AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics card (512MB GDDR5 video memory). To be honest, the display configuration is really not high, but I haven’t felt too many problems for now. In 2D cockpit mode, the frame rate is 60 to 70, and in 3D cockpit mode, it is over 30.

The method to view the frame rate is as follows: open Data Input & Output in the Settings menu, check frame rate, and the relevant data will be displayed on the screen.

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