I meant to post this some time ago and forgot. Sim-Outhouse users of X-Plane will love it! Thank you...

Q8Pilot, congratulations on the video. Simply amazing. For some time I already wanted to buy the simulator and had already seen some videos on your channel. With the steam promotion I was able to buy, and this video simply helped me a lot. Congratulations, best graphics configuration video for Xplane 11 on YT.

Yes! Big thank you! I was flying around 30-35 fps on medium settings and did not really understand how the performance was so "bad" with my GTX980ti, now i'm flying around 35-40 fps with really good performance and hi-res graphics! Weei! :)

This video was helpful and informative thank you

Brilliant video, thank you for sharing your settings and knowledge with the community sir! Please keep the vids coming :)

Good info for those of us who are upgrading hardware. Thank you. One thing I am keen on is getting the right field of view. This should have nothing to do with preference, or the aircraft. Simply measure the horizontal angle subtended at the users eye, between the left side and right side of your screen, and this is the most accurate setting. You can increase by a degree or two, but the sensation of speed becomes unrealistic with any more. Imagine the screen is a window lookin into the VR sim world. It works just like a window.

Triple thumbs up. Thanks I needed that.

Thank you so much for this very appreciated video! Always a great help! Any idea how I can get rid of the trains in XP?

Very,very useful. Thanks !!!

the new updated beta raised my frames by 10, i can now almost max my sim completely out, its great.

Thank you Osamah, much appreciated, made a difference in my overall performance.

Great video once again. keep them coming!

Thanks for the view into your settings. Would've to know all the plugins and libraries you are using for X-Plane.

Excellent

SUBSCRIBED. By far the best guides on KZfaq for XP11

Excellent video, thanks!

Thanks for posting! This was very helpful.

Your specs are just too.good!! Can't wait for Laminar to optimize the sim more, you can run everything in 100% max with 60fps.

Osama: thanks for another fine video. I really appreciate your help as I have struggled with X-plane and without help from folks like you, I'd probably revert back to FSX.

Thanks for putting this together!

Thank you for this Fantastic video! U helped me a lot with this!! Tytytyty

I watched this the day it came out & went back to my settings to try some things you suggested & have come to the conclusion that its time to move to a GTX1070 or 1080TI to get enuf fps to fly comfortably ie with Payware. Thanks for patiently taking us thru your settings because for me you are the Gold Standard for me now Take care my friend

still very useful ! Many thanks !

Thanks for this video, I didn't realize in order to get decent reflections at night from the water that you had to bump up the reflection settings that high. :(

Awesome as always..I greatly appreciate ur work bro!!!!!

Brilliant once again, thank you very much.

Can you make a video in which you explain the XP-11 Rendering add-on in detail ? Most say that it helps with the performance quite a lot with the correct tweaks.

Wow 40 FPS this is awesome speed, I love flying between John Wayne and LAX since these are my local airports where I live, thanks very much for this awesome video, I'm getting with my system just half of this speed without running any additional software , it looks it's the time for me to update my system :) Thanks very much for your time and sharing, this video helps all to get the speed to our x-plane 11. Thanks again best Regards .

Very nice video. My rig is very similar to yours, and you've helped me eek out a little more performance. Thank you.

Awesome. Thank you.

An excellent in-depth video. Invaluable to those newcomers to X-Plane, and I'm sure, to those already familiar with the platform, Many thanks Osamah!

thank u so much buddy

Thanks for this video, Osamah. I'm flying with similar hardware (i7700k/GTX1080/32GB Ram on Hackintosh) and a 4k monitor. Your suggestion to turn down antialiasing saves me 10-15 fps. Thanks for all your videos and great advice. Cheers!

General comment on World Objects... I fly with orthophotos nearly exclusively and I prefer WO set to medium or low, and find it takes the number of houses down (a lot of which are located in what I know to be commercial areas) and allows the photo scenery show better.

Very Good vidéo ! Good Job ;-)

Very detailed settings video. Awesome video :) Thanks again.

Tried the same settings on my system and enabling AA to 8 times really killed my FPS, lost 20 frames. Have to stick with 4 times and put up with a little bit of the shimmering, got a OC 1070 obviously not powerful enough to go to 8 times. Great vids as always, look forward to your tutorials.

Great vid and info, captain.

Very informative! Thanks!!

Thanks again. Great Info.

Very good.

Sir I opens the system manager of nividia as well but there's no xplane in my 3d options I also got it on driver d like you have .... what could be wrong ...

Thanks for the video, helped me quite a bit. I have the same processor and GPU as you but I haven't overclocked.

thank you Osamah, as always awesome video.

Good video.

@Q8Pilot, you have some video tutorial for beginners in Xplane, use of some basic features, operations functions and etc. If you have please I recommend, your channel is fantastic.

Great video!

Cool guide, but pls drop the reverb effect on the voiceover.

Absolutely the best tutorial on rendering options. I have in my system built by Michael Brown of X-Force PC two years ago. Processor Intel i5-7600k at 4.6 GH and a as far as GPU a Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB dual fan , RAM is is 16GB......... I plan on getting the RTX- 2060 super with 8GB. And upping my RAM to 32GB. I do not have a private pilots licence. I probably dont plan on it. At a $8500 to $10,000 price, at my age it not worth it. I have the money. And at fixed income with investments, I'd much rather learn my flying experience on the best flight sim there is. X-Pane. Thank you for your knowledge, videos and tutorials. I never miss your videos. I watch every single one.

Love your vids Q8, since this video is over a year old now I'm curious what may have changed in past XP11 updates etc. I understand the left sliders in the graphics settings are GPU intensive & the right sliders are CPU intensive. Having said that one would think the reflections slider wouldn't necessarily affect the fps of the sim but the power that is being requested by the CPU in order to show more/better reflections. I'm going to do some tests of my own soon to see how much the reflections slider will increase the load on my CPU in the sim.

Excellent video! What monitor do you use?

Thanks!!! great video

FXAA is a really old AA tecnique it smoothes out texture detail a lot I use SMAA injector instead its a lot more prestine qualitywise

Thanks Osamah, very helpful.

Very good video...what shurtcut do you use to go day to night to day quicly?

How do you double thumbs up? :)

Great vid. Thanks a lot.

Awesome video, tell a lot of detail.

Very nice video and thanks for sharing. I am learning from zero

great vid q8! thx

I’m keen to know if u can use like a cessna throttle and yoke on like the 737 and other planes

Great job with this video!! Regards from Uruguay!! :)

Osamah, I am so excited I just had a computer built and will be a flight sim pilot again in X Plane11! thank goodness!

Do you know how I can completely turn off shadows? Please help me, I've looked everywhere and can't find the solution anywhere.

Great Guide, thank you very much :)

Congratulations for your video. may I ask the better CPU , Graphic card and memorys to give good fly and not to expensive $ . Thanks. LGAFilho

First off, thank you very much Q8Pilot for posting this. I have not had a chance to watch your video to the end... but it looks super informative so far and I can't wait to watch it in its entirety! My comment is specifically in relation to the threading & hyper-threading settings. As I understand it, the problem is neither those settings, nor your CPU. The problem - at least until now - has been the API (Application Programming Interface) that is used for X-Plane & yes this includes X-Plane 11. Until now, Laminar Research a.k.a. X-Plane, has used OpenGL as their API and OpenGL is, at the risk of putting too fine a point on it, terrible at spreading the workload out among the various cores of the CPU. You could have 30 cores, yet because X-Plane uses OpenGL, it will still result in X-Plane putting 90% of the workload on just one of the CPU's cores. This problem is further exacerbated if you use multiple monitors. Reportedly, X-Plane is working on implementing an API which is supposed to be very good at spreading the workload out over several cores of the CPU, an API called Vulkan. I've read that within the next 8 to 12 months, an update for X-Plane 11 will be released, which will then overnight use the Vulkan API instead of OpenGL and problems that have been persistent such as things like frame rate & stuttering in the image will supposedly be substantially improved. It's worth stating that I am no expert on this and I cannot from experience vouch for the accuracy of any of these claims. These are merely things I have read or seen in other KZfaq videos, which are reliable sources. In particular, I refer to videos I've seen posted by Michael Brown of X-Force PC. X-Force PC builds custom gaming and Flight Sim computers for sale. From X-Force PC's website: "X-Force is the logistics partner for Laminar Research (X-Plane)." That's as much as I have to contribute, but I would LOVE to see some replies from anyone who is more versed than I am on API's, Vulkan, & specifically, how reliable the report is that X-Plane 11 will soon be implemented with the Vulkan API. I hope that's helpful and thanks in advance for any replies!

what a monstrous pc :D

i got gtx 780 as i understand is a very good card,,,to get 4k textures, do i need a ti card, and 4k monitor,,,i understand the radeon 480 is very good,, to get 4k textures what u suggest,,,i have i7 4770k ive never overclocked,,,,

Do you use the "Let the 3D application decide" or the "Use the advanced 3D image settings" mode in the NVDIA Control Panel?

Thank you amigo. you are the best.. I got better FPS now with this settings :)

Very nice and informative video

Mate you forgot a word in the title "Complete *GRAPHIC* settings guide.." but its a rlly good tutorial, if you could do one on controls it would help a lot of people too

Very informative video Osamah keep up the great work :)

techie had my pc yesterday and was using x-p with keyboard strokes. now my buttons and hat switch are not doing as they have been programmed. what to do? restored defaults re calibrated and re assigned buttons on yoke. no difference any suggestions? Thanks

How do you change from day time to night time like that?

Osamah, great video

nice and very informative video. Why do you need to turn FXAA is is on by XP apps, no ???

Great video Osamah. These are the most informative videos you make and are my favorite. I noticed that you have more settings in your Nvidia Control Panel. I wonder whether that is a problem with my installation? Perhaps it is because I don't have as good hardware as you.

Q8Pilot, according to the Laminar Research video about Configuring Rendering Options when you change the slider for any of the settings which are GPU related (Visual Effects, Texture Quality and AA) you need to restart Xplane for the changes to take effect. How were you able in this video to simply click the "Done" and see the changes immediately? Confused...

I know you use one monitor but do you have a video that uses three? I need to know how to do it and what to type in where. I contacted Xplane and they said read manual but I have no computer smarts so it’s like reading Spanish!!! Thanks

Excellent my performance was significantly improved. I have a GTX 960M 4GB Nvidia, 16GB ram, @2.60Ghz i7

Great video, I am definitely going to use this guide on my sim, thanks.

Do you use v-sync in nvidia control panel or in-game?

Hi Q8. I really enjoy your videos. Quick question: You switch between day and night at the press of a button (I hear) How do you do that?

I've got a Ryzen Threadripper 2920X and RTX 2080S, and on my system turning threading optimization on seems to boost framerate a little bit. Might be something to consider on AMD/Threadripper

How do you get rid of the propeller wash when flying. Your video at the end does not show up the propeller. At nighttime flying it distracting.

what command is it on a keyboard to get CPUs and FPs up while you play?

Good vid

What about the "flight models per frame" in General section?

Hello friends I am an infant in flight simulation ..I would like to buy a new system for x plane simulation. Can you suggest the required system configuration for obtaining Very good simulation result both visual and performance..

I have a gsync monitor and when I use it in game I get flickering. Do you have vsync on or off in Nvidia Control Panel?

Great vid Osamah! As usual. Thank you! Also, there's an addon on the org that'll give you fine grained control over the render options that you were talking about, cars vs. roads vs. autogen. Render options for XP11: forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/36925-rendering-options-for-xp11/ Thanks again!

Thanks a lot for sharing your specs and settings. Have you tested your performance with (U)HD meshes as well? It would be interesting, how much (U)HD meshes would affect CPU power of your 7700 according fps.

is there not an option in graphics tab in xp for windowed screen. i'm using two monitors; is that why i don't see windowed option?

Brilliant Video m8 very helpful btw where did you get you intro feom

Just got me a shiny new RTX 2070! Can't wait to test this out!

How do you instantly change the views in x plane (not the default views) to non default views

Great information once again Osamah supper PC setup you have

what settings do you have on the bottom of the Nvidia control panel ???