Laminar Research has released the Minimum and Recommended system requirements for X-plane 11.
Minimum
- Intel Core CPU, 2 or more cores, 3.0ghz or faster. Or an AMD Equivalent
- 8GB of RAM
- Nvidia Direct X 11 capable Video card. Or an AMD, or Intel with at least 512MB VRAM
Recommended
- Intel Core i5 6600k at 3.5ghz or better
- 16-24GB of RAM or more
- Nvidia Direct X 12 capable video card. Or AMD or Intel with at least 4GB of VRAM
- GeForce GTX 1070 or better, or Similar AMD card
Supported Video cards
- Nvidia GeForce 400 series or newer.
- 600 or newer recommended.
- AMD HD5000 or Newer.
- HD7000 with GCN Core or newer recommended.
- Intel HD2000 or newer.
- HD4000 or newer recommended.
Supported Operating System
- OSX 10 or Newer
- Windows 7, 8 ,or 10 at 64bit
- Linux: “While X-Plane 11 will run on Linux, we don’t provide support for specific distributions; if you want to run on Linux, you will need to try X-Plane on your distribution to see if it is compatible. With that in mind, we have developers using Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS successfully. For Linux, we require the proprietary driver from AMD or NVIDIA to run X-Plane. You may be able to get X-Plane to run on the Mesa/Gallium driver with an Intel GPU, but this is unsupported. We absolutely do not support the fully open source drivers for AMD and NVIDIA.”
Even the minimum requirements are quite steep; As to why this is so we do not know. X-Plane 11 is expected to be released later this month. And just as a reminder if you purchase X-plane 10 from their website you can get X-plane 11 for free.
