X-Plane 10

While not my cup-o-tea X-Plane 10 the realistic flight sim has been release for Linux, Mac and Windows.

It sure does look pretty, I mean seriously pretty but to me there is never a point to these types of games apart from well....flying around?


They have a nice wiki here to explain what is new about this version:
http://wiki.x-plane.com/What's_New_in_X-Plane_10
The jist of it:

QuoteWondering what's changed from Version 9 to Version 10? The biggest new features are:

a brand new system for auto-generating plausible scenery for the entire world,
a new, highly-detailed cloud and weather rendering system,
a flight model with improved accuracy and even greater power,
a completely redone ATC and AI Aircraft system, and
the ability to more fully utilize multi-core CPUs for enhanced realism.

It is also available at quite steep a price (compared to any other game I know of under Linux) at $79.99 shipping on December 7th.

Has anyone tested it, is it worth the money?

Linux Demo: http://dev.x-plane.com/update/installers10/X-Plane10DemoInstallerLinux.zip

System Requirements:

QuoteX-Plane 10 requires, at the minimum,

a 2 GHz, single-core CPU,
2 GB of RAM, and
a DirectX 9-capable video card with 128 MB of on-board, dedicated video RAM (VRAM).

However, for the best experience, we recommend the following:

a 3 GHz, multi-core CPU (or, even better, multiple processors),
4 GB of RAM, and
a DirectX 10-capable (DX11 preferred) video card with 1 GB of on-board, dedicated VRAM.

X-Plane will take advantage of as many cores or distinct processors as you can afford. Having 16 cores split among 4 CPUs is not required by any means, but Version 10 would be able to use every one. No more than 4 GB of RAM is necessary, but the more VRAM you have, the better–X-Plane 10 can easily use 1.5 GB of VRAM at the maximum settings.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.