Hi Severin, I don't have any first hand advice, but performance would be drastically reduced if the specifications aren't met... It possibly would not even install, or if it did I think it would not work.
Even the 32-bit version of X-Plane uses around 3.5 GB Memory. "The memory limits on a 32-bit application actually limit the amount of virtual memory provided, and X-Plane sometimes uses more virtual memory than physical memory. So X-Plane may crash when it runs out of virtual memory, even if less than 3 GB of physical memory is being used." The 64-bit version uses 16GB memory and often much more. As you have not given the specifications of your grandson's Mac it is hard to really comment on performance. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 17 Nov 2013, at 11:05 am, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > I am looking at X-plane as a grandson Christmas gift and have looked at the > minimum system requirements, which will be achieved by very few recent > models. How much is performance degraded when these requirements are not > met? Current version is 10 and V9 is available for older machines. > Has anyone any first hand advice and comments please? > Severin Crisp > ____________________________________________________ > > Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia > ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au >
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