The Complete Settings Guide for X-Plane 12

Here is the complete settings guide for X-Plane 12. This video covers all my PC Settings, Nvidia Control Panel Settings, as well as in game settings. I have also included the list of all the plugins I use for X-Plane 12 as an added bonus.
✈ Video Timline:
0:00 - Introduction
1:06 - PC Settings
3:50 - XP12 nvidia control panel
5:27 - XP12 Shader Cache
6:06 - Q8Pilot Plugins
6:50 - XP12 in game settings
✈ List of Q8Pilot X-Plane 12 Plugins:
X-ATC Chatter: stickandrudderstudios.com/x-a...
X-Camera: stickandrudderstudios.com/x-c...
XPRealistic: www.rkapps.shop/products/xpre...
AviTab: forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...
Traffic Global: www.justflight.com/product/tr...
FlywithLua: forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...
SAM: stairportscenerieshelp.freshd...
Terrain Radar: forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...
Better PushBack: forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...
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✈ ADDONS & REFERENCED LINKS
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[@user-qm1ox3ko7z]

Q8, Your PASSION and DEVOTION to flight simming never stops to amaze me. The time you spend researching to help improve the overall experience of many flight simmers is PRICELESS. We need more people with such great and passionate heart to make this a better world. Eternally grateful.

[@Q8Pilot]

Thank you for your kindness sir. Truly appreciate it.

[@SWAFanPilot]

I have a 4090 and R9 7950X3D. I used to get 35fps and now I get 65. Absolute lifesaver. Thank you!

[@Q8Pilot]

I am very glad this has helped you. Happy flying!

[@SWAFanPilot]

@@Q8Pilot Thank you!

[@leiflavebrink9639]

Dear Friend, What can I say more than Thank you for your tireless efforts being so extremely productive with informative, useful, professional, friendly and honest material. It is a privilege for us to have you as such a generous source of information. Your contribution to the community cannot be appreciated enough!!

[@Q8Pilot]

Thank you my dear friend Leif for eveyrhing, you are a gem of a person. Thank you!

[@ooDemiurgus]

​ @Q8Pilot I second this! You are a go-to source for many many enthusiasts! Your knowledge of all the different aircraft and add-ons is remarkable. You obviously are very passionate about our hobby, and we all sincerely appreciate YOU. Blessings to you and your loved ones! ♥I'd love to buy you an ice cream sometime. Perhaps we'll bump into each other at the next expo if you're going to be there this year.

[@gfar4964]

Thanks, I always look forward to you settings guide in both sims.

[@Q8Pilot]

Thank you for your support always and for watching.

[@gaffeltruck839]

Thank you so much for this video, I have quite bad performance in X-Plane 12 and this is going to help a lot!

[@Q8Pilot]

Do let me know if it does help. Thanks for watching!

[@gaffeltruck839]

@@Q8Pilot You saved my life man. My ground textures have never been this crisp. Love your videos.

[@edesmier02]

Thank you very much Q8 for this video. Best regards from France😉

[@Q8Pilot]

Thank you for watching my friend!

[@jeddis92]

Great video, as usual. Very informative. A couple things to consider..."Power Management Mode" should be set to "Normal." Setting it to "Prefer Maximum Performance" is essentially telling your graphics card to remain at max power no matter what, instead of letting it decide when to ramp up or take a break, at least, that's how it was explained to me. While you're in X-Plane's settings text file adjusting the shadow numbers, just below those are the presets for anti-ailiasing. By editing one digit there, you can stack FXAA on top of MSAA, there's a forum thread on the Org about it. However, I did just read that this will be an option when 12.1.0 comes out. Also, with the "Shadow hack" you can lower the shadow setting a notch or two without losing much visual fidelity. Lastly, Q8 has a video on how to enable Image Sharpening in the Nvidia driver, which I would recomend doing. You'll have to do this each time Nvidia updates their drivers, but you can make a registry file that you double click to enable it instead of digging through registry. Google is a good place to learn how to do that.

[@Q8Pilot]

Perfer Max Performance is the way to go in XP12 and MSFS. For other games, you might be right. On the last paragraph. I am Q8 =) I am glad you have found my video useful!

[@jeddis92]

@t Yeah, I knew that, was just mentioning it in case someone new to your channel came along. I prefer to err on the side of caution when it comes to my video card, no need to have it going full bore at 35,000 feet. It's also the reason I have X-Plane limited to 40 fps.

[@natek2287]

Big bump in frame rate, thank you sir!

[@Q8Pilot]

Glad this helped! Enjoy!

[@alejandromg3705]

Thanks very very much, for your time and dedication Captain!!

[@Q8Pilot]

Thank you for your support.

[@user-jh7nc3pv8h]

Thank you Q8Pilot!

[@Q8Pilot]

Most welcome, thanks for watching!

[@ArtFlyer01]

Many thanks, very helpful once again.

[@Q8Pilot]

Glad this has helped, happy flying my friend!

[@captainslow2883]

Wow, with a 4070 TI I was able to go from 20 to 50 FPS at a really detailed airport

[@martinlost1164]

Grate video ,Tkanks from Uruguay😊

[@Q8Pilot]

Glad it helped, thanks for watching!

[@jamespimenta4257]

Thanks Q8 - Very Useful

[@Q8Pilot]

Glad this was helpful for you and thank you for your support always!

[@IceCanAm]

I have the same motherboard, In bios i disabled from start both Bluetooth and Wifi. So i never installed those drivers :) Great work as always. Regards from Iceland.

[@Q8Pilot]

Smart =)

[@abk8152]

Thank you Q8 that was very helpful, I would advise anyone who purchased the Xplane 10 Boeing 777 to make sure they buy and install the Boeing 777 professional before the extension pack for XP11 and XP12.

[@Q8Pilot]

Thank you, glad this was helpful for you!

[@ponyxpress4267]

great video, thank you. I noticed that while running xplane, your system shows fps and other stuff, and it's a nice large display of those items. Mine only has fps and the font is super small and doesn't look like yours. How did you get yours to show all of that information?

[@flavioredini4813]

Great ! Thank you very much 👍

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching!

[@bernt123]

Thank you Q8! 😀

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching!

[@autopilot5810]

Do you not use Visualxp anymore? If not, what do you use? Thanks for your great content.

[@Q8Pilot]

No I don't, I am not using anything at all, just XP12 default.

[@Ozieneercs]

thanks for this video! ... this is all on default xplane12 scenery ? (no autoortho, no simhaven, no global forests etc)

[@Q8Pilot]

That's correct, all default. London Heathrow though is a payware airport.

[@valet2972]

Can you do a tutorial for X camera ? I bought it but I cant figure out how to setup a drone camera for the exterior like msfs and wing views as well

[@Q8Pilot]

Yes, this might be helpful kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWnKeaSNnbqkoJI

[@drohanp]

How do you learn this stuff! You and your channel rock! Thank you!

[@77flyer]

Thanks again q8, u mentioned about the nvidia drivers issue and im having that but at the same time msfs2020 works fine, any alternative to solve the xp12 stuttering issue?

[@Q8Pilot]

Unfortunately, either nvidia has to fix it or LM. My hunch niether will do anything. Our best bet is that we get lucky with future drivers.

[@77flyer]

@@Q8Pilot i understand thanks

[@Jens-ChristianBrandt-yf6yk]

Hi, I´m a little late to the party but I am getting back into flight sims again after having paused for several years.. I have watched all your videos and been trying to tune the sim to it´s best performance my Rtx 3080 Ti can handle. , you have so many good tips on that, but I must ask if you also tuned in max performance with the Overclock settings as well? You probably don´t need too but just curious if you have adjusted that also? Great content as always, keep up the good show!! Brgrds // Jens

[@tomrach8092]

Hi. Could you make a video with these settings for MSFS?

[@flo4401]

I just bought xplane 12! I have been simming for about 10 years and I can say that the feel of the airplane in xplane is really a unique experience. The only problem I have at the moment with xplane 12 is even with max settings I get blurry textures I don't understand why. I also don't like how I can't change mouse bindings because every time I miss a scroll spot my camera zooms in.. I would love to click and scroll to zoom instead of just scrolling.

[@user-yh9qj2go5y]

Q8, Love the stats display at 10:13. How do you get that to display? Is it a plugin? Thanks

[@Q8Pilot]

MSI Afterburner with Riva Server

[@alphahrd19]

Greetings Q8....now that 12.1.0 is out will you be studying the changelog and making any adjustments to the NVDIA control "Threaded Optimization" recommendation? In this vid you recommend to " Turn Off" , with the new update will this change? Thank you .

[@cwood7240]

I will look at this in time. I just got a Airfoils Lab Cessna 172 Analog. My Logitec Pro Yoke will not allow me to steer the plane on the tarmac. Looking at the tail there is no action. But ailerons work. I do not have toe pedals. Can't figure it out. The rest my planes, no problem

[@FlyTechInsights]

Hey thanks for your tutorial!, i was wondering if you have any mods for making xp12 look better visualy. Thanks again for your tutorial!!

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching! No I don't use any enhancements.

[@FlyTechInsights]

@@Q8Pilot hey so nothing to make game look better and perhaps do You use simheaven or orbx and i love your game!

[@Q8Pilot]

@FlyTechInsights I haven't use simheaven in ages. I do use orbx where available.

[@FlyTechInsights]

@@Q8Pilot thanks have A great day!

[@franta1001]

Please, what causes the XP12 to make the Cessna /not only it/ turn left on take off? You can't keep it straight and therefore not even fly. I have the VelocityOne Flightstick joystick calibrated, but I have no idea what to set in XP12. Thank you for the advice.

[@SaturnV62653]

On all single engine prop aircraft, the prop wash causes the plane to go to the left. To fix it just make sure to have one of your axis set to "Yaw" and give it some right force

[@bantustv1178]

Hey Qpilot I've Razer Blade 18 32GR Rtx 4090 but i can't find g sync option on Nvidia control panel do you know why?

[@Q8Pilot]

Your monitor does not support G-Sync.

[@S1baar]

what tool do you use to showcase performance overlay?

[@aerohubentertainment9552]

ohhh thats the livery i made for you in the thumbnai!!!!!!!!! cant w8 to fly with it!!!!!!

[@Q8Pilot]

Yes, and I absolutely love it! Thank you for making it for me.

[@juanwhick1691]

I swear the last couple weeks I was at 1080p on nvidia CP and windows settings (I’m native 4k on a 55” tv) I finally had it looking pretty good almost native at 1080p and today it looked like I had my native set to 4k or 1440 and it looked like it was downscaling or something as it’s not clear anymore. Kinda annoying. Think I might just grab the 4070 ti super with my 5800x3d and just bump up some resolution unfortunately

[@oliverek7]

I’m getting great fps, above 30fps all the time pretty much. But for some reason I get a few spikes where my cpu usage jumps all the way to 100% for about 10-15 seconds and my fps drops to around 17-20. I have an i9-10900k but I’m using x-Europe. Is it all the autogen causing that?

[@77flyer]

Are u still using that driver? Im having bottleneck issues but I also use msfs2020 and I dont have any performance issues on that one? No idea what to do, in xp my fps will drop to 10-12 fps then back up to 50 like every minute or two

[@guifarias31]

Please make a video like this for MSFS!

[@joeybrownmedia]

I followed these settings steps on my M3 Macbook and I'm at 40FPS. Insane.

[@Jojo44138]

i have a a computer the graphic is 3070 similar to yours (yours is the 4070) 16 GB ram CPU 3.43 gighurtz while I was on the sim my flight log says sim rate 1.0 but when i saw the rate it was 50-60 i did some research and they said if it goes under 20 fpm it will activate sim rate x1. I need to get rid of this. please help so that I may enjoy the sim a lot more. Thanks

[@mrflugenheim1507]

Can I do the same things for X-Plane 11 aswell?

[@Q8Pilot]

Yes for sure!

[@Navig8tor_242]

My Xplane 12 has micro stutters when it comes to the scenery rendering. Is that a Laminar issue?

[@Q8Pilot]

No you should not have it. Is it constant, or just as the scene loads?

[@Navig8tor_242]

@@Q8Pilot It happens consistently. During the stuttering, the scenery blurs and comes back to normal, then the stuttering stops. Seems like a rendering issue.

[@caribbaviator7058]

@@Navig8tor_242 Seems like a VRAM issue.

[@911Polini]

Hello, what resolution u use 3500x2600? in XP12..

[@Military-Plane-Spotting]

I cant use out view of the plans i dont know how

[@markjones7395]

Just FYI. Yep for some sreason after making all the changes, my sim kept crashing everytime. I went through any of the changes I made and the culprit for me was disabling the high precistion event timer. I reenabled and all is fine again. I run a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Graphics Card, so i skipped the last portion of the video.

[@Spek1212]

If you’re still having stutters after all of these changes, I recommend disabling the Xbox Game Bar from the windows settings

[@RedBeardedOne]

Are you still using this nvidia driver? Do the new ones still have issues?

[@Q8Pilot]

No the latest driver is working without issues.

[@RedBeardedOne]

@@Q8Pilot thank you very much for the response.

[@CTde110]

What is the software that shows frames

[@Q8Pilot]

MSI Afterburnner with Riva Statistics Server.

[@user-kh7hz9fw6d]

How to use avitab in A330 cockpit ?

[@Q8Pilot]

You can map a keyboard shortcut to launch Avitab.

[@200minimums]

Antialiasing is a real problem. 4x looks jagged, more than that feels unplayable quiet often due to low FPS.

[@Q8Pilot]

X-Plane 12.1.0 will address aliasing!

[@mxciek_hf8]

Q8 If you turn on anti aliasing off it will give a massive FPS boost.

[@davidmou7433]

still have the same problem that I had in 11 with Antialising, everything flashes and it doesn't matter if I set it to x4 or x8, it remains the same if they don't fix this it will be a disaster, my question is does this happen to you too?

[@Q8Pilot]

No not really. There aliasing but its not as bad as you describe.

[@davidmou7433]

@@Q8Pilot Well, tell me what I have to do because airports always flash at me, I would like to show you a video so you can see it, and I have an RTX4070, I5 14600KF, 64 RAM and I fly in 2560x1440p

[@Q8Pilot]

Please post in my discord server.@@davidmou7433

[@davidmou7433]

@@Q8Pilot ok thanks you!!!

[@davewills6121]

I getthe impression xplane is a dying sim, do you know, i have been trying to find reviews for XP12 fighter jets...current, yet all i find is silly indulgent flybys?

[@TriJetSimPilot]

This stuttering is really getting annoying, its not worth the effort if I can just play MSFS fine.....it wasnt like this to begin with so it's not my PC.