The game gets stuck indefinitely on a Loading screen...
To run the game, you need to pass "--disable_networking" to the executable (which apparently disables anything network-related, possibly even features like fetching real-time weather data from the Internet).

This makes no sense at all and clearly shows that they didn’t even implement a timeout for whatever the game is trying to connect to.

Maybe they even shut down a server that version 11 relied on and now only support it for version 12?

The game also always crashes when closing. Who knows what’s going on...

And the worst part, which led me to request a refund: back in 2012, in an earlier version of X-Plane, I had already contacted the developers to point out that they were using the wrong terrain/texture class to represent urban areas in Brazil. Where there should be a patch of city, there’s just a patch of grass or forest... This completely ruins the immersion in the game.

Twelve years later, they clearly don’t care about this issue (and, by the looks of it, they never will).

I won’t give my money to people who don’t care about fixing such problems.

Just bought this game at the end of 2024 and the sim still holds up great ! The only thing that im annoyed is the sound quality of aircraft but its still good considering the price is just 10$.
On this game's review i see a lot of people complaining about the optimisation but theres the option of vsync in the game setting , you have to disable to to get full fps. I also had issue of fps but when i turned off this setting it gave me stable 60fps even on my decade old rig (gtx 970 , i5 6500. Definitely worth the price even in 2024/2025.

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