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Supported Flight Simulator Platforms

swift supports the following simulators:

  • Laminar Research X-Plane 11 (Vulkan/Metal/OpenGL)
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator (FS2020)
  • Lockheed Martin Prepar3D versions 1 thru 5
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator X with Acceleration or Service Pack 2 and Steam Edition
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 / FS9 (experimental)
  • FlightGear

Operating System Requirements

Our swift applications have been designed to work on all relevant operating systems. Find below the specific requirements for each platform.

Windows

  • Microsoft Windows 10 or Microsoft Windows 11
  • 200 MB free disk space

MacOS

  • MacOS 10.12 or higher
  • 64 bit only
  • 200 MB free disk space

Linux

  • 64 bit only
  • 200 MB free disk space
  • swift is built on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Therefore it should run on any modern Linux distributions that have the following minimum package versions installed:
    • glibc 2.31 or higher
    • glibcxx 3.4.28 or higher
    • OpenSSL 1.1 (OpenSSL 3 is not yet supported for official swift versions because Qt on Ubuntu 20.04 is built with OpenSSL 1.1. Not installing OpenSSL 1.1 leads to warning messages like QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function ...)
    • libxcb-cursor0
    • libspeexdsp
    • libopus

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