How to play Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - FTX Trees HD on Mac

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Game summary

FTX Trees HD is a complete overhaul of Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition's auto-generated tree textures, lending new immersion to your flight simulation experience! These tree textures are double the resolution of default trees, resulting in greater detail, and are derived from high-resolution photographs of real trees for maximum realism. They have been hand-edited and color-matched to give a top-quality flight sim experience. New, optimized tree models reduce the burden on your system when flying over most dense-tree areas, with a negligible change in VAS compared to the default.
First released: Dec 2015

Play Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - FTX Trees HD on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - FTX Trees HD on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - FTX Trees HD installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - FTX Trees HD like you would on any PC.
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