How to play X-Plane 11: Aerosoft - Airport Rio de Janeiro: Santos Dumont on Mac
Game summary
Santos Dumont Airport (SBRJ) is a central airport located close to the financial center of Rio de Janeiro operating domestic flights. Built in the 30s on top of an embankment at Guanabara Bay, Santos Dumont airport was the first civil airport opened in Brazil. Today it’s the second busiest airport in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Play X-Plane 11: Aerosoft - Airport Rio de Janeiro: Santos Dumont on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play X-Plane 11: Aerosoft - Airport Rio de Janeiro: Santos Dumont 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).
X-Plane 11: Aerosoft - Airport Rio de Janeiro: Santos Dumont 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 X-Plane 11: Aerosoft - Airport Rio de Janeiro: Santos Dumont like you would on any PC.
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