X-Plane 12.3.0 &#8211; Beta 3 is now online

X-Plane 12.3.0 – Beta 3 is now online

This update improves WXR depictions, VFR maps improvements, and resolves an issue with black rendering artefacts.

Release Date: September 26, 2025

The X-Plane upgrade fails on macOS unless X-Plane.app is manually deleted first
The output of the Weather Radar might be incorrect for 3rd party aircraft

Improved TrackIR movement (XPD-17277)
Limit number of frames in flight to avoid stuttering with swapchain acquisition (XPD-17244)
Fixed display of truck count on Ground-Handling window when GPU is already connected (XPD-17274)
Implemented a new debug tool to capture frame graphics data (Developer → Capture Frame) when X-Plane is run with the command line option —gfx_frame_capture
Added a new option to disable safe mode in the pro settings
Added a new option to configure the exvis standby screen via the pro settings
Fixed an issue where the ZULU time was not set correctly
Improved colors of the VFR map and Synthetic Vision output (XPD-17336)
Improved the crash handling on Microsoft Windows
Fixed an issue where the Load Flight screen was showing a wrong directory for replays (XPD-16885)

Improved close-range weather radar detection by simulating realistic radar beam spread near the aircraft, preventing situations where clouds directly ahead could be missed due to the main beam being too narrow.
The weather radar texture will clear the pixel buffer before blending the new return. This is important for aircraft with ND backgrounds other than black.
The MFD of the X1000 will remain in the chosen track mode after returning to the main screen from some subscreens via a long press of the CLR button (XPD-17339)
Fixed an issue where the Synthetic Vision loader could run out of cores (XPD-17335)