1 minute ago, Ricardo41 said:

I'd like to see a side by side comparison of running the sim with 16 gig compared to 32 gig. Does performance significantly improve as you go from 16 to 32?

Not really, You might get away with less stutters when loading densely populated areas, but I'd give priority to a new GPU if you have less than a 1070

Just now, EmaRacing said:

Not really, You might get away with less stutters when loading densely populated areas, but I'd give priority to a new GPU if you have less than a 1070

For $58, it doesn't influence my GPU decision.

I'm still on a 970 and I'll be getting a 3080 next month when they come out regardless. That needed to happen not just for MSFS, but for a variety of games.

Just now, bonchie said:

For $58, it doesn't influence my GPU decision.

I'm still on a 970 and I'll be getting a 3080 next month when they come out regardless. That needed to happen not just for MSFS, but for a variety of games.

At 58$ it's a nobrainer

Mine would be around $110...was originally $150 back in Dec of 2018. Not so sure it's worth upgrading from 16 to 32 for just the sim...i really dont need it for anyting else and I think id get more out of a 2080 (currently have a 1080).

Just now, hangar said:

Mine would be around $110...was originally $150 back in Dec of 2018. Not so sure it's worth upgrading from 16 to 32 for just the sim...i really dont need it for anyting else and I think id get more out of a 2080 (currently have a 1080).

Wait for the 3080. Latest leaks say it beats a Titan by 21% and bests a 2080ti by 30%.

And its MSRP is gonna be the same as the 2080 Super or possibly lower if AMD forces their hand.

About $99 for the same on amazon.co.uk, a litle less compelling.

There are actually a few pretty good reasons to go to 32Gb of RAM even though MSFS will function on 16Gb. There's the fact that we are currently all using it stock, with no other things linking to it externally. How long does anyone think that will remain the case?

Then there's video. Anyone who has captured video for YT from the new sim would tell you that trying to do that when on the ragged edge with 16Gb of RAM would almost certainly end in tears.

 

1 minute ago, Chock said:

There are actually a few pretty good reasons to go to 32Gb of RAM even though MSFS will function on 16Gb. There's the fact that we are currently all using it stock, with no other things linking to it externally. How long does anyone think that will remain the case?

Then there's video. Anyone who has captured video for YT from the new sim would tell you that trying to do that when on the ragged edge with 16Gb of RAM would almost certainly end in tears.

Serious (off topic) question, what do you use to capture video? Are you using an external capture device, or what software have you found that does it best? I've used OBS, but my recordings end in tears even with 32GB of RAM. If you have posted this elsewhere or on your channel, feel free to just point me there...

1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

Do you have evidence that MSFS 2020 performs better with 32 gigs of ram compared to 16?

On ultra/4K it uses almost 20gb

Ive seen it use over 20gb a number of times.   Significant performance difference? No, But its being used, and ram is certainly faster than a cache to the SSD. Since its real cheap right now, it makes sense. All it takes is a factory fire at any one manufacturer and ram suddenly spikes. 

1 hour ago, cwburnett said:

Serious (off topic) question, what do you use to capture video? Are you using an external capture device, or what software have you found that does it best? I've used OBS, but my recordings end in tears even with 32GB of RAM. If you have posted this elsewhere or on your channel, feel free to just point me there...

I used to use FRAPs, but it doesn't work with the DX12 P3D V5, so I switched to using ATI's built-in Radeon capture, which seems to do a good job.

4 minutes ago, Chock said:

I used to use FRAPs, but it doesn't work with the DX12 P3D V5, so I switched to using ATI's built-in Radeon capture, which seems to do a good job.

Thanks, I swapped my Radeon 5700XT for a Nvidia due to P3Dv5, so I'll try the Nvidia built-in and see how that works, thanks!

33 minutes ago, cwburnett said:

I'll try the Nvidia built-in and see how that works, thanks!

Wow. Not out of the PC maintenance hanger and having palpitations since I cannot get started yet with MSFS.  Your comment caused me to seek out the nVidia built-in and I found this excellent video on nVidia Shadow.  I like what I saw...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVMEBONCx-E 

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by fppilot

3 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Wow. Not out of the PC maintenance hanger and having palpitations since I cannot get started yet with MSFS.  Your comment caused me to seek out the nVidia built-in and I found this excellent video on nVidia Shadow.  I like what I saw...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVMEBONCx-E 

Cool, thanks for the link! I'll check it out...

I was getting really pixelated looking clouds at times, I think extra memory might reduce that issue. It seems like the game sacrifices cloud fidelity first when VRAM and local ram are getting too high, but I don't know for sure.

 

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by SceneryFX