I turn OFF game mode in W10 and it seems to improve performance , or noticeably stutters. 

5 hours ago, Pastaiolo said:

It also makes a comparison on certain sim graphical settings which are also not well done. For example it suggests to not go higher than 100 on object level of detail by providing two close up screenshots which obviously will look the same, since increasing the slider increases the amount of object visible in the distance (especially airport equipment) but in the screenshot the horizon is covered by a building..

The trees comparison setting also shows the same close up zone with trees. Too bad that the Trees setting mostly influences the texture quality of said trees and not their quantity, so a closer look at a single tree would have been much better for comparison.

It seems https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/highonsnow-glass-cockpit-15-19-fps-boost-on-airliners-and-10-21-fps-on-ga-aircraft/252551 has better comparison images and it gives you percentage difference in frames for both gpu and CPU limited

5 hours ago, wthomas33065 said:

I just downloaded it and it has some good tips, but they are mostly things I found based on trial and error.  It's free on simmarket.com.  So it's worth the download.

The major points are as follows:

1.  Use Newest Drivers

2.  Set Priority to Flightsim.exe to high in Task Manager.

3.  Turn on Game Mode

4.  Limit LOD (both Terrain and Object) sliders to 100 or less.

5.  Limit Texture Supersampling to 4x4 or less

6.  Limit Shadow maps to 768 or less

7.  Use TAA (performance hit is worth the better AA)

8.  Water Waves to Medium

9  Depth of Field Medium or High

 

Those are the broad strokes.  And as always, YMMV.  

Set Priority to Flightsim.exe to high in Task Manager.

 

How are you doing this in Windows10  ?  no way to set priority in task manager are you using a program - thanks 

In other news, get rich quick by selling a gaming manual that pitches the miracles of `lowering your settings for better performance'.  

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6 hours ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

Well, before I start to search for this, could you perhaps tell us what kind of steps the guide gives you? I mean, if it just says "all sliders to the left", then I think I can skip this one 😉

haha.. savage

two things that have always troubled me about ever doing some sort of a grab and go....  Karma.... and the fact I like to sleep at night with as close to a clear conscious as possible...  (note, I said to try to be clear as possible).  🙂

 

Edited September 10, 20205 yr by javelina

6 hours ago, SAS443 said:

Interesting. Any visual tradeoffs that you can notice? I mean I can reduce render scale but even at 85 my 4k screen is revealing a degrading picture, but performance is much improved.

I first came across render scaling in Serious Sam Fusion. I agree that it sure can influence performance but you rapidly reach a point where the image degradation quite simply isn't worth the pursuit of performance nirvana. I can't recall what additional options are in FS2020 since I am not using it at the moment because of compatibility issues with my Logitech controller, but I know in the Serious Sam game, for example you can specify the type of filter quality (Lanczos being what i use as the picture quality improvement of bicubic is significant even on a smaller display.

5 hours ago, Fielder said:

Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling (this was not an option until Win 10 2004 package added it). Have to turn it on, it's off by default.

wasn't aware this was a thing.  not sure yet if this makes a huge difference in msfs, still testing,  but interestingly did notice that it seems to manage the VRAM usage in p3d better,  as a test I cranked up all my p3d settings and did a flight at latinVFR KMIA where I had a sure VRAM crash before, and the usage stayed within bounds.

2 hours ago, Richard Sennett said:

Set Priority to Flightsim.exe to high in Task Manager.

 

How are you doing this in Windows10  ?  no way to set priority in task manager are you using a program - thanks 

I use the Process Lasso Program, https://bitsum.com/#:~:text=Process Lasso is the ultimate Windows CPU affinity,application is running once a threshold is met.

4 hours ago, Richard Sennett said:

Set Priority to Flightsim.exe to high in Task Manager.

 

How are you doing this in Windows10  ?  no way to set priority in task manager are you using a program - thanks 

No,

When MSFS is running, click the Windows key to bring up your taskbar.  Bring up Task Manager by right clicking on the clock/calendar.  In task manager, click on the details tab and right click on FlightSimulator.exe  Click set priority and change to high from normal.  It's a bit of a pain, but you only have to do it at the start of a session.

Again, I am not promoting the guide, YMMV.  Just gave a quick readers digest version of what was said.  

Also, for the GPU Scheduling option to appear, you need to have Windows 10 version 2004 AND your driver needs to support it.  From what I understand, very few AMD drivers support it, so you might not see it in your options.

Edited September 10, 20205 yr by wthomas33065

5 hours ago, ivng said:

By now I'm used to selecting high-end profile for busy airspaces and switching to ultra for more remote areas. Appreciate not having to restart the sim to apply graphics change

Actually one setting WON"T take effect until you restart.  Texture Resolution.  If that is changed, then a restart is required for that setting change to take effect.  It says so in the description of that setting.

I followed this guide, downloaded a 1999 driver with a hotfix for FS98 and applied at the same time Jayz and process lasso tricks.

Now the sim runs at 200 fps on my 386 with 4 MB of RAM, I think I will keep it for another 35 years at least 🙂

Interesting a tester now using MSFS as one of the games for hardware testing jump to 3.40min, he may test the 3000 series GPU in the future.

 

26 minutes ago, G-RFRY said:

Interesting a tester now using MSFS as one of the games for hardware testing jump to 3.40min, he may test the 3000 series GPU in the future.

 

You can see at the 3:40 point, all the little spikes that cause the stutters. I am hoping that is something they can optimize. 

14 hours ago, B787Pilot3222 said:

Free tuning guides...

https://www.game-debate.com/news/29393/microsoft-flight-simulator-most-important-graphics-options-every-video-setting-benchmarked

https://www.tomshardware.com/features/microsoft-flight-simulator-benchmarks-performance-system-requirements

 

So after reading the Tom's hardware article I think we can conclude that we will be tinkering for a while.  Many of us spent money on nice rigs and they tell us even a 2080Ti cannot achieve 60fps, sure glad I got the 2070 Super!  LOL, Is this not what we did with FSX?