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Big improvement on old computer - what I did

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I'm posting this purely in the hope it may help someone with an old system - not for you guys with massive NASA quality rigs.

It's been a tough old ride getting MSFS to work well on my old i5 4690k PC, and I've been seriously contemplating a new PC. However note - I do have an overclock to 4.4GHz and 32Gb RAM as well as a GTX1080 Ti and a 2k monitor. Note - I am running MSFS from a mechanical 7200rpm drive and Windows 10 Pro v 1909.

This is a synthesis of many things I have found on YouTube and on this forum and my own experience, so some of the below may be familiar.

I am retired and sadly money does not grow on trees for me, so I feel have now a good balance of settings that look amazing visually, and minimise (but not completely eliminate *&^%^) stutters. This is only from my experience on a windy flight in the back country of Ireland (Eire) in the DA62 from Cork to Galway. I can only say it was breathtaking in a way that P3D rarely if ever is..

Your experience will amost certainly vary e.g. at Heathrow or JFK in the A320 etc. I haven't dared try those yet. I do think this would work for anyone with an elderly PC wanting to try Ryans PNG bush flights though (Search on YouTube for Missionary Bush Pilot - he's amazing, and he's a flight sim enthusiast I think).

 

DISPLAY MODE Windowed

SCREEN RESOLUTION 1280x800

V-SYNC - off

AA - TAA

TERRAIN LOD: 65

TERRAIN VECTOR DATA -  MED

BUILDINGS - MEDIUM

TREES - MED

GRASS & B - MED

OBJECTS LOD - 25

VOL. CLOUDS - ULTRA

TEXTURE RES; MED

AF - 4X

TEXTURE SUPERSAMPLING 2X2

TEXTURE SYNTH - HIGH

WATER - HIGH

SHADOW MAPS - 768

TERRAIN SHADOWS - 256

CONTACT SHADOWS - MED

WINDSHIELD AFFECTS - MED

AMBIENT OCC - LOW

REFLECTIONS - HIGH

LIGHT SHAFTS  - MED

BLOOM - ON

DOF - OFF

LENS CORR - OFF

LENS FLARE OFF

USE GENERIC PLANE ... AI TRAFFIC - ON

MULTIPLAYER - OFF

 

Anyway - hope this helps someone

Ray

 

 

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