I have a i7 3770k @ 4300, 32gb, a gtx1070, on a 1080res 27" Asus monitor, its a 5 year old computer, I can't complain, FS2020 performance is great. I do encounter micro-stutter here and there, not a game changer though.

 

Edited October 22, 20205 yr by CarlosF

Super computer probably needed when raytracing comes.

6 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Technically it should be:

EITHER

To go boldly where no man has gone before.

OR

Boldly to go where no man has gone before.

That kind of depends on whether you consider grammar to be a prescriptive exercise (expressed through rules and standards of ‘correctness’), or descriptive (expressed through observation of common usage). 
 

Being the dirty liberal I am, I lean towards descriptive. And anyway, even if you’re prescriptive, the old split infinitive aversion is an artifact of education in Latin. They’ve been common in English from the beginning.

2 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

That kind of depends on whether you consider grammar to be a prescriptive exercise (expressed through rules and standards of ‘correctness’), or descriptive (expressed through observation of common usage). 
 

Being the dirty liberal I am, I lean towards descriptive. And anyway, even if you’re prescriptive, the old split infinitive aversion is an artifact of education in Latin. They’ve been common in English from the beginning.

Aside from anything else, the formal rules only ever applied to written English anyway 😄

2 hours ago, gronji2004 said:

My question is, I see people panicking all the time on here...

Been on these forums daily since release and I've seen a few usual hardware threads mostly related to talk about the NVidia 3000 series release, lots of people saying it runs better than expected, and a few people talking about stutters or microstutters, but none of them are accompanied by any level of panic you speak of?

 

2 hours ago, gronji2004 said:

Yes the sim looked beautiful but I have returned to P3D as at the minute MSFS is a aesthetic game at best.

😴  Different wrapper same stuff inside.....

Good question. I'm doing ok with my GTX 1070 and a i7 6700K. The sim is definitely a lot more optimized than FSX was, especially considering how pretty it looks. Speaking of which, I think the "it's a game, not a sim" narrative is just foolish and needs to be dropped. Coming from FSX I had to unlearn habits I picked up from that sim to get to grips with the updated FM in MSFS.

3 minutes ago, Krakin said:

Coming from FSX I had to unlearn habits I picked up from that sim to get to grips with the updated FM in MSFS.

Agreed.  One of the biggest differences I had to come to grips with is "speed".  FSX doesn't seem to accurately model it.  

I was flying the stock A321 in the Steam Edition last night and I was at 140Kts and the plane felt like it was crawling.   80 knots in a Cessna feels like you're in slow motion.

I had to double check and make sure my sim rate was at 1.0.x to be sure.

MSFS feels much more accurate.  The runway comes at you plenty fast, even in the C172.  Certainly adds a visceral component to this sim that FSX never had.

I bought a $1250 gaming laptop just for this. RTX 2060 with 6 GB RAM. Intel i7 9750H, I think. I never expected the sim to run on Ultra, but I flew into NYC in the A320 on Ultra with very good performance. Only a few small stutters here and there once in a while, but nothing that bothers me. Very impressed with how well it runs. I was expecting to need moderate settings for smooth performance.

Edited October 22, 20205 yr by NightOfDreams

2 hours ago, gronji2004 said:

As I said I've uninstalled and gone back to P3D as I'd rather have a simulator than a game? 

You know you're not fooling us, right?

Interesting thread topic idea, sadly ruined by drivel.

Trying to run 3 monitors with settings above 'high' and render scaling above 100 was too taxing for my GTX 1070. Displaying on just one HD monitor, it became a lot smoother and I became CPU-bound as expected.

That is very promising performance and likely sets the sim up very nicely for Xbox Series X. There's no desperate need for 'average' to 'good' systems to have expensive upgrades at the moment.
Accessibility for newcomers is important, we need to grow the hobby so that all flight simmers can benefit from more freeware, more (and cheaper) payware, more advanced tech, new coding techniques, better performance, etc. than we had become used to.

Keeping my comments solely regarding hardware requirements, MSFS -in my view- has been a hit.

55 minutes ago, F737NG said:

Keeping my comments solely regarding hardware requirements, MSFS -in my view- has been a hit.

No kidding. The only time I've had issues is when flying into somewhere dense, like LAX, for the first time. And that's because my DSL which should be 40-meg often more realistically delivers 25% of that because my ISP sucks. Once the area got cached in, it smoothed out again. 

In the old days, flight sims from MS would only run smoothly with good graphics settings on a computer that wouldn't be built until 5 or 10 years after the sim was released, so this is a major improvement.

 

I honestly wasn't sure how my rig would run MSFS2020, but to my surprise, my i5 6600k, GTX1070, 32GB is running well for me.  Performance on each patch improved for me along with the Lasso fix.  Although I cannot speak to the tube liners as I fly GA only in VFR and IFR conditions into regional and smaller airfields.  I was a skeptic from the beginning, but the more I use it, the more I like it.  I'm like many others, waiting on 3rd party releases of some more complex systems, but out of the box I really can't complain - I will just log tickets and hope some of the issues get fixed soon.

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Edited October 22, 20205 yr by crimplene

14 hours ago, NightOfDreams said:

I flew into NYC in the A320 on Ultra with very good performance.

I find that hard to believe on an RTX 2060, guess it depends how fast you were travelling, what part of NYC, how long the game had been loaded (game can be slower if it's been on too long without restarting), and how lucky you got in the caching.

I have experienced good performance in dense areas on my 2060, but only for very limited periods of time in certain areas, generally you need 2080.

The game does run smoothly in average dense areas or population centers under a million, generally speaking, but NYC in Ultra on a 2060, come on now...

Edited October 23, 20205 yr by SceneryFX