16 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

 

1080p ruled for nearly 15 years but is not really a thing anymore except at the ultra budget end.

Nonsense. 

59 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Nonsense. 

Where I work (50 or so staff) we are gradually moving from two 23" or 24" 1080p to pairs of 27" or 32" 1440p, basically because they are only very slightly more expensive than a 1080p of the same specs so why not. 

4K is not really a thing in the workplace yet but it definitely has become the default for new TVs at least here in Australia where electronics is dirt cheap and you can get a blu-ray player for about the same price as a pound or two of steak.

The main reason to stay 1080p in GAMING is to keep the FPS up as the previous range of graphic cards, whether AMD or Nvidia,  struggled to handle higher resolutions at even 60 fps at 1440/4K but that is also changing quite quickly, The 30xx cards are good for it and Big Navi will be very interesting.

Edited October 23, 20205 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

DID I REALLY NEED TO READ THIS POST AND RESPOND TO IT ?

Here's one for the grammarians :  He cut the tree down then he cut it up.

Or, If you want the room cooler, do you turn the the A/C up or down?   A warmer room?  Not that ambiguous...

BTW, I'm planning on getting a new "gaming" PC in early 2021 to handle MSFS2020 - my current five-year old PC barely runs FSX.  Meanwhile, I'm checking out the specs of Avsim members for good info on what to buy...

I just want to learn how to sell virtual pop corn for threads like this . 

1080 p resolution + $1000 PC + building it yourself + careful and regular system maintenance will allow you to run any of today's AAA games on high, ultra high, or ultra settings. 

Spend more, and you might as well just burn your $$ on your stove. 

The threads where people brag about spending a grand on graphics cards make for entertaining reading. Especially when there are still complaints about "stutters" and "smoothness".

I'm quite miserly when it comes to spending money on electronics, and as long as it isn't broken, I won't replace it. I'm completely immune to the siren call of spending more on a PC than on a used car. 

And I always wonder why my 5 year old PC with 8 gigs of system ram is still able to run Capture One Pro 20 and Adobe Photoshop 2021 simultaneously without much of a slow down....

28 minutes ago, overspeed3 said:

Here's one for the grammarians :  He cut the tree down then he cut it up.

Or, If you want the room cooler, do you turn the the A/C up or down?   A warmer room?  Not that ambiguous...

BTW, I'm planning on getting a new "gaming" PC in early 2021 to handle MSFS2020 - my current five-year old PC barely runs FSX.  Meanwhile, I'm checking out the specs of Avsim members for good info on what to buy...

So if your driving to a town South of you but it is on top of a mountain do you drive down or up to the town ? What if it is North of you and on top of a mountain BUT you are going to the main business centre? Are you still going downtown ?

Some gratuitous 60's pop music:

 

3 hours ago, Ricardo41 said:

1080 p resolution + $1000 PC + building it yourself + careful and regular system maintenance will allow you to run any of today's AAA games on high, ultra high, or ultra settings. 

Spend more, and you might as well just burn your $$ on your stove. 

OK

 

Just to make sure I am not having myself on I disconnected my  32"144hz 1440p HDR and ran the game on my old faithful Samsung 24" 1080p 120 hz gaming monitor,

 .. and just no

there is no comparison ... the 32" 1440p was just worlds better with this game

 

I understand people wanting huge frame rates in online first person shooters sticking to 1080p but to be totally honest upgrading to a 1440p gaming monitor is probably the best money I have spent in recent years.

A $1000 PC will drive a 1440p monitor. Maybe not on ultra settings but def. on high/very high.

22 hours ago, gronji2004 said:

I maxed out the settings on MSFS and it ran smoothly with great visuals no stutters and no performance issues what so ever. 

I think the performance in the sim is incredible. My system is a 9900K, 2080Ti and I get at least 35fps everywhere and is rural areas it can go up to 80-90fps on mostly ultra settings. The detail in a cloudy rain swept London with Orbx scenery is absolutely amazing and fps still holds up to 35-45fps which given the visuals on display is astonishing.

It's a pity the sim doesn't agree with you - you really are losing out even if for occasional VFR flights which I'm absolutely going to love in my HP G2, but if that's not your thing then back to P3D flight training you go.

Whether 1080p resolution is "good" or not depends on the size of the monitor that you are using. On my 24" widescreen, PMDG virtual cockpits and ORBx TrueEarth scenery look great.

7 hours ago, SceneryFX said:

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...

Landed the A320 at Newark, so granted I wasnt directly over NYC. But no, I didn't notice any significant impact on performance on approach, except for a 5 second slowdown at about 1,000 ft AGL. I have my frame rate locked externally at 30 and dont even look at FPS anymore. And I spent hours and hours constantly changing the settings on P3D to get smooth performance with the Aerosoft CRJ, and eventually gave up on it.

6 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Just to make sure I am not having myself on I disconnected my  32"144hz 1440p HDR and ran the game on my old faithful Samsung 24" 1080p 120 hz gaming monitor,

 .. and just no

there is no comparison ... the 32" 1440p was just worlds better with this game

Of course.  Your Window is much larger.   The question would be if you had a 32" 1080p native monitor and a 32" 1440p monitor would you be able to tell the difference.  That's a different question to be answered.

Bottom line is that the sim will always look better in it's native resolution.  4K monitors can display 1080p because a single 1080p pixel takes exactly 4 4k pixels.  Thus 1080p on a 4k monitor looks fine, and if you can't get in close enough, you really can't tell if that single 1080 pixel is made up of a native pixel or 4 pixels.

What drives our resolution is what monitor we have.  We then buy the video card that can support the monitor.

 

14 minutes ago, wthomas33065 said:

Of course.  Your Window is much larger.   The question would be if you had a 32" 1080p native monitor and a 32" 1440p monitor would you be able to tell the difference.  That's a different question to be answered.

 

My daughter has a 1080p 32"

It is PWM which messes with my head though she seems fine with it, but that is beside the point.

The pixels at normal viewing distance are distractingly visible on her 1080p.  I would not personally recommend a 1080p bigger than 27 "

Even 1440p is pushing the boundaries at 32" ... by 40" you are really needing 4K . otherwise the pixels are huge.

 

.....which is why I have no intention of replacing my 24" monitor.