I bought MSFS2020 when it came out knowing my system was not up to it. I have just persuaded my better half to let me upgrade. 
Yesterday my new PC arrived with an i7 processor with 16Gb with hyper threading and an nVidia 3080 graphics card. 
The first thing I noticed after installing and starting was getting the message “your system does not meet the minimum specification.....’

Why would this happen? Does MS hold information about my previous instal on my old PC?

Once up and running I was very disappointed to see that my FPS resolutely stayed at 10 FPS. 
I tried lowering many graphics settings down but it still seems almost locked at 10 FPS. 

The information in FPS pop up seems to show that performance is being slowed by the CPU yet below that it shows only 8220/16210 mb is being used by CPU and 1940/7444 mb of the GPU. 

I would be very grateful for advice on how to improve the FPS. 
 

Paul

 

7gb on a 3090? Sounds likes its using the on board intel graphics and not nvidia.

You should really check, were you plugged in your monitor. :-)

Might be worth double checking the correct nvidia driver is installed

4 hours ago, Paul-g said:

Yesterday my new PC arrived with an i7 processor with 16Gb with hyper threading and an nVidia 3080 graphics card. 

You shelled out for a 3080 but only specified 16Gb memory?  🤔

4 hours ago, Paul-g said:

I bought MSFS2020 when it came out knowing my system was not up to it. I have just persuaded my better half to let me upgrade. 
Yesterday my new PC arrived with an i7 processor with 16Gb with hyper threading and an nVidia 3080 graphics card. 
The first thing I noticed after installing and starting was getting the message “your system does not meet the minimum specification.....’

Why would this happen? Does MS hold information about my previous instal on my old PC?

Once up and running I was very disappointed to see that my FPS resolutely stayed at 10 FPS. 
I tried lowering many graphics settings down but it still seems almost locked at 10 FPS. 

The information in FPS pop up seems to show that performance is being slowed by the CPU yet below that it shows only 8220/16210 mb is being used by CPU and 1940/7444 mb of the GPU. 

I would be very grateful for advice on how to improve the FPS. 
 

Paul

 

Are you sure, that you connect your monitor directly to graphic card output and not to mainboard output? 😉

Your system should run FS2020 very well. 

Are you using a fresh install of Windows? Or did you move your old harddrive into the new PC?

Do a fresh install of Nvidia drivers. And make sure your monitor cable is inserted into the graphics card and not the HDMI out on the motherboard. 

Make sure your RAM sticks are in the right slots. They should be in every other slot. 1010 not 0011. Which exact slots depend on the motherboard.

Is your CPU cooler installed properly so that the CPU doesn't overheat?

36 minutes ago, SamYeager said:

You shelled out for a 3080 but only specified 16Gb memory?  🤔

I admit my computer is 4 years old (i.e. if I was purchasing now maybe I'd want more) but my current experience with MSFS 2020 dev tools is that I never get anywhere close to using my 16GB of RAM...are people finding otherwise? 

14 minutes ago, dolbinau said:

I admit my computer is 4 years old (i.e. if I was purchasing now maybe I'd want more) but my current experience with MSFS 2020 dev tools is that I never get anywhere close to using my 16GB of RAM...are people finding otherwise? 

I have 64gb and I've seen my usage as high as 24gb

3 minutes ago, devgrp said:

I have 64gb and I've seen my usage as high as 24gb

If you check that usage with MSI Afterburner that is global usage (all apps on your PC) not just MSFS. Mine shows 16GB in Afterburner but when I check on task manager is usually around 7GB for MSFS.

1 hour ago, Alvega said:

If you check that usage with MSI Afterburner that is global usage (all apps on your PC) not just MSFS. Mine shows 16GB in Afterburner but when I check on task manager is usually around 7GB for MSFS.

I don't think so. My pc is only has msfs and Photoshop 

and I use the Nvidia ge performance overlay for the info 

3 minutes ago, devgrp said:

I don't think so. My pc is only has msfs and Photoshop 

and I use the Nvidia ge performance overlay for the info 

Check the MSFS process with task Manager. That shows the RAM the sim is using. I don't use GE overlay but I bet it shows the same as Afterburner, not the sim usage but total PC usage, including 3 or 4 GB just for Windows. 

4 hours ago, ludekbrno said:

Are you sure, that you connect your monitor directly to graphic card output and not to mainboard output? 😉

^^^ This ^^^

This is a very easy to make mistake when connecting up a computer!  The monitor's cable must be connected directly to the graphics card, otherwise that 3080 graphics card is not being used at all.

The 16 GB RAM most likely are not the culprit here. Could be more but won't be a big problem.

6 hours ago, Maladoror said:

7gb on a 3090? Sounds likes its using the on board intel graphics and not nvidia.

Yeah this for sure. Also, I have had a bizzare issue where I have plugged directly into my GPU yet for what ever reason, the Gforce control panel was utlilising the onboard card info－I have no idea why or how thats possible. So, check that too. I personaly ended up disabling the onboard display via the BIOS