It works fine not the following ........ look at my videos:

 

Edited September 12, 20214 yr by Quasar07

The i7 3700K benches about 10-20% faster than the i5 4460, which is the minimum according to MS that you need to be equivalent to, and it also has 8 threads instead of 4 so it meets the minimum specs for the game though only barely.

If you limit CPU intensive settings like high LOD it will probably cope.  Test it and see,

10 hours ago, Mike S KPDX said:

Not trying to be pedantic here, but really only curious as to any reason to do this.  I too have an older computer in another room and could use some reason/advice.  You there are dozens, would you be willing to list two or three?

If you have a 4 bedroom house and parents are stationed in one and kids in the other 3. And if all the kids want to run MSFS. And you don't want to buy 4 top notch computers. MSFS is dirt cheap, only $60. So why buy a another top price computer, if an old one will do the job.

Or you have 2 summer houses miles away.

I used to run FSX on an expensive gaming desktop. Some years later a gaming computer powerful enough cost under $450 (laptop). So I put FSX on the laptop too. It is still on both desktop and laptop. Meanwhile I bought another newer desktop for MSFS.

I just tap 2 video switch push buttons s which are velcroed to my desk table so that both my 2 monitors will be connected to one desktop PC, or the other desktop. Or one monitor to each desktop. 

I am not going to move all my FSX installation to the new desktop, that would take many hours to set everything up in FSX like I have it.

 

12 hours ago, captain420 said:

I have my old PC in my bedroom that I would like to use for MSFS for those days I'm feeling lazy and just want to casually fly around and explore the world. 🙂

Well, I'm confident you'll have no issues. I can't remember my exact CPU, but it's an i7, and my GPU is a 1070 (so you're already ahead in that department), and I have 32GB RAM. I use full ultra settings at 1080p (since the latest updates, though, I can even achieve 2K output in some scenarios just fine). The only setting I have disabled is live air traffic.

12 hours ago, stratone said:

And as the name implements - GForce 1080 GPU is for 1080p.

That's the funniest thing I've heard. So what is Gforce 1070 for? People who run at 1070p? and Gforce 980 for 980p? 

12 hours ago, March Hare said:

Well, I'm confident you'll have no issues. I can't remember my exact CPU, but it's an i7, and my GPU is a 1070 (so you're already ahead in that department), and I have 32GB RAM. I use full ultra settings at 1080p (since the latest updates, though, I can even achieve 2K output in some scenarios just fine). The only setting I have disabled is live air traffic.

I run it on a i7 3930k o.c’d to 4.1ghz with an RTX2070 and 16 gigs of ddr3 on 27” 1080p.

My cpu will be ten years old next month🤩

Since WU6 I’ve given up fiddling with settings and put it on ultra with frames locked at 30.

It runs.....beautifully.

2 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

I run it on a i7 3930k o.c’d to 4.1ghz with an RTX2070 and 16 gigs of ddr3 on 27” 1080p.

My cpu will be ten years old next month🤩

Since WU6 I’ve given up fiddling with settings and put it on ultra with frames locked at 30.

It runs.....beautifully.

Frames at 30 here, too. It's smooth.

I must say I'm extremely impressed at how it runs on my old machine! I have my graphic settings pretty much on ultra and high settings with frames locked to 30fps and it is smooth as ever! Wow Asobo. I would've never imagine that my system would run MSFS let alone run it this smooth with mostly ultra-high settings!

10 hours ago, captain420 said:

That's the funniest thing I've heard. So what is Gforce 1070 for? People who run at 1070p? and Gforce 980 for 980p? 

@captain420 It was indeed a part of the idea by NVidia to name the new series of GC for that reason ...

And funny or not for you - you will accept that the GTX 1080 is for a standard 1080p solution, aren't you?

Best regards

Detlef

On 9/11/2021 at 11:14 AM, captain420 said:

What would be a better CPU to match the 1080 then? But I've seen several ppl with i7-3770k and i7-4770k saying they're having great performance with MSFS.

Yes, because MSFS scales (relatively) well with the gpu (in other words, people with 3090's and not-the-latest cpu's still get great performance) especially at 4K

Even so I'd say a straight 1080 would pair well with a 7xxx cpu.  I have no complaints about my 1080ti and 8700K combo, and I built with matching in mind with those components for a reason.  It'll be going on 4 years this December and I really can't complain too much.

30 minutes ago, stratone said:

@captain420 It was indeed a part of the idea by NVidia to name the new series of GC for that reason ...

And funny or not for you - you will accept that the GTX 1080 is for a standard 1080p solution, aren't you?

Best regards

Detlef

It really wasn't.  It was named the 1080 because that was the next number to follow the 980, and the 780 before that (there was no 800 series), and the 680 before that, etc.  The x80 naming convention went back a decade, representing their high end consumer card.  It had nothing to do with 1080p, they were simply following their own established naming convention, which they still largely use... hence today's 3080 (which was not created for 3080p 😁).

44 minutes ago, stratone said:

@captain420 It was indeed a part of the idea by NVidia to name the new series of GC for that reason ...

 

 

The idea that Nvidia named it the 1080 as that was what they designed it to be used for is just silly.  It is one of those ridiculous internet myths with no facts behind it. The xx80 was always the fastest of any Nvidia series from well before the 1080. 

Apart from which, in terms of the 10xx series the 1060 and 1070 were generally regarded as the mainstream 1080p gaming cards.  You did not need a gtx1080 to play  games on the 60hz 1080p monitors that were the norm way back in 2016 when it first came out.  The monitors were only 60hz and the games were far less demanding .

ALSO - when the 1080 founders came out, Nvidia made a big fuss about the founders edition having display ports capable of handling 4K .   The card was absolutely NOT released with 1080p in mind.

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-founders-edition

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Out back, the card sports five outputs, including three DisplayPort connectors that are certified for DisplayPort 1.2 but "ready" for the 1.3 and 1.4 upgrades, according to Nvidia. Though DisplayPort 1.2 is sufficient to run a 4K (3,840 x 2,160) monitor at 60Hz, DisplayPort 1.3 ups the bandwidth on the channel enough to support a 4K monitor at 120Hz, and version 1.4 ups it even more, to handle nascent 8K at 60Hz.

 

Edited September 13, 20214 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

I'm looking forward to playing games in 3090p soon! lolllllllll

I have 3 systems up and runing MSFS, all 4k capable with RS set from 80 up to 150 , 1440 no problem to run Ultra at the weak system. VR is possible with all systems with my G2 the 1080ti is on the edge recomend atleast a 2080ti or optimum 3080 to 3090.

AMD 3700x std clock 32gb 1080ti noctua D15, GPU AIO NZXT G12 X42

Intel 9900k @5.2 32gb  2080ti , AIO 280 NZKT X63 on cpu and gpu.

AMD 5950x PBO 32gb 3090 custom water cooling cpu gpu

Edited September 13, 20214 yr by westman