I'm right now in a flight with the S22 at 11,000 feet over mid-Ontario, Canada.   While flying, I still am quite thrilled and amazed, that with my 13 year old CPU and Motherboard (all original) with the only exception of putting in a GTX 1070 (non Ti) a few years ago,  with all that MSFS does...and the demands on W10 (I'm not running W11),  with constant data streaming,  I can get stop and go free animation, and no stutter out of 27-32 FPS,  while to this very day,  I still will have stutter and some stop 'n load coming from my hard drives for the likes of P3D and XP11.  

For myself, it is the simple realization that it was never truly about the 'horsepower'  you had in your system of yore...as compared to today's latest and greatest.  It was really always about the state of Graphics Engine coding of the day....

I'm also grateful that I did a wait 'n see, to actually try to run MSFS  RTM on my current system, before I would (if I deemed I wanted to...) have to spend hundreds to thousands of $$$'s to 'run it' to user-expected satisfaction.  That (most happily) was never required...and THAT folks, is what truly thrills and amazed me...that MSFS run so sweetly on a i7-980 CPU, driving a GTX1070 graphics card, through only 12 GB of system RAM, (my limit on my O.E.M. Motherboard).   Runs like a champ, with full Ultra , except for Trees to 'High' ,which only then, is my preferred view.  I find Ultra for trees too unrealistically dense (my personal take) over the terrain.  

Well, back to my flight in progress...on my way to CYTZ for Father's Day... 🙂

Happy Father's day y'all...

Ses

Edited June 19, 20223 yr by Sesquashtoo

I agree. I've been throwing new hardware at flight simulator for years, each time hoping that "THIS will be the one that gives me a smooth flight" only to be disappointed again.  

I'm going to do that once more in the next year.  The difference being that if I choose the right components, it really will be the right one because I am already there, and now I'm just shooting for full ultra and super high LOD.

Edited June 19, 20223 yr by MDFlier

Ive never been disappointed when I have upgraded my CPU or GPU

2 hours ago, Sesquashtoo said:

It was really always about the state of Graphics Engine coding of the day....

Yup. As @Chapstick points out in the hardware forums, the super-duper Ryzen 5800X3D shows no performance improvement in P3D.

I'm throwing a lot more content in MSFS (Fenix A320, payware airport scenery, scenery enhancement packs, as much AI traffic as possible and a few external apps) at my PC than most here, yet MSFS runs flawlessly the vast majority of the time.

Indeed Ses !

Just a few minutes ago I rushed for a short session in my PC trying to give Online Traffic a try, with a small controlled flight between two airfields neaby Lisbon, setting ALL airport and Air Traffic sliders to 100%

It was as smooth as I couldn't even imagine just a few years ago would ever be. Wow !

Then, after a 100 km flight I did yesterday in PW-6U, departing and arriving LPMN, I enabled Bing maps and Photogrammetry again and went reproducing yesterdays RL flight. There's no other alternative at present in terms of realism of the landscape and even cloud cover, winds, in some way even the turbulence and since SU9 their first implementation of thermal radiation.

So far I have to agree nothing is a thrilling as MFS in so many aspects.

My i7 2600K did really well in MSFS, until I got all these addons for NYC. I also saw panning stutters at most payware airports. After some research I settled on the i5 12600K and I've been delighted with the upgrade. I hope that this one lasts me just as long as the sandy bridge.

And, you are doing all that while texting / forums on the internet!