As always very late to the show, I would love to try MSFS, but I believe there is no trial (as in Xplane). Is it worth even considering spending $60 to run MSFS on my 10+ years old pc?

I7 4770K (3.5 GHz)
16G memory
GTX 1660 Ti (6G)

I read it works quite well on old hardware, but mine is maybe bit too old. Still I remember seeing similar specs in some of your signatures. I would be satisfied with default aircraft/scenery (at least for the time being) and with fps around 20.  I have single monitor 24'' 1920x1200

Any advice?

Daniel

For the first two years of MSFS, I used a computer almost identical to yours, except I had a 1070 with 8G. I ran the sim beautifully with most settings either on High or Ultra. I used 4K resolution but backed the Render Scale down to 60%. That makes a huge difference in performance. If you're going to run the sim at 1920x1200, you shouldn't have any problem, especially if you'll be happy with 20fps. Honestly, I think you'll do a lot better than that. Just be reasonable in your graphics settings. If you simply chose Medium as your default graphics settings, I think you'll be very surprised how well the sim performs.

I have a very similar hardware:

I7 6700K  4GHz

16G memory

GTX 1650 Super

idem monitor.

I run MSFS at High settings without any problem at all, fps around 50 in GA and 35fps in heavy scennery/planes

 

To give you some perspective 4770/1080 combo here delivering a nice sim experience at a 2860*1440 resolution at 30 fps.

 

31 minutes ago, elprim said:

As always very late to the show, I would love to try MSFS, but I believe there is no trial (as in Xplane). Is it worth even considering spending $60 to run MSFS on my 10+ years old pc?

I7 4770K (3.5 GHz)
16G memory
GTX 1660 Ti (6G)

I read it works quite well on old hardware, but mine is maybe bit too old. Still I remember seeing similar specs in some of your signatures. I would be satisfied with default aircraft/scenery (at least for the time being) and with fps around 20.  I have single monitor 24'' 1920x1200

Any advice?

Daniel

My advise is to use 4KTV from Samsung for display then tune your system for 24+ fps. Set your refresh rate to 24hz and then turn the TV's Frame generation filter up full in the TV's on screen setting for 48fps on screen. Done!

50 minutes ago, elprim said:

As always very late to the show, I would love to try MSFS, but I believe there is no trial (as in Xplane). Is it worth even considering spending $60 to run MSFS on my 10+ years old pc?

I7 4770K (3.5 GHz)
16G memory
GTX 1660 Ti (6G)

Hi Daniel. As a user of ancient hardware I’d say you’ll have no problem running this sim at 1080p and although there isn’t a demo version as such, you can try it for a month with Xbox Gamepass for PC.

I’m pretty sure that’s around $10 a month.

4770k and gtx1070.. 1080 screen.. solid 30 fps on high.

1 hour ago, elprim said:

As always very late to the show, I would love to try MSFS, but I believe there is no trial (as in Xplane).

you can subscribe to one test month of PC Gamepass for a dollar and try it out. (at least I think that there is such a price for new subscribers)

Just remember to cancel in time.

 

https://www.xbox.com/en-us/xbox-game-pass/pc-game-pass

 

Edited April 11, 20233 yr by darshonaut

I started playing MSFS 2020 on a core i3-9100 with a Radeon RX 550 at medium settings, then upgraded to a GTX 1660ti and finally to a core i5-9600kf and a RTX 2060 Super. You should be able to play at 1080p with high settings and achieve around 30fps.

The machine I ran it on first was far below your specs.

i7-950

12Gb RAM

NVIDIA 970

 

Pretty sure everything was on high as well.

 

G

You'll have no problem on a mix of medium/high and it will still look really good. You may struggle if you want to fly complex airliners at busy airports with lots of traffic. If you fly GA though, might as well turn off traffic and you'll probably get >30fps 95% of the time.

Don't be put off by all the peeps here with high end computers. You really don't need it unless you really want Ultra graphics or VR @ >60fps.

Edited April 11, 20233 yr by s0cks

I think it bears worthy mention that while 30fps is attainable with your specs, I have something similar. The frame time on the other hand will be noticeably bad, stutters will be recurrent depending on the situation so just beware of that.

Another one here that started with a 4770 and a 1060 6 gig. and a very slow wifi connection. I do remember stutters, they were tolerable, but I think some of that was the young age of MSFS.

Edited April 11, 20233 yr by jimcarrel

3 hours ago, elprim said:

I would love to try MSFS

Just keep your expectations at a realistic level.
 

 

 

1 hour ago, Lucky38i said:

The frame time on the other hand will be noticeably bad, stutters will be recurrent depending on the situation so just beware of that.

If you keep the settings on "High" and avoid complex addons, this should not be a problem.  🙂