Unlike my FS9 and FSX years, I am now running the current sim in a (i7 1265+RTX 3050) laptop. There is this anxiety that laptop is somewhat "fragile" to run about 5 or more hour flight. Is being anxious reasonable? I am considering getting a decent cool pad but I doubt it would significantly help. Has anyone ever had issues when pushing laptops in continuous flight?

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a good cooling pad does help somewhat.

heat will always be a problem with laptops. you should monitor temps.

I frequently use my laptop with the sim, but never, never in sessions that last more than, let's say, more than 1-2 hours.

I don't personnally think a cooling pad will help too much, although I use it. I also have two external small fans properly placed near the hot air exits of the laptop to help avoid the overheating.

Edited January 13, 20242 yr by edpatino

Not in my MSFS days, but, until P3D v4, I always flew in laptops. For the previous 2 ones, I used Throttle Stop for limiting the clocks to something between base and turbo frequencies. Instead of getting >90ºC CPU temperatures, I was getting just 70-75, depending on load. I'm not sure if Intel still allows this though, they may have locked the feature.

None of the cooling pads I ever used worked at all, regarding thermals. A couple of Coke bottle caps for raising the laptop a bit did the same for less $.

Edited January 13, 20242 yr by Luis Hernandez

I cut the FPS to 30 frames and the laptop heats up much less.