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Will MSFS 2024 Run On Potato Hardware?

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I suspect it will. Just like MSFS 2020, which I ran, in a satisfactory fashion, for many years on a rig with 8gigs of system memory and a graphics card that hadn't got new drivers in years. 

I got ridiculed by the champagne crowd with their caviar and truffles graphics cards.😁

Similarly, I strongly suspect that MSFS 2024 will run just fine on this gens current mid- to low-spec hardware. 

I believe Asobo said that it will run on existing hardware even better than FS2020 fors due to the many optimisations they have been able to make.

Ryzen 5800X3D, Nvidia RTX5080 - 32 Gig DDR4 RAM, 1TB & 2 TB NVME drives - Windows 11 64 bit MSFS 2024 Premium Deluxe Edition Resolution 2560 x 1440 (32 inch curved monitor)

Exactly what Cianpars said. It should run on the same hardware and better. They finally got to ditch the legacy code and build from the ground up, making better, more efficient use of the hardware.

It will run on XBOX so it will.

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38 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I suspect it will. Just like MSFS 2020, which I ran, in a satisfactory fashion, for many years on a rig with 8gigs of system memory and a graphics card that hadn't got new drivers in years. 

I got ridiculed by the champagne crowd with their caviar and truffles graphics cards.😁

Similarly, I strongly suspect that MSFS 2024 will run just fine on this gens current mid- to low-spec hardware. 

Just buy yourself some RAM for 20 dollars, I mean that's the cheapest part!

That said I now have 60 FPS with my ancient 1080ti, thanks to Lossless Scaling, so I guess it will work on MSFS2024 too.

For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.

Yea, I am pretty sure it will run fine on a low to medium build PC, assuming, of course, that the user is willing to compromise on settings and does not want to run everything at 4K with ultra settings. Being reasonable here means that you can have a very nice experience on a much less expensive PC than what we needed in other simulators. This, to me, is one of the most significant achievements of MSFS2020 and I am sure they have figured out how to optimize a great deal more with 2024.  I currently am on a 10700 with a 3070 and run with all settings on high in 2K and rarely experience any kind of performance issue -- the sim is smooth and stutter free.  

That said the challenge is not the base sim, in my estimation, but the 3rd party addons. P3D would run fine in a vanilla state on my computer, but once I added things....  And that is showing to the be the same in 2020. Some of the addons -- KSTL by whatever developer made that 11GB airport -- is horrendous and I have uninstalled it. So, in addition to MSFS settings you also have to pay attention to what addons to get.

My rig is getting older and I have budgeted to replace it this year -- currently saving each month -- so once we get a little closer to release and the minimum and recommended specs are released I will begin to look for a new PC.

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MSFS 2024. Primary Planes: Black Square TBM850, Duke, Baron, Caravan; A2A Comanche; FSReborn Phenom; Fexix A321; PMDG 737-7, 777: Utilities: Active Sky (Passive Mode); BATC, FSLTL.

I expect without ray tracing it would run on a bag of chips, never mind a potato (depending on screen resolution of course and your expectations on frame rate).

It will need an Nvidia RTX or one of the later AMD graphics cards to do ray tracing of course, although Shadows at 6144 in the user config file will give you a similarly sharp effect - I use that now.

I would expect ray tracing would also get rid of the window frame anomaly wouldn't it, caused due to the current screen space issue. 
I am pretending I know what I am talking about here :smile:, maybe people who know more about these things like @Farlis could comment on it.

Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

33 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Just buy yourself some RAM for 20 dollars, I mean that's the cheapest part!

That said I now have 60 FPS with my ancient 1080ti, thanks to Lossless Scaling, so I guess it will work on MSFS2024 too.

Quick question on lossless scaling.  I purchased it but can't figure out how to use it.  Is it just install and forget or do we need to launch it prior to MSFS and hit the scale button?  Any insight is appreciated.

Sincerely,

Dennis D. Müllert

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20 minutes ago, DMullert said:

Quick question on lossless scaling.  I purchased it but can't figure out how to use it.  Is it just install and forget or do we need to launch it prior to MSFS and hit the scale button?  Any insight is appreciated.

The latter, launch it with MSFS (and configure it with "LSFG 2.1" and "x2"), start your flight and then hit the "scale" button and immediately switch back to the MSFS window.

For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.

Sorry but I'm buying a new PC for it anyway. Just told the wife this evening so it's too late now 😶

 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2  - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base

I run MSFS on a PC I got in 2009.

  • i7-920 @3.00Ghz
  • 12GB RAM
  • GTX 10606GB
  • Win10 Pro

I get about 18-20FPS  around very dense cities (which I avoid)  and upto 40FPS in other areas. I was close to getting a new gaming rig but have decided to wait till after FS24 releases to see how it performs by watching YT and reading forum posts. Then i'll get the new monster rig.

2 minutes ago, ThrottleUp said:

I run MSFS on a PC I got in 2009.

  • i7-920 @3.00Ghz
  • 12GB RAM
  • GTX 10606GB
  • Win10 Pro

I get about 18-20FPS  around very dense cities (which I avoid)  and upto 40FPS in other areas. I was close to getting a new gaming rig but have decided to wait till after FS24 releases to see how it performs by watching YT and reading forum posts. Then i'll get the new monster rig.

Very similar to my initial rig with it, except I was on a GTX 970 - was shocked it actually ran, very impressed tbh .. ..

Can't remember the exact processor or speed, except it was a first gen i7.. ..

G

Gary Davies aka "Gazzareth"

Simming since 747 on the Acorn Electron

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42 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Sorry but I'm buying a new PC for it anyway. Just told the wife this evening so it's too late now 😶

What are you going for then?  Because you already have a pretty impressive rig.

Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

44 minutes ago, Gazzareth said:

Very similar to my initial rig with it, except I was on a GTX 970 - was shocked it actually ran, very impressed tbh .. ..

Can't remember the exact processor or speed, except it was a first gen i7.. ..

G

My i5 7600k/GTX 980Ti powered PC runs MSFS 2020 very well indeed @ 1920x1080 resolution.

Christopher Low

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme

UK2000 Beta Tester

Going back to FS9 I always tuned my setting to get 30+ fps on the hardware I had. That was always the best way to get the best visual quality and smooth game play. I still do the same today except I can now see 120fps on the screen thanks to FG and frame doubling app which will only get better as time goes on. 60fps is easy to achieve now. The days of needing cutting edge hardware to run Flight Sim are over.

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Intel Core i9-10900K at 5.2GHz, Corsair H115i PRO, ASUS MAXIMUS XII HERO Z490, G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 15-16-16-36, ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3090, SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 1TB x 3, Corsair HX Series HX1000 Watt PSU, Pimax Crystal LIght.

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