I always opt into all beta versions of the flight sims and windows.  It seems like about every week or so something updates and breaks something I have setup.  I have an old slow pc and run the sims as high as they will allow just keeping above the slide show.  My pc is an old 390 mb, 9600k with a 2060 super sporting 32gb of memory and a bunch of drives.  All on high with a few Ultras like clouds.  FPS locked on 30 running 3 monitors 1440P.

Other hardware includes the Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo along with an Xtouch Mini, a MIAP Pro 24, and a Stream Deck 16.  Lots of control possiblities to drive me nuts. 

I am retired now and have used sims since the Sublogic days.

Why do I continue to do this stuff and have to redo almost everything when a new release hits.  I have planes I don't fly and airports I never visit.  Contol possibilities that MSFS 2024 shows are mind boggling and ckear as mud. 

I still register a flight most days and sometimes two if everything works when I boot up and into the sim.

Sure beats just growing older and senile.  I love flight simulation...

I’m curious if you get consistent performance out of 2024 with that PC - I know it’s gotta be tough on 2020 because I had a 2070 Super and had to upgrade to a 3080Ti ultimately. Would be a good test of whether or not the thin client stuff worked as well as intended. 

I find this old pc likes 2024 as well and perhaps better than MSFS.  My GPU runs near capacity most of the time while the 9600k can sometimes take a breather.  I never feel as if I am in  a slide show but have learned tol let everything take its time and load all of the scenery and traffic before heading to the runway,  I am considering a new PC with more internal bandwidth but I constantly read about users with very high end machines with very poor results.  I have smooth flying from cold and dark to shutdown.  I also load up Pilot2ATC, an ACAR, Navigraph Charts, FSUIPC,and Axis and Ohs on this old self built pc.  

While the Fenix does well on this machine,  general aviation has become more appealing just for the visuals.  Maybe I just got tired of hauling jets around the world.

How much VRAM does that 2060 have, John?

9 hours ago, diajohn said:

I always opt into all beta versions of the flight sims and windows.  It seems like about every week or so something updates and breaks something I have setup. 

Er... so... stop opting into all beta versions, I'd say...? Not sure what the goal of this topic is but it seems to me you answered your own question (?) in the first sentence already.

To Chris, it is 8 GB.  

15 hours ago, diajohn said:

I always opt into all beta versions of the flight sims and windows.  It seems like about every week or so something updates and breaks something I have setup.  I have an old slow pc and run the sims as high as they will allow just keeping above the slide show.  My pc is an old 390 mb, 9600k with a 2060 super sporting 32gb of memory and a bunch of drives.  All on high with a few Ultras like clouds.  FPS locked on 30 running 3 monitors 1440P.

Other hardware includes the Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo along with an Xtouch Mini, a MIAP Pro 24, and a Stream Deck 16.  Lots of control possiblities to drive me nuts. 

I am retired now and have used sims since the Sublogic days.

Why do I continue to do this stuff and have to redo almost everything when a new release hits.  I have planes I don't fly and airports I never visit.  Contol possibilities that MSFS 2024 shows are mind boggling and ckear as mud. 

I still register a flight most days and sometimes two if everything works when I boot up and into the sim.

Sure beats just growing older and senile.  I love flight simulation...

Wow, for a moment there I thought you had copied one of my laments except I have a 3060 and both 2020 and 2024 run like a dream. keep on keeping on............

I am afraid that words not allowed sort of screwed up my headline.  There was no question really asked.  The point is so many of us spend our time on non-flying activity with the sims today.  Making it function so we can fly.  Hardware wise, balance in your system is probably the most critical part of the experience. Wasting money to have a powerful cpu or gpu without balance likely  leads to many of the performance complaints.  You have to have an engine big enough to power an aircraft but it is of little use burning a lot of fuel when it has more power than the airframe can handle.  

And it doesn't help when every piece of software seems to be a beta requiring months of fixes before it does what it said it would do.

 

Just a lament without a point.