1 hour ago, funkyj4ever said:

Even in medium or low it won't run smooth.

Wrong. The sim runs on a Xbox, if you cant manage to run it smooth on mediocre system, you simply do something wrong. 

8 minutes ago, Noel said:

I'd love to see vCore with that set to run 5.5 constantly.

It is very much possible with proper cooling.

My Ansiotropic Filtering is set to 16 in the Ndivia control settings, not 2024 graphics settings

 Nvida - Texture Filtering = Clamp is correct

Ensure you have Dynamic Settings off - Makes the terrain look terrible to achieve more performance. this is also correct

26 minutes ago, Noel said:

It's not running 5.5Ghz constantly, only when demand requires, correct?  I use PBO with a curve optimizer at -20 and only on rare occasions does 2024 ever demand anywhere near that clockspeed with the native rate locked at 50FPS.

Here we are over Germany, all Ultra, TLOD 200 at right now in the I-Fly 737 MAX 8. Ultra smooth, but locked at 50FPS-native as we don't use any form of FG.  vCore hovers right around 1.30v, a cool 70W or so on the CPU. and core temp at 67C by RTSS, 61.6 via RyzMaster right now.

Edited June 23, 2025Jun 23 by Noel

22 minutes ago, Bigmack said:

It is very much possible with proper cooling.

My Ansiotropic Filtering is set to 16 in the Ndivia control settings, not 2024 graphics settings

 Nvida - Texture Filtering = Clamp is correct

Ensure you have Dynamic Settings off - Makes the terrain look terrible to achieve more performance. this is also correct

Sure, but the question was what is the sustained vCore.  It's like running a hot rod engine at 10,000rpm.  What would be useful is if one could dedicate the 'main thread' of which MSFS 2024 certainly has, but I don't believe it is possible to assign it to a specific core--it jumps around according to Windows management algorithm.  It would be useful to set the main thread at max core clockspeed then you would not need to sustain the power required to have all 12 cores run at max speed when that's never going to be used in MSFS 2024.

13 hours ago, Bigmack said:

There was a software engineer that help develop windows that would come and show you how to setup up windows to run Flight simulator for a fee.

I remember the late Michael Greenblatt and his FS-GS service. Too bad I was still a student during his days. Did you mean him or someone else?

And there was also the late Nick Needham, who published a great Bible for tuning Windows XP to run FSX well back in the day. 
Rich

2 hours ago, AnkH said:

Wrong. The sim runs on a Xbox, if you cant manage to run it smooth on mediocre system, you simply do something wrong. 

Dude. there are tons of forum posts about high vram use. stutters etc. Also for xbox. Why else its number 1 bug high vram usage?? Also most cheaper cards dont have enough vram. So again it only runs good on expensive hardware.

Some posts after a quick search. 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/so-unhappy-with-the-visuals-and-performance-on-xbox/696071/63

 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/anyone-other-xbox-users-just-fed-up-that-2024-is-completely-unplayable/713779/92

 

Edited June 23, 2025Jun 23 by funkyj4ever

2 hours ago, Luis Hernandez said:

I remember the late Michael Greenblatt and his FS-GS service. Too bad I was still a student during his days. Did you mean him or someone else?

Yes, that was him. he smoked like a chimney.

Edited June 23, 2025Jun 23 by Bigmack

1 hour ago, funkyj4ever said:

Dude. there are tons of forum posts about high vram use. stutters etc. Also for xbox. Why else its number 1 bug high vram usage?? Also most cheaper cards dont have enough vram. So again it only runs good on expensive hardware.

Some posts after a quick search. 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/so-unhappy-with-the-visuals-and-performance-on-xbox/696071/63

 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/anyone-other-xbox-users-just-fed-up-that-2024-is-completely-unplayable/713779/92

 

I'm running on a 2080Ti card with no vram issues

2 hours ago, rlashier said:

And there was also the late Nick Needham, who published a great Bible for tuning Windows XP to run FSX well back in the day. 

The Bible was written for Windows 7, but I still apply his principles to Win10 and 11. But before his Bible, there were some tweak guides he wrote for XP and also for FS9.

6 minutes ago, Luis Hernandez said:

The Bible was written for Windows 7, but I still apply his principles to Win10 and 11. But before his Bible, there were some tweak guides he wrote for XP and also for FS9.

Yes, it was. That's why I say people nowadays just think installing windows on a machine with a fast CPU and video card and memory with run Flight Sim at its best performance by default. By default, it doesn't. Microsoft didn't design windows to run flight sim but to satisfy the average everyday user. His bible was written to show you how to setup windows to perform at its highest performance and stability. No CTD's.

5 hours ago, Bigmack said:

It is very much possible with proper cooling.

Fascinating find from following up on this.  I manually set clock speed to 5.5gHz and am doing a flight now.  RyzenMaster shows cores bouncing around well below peak clock speed as you can see in RyzenMaster and as they did with my prior setup.  And yet if I run a simple stress test, indeed 12 cores stay at 5.5gHz.  vCore is a pleasant 1.28v as well and cooling is a non-issue as you can see in this image.  Why does MSI Center as well as CPU-Z show locked at 5.5gHz, yet actual in use in MSFS is way way lower.  I think this, once again comes down to MAIN THREAD limitation, an unfortunate reality.  This is presumably why in a specific scenario I may see a maximum of 55FPS-native yet have big time CPU and GPU headroom.  I read the main thread is no longer tied to a specific core, it bounces around according to an algorithm.  I use Process Lasso to put the first 6 cores on MSFS more or less exclusively, along with 2 of the fastest cores on CCD2.

Edited June 23, 2025Jun 23 by Noel

14 hours ago, funkyj4ever said:

The real reason is you need a 2000€ PC to run it smooth.  Under that impossible. 2020 will perform better

No. Go watch youtube optimised setting guides and you'll get more frames.

53 minutes ago, MikeH99 said:

No. Go watch youtube optimised setting guides and you'll get more frames.

I don't care about or chase frames. All I care about performance, smoothness, and stability.

3 hours ago, Bigmack said:

I'm running on a 2080Ti card with no vram issues

ahh the Anecdotal argument. What do you want to proof? Why is the nummer 1 bug then? The vram usage. And besides  that I don't know anything about the settings you play, the amount of frames etc. The types of aircraft etc. This is so useless to tell XD.

 

Edited June 23, 2025Jun 23 by funkyj4ever