Tom Wright

Pre-ordered the Aviators edition this morning. £199 GBP - not even an hours flying in a PA28 at my local airport!

I never enjoyed the Fenix as much as I do now I have a new much faster PC. Now it's on par with the PMDG 737 for me. The systems depth and quality of modelling is incredible. The only issue I have with it (and this is probably just poor technique on my part) is I find the thing impossible to land. It just balloons and floats for days. I feel like the auto thrust sometimes works against you and will put a burst of power in the final moments before flaring. Despite being rather slippery, I find the 737 slightly easier as it's fully manual and therefore more predictable how it's going to behave.

I think it's related to the Rolling Cache. If you have it on, clear it or switch it off. It happens when you fly to a new area of photogrammetry and the rolling cache is full, so it has to purge old data to write the new data in. This severely impacts your FPS while it does so. For most people with fast internet connection the rolling cache serves no benefit, so I just leave it off.

Got my 7800X3D / 4080 system on Friday and done a couple of flights. Can say so far butter smooth and no stutters.

Just went through the same dilemma and in the end ordered an AMD system. Be aware that the 13th and 14th gen Intel's are suffering quite high failure rates at the moment which is widely reported.

Awesome. Thanks for the explanation guys. Think I will go for it and upgrade my monitor in due course! Good to future proof it in my view.

Understood - but that's not to say I would see a FPS INCREASE by running at 4k instead of 1080p though right? It won't perform worse at 1080 than at 4K?

Out of interest. I have a 1080p monitor at the moment. I've specced a 4080 because I do intend to get a 1440p or 4K one at some point in the near future, but for at least the first few months I'll be using it at 1080p. Other forums suggest a CPU bottleneck in this scenario - will I severely hamper performance of the sim by running a 4080 at 1080p?

Hello, After serving me extremely well through 10 years, 3 homes and 4 different flight sims, my i7 4770K system is due retirement. After reading horror stories about 13/14th gen Intels at the moment, and also that the current AMD chips are some of the best in their class for flight sim, I've specced a machine up based around the Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor. I wondered if this spec looks good and if there's anything I should change/go without? It is right at the limit of my budget, but given my current machine has been going for 10 years, it's likely (and hopeful) that this will go the same way. Case CORSAIR 4000D AIRFLOW TEMPERED GLASS GAMING CASE Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core CPU (4.2GHz-5.0GHz/104MB w/3D V-CACHE/AM5) Motherboard GIGABYTE B650 AORUS ELITE AX V2 (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6E) Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 5200MHz (2 x 16GB) Graphics Card 16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR Graphics Card Support Bracket NONE (BRACKET INCLUDED AS STANDARD ON 4070 Ti / RX 7700 XT AND ABOVE) 1st M.2 SSD Drive 2TB SAMSUNG 990 PRO M.2, PCIe 4.0 NVMe (up to 7450MB/R, 6900MB/W) 2nd M.2 SSD Drive 2TB SAMSUNG 990 PRO M.2, PCIe 4.0 NVMe (up to 7450MB/R, 6900MB/W) Power Supply CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET Power Cable 1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core) Processor Cooling PCS FrostFlow 360 Series ARGB High Performance Liquid Cooler Thermal Paste STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD) Network Card ONBOARD 2.5Gbe LAN PORT USB/Thunderbolt Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS Operating System Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence

I'm also on the market for a new PC for MSFS, and have specced this up. I've been out of the hardware game for a long time and am pretty sure that for me the 7800x3d with a RTX4080 is the way to go. I'm not sure however about the M2 drives or cooler, or whether going for 6000MHz RAM is worth it or not? Case CORSAIR 4000D AIRFLOW TEMPERED GLASS GAMING CASE Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core CPU (4.2GHz-5.0GHz/104MB w/3D V-CACHE/AM5) Get 2 Games with select AMD CPU & GPUs! Motherboard GIGABYTE B650 AORUS ELITE AX V2 (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6E) Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 5600MHz (2 x 16GB) Graphics Card 16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR Buy select GeForce RTX 40 Series*, get Black Myth: Wukong Graphics Card Support Bracket NONE (BRACKET INCLUDED AS STANDARD ON 4070 Ti / RX 7700 XT AND ABOVE) 1st M.2 SSD Drive 1TB SAMSUNG 990 PRO M.2, PCIe 4.0 NVMe (up to 7450MB/R, 6900MB/W) 2nd M.2 SSD Drive 2TB SAMSUNG 990 PRO M.2, PCIe 4.0 NVMe (up to 7450MB/R, 6900MB/W) Power Supply CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET Get a discount code for 20% off select peripherals at Corsair.com Power Cable 1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core) Processor Cooling PCS FrostFlow 360 Series ARGB High Performance Liquid Cooler Thermal Paste STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD) Network Card ONBOARD 2.5Gbe LAN PORT USB/Thunderbolt Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS Operating System Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence

This for me is the one that sets MSFS apart from any other sim. The fact that you can fly literally anywhere in the world and it looks not only good but realistic without having to install any add ons at all. FSX, even P3D needs things like FTX Global/Vector/True Earth/UTC whatever installed on top amounting to hundreds of extra GB and often at quite a detriment to performance, and it still doesn't look even close to as good as MSFS does at stock.

You're not really comparing apples to apples here with the A300 vs the 737. The A300 feels like a big aeroplane because it IS a big, widebody, aeroplane. It carries a lot more momentum than the narrow body 737. Real pilots of the 737 have commented favourably on the handling of the PMDG model, within the constraints of a desktop PC platform.

Quite significantly different actually. The 300ER is widely considered the second generation of 777. As well as more powerful engines it featured several other improvements such raked wingtips and systems upgrades. The 200 and 200ER are much earlier model 777s - some of BAs examples flying are over 25 years old.

If budget constraints are such that you can't go for a dedicated GPU then I would seriously consider an Xbox instead, to be quite honest. You're never going to enjoy it with only integrated graphics.

Yes, I know that. But by contrast to the third party ones mentioned above it's so well integrated into the OS that you don't even need to know what it's doing really.