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I agree to try all options (and Lossless Scaling as it's so cheap) to see which suits your setup best. Funnily enough, in my case I find the in-game FSR3 frame gen miles better than Fluid Motion Frames 2.1, but it's nice to have more choices to try depending on your GPU, monitor/TV etc.

They are correct. It adds input lag and artifacting. This is common knowledge. Nobody should be using this technology to play anything that requires quick inputs like simracing, combat flight sims or fps games. This technology isn't new. AMD have had it in their GPU drivers for over a year and are on their 3rd iteration of the technology.

MSFS 2024 has ray traced shadows. Performance hit for my 7900xtx is negligible enough for me to keep it on the ultra setting.

Price to performance/feature set they currently are miles better than Nvidia. The only thing Nvidia have going for them is raw ray tracing performance, but of the 1000 games I own over Steam, ubi, battle net etc probably 5 have ray tracing so that's a moot point to me. If you want to keep being ripped off buying nvidia that's your perogative. And in reply to Christopher Low, then yes 16gb is ample for 1080p at the moment, but the year is 2025, isn't 1080p a bit old hat for the vast majority of gamers out there these days? As the OG question was 5070ti v 9070xt, I proposed an alternative for similar money that won't bottleneck you with poor vram.

They are a bad choice for the money in my personal opinion. 16gb vram is not enough for MSFS. The amount of threads with "I have a 4080/5080,yet I have stuttering at airports" on these boards is laughable. Buying a gpu for £1200 only to have to lower gfx/texture settings to stop stuttering is ridiculous. Nvidia stopped caring about gamers a long time ago. Remember the "see this 5070, it's actually a 4090" fake frame nonsense? Yet people keep buying them, just to get screwed over 12 months down the line when the"super" versions get released, which are normally what the cards in question should have been in the first place. The only good cards Nvidia have released in the last 3 cycles are the 3090,4090 and 5090.

You can pick up a 7900xtx new for £700 currently in UK.......6% Faster than a 5070ti across the board of their review suite according to Guru3d reviews, and 24GB of Vram. Vram IS king in MSFS. Source; I own a 7900xtx. I use FSR3 and FSR 3 frame gen ultra settings 4k. Lock my frames externally with RTSS, butter smooth everywhere, including heavy airports with full AIG ai traffic. It is also supremely easy to power boost, undervolt and overclock these cards straight from the drivers. People need to stop being ripped off by nvidia. If you bought a 5070ti or 5080 solely for MSFS, then I don't know what to say. Same reason why I can't recommend 9070 cards. Not enough Vram.

The problem with Avsim Library login - the trick is to login and then DON'T do anything for about a minute. Your screen will tell you you are logged in, but Traffic manager seems to take a while in the background to actually work that out. Having to do manual downloads, if you go to settings in the AIG Traffic manager, there is a setting you can toggle on or off called something like "Allow Manual downloads" - turn this to OFF. As for the missing repaints you mention above, if you have downloaded the entirety of the AIG package, that's somewhere in the region of 9000+ different liveries and variations, so the likelihood of you ever noticing you don't have these 40 repaints is slim to non-existent. Cheers.

It used to be ALT+Z when I last used it. It should bring up the overlay, then you can create shortcuts, change options etc

"a 5090 is what you want". You can run MSFS 2020 & 2024 on a £800 7900XTX 24gb like I do at 4k high/ultra settings with zero stutters and great framerates. Nvidia really do have a hold over people. OP could have bought one, saved £200-250 quid on his 5080 and not be running out of VRAM. I see so many posts on here with 4080s and 5080 users moaning about stutters and poor framerates. Stop being blinded by Nvidia and their AI slop and joke pricing. They are not even trying anymore and people just lap it up. And before anyone one says something stupid like I'm an AMD word not allowed or something, I also currently own 2 580gtx, a gtx 730, 3 970's, a 2080, 3070 and 6900xt.

I use "relive" in the AMD Adrenalin driver suite, highest bitrate. I don't get any stutters when recording 2024. My recordings are saved to a different drive than Flight Sim is running on. Have you tried that at all? For me, 2020 records without stutter but HDR is messed up, and 2024 records perfectly with zero stutter and HDR being fine.

It depends, for me personally on a 14 core/20 thread intel 13600k it's a god tier program for All gaming, but especially for Msfs 2020 & 2024. I use Process Lasso as follows: Right click on MSFS2020/2024 under "running programs" - I allocate "ALWAYS" use all 6 P-Cores, Hyperthreading On. Then disable P-Core 0 and 1, I disable these for W11 to use if required. I then also disable my 8 E-cores. Right click on MSFS and allocate performance to "ALWAYS" use High performance. I then allocate the addons I use to my 8 E-cores that I have disabled msfs from using, in my case; Sky4Sim AnyoneFly (probably one of the best MSFS addons that no one uses in my opinion, I use it as a virtual audio tour guide along with cereproc or Ms natural voices). Chaseplane or FS realistic pro depending on which sim I'm using. Fsltl injector, but I ONLY use all of the AIG and FS Traffic models, I don't actually use the FSLTL models. Vraas I also use Rex atmos and autofps with msfs 2020. Using these settings I get basically zero stutter anywhere especially in 2024. Zero audio stutter, even though I'm outputting full native Dolby Atmos/DTS-X to a Denon 5.4.1 home theatre and rendering out 4K Ultra/high settings to a LG C1. FSR3 antialiasing and FSR 3 frame gen using 64GB DDR5 6000 cl30 and a 7900xtx 24gb. I practically ONLY fly bush/vfr though. I can't comment on processs lasso with an AMD processor.

No they don't override your TV's internal settings.

If you go to your MSFS24 install folder and search by date modified, do you see a file at the top, it's normally called something like dxgi.dll? (Reshade should have put the dll file in the same folder that contains your flightsimulator24.exe file). If reshade is still active there will probably also be a text file or a folder called reshade.ini, or the folder will be named after whatever reshade preset you had installed. If you can see the .dll file I'm on about, move it out of the folder and see if it fixes the performance issue.

You say you have wiped nvidia drivers. Did you download and use DDU and boot your OS into safe mode and follow the DDU instructions to wipe all nvidia leftovers before putting in your new card? Did you check on the side of your GPU to see if you have a switch to change between bios? Some graphics cards like my 7900XTX have a silent AND an overclock performance physical bios toggle switch on the side of the GPU, the cards are normally set on the silent bios out of the box. All I can say in regard to AMD gpu's is that I have a 7900XTX and I have excellent performance in 2020 and stellar performance in 2024.

Aren't Saitek owned by Mad Catz now? Mad Catz reduced their workforce by 37% in February, due to terrible sales of the Instruments they made for Rock Band 4. I wonder if this has had a knock-on effect? http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/02/rock-band-4-cant-save-a-struggling-mad-catz/

My name is 4L0M, and I have a problem. Sunday, British Grand Prix, Max Verstappen did a great overtake on Nico Rosberg and I was too busy looking at the clouds over Silverstone. I then turned over to the Wimbledon final and when the camera panned out to the arena shots of the majestic looking Centre Court........ I was looking at the bloody clouds! Lol. I think I may need professional help.

You do have the Steam client installed on the pc in question, and are not visiting steam through chrome or Firefox etc? You need to download the steam client to your pc, install it. Run it, login using your steam name and password, then click on the "Library" tab, and all games that you have ever purchased through steam will be shown there. Games that are currently installed on your pc show up in white, and games that you have purchased, but have not installed show up in grey.

Download onto your laptop via steam. As stated above, steam installs the game automatically,but once you have an install on your laptop, right click on fsx : se edition in your steam library, choose "Backup game files", choose "custom size" and make the custom size a couple of m/bytes bigger than your FSX se folder (sorry, but I can't remember how big it is off the top of my head), and choose where you want to back it up (you could back it up to a 32gb memory stick for example) or onto multiple dvd's. You can then pop the memory stick into your sim rig at home and there will be an installer.exe in the backup folder that you can run to install it onto your sim rig without ever having to download it ever again.

I don't know what shader mods you have used before for this to happen, but I use reshade/sweetfx 2.0 in FSX, and all it does is add a .Dll file (in my case it adds dxgi.Dll) to your main FSX directory and a folder called sweetfx which contains your shader settings. If you want to get rid of shader mod, you just have to delete the dxgi.dll file. That's it. Nothing else is touched.

My findings above were with 4xSGAA. Performance seems slightly smoother than ASN with same settings.

Jim, I took the screen shots in question, not this npole guy. The shots are totally unedited. As stated above, I also posted shots in this thread that look great. Due to the nature of ASCA being dynamic, sometimes it's going to look great, sometimes not so much. As I spent over £80 this morning on upgrades for FSX and P3D, and ASCA I personally would love it be the greatest thing ever. If I'm brutally honest, I think the price is too expensive as it is, I also think that making FSX and P3d versions separate is also wrong. At the very least I personally think it would have been fairer to the community to have offered a bundle deal for a slightly lower price if you wanted to buy all 3 products at the same time, but as I wouldn't have had half the enjoyment flying without their weather engines over the years, hifi are probably the one company that I would have shelled out this much price wise. It's only day 1, I'm sure hifi will tweak it and make it better over the coming months like they normally do with their products. The actual AS16 itself is excellent.

AS16 so far appears to be very good. Performance (only tried in FSX so far, but I did also buy it for P3d), compared to ASN seems to be better, it's definitely no worse, but I do feel it runs weather depiction, especially in rain and stormy weather smoother.

I took the screenshots in question, there was Nothing "wrong" about them. I DO use sweetfx, but they looked equally hideous without sweetfx, as I also disabled it to test. Now, I also posted a few shots in this thread that DO look good. The nature of "dynamic" texture generation leads to the fact that sometimes ASCA will look awful, sometimes it's going to look spectacular. My mine gripe is more with the sky textures, some of them are plain odd, but the sky texture generation can be turned off, but you can still have the clouds change dynamically, so that's not too much of a problem. The cloud sets maybe better if they were labelled into areas, such as a Europe set, Caribbean set etc, as the "wrong" shots in question were taken over Heathrow and the sky certainly didn't look anything like that in the UK today, it was far more grey than those super white fluffy clouds depict. The actual AS16 itself is excellent, performance is really good, even compared to ASN. One question, is there any way to stop ASCA loading up automatically everytime I run AS16? Regards!

Have you updated your graphics card drivers recently? After a Nvidia driver update, your graphics card output will always default itself to "Limited" dynamic output range, this definitely makes the colours more "muted" than normal. You have to manually go into Nvidia control panel and turn the "Output Dynamic Range" setting back to "FULL".

AS16 ASCA : AS16 & Rex Soft Clouds : Started flight with AS16 & Rex Installed, took shots, paused flight, started ASCA which then injected texture set into same flight. To be fair, I don't think ASCA looks too bad on these, but I still prefer Rex personally. The actual AS16 weather engine itself seems be be pretty good in itself, but whether its a $29.99 worth of Upgrade is debatable.