**** Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Thread ****
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Hi
my dad used to play FSX original (using an old 4-core sandy bridge i5 @ 4.8Ghz / 4GB RAM / GTX460 and a 1TB HDD which maxed out the system but worked (also had the upgrades/addons for weather & traffic etc and optimal settings added) and it worked great, but it looks nothing like the new one, after a while, he got bored and but stopped, now in the summer he heard about FSX2020 and instead of having to spend several hundreds of pounds upgrading to a decent gaming PC thought it would be cheaper to buy an Xbox One X for £250 as it was gunna be available on that too... but it isn't and there is no timeline even though one is considered as being "in the works" it sounds like it's not going to happen.
I suggested at least 16GB RAM (24Gb-32Gb recommended) at least an 8-Core recently made (last 0-2 years) CPU and 1TB SSD (for installs) + 2TB HDD (for temp storage) - this game supposedly has 40,000 HD Discs worth of data to stream and would imagine it being tough system-wide so no bottlenecks.
23" 1080p@60Hz ONLY SO NO 4k HORSEPOWER NEEDED
can anyone help as everyone knows the "minimum requirements" just aren't up to the real task?
thanks
my dad used to play FSX original (using an old 4-core sandy bridge i5 @ 4.8Ghz / 4GB RAM / GTX460 and a 1TB HDD which maxed out the system but worked (also had the upgrades/addons for weather & traffic etc and optimal settings added) and it worked great, but it looks nothing like the new one, after a while, he got bored and but stopped, now in the summer he heard about FSX2020 and instead of having to spend several hundreds of pounds upgrading to a decent gaming PC thought it would be cheaper to buy an Xbox One X for £250 as it was gunna be available on that too... but it isn't and there is no timeline even though one is considered as being "in the works" it sounds like it's not going to happen.
I suggested at least 16GB RAM (24Gb-32Gb recommended) at least an 8-Core recently made (last 0-2 years) CPU and 1TB SSD (for installs) + 2TB HDD (for temp storage) - this game supposedly has 40,000 HD Discs worth of data to stream and would imagine it being tough system-wide so no bottlenecks.
23" 1080p@60Hz ONLY SO NO 4k HORSEPOWER NEEDED
can anyone help as everyone knows the "minimum requirements" just aren't up to the real task?
thanks
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Is your dad going to stick with the GTX460? Might be a huge bottleneck there?
If he only intends to play 1080p, you won't need to get anything too beefy to replace it, 30-40fps is perfectly playable.
its 11 years old PC - think he needs a new one by now - PSU has already been replaced once so far - its a 2nd gen i5 with 4 cores , 4GB Ram - its not gunna play FS2020 at all
he just wants tthe cheapest way of getting it to play at decent quality settings at 60Hz 1920x1080
What budget does he have?
Soldato
What resolution are you playing at?
Your CPU and your GPU need upgrading. I have a 4770K and 980Ti and my CPU usage clips 100%, GPU is hammered, but I am playing at 4K, for my sins on this GPU.
Are you playing at 100% scale?
I have the 980ti and can only really play comfortably at 60-80% depending on aircraft and surroundings, with mainly high settings
Saw a dev Q&A that mentioned they have significant CPU optimisations coming with the next patch.... significant improvements to multithreading and reduction in main thread bottlenecking. Might help with some of the performance woes for those already with beefier GPUs.
Broad target but billy big boss of the project (Jorg) says coming to Xbox in 2021... mentioned in this long Dev Q&A somewhere.
Broad target but billy big boss of the project (Jorg) says coming to Xbox in 2021... mentioned in this long Dev Q&A somewhere.
That would be excellent news. Even my 980ti was cpu bottlenecked at 1440p (2700x)
I'll check what the settings were. I'm pretty sure the FPS widget was showing GPU limited. The PC does have a 4K monitor but I was running in a window. This PC is so I can play with addons/developer mode stuff without wrecking my main rig so I'm less bothered if it struggles a bit.
Caporegime
Is this game now broke for anyone else?
Just as it gets to end of loading screen before getting into the actual game it just crashes.
Can't tell if it's an actual setting or something, driving me mad for 2 hours now
Just as it gets to end of loading screen before getting into the actual game it just crashes.
Can't tell if it's an actual setting or something, driving me mad for 2 hours now
Soldato
Hello, don't try anything, its a combination of game service and defender or something else.
People have tried all sorts for this, in the store update games service and then windows update for defender.
Worked for me for now anyway.
Caporegime
So should disable. Defender?
I had problems last night were the game crashed at the start of the splash screens appearing. After several goes and crashes I gave up and rebooted the PC. Worked after that. Someone else I was talking to on TeamSpeak had the same and a reboot had fixed it for them to.
Hrm, will try it. I've finally got some time to do some flying and so far I haven't managed to make it into a plane in 5-6 attempts.
So I uninstalled my Logitech autopilot panel drivers, which seemed to help. Then just as I was enjoying it again it CTD'ed an hour into a flight.
Such a frustrating game. The crashes suck all the enjoyment out of it. CBA setting up my flight again.
Such a frustrating game. The crashes suck all the enjoyment out of it. CBA setting up my flight again.
