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Still got 1GB to go. Gonna take a while at 0.05Mb with occasional bursts of 100+. Six hours and counting...
 
Just tried a flight over London using a Rift S, with a 2070S.
The CPU usage "appears" to be evenly spread across all 8 of my CPU cores, so that's good, as there's clearly headroom left.
RAM usage never exceeded 16GB, and VRAM was no more than 6.2GB, so clearly they've made good inroads into optimisation.
My GPU was around 80%, meaning smooth running for almost all of the time.

As for the visuals, the update has allowed me to increase them, certainly enough that it DOES look better, but that's not to say that it's fully maxed out. Quite the contrary, more like "mid level" on the visual settings overall, but that's just because my GPU is no great shakes and additionally, MS have built in a good degree of future proofing, to take advantage of additional horsepower when it arrives.

All in all, thumbs up from me.
 
Managed to get massively better download speeds by using a VPN and choosing "France"; gone from 0.3 Mbit a second back up to 30; still looking like tomorrow morning though before its ready!
 
awesome, great to see the gains materialising. I only realised about 30 mins ago that a VPN might fix my 0.01mbps download speed, so despite starting the download at 6, I'm only 60% of the way through it. Nice and fast download now though with USA connection (circa 140mbps)

I nearly bought a 32GB RAM set to improve performance last night and totally would have if the store hadn't been down, so I'm glad I was spared by fate.
 
Unbelievable difference. That's in a vanilla A320 over the rockies in the cockpit. In LAX it was about 45ish fps, but smooth. I did have a weird hitch where it froze for like 10s, but came back. Sooooo much better

2700X
16GB RAM
3080

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Brun said:
Top Gun 2 is the F/A-18E, Super Hornet.

I really want a fast jet (proper, not a trainer) for FS but the current offerings range between mediocre and absolute garbage.
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F18/C I think in DCS. To be honest it never feels super fast unless your hugging the ground, whilst it can hit Mach 1.8 that’s without any ordinance and even then seems a struggle. 700-800 knots is about the best I can get with some bombs and fuel on board. It’s also slow* to accelerate with what feels like a lot of lag.

*in comparison to say the f14/16
 
Fantastic update, doesn't matter where i go it's buttery smooth and stutters have almost completely gone now, getting 60+fps almost everywhere and hitting over 70fps regulary, mixture of high and ultra settings, even on the odd occasion over high detailed areas when the fps has dropped below 60fps you don't notice it and it stays butter smooth, this sim has been transformed, fantastic job asobo.
 
So interesting to see so much praise here and so much whining on the official forum :cry:

I look forward to trying it out myself next month when it finishes downloading.
 
Zeeflyboy said:
So interesting to see so much praise here and so much whining on the official forum :cry:

I look forward to trying it out myself next month when it finishes downloading.
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You know it - I was a bit miffed by the new interaction and soon found you can opt back to 'legacy', but stumbled across a few people complaining as if it's a massive deal! :p

What the he!! happened? Mouse isn’t working on any switches or anything in the airplane!!…Yeah, I’m on an expensive computer so I can run this sim, so get your heads out of your Xbox!…And, this is what I have received for an update? Doesn’t a software company test their updates anymore? Com’on Asobo get it together!!
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Back on topic, an amazing uplift in performance for me using an i5 9600k @4.9, 16GB 3200mhz (removed additional 16GB) and a 3080FE at stock.

But.....still aint as good as Xplane 11 for me. I have ORBX UK (complete coverage), and Xenviro and to me it just looks and flies better in my opinion.

MSFS areas for improvement for me
- I'm hoping the flight model gets some attention at some point.
- I still find the glass cockpits had to read, something else that could do with some attention. Maybe like XP11 (default aircraft predominately) they can do pop out instruments with buttons.
- Controller profile, a bit binary (maybe sensitivity setting) being able to share profiles across users would be a big help. I have Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo, Logitech Autopilot and rudder pedals.
 
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I thought this was too good to be true, but there really is an enormous uplift in performance as quoted. It's at least +50% for me! High preset @1440p I'm sitting at 60fps flying low over NYC and Toronto (3060 Ti). I have v sync on, so it'll go higher than that. Spinning the camera around over a city still brings my 7700k @4.8 to it's knees though. So still pobably looking at an upgrade for a 5600X or 5800X in the near future. RAM usage is also way down; I don't need 32GB anymore! JFK airport is also still a real challenge for an older CPU like mine - only getting 40-50fps and still some 1 second long stutters. As above the new cockipt interaction is a bit off.
 
MSTRBKR said:
I thought this was too good to be true, but there really is an enormous uplift in performance as quoted. It's at least +50% for me! High preset @1440p I'm sitting at 60fps flying low over NYC and Toronto (3060 Ti). I have v sync on, so it'll go higher than that. Spinning the camera around over a city still brings my 7700k @4.8 to it's knees though. So still pobably looking at an upgrade for a 5600X or 5800X in the near future. RAM usage is also way down; I don't need 32GB anymore! JFK airport is also still a real challenge for an older CPU like mine - only getting 40-50fps and still some 1 second long stutters. As above the new cockipt interaction is a bit off.
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Yes, one thing I have noticed when panning externally it can render stuttering.
Interesting you say re vsync, does it now lock out at the targeted range as this was something that was previously broken?
 
I’d say there’s been a decent uplift in performance but it’s still not great, although perhaps better than I expected. 30-35fps over London, gpu still isn’t more than 75% and cpu 40ish without any one thread maxing out. 1% lows sometimes down to 20fps, so it does stutter.

It was probably 25-30 fps before. Using 1440p with the DF recommended settings, 1080Ti, 3600, 32gb
 
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Runs absolutely great for me , I don't bother with fps watching, just fly. Mainly in vr mind, nothing else comes close.
 
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