You frankly do not need more than 32gb of ram. More than that almost certainly will not make a difference for just using the sim. Upgrading your gpu in particular would gain a you a fair boost to settings and/or resolution, and a new cpu could also net you a better frame rate (perhaps look at 5700x3d or 5800x3d? Drop in replacement and not crazy expensive).
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I do a lot of work that could use the extra boost in RAM so I kind of want to use MSFS as an excuse to upgrade, but I will probably settle for 2x32GB.
For CPU I was looking at the 5950X but some of the posts I was reading seemed to suggest it ran too hot and that the 5900x was far more efficient. I will likely skip AM5 and jump to whatever is next for my next build.
Ah that makes more sense (although I would think a cpu upgrade would be rather more beneficial for that type of workload?). I honestly wouldn’t be worried about the 5950x in terms of heat, you get better single core performance as a trade and you can always just undervolt it.
I did decide to wait a few weeks just so I can read the various 10,000 word explainer posts about various performance tests and point my work bonus that way
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Yeah solid idea tbh, I’m very curious about how various cpus impact performance.
Upgrading from 16 GB to 32 GB of Ram is the only thing I’ve done so far. And that has really helped with 2020.
I’m in a wait and see holding pattern until 2024 is released and see reports of how everyones systems are doing.
I’m thinking about getting VR, so I’ll probably just do a whole new build for that anyways.
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Can anyone please help?
My CPU has a base frequency of 2.2 but overclocks at 4.1.
24 GB Ram
GTX 1060 6gb (a severely underrated GPU in my opinion. Shocked by how well it runs MSFS 2020).
I’m able to run MSFS 2020 on high settings with a few “medium” tweaks here and there.
Will i be able to run MSFS 2024?
“Can you run it” website flagged my CPU for MSFS 2024 compatibility, but it didn’t for MSFS 2020.
Which is why i’m asking…
Could you specify what your cpu is?
I7 8750H
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Thanks.
Ah ok you’re on a laptop. I would think that should run ok, although it might be a bit rougher in general due to the limited vram on the 1060 and the multi-core on the 8750h not being to turbo all that high.
Tbh for now don’t mess with anything, you’ll be able to see how it runs in 2 days. Worst case, if you’ve got the cash, black friday is around the corner if you happen to be in the US
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That could very well be my last run with windows if it’s confirmed i can’t run MSFS 2024. Switching to Mac due to music production stuff (different subject).
Problem is, there is no way to know if i can run it until i try.
Will wait a month or two after release.
Thanks.
Stormforce Onyx Gaming PC – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB, Intel Core i5-13400F, 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM
Is that about rec or near ideal?
Should I upgrade? Or will this run it at bare minimum?
Intel i7 6700k
16gb ram
rtx 1060 3gb vram
I have a i5 12400 (4.4GHZ)normal CPU with integrated graphic. I use a GTX 1650 colorful graphic card. I have 2x16 GB ram which is surprisingly fast.
Will it run on my specifications? Please reply quick I don’t have a lot of time and I have to make a decision quick.
Will it run? Yes. Will it run well and not be a slide show? Not likely at all unless you keep settings low. If you are on the cusp of an upgrade decision, do it if you can. At least for a better GPU.
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How’s it been going? I am thinking GPU to 12GB or 16GB might be my black Friday move
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It’s a bit of a mixed bag. I run mostly on high settings and get about 30 fps.
On a bush flight today I was getting 1 fps and could not improve it by changing settings. So I rebooted the game and that fixed it.
The CPU seems to be doing fine. The GPU would definitely the next upgrade if I wasn’t building a new system.
This was not ready for release. Almost every flight there’s some kind of annoying bug. It’s so bad I’m on the verge of going back to 2020 until things improve.
Ok here goes! I’m almost afraid to post this. Looking at the “Ideal spec” for PC and what I see on Amazon today in the US, one might expect to spend about 3k USD on a gaming PC that is short of god level exotic, but that will comfortably drive a 4k TV with mid-high settings for smooth flight?
I realize that the jury is still out on what one really needs to run 24 optimally, as buggy as 24 is now, but trying to get the current lay of the PC land and level set expectations for a PC purchase that is not hobbled at the outset. Get the net! LOL
For a reference point, I’m running a 4k monitor just one notch below 4k on the sim render setting with no noticable drop in image quality. It’s a 5800x3d, 7800xt, and 32 GB 3600MTs. I’m hitting 45+ natively in most settings with mid to high settings. The only place it’s struggling is at JFK (and maybe other large airports, but I haven’t tested and may also be code optimization related), but even that maintains 30+fps.
I would say something like a 7800x3d (if you can find it reasonably priced), and a 7900GRE or 7900XT should get you there at full 4k native. 32 GB memory would be a good start. I’ve noticed a bug at JFK where it’ll report using more than that in the sim, but task manager shows my memory usage is only about 80%. I think that is also related to the code optimization and bug because the sim never reports memory dropping as I leave the area. If I start in a rural area, memory reporting in the sim looks normal. So maybe consider 48-64 GB memory?
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