Are these minimum requirements still valid for the PC or has anything changed ?
I assume this is for the core sim with no addons.
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or better
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
VIDEO CARD: Radeon RX 570 or GeForce GTX 770 or better
PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
FREE DISK SPACE: 150 GB
DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 2048 MB
whatever is listed as the system requirements is as it is written. The minimums are like…barely minimums. I think someone somewhere around here is rocking a potato and having the time of their life…
They have actually reduced the original vram requirements from 4gb to 2 but don’t expect to run with anything but low settings.
This would be a great topic for a tech You-tuber to explore. Buy and build a system with these exact components and run some bench-marking.
Someone forward this to RandomGaminginHD. This would be right in his wheelhouse! 
I had an RX 570, paired with a Ryzen 5 2600 and 16GB of RAM. I was able to play smoothly in a mix of medium and high settings, even with some heavy addons, achieving 30 fps or more.
So I believe it’s possible to play MSFS with a PC slightly below these requirements by obviously putting the graphics on low. But then, I think it will be more worth to use FSX instead.
Yes, they’re still valid, with lower settings. In fact, minimum-spec hardware is the very reason that the sim has adjustable performance settings in the first place.
I was using a GTX 750 TI with a Ryzen 5600x, 32 GB and 3200 Mhz ram until 3 weeks ago. It functioned well at 25-29 fps, though at mostly low settings. But it worked with the 750 Ti but always with a warning at start indicating my system was below the minimum recommended. A click on “OK” and the launch continued.
Is there a valid link there somewhere ?
…and for VR:
I highly recommend watching BuildPicker’s review of what CPU, GPU and RAM resources MSFS uses (and what it doesn’t). It’s from 8 months ago but still very informative, about low, mid and high level specs:
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