OK. So…do you think people can have a satisfying flight sim experience with so-called ‘Recommended Specs?’
- CPU: Intel i5-8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 1500X.
- RAM: 16 GB RAM.
- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970 | AMD Radeon RX 590, 4 GB VRAM.
Excuse my cynicism, but look at those specs and tell me it’s not going to look terrible, fly terrible, and be severely limited in what you can fly. I’d guess that maybe 0.5% of simmers would be happy.
Why bother? Just buy an Xbox and suffer the problems they’re (unfortunately and inexcusably) having.
Yes, they absolutely can. I had very similar specs when I started out. I have upgraded since, but only by a modest amount. If you don’t have everything whacked up to max, you can have a decent flying experience. I was pleasantly surprised that it performed as well as it did, better in fact than I got with FSX using hardware that exceeded its recommended specs back in the day.
This is why I have a low tolerance for people with far more capable hardware than I have screaming about how dreadful their experience is.
A bit unfair IMO to put it like this.
This is a hobby for most of us, and at the end of the day it’s all about how much one is into the experience, what expectations has and how much is able or willing to spend to get that level of experience.
Some will build a full cockpit at home around the best hardware they can get, others may find acceptable a GTX 970 at low res !!!
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When did you “start out” with FS2020? Was it when the sim was first released (like I did) and it was much less demanding - especially if (like me) you simply can’t tolerate being restricted to low-fidelity aircraft, little to no traffic, only weather presets, minimal to no demanding addons, etc.?
I maintain that the sim has changed drastically since then, and ‘Recommended Specs’ are like the Yellow Brick Road that leads to the apple orchard where the Wicked Witch awaits.
We can disagree about this, right?
When did I start out with it? March this year.
In my opinion I would go no lower than a GPU with 8GB of VRAM for 1080p gaming these days. My PCs have GPUs with 16GB and 24GB of VRAM and with the 16GB one I’m sometimes very close to maxing out VRAM (and I’m only playing at 1440p).
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i was just flying now from eddf to egll and my peak vram usage vas 26 GB. and average around 20. so get as much vram u can get. it really helps
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My 1080TI has 11GB - so is there any point upgrading to a faster card with less memory?
At the moment it is definitely cpu bound with an old quad-core Xeon on a PCI 2.0 motherboard.
My rough calculation is I need a cpu x2 to x3 faster, a Ryzen on a PCI 4 motherboard is the plan, unless AM5/PCI 5 solutions become cheaper in Jan 2025.