Hello,
I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out what is going on with my graphics. I have an Intel i7-7700K clocked at 5.0 GHz, 32 GB DDR4 running at 3200 MHz, EVGA Geforce RTX 2070 SUPER XC clocked at… something above stock, and running MSFS off of a Samsung 960 Pro 512 GB into a 2560x1440 display. It runs most things quite well and indeed after the 1.9.5 patch I have been getting 40-50 FPS with every setting maxed out. Something strange has happened though I think where it suddenly seems… like not only are the graphics worse but the performance is worse, too. What’s especially interesting is that 1.9.5 at first seemed wildly better for me and then it… degraded… somehow. I haven’t a clue as to why or how this would be possible so let me walk you through what I did:
- Hit “repair” in Settings > Apps; no change.
- Hit “reset” in Settings > Apps which apparently reinstalls the game more or less. No change.
- Hit “uninstall” in Settings > Apps which for sure uninstalls the game. Went back into Windows Store and redownloaded it. No change.
- Said to hell with it and wiped my desktop and installed with a fresh Windows 10 Pro ISO. Was previously on 2004, currently on 20H2. Installed nothing other than drivers and MSFS 2020. No change.
Throughout all of this I would check GeForce Experience to make sure it didn’t overwrite my settings (it didn’t). I checked Nvidia Control Panel to make sure all the settings were default (they were). I was running GeForce 456.71 both before and after reinstalling Windows.
The reason I’m calling it a “sanity check,” though, is that I can’t actually tell if the graphics were objectively better previously (1.9.3 and whatever was immediately before that; I’ve only been playing for a couple weeks) as I don’t have any pictures. I few around Tokyo quickly (yes, all of the additional content has been installed) and took these screenshots.
Could someone possibly take a look and confirm that this is abnormal or not? I’m hoping someone has a similar setup where they could be like “ah, nope, that looks awful” or “yeah, that’s basically what I’m getting”. If it is abnormal, any suggestions as to what could have happened or how to possibly “correct” it would be appreciated. Thank you.
Edit: Just kidding, I can only put one picture in here because I’m new. This is maybe the most useful one.