RTX 3050 4GB Vram
144hz 1080p Monitor
i5-11400H
16GB (8x8) DDR4 3200mhz
With medium settings preset, I barely get FPS above 27 in PMDG cockpit…
FPS counter of the sim says ‘‘limited by GPU’’
I want to know why this simulator uses way too much Vram and if possible a fix for the bad FPS. There is no way such system not being able to handle MSFS on medium preset settings.
Best Regards.
Your definition of high end system may be a little overstated, honestly.
For the pmdg and equivalent aircraft, you’ll need more everything.
Perhaps try on the lowest preset and then tweak what you can higher.
I was able to use at high settings preset with level of details at lowest before upgrading my ram to 16 dual channel. Taking all settings to lowest gives me around 45 to 50 FPS. But taking to Medium settings preset ruins the whole performance as seen on screenshot above. I cant use High settings preset too.
27fps on the ground at an airport is pretty good, try turning down some ground traffic options.
Do not expect much higher, this isnt a shooter, you’re not going to be shot down because your input lag to the flap switch was high.
27 FPS lags a lot for me because my system has 144hz monitor.
Why do have it at 144 hz. for a flight sim 75hz is more than good.
I run at 60hz
I also lower my refresh rate for MSFS. (60)
Airliners are the most demanding (as compared to GA aircraft) and honestly your system is good, but not as high end as you might think for this sim (it will be for other games/sims). MSFS is incredibly demanding and if you read through these forums long enough you will see plenty of folks with 3090 GPUs and overclocked 12900k cpus and 64gb ram that are tuning their system carefully on all of the sim settings and other settings to get steady/smooth/studder-free 35-45 fps in complex airliners at very busy airports with things like live weather, traffic, etc. So, the performance you are describing for your use case sounds about right. Have a look through the many many posts on performance and you will get an idea for what others are getting with their hardware and settings and what tweaks they have done to graphics settings, windows settings, etc. There is no perfect answer as everyone has a different set of needs (GA or airliner, big city versus bush flying) and different hardware. But in general the render scale (1080p, 2k, 4k, VR) and the Terrain Level of Detail in the sim are the 2 largest drivers of performance so start there and tune/tweak. Also try v-sync.
is your new ram slower clock speed than your old ram? i get significantly better performance with 32Gb DDR4-3600 than 64Gb DDR4-2666?
Are the two sticks installed in the two specific slots recommended by your motherboard manual?
How to set it at 60 each time I run MSFS then?
What you say makes sense however I used to get way better performance before, at least at flyable level.
Both my stock ram and bought ram has same features. Both are DDR4 3200mhz (8x8) 16GB. And new ram is installed correctly since Windows Task Manager and BIOS recognizes it
rightclick on a free space on your desktop, display settings, scroll all the way down and click on extended display settings
When you’ve done that set the in-sim VSync to 1/2 screen refresh rate. It helps a lot and will get you to 30 FPS
Also check your ram is running at 3200 (1600 dual channel) not the stock 1066.
You’ll need to enable XMP in the bios if not.
that didnt help much
yes both of DDR4 3200mhz RAMS run at max 3200mhz
You have a 3050 probably not possible. Unless you are in dx11 and running on low to medium settings. My 3080 with 64GB 3200mhz and a 5900X at 2k ultra gets between 30-75fps depending.
PLUS: Games still not completely optimized from what I can tell and it probably won’t be for awhile.
Here you go for reference.
Is RTX 3050 enough for 1080p gaming?
On its home turf of 1080p, the RTX 3050 won’t do 60fps on max settings as consistently as the RTX 3060, and certainly not the RTX 3060 Ti – but it never truly struggles either.
Join the club.
Of course i must have imagined the six months of decent flying i had before SU9. It couldnt possibly have been the updates…
Must have all been a dream.
I see, there is a big difference then
Okay guys I found the source of my problem, it is ‘‘Terrain Level of Detail’’
Switching to High Settings Preset then minimizing the Terrain Level of Detail fixed my FPS problems. Now I can see around 34 FPS and a smooth experience.
