Just upgraded from i7-7700K+GTX1080 to i9-11900K (HT OFF)+RTX3090. What a gap ! Now the simulation is so smooth in ultra mode everywhere (3440x1440). At very low altitude and in very dense places like New York city or Paris (gravimetry), I got between 30 and 40 FPS, never less. This is fantastic !
By the way, now my feeling is that the RTX 3090 potential is used:
Paris city (world update 4): VRAM used as shown by windows task manager: around 15GB !
New York - Brooklyn: around 13 GB
GPU usage between 60% and 90%, max temp 68°C
The CPU max usage is arround 60 %. Two cores are fully loaded when running the simulator.
My new computer is silent but the wattage that is used is around 530 Watts as shown by my wall socket wattmeter.
You’d be surprised how many people can’t afford a gaming PC much less a top of the line one why there is a plus in the game is being released on XBOX
Took myself nearly 3 years alone to upgrade my CPU,mobo etc.Congrats on your new PC though.
Ive just upgraded to a R5 5600x from a R5 3600 - in both systems I was was running a RTX 3070 - Im estimating a 10 - 15 fps increase in this upgrade alone. Im running my setting based of the recommended ones from the Digital Foundry videos on youtube over my 1440p monitor. Dense areas for me Im seeing not below 20fps, usually sitting somewhere around the mid 20’s, and up. Im really enjoying the sim in this set up.
@ GoudronPage718 spec is definately the dream, my spec is the reality for my bank account, but Im pretty happy none the less.
i5 86k at 4.8 ghz 32 gb Ram 1080ti and ssd gets me on ultra in 2K at around 30 fps - never less - in dense citys in the crj - so no big difference for what a 3090 costs at the moment … give me a shout if you get stable 60 fps in big airports - in the meantime i m very well with my setup.
Yeah, I’m sure a flagship CPU & GPU do get good performance.
But buying into a new CPU now when Intel will switch sockets and introduce DDR5 support in a few months seems a bit of a waste.
Likewise for AMD, they switch sockets and move to DDR5 next year.
I already have a 3090 but I’m gonna wait for DDR5 and pcie gen 4 on the same motherboard before I next upgrade because THAT is going to be a large leap in performance.
I had a wild idea today and started searching for some kind of adjunct device that might allow a Nvidea 30X0 to be plugged into a laptop to substitute for the embedded 1060 I have. I actually found something called a HP Omen Accelerator but it only is compatible with the older generation GPUs.
There’s other products that does the same too. Razer did it first with their Razer Core X external GPU enclosure. But you need Thunderbolt 3 connection to deliver all that bandwidth.
I find reinstalling windows a pleasant thing to do. I do them quite regularly, definitely after each Major Windows release, and sometimes another one in between releases. So I usually do about 2-4x clean reinstallation of windows of my PC every year. Keep it clean, keep it light. Feels like having a brand new PC all the time.
I attach some screenshots. Everything is in french language (sorry !). The taskmanager pic corresponds to a flight over Paris, altitude around 400 feet and very close to the Eiffel tower. Plane: DA62,
