I upgraded my main 32 Inch 1440P monitor to a 32 inch 4K and what a huge difference it makes. The difference in details is outstanding.
The cockpits look so much better. I can easily now see the PAPI lights at a much greater distance when doing visual landings. Not being able to see the PAPI lights at distance was a huge motivator in making me upgrade.
I already had a 3080 Ti, so the GPU handles it without any problems. I run Ultra at full 4K resolution and locked at 60 FPS and it runs really smooth and not even close to pegging the GPU or CPU.
My next upgrades, already ordered, are my two 27 inch monitors that flank the main one. Still sticking with 27 inch, but upgrading those from 1080P to 1440P.
I thought about getting a bigger main monitor, but I have limited space and I do like having three monitors. The three monitors fit perfectly in my corner desk. I have an L-shape office setup and my main computer is in the corner of the L. On the long end of the L, I have a second PC, also with Flight Simulator on it.
I’m moving my old 32 Inch 1440P to it, it is on a 27 inch 1080P. That PC is also pretty decent for Flight Simulator, an I7-10700 CPU, RTX 2060 Super and 64GB RAM. I’ll have to play around with the setting to see what is best for the 1440p monitor.
The 2k - 4k - 2k triple seems to work really well, it hammers the GPU a bit but mine gives a steady 30FPS mostly (3080ti/i91200K) i’m also running two 1080p touch panels on USB adapters.
I don’t use the side monitors to fly and get side views, so I don’t have as much of a strain on the GPU.
I usually use my right monitor for Navigraph when flying IFR and Little NavMap for VFR, but with the latest update to Navigraph it now also has VFR so I have to check that and see if I prefer that over little Navmap.
My left monitor I use for Discord and usually also when I put my ATC window.
So, I run at 60 FPS easily. Right now at KJFK in the Longitude ready to take off and it running at 56 FPS. Even in big cities, I usually stay around mid 50s to 60.
I have to install MSI Afterburner and put up a few photos with stats on them.
I did a little more flying last night and really happy with my new monitor and looking froward to getting the two new 27-1440. I’m suppose to get them on Wednesday according to Amazon. My 4K arrived a day early, so hopefully my other monitors will be here Tuesday.
I haven’t even tried that wrap around monitor setup. I need to try it one of these days. But I do too many other things on the two smaller monitors to use them as cockpit.
How big are your touch panels and what do you use them for?
What are you using to measure your FPS. I used the WIN-G and the developer overlay and they completely disagree. The developer one was said that I was limited by the MainThread, but my main thread wasn’t close to being pegged.
WIN-G always showed me at 60+ FPS while developer mode showed around 35 while at KJFK and like I said the main thread really wasn’t limited.
I have no stutters and all is very smooth. I think that developer tool has a bug. Is your main thread getting pegged?
They are 15.6" touch panels and I run Airmanager cockpit panels on them along with popout panels. Being able to program the FMC by actually pressing the buttons on-screen is a massive boost in realism, plus with the three panels you cant see the sim panels any more so it really does need the extras.
They run on USB-HDMI converters at 60Hz 1920x1080. The only hit it has is to push more workload onto the CPU, before using them I was firmly GPU limited but now its CPU limited. I still get 30-40FPS in-sim and that ok for me. Being on the CPU also means there is no worry about DLSS etc - the numbers and displays are super-sharp
I’m using the developer display, the actual numbers are only a reference for me to see if i have tweaked something up too far etc
Wow, great setup! You certainly take your simming serious. But, I guess a lot of us do!
On my old PC, which is my second PC, I use to always run with 30 FPS capped in-game and since the GPU is only a RTX 2060 Super, I used Highend setting and actually 30 FPS ran really smooth. When I tried to run it at 60, it could do it at times, but introduced a lot of stutters near airports.
I don’t have space for all that stuff. I do have an Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 which I have some functionality setup for the sim. It sits under one of my 27 Inch monitors.
I saw a Youtube video of a guy using the Loupedeck Live and it looked pretty interesting. I’m’ sure you can find the video. I’ve been thinking of getting one. That seems to be more configurable than the Stream Deck and looks more realistic with the knobs and its still small enough to put under one of my 27 inch monitors. I would most likely use it as a Garmin or something similar.
I’ll post a photo of my setup tomorrow, after I do some cleaning around my office.
Hi can you post your Nvidia settings and ingame graphic settings oplease. Today I got my new 4k Momitor (43 inch). Prior I used a 42 inch TV. Was ok, but now I can read the instruments … yihaaa … I only have to find a good setting overall. I experienced at the final into KLAX a huge frame drop and stutterings without no end. Unable to land. I switched all back to High and will see what happened. I also locked it on 60 fps. My CPU is a AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT …
I use the standard NVIDIA settings and the only change I have Vertical Sync to Use the 3D application setting. On the sim I just use Ultra, Frame VSync set to 100% of Monitor which is 60hz, the monitor resolution to 3840x2160 and rendering at 100%. Use DX11 and TAA.
I don’t usually play around and change what the ULTRA setting changes and have only increased the LOD to see if it was any better, but I just changed it back to the standard Ultra setting.
I also have two NVMe PCI-4 drives and use Rolling Cache on a separate drive than where the sim is installed.
I’m on a I9-11900 and 3080 Ti. What GPU are you using?
I update my main monitor to a Dell U3223QE which is 4K 60hz. I don’t play any games so, 60hz is fine with my. That replaced a Dell P3221D 1440p 60hz. 60hz limits you to 60 FPS, but that is fine.
My two side monitors are Dell P2722H 1080p 60hz, but I have two Dell U2722D 1440p 60hz arriving on Wednesday.
Besides Flight Simulator I don’t play any other games so I’m fine with only 60hz, which means it limits my max FPS to 60, but I get 60 and it’s is plenty smooth for me.
I’ve used Dell monitors for a long time and they have alway worked good for me. Now for TVs, I use Samsung. I recently purchased two QN90B 4K TVs, one a 75 Inch for my Home Theater and a 65 Inch for the Kitchen. They are QLED and have all the bells and whistles, but one of my favourite things about them, that you don’t get on cheaper TVs, is the Anti-Glare which is great.
I have been tempted for some time to get an xBox X for my Home Theater. I think it would be amazing to fly on the 75 inch TV.
I have a 3090 (next I post my whole specs at once :-P).
I was wonderimg cause I am not sure if the huge problems came with the last update or the new 4K monitor. Today I had a leg starting at KSAN to KSJC. At KSAN smooth 40 frames including AI traffic!!! At cruise level up to 50 frames. Decending, frames no problems. Diving deeper into KSJC the frame drop raises horrible. At about 2 Miles out 30 frames and stutterig. Espacially moving my head to the left or right (I am using trackIR). Round about 400 feet over ground and short of the threshold another huge frame drop to 10-20 frames. Landing not possible. All the scenery is loaded. What might be the problem?
I never had these huge frame drops prior the last update and using my 42 inch HD TV ?! So i am searching … hmmm …
Hmm, might be worth running developer mode then seeing what aircraft containers are loaded. FS has a strange issue that doesn’t seem to have been resolved post SU11 where AI models end up bunching up at a given airport reference point…as hundreds of models, kind of like an AI grave yard for unwanted pilots. Needless to say this destroys frames. Might not be your issue but worth checking.
… did some touch and goes at KSJC without AI in any kind … it is much more better during final. no such frame drop. after one touch and go I flew very near of the gorund and I got horrible frame drops again down to 15 … it lloks loke there is definitly a bug after SU 11 … we wll see …
your hint with the standard/default settings in nvidia control panel, exept vsync settings, was the top solution for me !!! Great!!! No stuttering, smooth flights! I like it … I always tried to get a better performance with the settings in nvidia control, but right now with my 4K moitor it seems to be working without adjusting … great !
I createded a test situation and I will raise the different graphic settings in MSFS2020 itself. Most of my settings are already ULTRA. Let´s see what happend to TLOD and OLOD … after this adding AI traffic …
