I have to respectfully disagree, as I have lately been running FS 2024 at over 60fps without motion smoothing, courtesy of a cropped FOV with the Toolkit mod. So, even with variable fps on a Crystal, I perceive it as smooth with those higher framerates.
By no means a universal objective observation, but for me the closer you get to native refresh rate of a headset, the less I perceive judders with variable fps, even when flying low. For me it is much smoother than locking at 45fps with the Crystal on 90Hz without motion smoothing enabled.
Perceptions vary from person to person, for many reasons, including visual cortex adaptation to raw input data.
Interesting. As you say, it may be a perception thing, but Iāve tried a lot of stuff and even when itās something like 68fps at 72hz, it looks absolutely terrible to me. All I can see are the constant judders, these little āskipsā. Ie, if you are panning around the plane you see all the little discontinuous jumps. Different to performance stutters but just as annoying.
Most people Iāve heard talk about this seem to see it the same way, but some also just donāt seem to care, or maybe they really donāt see it.
Iām a little confused on one point, will this require SteamVR to use with MSFS?
If the case that may be the only thing giving me pause. I recall a while back SteamVR didnāt perform as well in MSFS. But perhaps things have changed or Iām mistaken.
Most other VR games Iāve used have been with SteamVR.
OpenXR native support and motion smoothing is in the works currently. OpenVR will be supported in the meantime trough SteamVR. So all good news really.
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Iām seriously considering doing the pre-order.
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SteamVR actually works really well with MSFS! I was forced to switch FROM native OXR to steamVR last year dmfor the time being and it runs great. Only annoying thing is having to load steamVR, which could be quicker.
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Since posting here last time, Iāve now placed an order on the MeganeX myself but donāt expect to receive it until April or May. At least that is the information I got from their website when I placed the order.
As for DDR4 vs DDR5, of course itās always better the faster any of your components are but luckily (since my motherboard only supports DDR4), the speed of your RAM isnāt even near as important as the CPU and GPU. Also when youāre running DDR4 at 3600MHz or higher, thereās very little extra gain by using faster RAM.
I actually did a test switching to an AMD 9800X3D with super fast RAM just to see how it would compare to my current rig. The increase in performance was barely noticeable. In some situations, it was even performing worse than my current rig. So I returned all of it and will stay with my current rig for now. What I might do once they become available is to replace my 4090 Suprim with the 5090 Suprim. Maybe they will be available right in time for my MeganeX 
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Which chip did you compare to the 9800x3D? Itās a fair bit faster than my old 7800x3d. But the main gain isnāt in absolute fps, but much better, more consistent frame pacing, eliminating basically all microstutters.
. Looks amazing to me 
