My optimal graphic settings for Nvidia GTX770

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Hi all,
I just want to share with you my graphic settings for my setup. I hope this may help someone with a similar low-end setup to get decent FPS. Note that I do not get off of 60-120 FPS. I’m satisfied with 30 FPS.

My PC:

GPU: Nvidia GTX770 (10 years old)
CPU: Intel i7-4770 (10 years old)
RAM: 16 GB (10 years old)
Disk: WD 2 TB HDD 7200 RPM (one 1 TB partition solely for MSFS + Windows 10) (1 year old)
PSU: 630 W (10 years old)
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

All drivers are up to date.

Using MSI Afterburner to UNDER clock my GPU core is necessary for me, otherwise MSFS randomly crashes. I just use a random negative number for the underclocking, -67 MHz in my case. Note that I never overclocked anything and that I saw this solution somewhere in a comment on the internet.

My MSFS Graphic settings:

display mode: full screen
full screen resolution: 1920x1080
render scaling: 100
v-sync: off
directx version: dx11
global render quality: custom

anti-aliasing: taa
terrain level of detail: 100
off screen terrain pre-caching: ultra
terrain vector data: ultra
buildings: low
trees: low
grass and bushes: medium
objects level of detail: 100
volumetric clouds: medium
texture resolution: medium
anisoptropic filtering: 16x
texture supersampling: 4x4
texture synthesis: ultra
water waves: low
shadow maps: 768
terrain shadows: 128
contact shadows: ultra
windshield effects: ultra
ambient occlusion: low
cubemap reflections: 96
raymarched reflections: off
light shafts: medium
bloom: off
depth of field: ultra
motion blur: off
lens correction: on
lens flare: on
glass cockpit refresh rate: medium

With this setup and these settings I get an average FPS (in cockpit) of about 30 FPS. Sometimes 37, somethimes 25.

It took me a few hours of making screenshots for each setting to see the difference between low/medium/high/ultra and I ended up with this result. My main focus was to have a good visibility of the runway/taxyways, and not to have nice looking buildings/rivers. I’d love to turn the clouds to ultra, but that just costs too much FPS since some recent update. I also don’t really care about detailed shadows.

I fly with a couple of other programs open: vPilot (VATSIM), Pilot Path Recorder, Audacity and Windows Voice Recorder, and sometimes FSEconomy.

As you can see, my PC does meet the minimum hardware requirements of MSFS, but due to a lack of interest at MSFS to solve bugs, everytime I launch MSFS I still get the warning that my system does not meet these requirements. And even if I didn’t meet the requirements for some reason, I think I still get pretty good results (thanks to MSI Afterburner).

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that you get the message is’nt a bug, it’s just a warning message as you said. You can as example raise a topic in whislist that you can choose “don’t show again” or something else.

That msfs can works on/with such a outdated hardware is’nt new, but it is just out of 'warrenty" that it will works without issues ( as example the clouds ). A game company can not expect that users know about underclock or whats necessary that it works and therefore the warning.

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If you haven’t, try creating a custom page file rather than Windows Managed.
That will probably give you a bit more FPS in those instances and may allow you to select a few more options.
I run 16GB ram and it helped me a lot, but my system is a bit (not much) bigger than yours.

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WOW… Im impressed. I have an old 6700k 1080 msi box im setting up for race sim… Im gonna stick the flight sim on it and give it a go. thanks for your post…

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it is a good cpu … most users have wrong expectations about the performance of the newer cpus :wink: … together with a 1080 you can of course enjoy msfs. But ensure at least 16gig ram and then a sufficent pagefile size.

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This one little sentence is not the goal of my post. The goal is to share experience :wink:
But… it IS a bug, as my GPU IS the minimum requirement (and the rest is beyond minimum). So it does NOT “not meet the minimum requirements”. I’m not the only one. Just after release a bunch of us filed a ticket for this. Check this link for more info about the minimum requirements: https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013463459-Minimum-Recommended-and-Ideal-PC-Specifications-for-Microsoft-Flight-Simulator. The “don’t show again” is, however, a good idea (for the people that do not meet the minimum requirements).

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I do not have one, but I might check this one out. Thanks!

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and often it was just caused from ages old drivers or the internal gpu is activated and as some reason choosen for usage.

The only real bug is, that these dialog not tell you “WHY” a piece of code determined that your hardware not meets minimum spec :rofl:

And about the 770… also nvidia does no longer support ( new updates ) in drivers the Kepler GPU’s ( e.g. )…