Hey guys,
I’ve built out what I consider to be a highly specked out PC. AMD 5800x 32 GB 4000 ram RTX 3070 GPU. I have made a lot of downgrades in graphics to make this to be a playable sim. I even see people with 2070’s getting 2x the FPS I am. I wanted to share my experience as maybe someone has a solution here. I’ve included some screenshots to contextualize the issue. Also, system utilization seems very low and the graphics seem to not be rendering correctly. Any help is much appreciated.
I have an inferior system and FS2020 is running fine for me. I have mostly all max on sliders and mostly ULTRA with a slight fewer HIGH in the settings, but I’m running at 1080p.
I’m running an AMD 3700X, 32 GB 3200hz, RTX 2070 Super.
I can share my settings to see if that works.
That would be helpful. What FPS are you seeing? Are you also seeing a utilization deficit?
Please, how many FPS is your system doing?
Remember…for a simulator, 30 FPS is “normal”, because the simulator is simulating the systems of the aircraft.
MSFS is also known as a bad user of CPU. The optimization is still not good.
I just read about a guy who said that doing undervoltage at 3080 optimizes it.
Please, also check, in options of FS, if your system is locking the amount of FPS.
I’m getting around 20-30 FPS. Using 26% CPU and 8% GPU resources seems wildly off to me. The thing that gives me pause is seeing lesser components posting better results.
limit your fps to 35 in nvidia control panel. This actually increased my bottom end fps and got rid of pretty much all stutters. I’m on 10500k @4.8 all core and stock gtx1080 at 1440p on pretty much max settings except texture super sampling which is off (no noticeable difference between any of the settings) Without limiting fps I get anywhere between 30-55 with a lot of microstutters. Limiting to 35fps, I get 35 fps everywhere, in any plane. even NYC. My CPU and GPU usage also matches yours at ~25 and 8 to 10 percent. This is why people with 3080s and 90s are not seeing any difference. the Gpu is doing almost no work to begin with. (it does however make a huge difference in VR… but that’s another topic) I often watch movies on Amazon while flying and that is more resource heavy than MSFS. The only way we will ever see better performance is with better coding on Asobos end…
33 FPS over a large city is actually not bad
Share you graphic settings
I HAVE THE BEST OF THE BEST AND i CAN ONLY AVERAGE BETWEEN 20 TO 40 fps. tHIS IS bs
Running with Ryzen 7 3700x, 32G and RTX 3070, running 30 fps in dense city environment up to 40+ fps when in less dense environment.
Did a lot of tweaking, I found a few issues listed below
The CPU utilization by itself doesn’t mean much, because it’s never used to its maximum, not even close, but the 8% utilization of the GPU seems very low. You had to be severely CPU limited to get that kind of utilization. I would try to uninstall the drivers with DDU and reinstall again.
Also check if you don’t have anything else limiting your GPU, maybe a wrong setting that you were not aware in Afterburner, if you’re using it.
Don’t expect any shooter-level frames in this one for sometime if ever. The graphical issues, terrain spikes for example, in the game probably don’t help either.
It isn’t uncommon to see true simulations averaging around 30 as one member mentioned.
Worse if you join the VR club.
My specs:
i9-10850K 10c/20t
RTX 3080 OC
128 GB ddr4 3200
Ultra Preset, 1440p Gsync monitor
I just replaced my 4790K, 1070, 16 GB RAM with a 5900X, 3080, and 32 GB at 3600. I have everything on ultra and haven’t even looked at my FPS. All I know is that the same runs well for me.
Back in the FSX, X-Plane, P3D days, I would obsess about tweaking to get higher FPS. I stopped doing that with MSFS and enjoy it a lot more!
Plus, after the update coming in a few weeks, we all should see some improvement.
