PC settings guide (i7-9700k, 3080, 40-50 FPS in dense photogrammetry areas)

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I’ve been having some good experiences with the new sim and thought I’d share my settings. Note that I haven’t experimented with all of the settings, not even close, but for whatever reason this is working pretty well, decent tradeoff between FPS and quality, and maybe can help some more people have a better time with the new sim.

System specs: i7-9700k, 3080 founder’s edition, 64 GB RAM, sim installed on SSD, assets stored on C: (M.2). Verizon FiOS, US east coast. Dual 1440p 144Hz Gsync monitors, MSFS on left one. Windows 11 23H2.

Non-MSFS settings

  • Using Cloudflare WARP quasi-VPN
  • Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling: On
  • Windows power plan: high performance
  • Nvidia Control panel: MSFS 2024-specific settings: left on default values
  • Nvidia app: global Max frame rate 140, Shader Cache size 10GB, power management mode prefer maximum performance
  • Nvidia app: System->Performance Set performance limits to voltage maximum 50, power maximum 100, temperature target 83, fan speed target automatic, and then ran automatic tuning
  • No CPU overclocking but make sure XMP profiles enabled for RAM in BIOS
  • No MSI afterburner or any other GPU tools

MSFS graphics settings

  • Display mode: Full screen
  • HDR10: On
  • Full screen resolution: 2560x1440
  • Anti-aliasing: NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution
  • NVIDIA DLSS super resolution: Quality
  • AMD FidelityFX Sharpening: 100
  • V-Sync: off
  • NVIDIA reflex low latency: On
  • Dynamic settings: On / Frame rate target: 30
  • Terrain Level of Detail: 200
  • Off Screen Terrain Pre-Caching: Ultra
  • Displacement Mapping: On
  • Buildings/Trees/Plants/Rocks/Grass: all on High
  • Objects level of detail: 100
  • Volumetric clouds: ultra
  • Texture resolution: high [high impact setting!! setting this to ultra caused stutters]
  • Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
  • Texture supersampling: 6x6
  • Water waves: medium
  • Raytraced shadows: on
  • Shadow Maps: 2048
  • Terrain Shadows: 1024
  • contact Shadows: high
  • Windshield effects: high
  • ambient occlusion: ultra
  • cubemap reflections: 384
  • raymarched reflections: ultra
  • light shafts: ultra
  • depth of field: OFF
  • motion blur: off
  • glass cockpit refresh rate: high
  • characters quality: high
  • traffic airport quality/air/road/sea traffic: low
  • Fauna medium

MSFS online settings

  • Rolling cache Limit: 64.0 GB
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I have a 9700k with a 3070ti and getting a solid 30fps locked (and using LS) but I’m getting stutters. The frames don’t really budge but the sim sometimes looks like a slide show.

Just wondering if you experienced stutters and if these settings helped

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Yes, I’ve had some. Going down to DLSS (from TAA) and high texture resolution (from ultra) helped make performance more robust in general.

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With my 3070 i start also with 40 FPS but for example starting in KMIA and heading for the coast, frames start to drop because the VRAM gets full.
@Garygang211327
If you get “solid” 30 FPS with LS you have in reality only 15.

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Sorry I meant 30fps in the sim and then 60 with LS.

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