My system:
i5 10400
RTX 3070 FE
32GB DDR4 running at 2666
MSI MAG MORTAR B460M WiFi
1TB NVME
4K HDR 60Hz TV
Updated motherboard and GPU bios to use resizable bar. Using hardware GPU scheduling. You hear a lot of suggestions about game mode, game bar, Nvidia control panel tweaks and so on but I found none of them made a difference on my system. I let game manage settings in Nvidia control panel.
You can’t expect a solid 60fps currently. Maybe with DX12 and CPU’s in a year or two with DDR5 memory. That’s when I’ll upgrade for now I’ve found only some settings make a difference and quite quickly you’ll reach diminishing returns. After at first individually tweaking each setting I now think it’s best to just choose one of the low, medium, high, or ultra settings. I use medium.
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Airliners are much more demanding than turboprop’s and can cost about 10fps
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Level of detail for objects and terrain, I keep at 50 for both returns a few fps
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100% resolution scaling at 4K HDR 10, some say 80% I didn’t find any real benefit
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I haven’t tried the traffic settings, reducing vehicles as suggested by CasualClick, seems logical though
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I’ve turned off vsync as otherwise I’d have to limit to 30fps
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I haven’t found reducing live data beneficial, maybe 32GB helps? I wouldn’t want to lose bing data, photogrammetry.
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Switching views, showcase is the least taxing sometimes the difference can be 10fps compared to cockpit or external view. I use a smaller monitor for cockpit gauges so I don’t have to always be in cockpit view.
In a turboprop I can expect sometimes as high as 50fps in showcase and dropping to about 35fps around complex areas even in cockpit. Average around 40fps feels very smooth.
A 747 from Newark to LaGuardia flying over Manhattan I can average around 31fps. It can get a bit framey at times dropping to low 20’s but then returning to above 30fps.
Overall the game for many flights in a turboprop the world looks so realistic and runs for the most part smoothly in 4K HDR. I’m quite pleased because I was expecting a 3070 to be only capable of 1440p. In reality I’ve found there isn’t any benefit dropping the resolution to 1440p, 4K runs just as well and looks pretty spectacular.