Hey everyone.
I hope to get some opinions on what to upgrade on my PC, in order to get good results in MSFS 2024.
This is my current setup:
I am playing in 4K. I am not sure, if I should upgrade my processor (maybe 9800x3d and upgrading to DDR5) or if I should get a 4090.
I would be very thankful to get some input.
Thank you!
I’d switch to 9800X3D. It’s hardly you can squeeze anything from Intel at this stage having this setup. Your GPU looks fine.
i have 14900k, 4080 super, 64 GB Ram DDR5.
4K everything ultra. FrameGen on. Locked @ 60FPS.
I don’t need to waste a second about performance/settings/tuning because frames are stable and consistent no matter what happens.
Also no VRAM shortage (texture resolution also ultra as mentioned).
In my opinion you are perfectly fine and should not spend money at this point because there is not much gain… (but perhaps RAM makes a difference? don’t know… Size and speed…)
I would wait buying new hardware until FS24 is fixed which may take months if not more. By that time the 50xx cards will also be on the market.
The very weird thing for me is, that MSFS 2024 is running absolutely horrible on my current setup. 2020 went fine, even with Fenix, FSLTL and 3rd party airports. I’m not really sure what’s causing this and what I should do, to counteract this problem. Maybe it’s just poor optimization of the game…
It’s not. Weird indeed, because on my i7-7700K + 1070Ti it runs just fine. However, I am planning an upgrade myself.
Take a look at your VRAM usage (enable FPS display in MSFS developer mode). Depending on the aircraft I’m finding I’m hitting limits there, which is leading me to consider a GPU update next. Your4080 has 16GB VRAM which I’d have thought would be OK but I might be wrong about that!
13900 should be perfectly capable to run the new sim well at 4K, not sure a 9800X3D swap, with the costs associated with it is a wise choice for your situation.
More GPU ram would probably be a better use of your budget, especially if you intend to use a VR headset.
Still would advise to wait until the dust settles with MS2024 server related matters before pulling the trigger.
Maybe you can take a quick look at the pictures. One is with low graphic presets and the other one with presets on ultra (TAA + FG activated / Vsync set to 58fps in nvidia control). I can‘t imagine that it‘s normal, that the sim is so demanding that both my RAM and VRAM are overloaded + limited by mainthread. I don‘t even know where to start tbh. I‘m not too much into the technical stuff to be fair. All other games including FS2020 run just fine. In 2020 I feel like I could get a little more smoothness with the 9800x3d, but seeing the chart in 2024 I‘m not too sure if I should just cancel my preorder for the CPU.
You already have a high end system so any changes will probably have minimal impact. The issues you are experiencing are with MSFS 2024, not your PC.
With the ultra settings, you are clearly exceeding your 16gig of vram which will crater performance. Many other people are also experiencing this. MS/Asobo only recommended 12gig of vram so they have some issues around vram to fix.
Also, I would not recommend using ANY 3rd party add-ons due to compatibility issues. At this point, most of them are probably just negatively impacting performance. Still some work to be done by the 3rd parties as they only had a few weeks prior to the sim’s release to start.
I strongly recommend you wait until they fix the sim before spending money that won’t work around the software bugs.
Looking at your screenshots, one thing that jumped out is you were exceeding your physical RAM usage, which will kill frame rates. I tried looking at KJFK the other day in the FBW A380X, and had traffic set to high (I think) as a stress test, and it easily went over my 32 GB of RAM. 32 GB is still enough in most situations, but I’m going to eat a little crow on some of my earlier comments in other threads because it seems like it doesn’t take as much as I thought to eat up the 32 GB recommended RAM in FS24.
My recommendation is if you are only going to upgrade one thing, you should strongly consider it being your RAM. You already have an otherwise very capable system. Alternatively, reduce your settings. Not everything needs to be cranked up to 11 in this sim. One setting I’ve found to help me a lot is to turn the render resolution setting (not to be confused with render scale) down a notch. Instead of upscaling through the GPU, dropping the render resolution in the sim from 4k to whatever it is one setting less at ???x1800, I gain a lot of performance with no loss of quality on my 27" monitor.
Upgrade nothing at this point. Your current hardware is near top end anyway and MSFS 2024 is an unoptimised mess at the moment, hence is deceiving it what it makes you think you need to upgrade. Give it a few months and then see what the state of play is.
In FS2020 at 4K 9800X3D could bring a very slight improvement with 1% lows, due to the earlier sim sensitivity to AMD V Cache.
However, it is unclear whether once stable FS2024 will benefit from the X3D feature in the same way.
The AMD chips are also better at power efficiency, depending on where you live, it could save money with electricity bills, that’s about it.
Either way, I think you should cancel your CPU order at this stage.
It is obvious from the screenshots above that your issues have to do with FS2024 related bugs, rather than your system specs.
For the time being , you can, as others have said, go for 64 gigs of RAM. If you do, make sure to take a look at your Mobo compatibility list.
