Reducing MSFS **CPU** load (Limited by CPU)

[Speed1994]

This guide is fantastic for many of the requirements you mentioned. It explains that you can be CPU or GPU limited and tells you how much each setting affects performance in both scenarios, along with pictures illustrating the graphical differences.

[HOW-TO] Graphics Settings and Performance Guide (SU12 Update) (7/26/2023)

Here is a detailed analysis of each graphics setting’s visual and performance impact. This guide is supposed to help you make decisions on visual impact versus CPU / GPU impact in the simulator. Note that situational and hardware differences results can result different performance responses to individual settings, System Specifications: i9 9900k, @ 4.9 GHZ OC Hyperthreading Enabled 32GB of 3600MHZ 18-20-20-36 DDR4 RAM RTX 3080 at 1980 / 10251 MHZ @ 1011v Windows 11 22H2 build 22621.1992 …