?'s: Run as Admin/ Windows 10 v.2004 Update/ New FS2020 Update/ NVIDIA Drivers

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  1. Now that the sim is installed, should I still open as administrator, or not required?

  2. If I haven’t already done so, should I update from Windows 10 v.1909 to v.2004? Advantage/ disadvantage? Does anyone feel that one version plays more nicely with FS2020 than the other?

  3. August 27th’s patch update-- Is it automatic, or do I have to find, download, and install it manually?

  4. If updating my NVIDIA drivers, what’s more important-- main NVIDIA or GeForce, or both equally?

  5. Am I expected to clear the cache regularly for optimal performance, or that’s something that’s typically not necessary?

Thank you

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  1. No. Not realy. But does not hurt.

  2. Always update Win10 to latest. 2004 even has Gameboost or what’s it called.

  3. Automatic. Just relaunch the program.

  4. Both but if you realy want an answer. The Driver is what makes your GPU work. Geforce Exp is just a tool.

  5. Rolling cache so no. It get’s overwritten. Like a memory card in a Dashcam does when it’s full. It removes the oldest files automaticaly.

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I would like to squash any falsehoods that there is no patch to install currently. That won’t be until some time next week.

Build 2004 of Windows 10 comes with Hardware Assisted GPU Scheduling, or HAGS. Google how to turn that on, but in XP at least it made no noticeable difference. Perhaps here it does, as MSFS seems to do a much better job of getting more out of your hardware. For example, in XP I am almost always CPU limited. Here, I am mostly GPU limited.

Which is great as I have a 1080, and plan to buy a 3090. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

But even with this “lowly” 1080, couple with a 9900K, I can fly almost everywhere at 1080p/Ultra presets, and get 40-50fps. Something I could never even dream of with XP. Big cities cause drops, flying over San Francisco drops me to 35fps, but you can get away with that in a flight sim.

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Should you update to windows 10, version 2004 ?

Having updated to the latest nvidia driver when it came out I thought I would remain on windows 1909 to assess performance before updating windows. I didn’t see any gains with the new driver and so I decided to update to the latest windows version 2004 this week.

Before updating I manually created a restore point and made a system image of the OS drive. I then updated and rebooted the computer after the reboot. I enabled HAGS but failed to see any improvement when running MSFS 2020. I shut down the PC.

A couple of hours later I rebooted the PC to be greeted by a blue screen. Multiple reboots later I still wasn’t able to get past the BIOS screen and into Windows 10. Thankfully, I was able to restore the PC to the original 1909 version.

So, should you update? Maybe yes give it a try but take precautions like me before you do so that you can revert to your pre update installation. It didn’t work out well for me but it might for you.

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Thank you everybody! I appreciate all your input.

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I’ve updated now to 2004 and newest NVIDIA driver.

So far so good. No Stutter or CTD…

My Specs:
WIN 10 64-bit 2004
NVIDIA 452.06
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700k
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
RAM: 32 GB RAM

Arround 30 % CPU Loading
Arround 50-70 % GPU
Arround 6 to 12 GB used.

I have this settings in the gpu:

grafik
grafik1441×402 40.5 KB

grafik
grafik1409×405 39.2 KB

and VSynch ON but limited to 30 FPS…