Monitor- 60” 4k smart Qi tv. (Got before I had PC, use to play Xbox)
Now I can’t really find that sweet spot for stabilized fps.
Fenix 320 @ KCLE
@ 3840x2160 obviously I get about 20-22 fps.
@ 3840x2160 downscaled to 1920x1080 I get 35-40 fps (58 cold and dark)
Now I know I can’t do native 4k (it looks amazing tho, crystal clear) but downscaled it looks pretty bad and using TAA makes the button lights and labels slowly bleed. (Hard to explain)
Now what should I do?
Thinking of getting a new CPU - Ryzen 7 5800x3D. I don’t have money for a new card as I was looking at maybe a 3070Ti to at least get decent 4k gaming without tearing my pocket.
Would a 5800x3d be a good choice? I’m also thinking of getting a x570 possibly as well.
Any input would be highly appreciated.
Anything with maybe overclocking even or something along those lines.
At this point getting an AM4 processor only makes sense if you are really tight on budget and cannot wait a bit to get that budget higher, although since you already have a am4 board, the 5800x3d is a great option, i am using that myself. That should sort you for the CPU performance. Keep in mind, whatever currently available cpu you use won’t be able to garuntee smooth 60fps in every sceneries, if you use heavy airports, or ai traffic add-ons like fsltl or some other cpu intensive add-ons (fenix itself is, a310 is another example), you will see fps drops. You can adjust your terrain lod settings in graphics settings memu to reduce CPU load to help with that.
Coming to the GPU, not sure going from 3060 to 3070ti would be good noticable upgrade or not, but you may run into VRAM issues, and that will definitely be a downgrade from 3060 since wierdly 3060 has 12 GB vram but the 3070ti has just 8 GB.
For upscaling, you may use DLSS instead of TAA with may be a bit of sharpening added from NVIdia control panel. This will have one very noticable issue though, that is the ghosting in the moving things on the glass cockpit displays. This show up very much in things like speed tape, altitude tape, engine throttle position indicator etc.
No point getting it at this point, it won’t improve your gaming experience. If you are getting a new mobi anyway, better go AM5 and 7800x3d, yes with new Ram kit and possibly a new cooler as well, it will be significantly more expensive, but the CPU performance will be much better. But if you GPU is not upto the scratch, then may not be worth it.
Check if your prebuilt motherboard got a bios update to make 5800x3d compatible with it or not. If not, then you are out of options, but instead of getting a x570, a b450 or b550 might be cheaper. And x570 will only be beneficial if you need more than one PCIe 4 SSD slot, else most b550 boards will have at least one PCIe 4 nvme SSD slot and one PCIe3 nvme SSD slot. The speed difference between these drives doesnt help MSFS in anyway.
The 5800X3D would be the best choice without replacing MB and RAM.
As for 4K, the 3070Ti could make it with DLSS but I understood you don’t like the cockpit degradation with DLSS… A 4080 could make it without DLSS but it’s also much more expensive.
I generally avoid overclocking as it usually csuses more problems than it solves.
Don’t forget that MSFS is already a very demanding game which will beat the stuffings out of your system anyway. Overclocking just adds gasoline to an already raging forest fire.
I created a post describing things to do to avoid system problems in MSFS.
@JuanWhick814938 With your 3060 try setting a custom resolution of 2880x1620 for the desktop and set the same resolution in msfs. Then use DLSS quality setting instead of TAA, see if that works better for you.
Are you getting those FPS with DLSS? I have a similar system except for the GPU which is a 6800XT and I’m easily 10-15 fps below that, or more. Ultra settings, @1080 upscaled to 1440 and A320FBW, I get 20-25FPS (max 30) taking off from KLAX.
Anyway, to your question, I generally jump one gen behind, because of prices and platform maturity. Particularly in the case of 7000 series, since it involves a whole change (mobo + cpu + ram), I’d get the 5800X3D, which is a TOTL processor even today (heck it’s even used to test 4090s) and jump to series 7000 when following gen (how’d it be named, 9000?) is around the corner and 7000 series AM5 + DDR5 is completely stable and ironed out. Your setup with a 5800X3D should give you enough headroom to be able to upgrade your GPU to a current gen nvidia or amd card one and not be cpu bound.