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Digital Foundry: Flight Simulator 2020: The Best Settings For Next-Gen Visuals + Best Performance
- Thread starter Theorry
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My own solution is to always fly high with clear skies and no big city in sight. Has worked wonders so far. :D
Anyone else just love watching Digital Foundry videos regardless of their focus/content? I love the composition and their analysis. It's always insightful and entertaining.
Run at High instead of Ultra.
It sounds like he never saw the kind of stuttering that I'm getting, so it doesn't really help, as I was already running very near his optimized settings.
Oh man, optimised settings won't do it for me :(. Guess, I'll have to try again when they have updated to DX12 and if not, just accept that I'll have to wait a few years to really experience this sim.
Having now played this, all I can say is. Thank God I never got a job as a pilot.
So many lives saved. Unless flying along the ground upside down for miles on end is how it's done these days.
So many lives saved. Unless flying along the ground upside down for miles on end is how it's done these days.
Thanks, I haven't installed yet. Not sure if there is much point playing on my 570 8GB, it would probably melt.
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Thanks for this, I was trying this out earlier this morning, flying over manhattan, and was getting like 9-11 fps, such a laggy game!
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I'm very sensitive to frame-rate. I always chase 60 fps whenever possible. BUT.. believe me when I tell you, this sim feels perfectly fine at 30ish.. its super enjoyable and 30 is perfectly reasonable considering the visuals on display.
I'm having a wonderful time exploring on a laptop with a 1070 , an I7-7700HQ and just 12 gigs of RAM!!!!. I get 30 - 40fps on most situations with a mix of High and Ultra Settings in 1080p. I even manage to get volumetric clouds on Ultra and runs super fine and looks AMAZING.
This is a case when you can safely let go the 60fps chase and enjoy (at a more than acceptable framerate) what next gen is all about.
I'm having a wonderful time exploring on a laptop with a 1070 , an I7-7700HQ and just 12 gigs of RAM!!!!. I get 30 - 40fps on most situations with a mix of High and Ultra Settings in 1080p. I even manage to get volumetric clouds on Ultra and runs super fine and looks AMAZING.
This is a case when you can safely let go the 60fps chase and enjoy (at a more than acceptable framerate) what next gen is all about.
Absolutely! Never get tired of them. For me personally, outside of some Giantbomb stuff, Digital Foundry is the only other video game (media) content I regularly consume.
High Preset
16x Anisotropic Filtering
8x8 Texture Supersampling
Ultra Texture Synthesis
High Textures
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I will say, there's one setting that only shows rain on the cockpit window when in Ultra I think. That one is worth having just for the immersion factor regardless of the performance hit in my opinion.
Heh... once again I'm happy I'm happy with 30 fps in games. I'm overall satisfied with how my game runs at all high settings except for ultra clouds on an HD (don't have 4k) TV with just a 1070 video card :P.
I'm on hold though cause my HOTAS broke and we have a new setup but my husband still has to finish it (a yoke/throttle/rudder pedals and a chair designed to put them all on but he's modifying it to fit us better plus he wants to get it powder coated <- he's a bit of a perfectionist so it takes him a long time to get stuff done but he does it right). And I just refuse to play on a keyboard (especially from a couch). Too awkward. Maybe it will mean the autopilot issues will be fixed by the time I play again (I find those a lot more annoying then how the game runs).
I'm on hold though cause my HOTAS broke and we have a new setup but my husband still has to finish it (a yoke/throttle/rudder pedals and a chair designed to put them all on but he's modifying it to fit us better plus he wants to get it powder coated <- he's a bit of a perfectionist so it takes him a long time to get stuff done but he does it right). And I just refuse to play on a keyboard (especially from a couch). Too awkward. Maybe it will mean the autopilot issues will be fixed by the time I play again (I find those a lot more annoying then how the game runs).
I played around with it for a few days because, Game Pass lol. Maybe it was still server issues but could NOT get an acceptable level of performance that I was happy with. Running on a 2080 Super, i7-9700k, 2 tb Nvme SSD 🤔
9900k, 1080 Ti, NVME SSSD, 64 GB's of RAM. I found it to run at a smooth 30 fps @1080p.
I really hope optimization and DLSS 2 will come to this game, otherwise the PC will just melt into goo whenever they will implement ray tracing.
In this case it is not a sponsored video - sponsored videos use the tag by us on the title, as the video must be per law.
I imagine this will be a showcase title for DX12U AI supersampling at some point. DLSS I doubt will come, but with raytracing, maybe!
The issue is how wildly varied performance needs are. Flying over a full photogrammetry NYC is going to give you like half the frame rate as flying over the midwest on a clear day.
So, if you optimize to get a rock solid 30fps anywhere, you are going to make 75% of the game look way worse than it needs to be just to maintain the 30fps around the more demanding areas.
Oh come on Alex do you really think people are that stupid, it was a huge advert for that PC.
I might do the same, it would be a waste playing right for me but I'm still tempted!
Yes, I'm sure Origin PCs are ecstatic at this "ad" showing that their top-of-the-line ĂĽber-PC can't run Flight Sim at max settings at 60fps...
Even if they supplied the PC for the testing, which I assume they did, that doesn't equate to "sponsoring" the video if there was no actual cash payment made to DF and/or Eurogamer. Look up the definition of sponsored video next time.
Even if they supplied the PC for the testing, which I assume they did, that doesn't equate to "sponsoring" the video if there was no actual cash payment made to DF and/or Eurogamer. Look up the definition of sponsored video next time.
True. I guess I just prefer a consistently low framerare over a higher erratic framerate.
Alghough would a gsync display solve any judder at framerates higher than 30?
Yep, they decided to become extra-legal cowboys on behalf of an advertiser. Yeehaw.
What you would want to do then is put yourself looking at the Manhattan skyline with weather set to "mostly cloudy" and adjust your graphic settings until you get a steady 30fps.
That will pretty much guarantee 30fps everywhere else.
I'm in the exact same boat as you. I was suprised how good this game felt to play at 30, specially since I normally game at 144fps+.
I had to do my own customization since it was my CPU that was getting destroyed and now I can run at 30+ consistently and it's SO GOOD.
This was the link I followed to know what settings affected what https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-graphics-settings-and-performance-guide-8-18-2020/132407
That might be my problem lol. (Besides RDR2, game is a hog, run that 1440p 60) I've really gotten used to 4K 60 on almost every game on my PC. I use my 55" LG C8 OLED as my monitor so I REALLY like having the resolution and target 4K for almost every game.
It makes sense, they know DF will likely focus on image quality/framerate analysis while Jay is more likely to test benchmarking and temps.