[Official] Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Information & Discussion Thread

[J7SC_Orion]

...moar Dune 2 at DDR5 8200 

 

 

 

 

 

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[UltraMega]

I have a customer right now doing some upgrades to his PC who is actual a pilot and uses the PC pretty much just for flight Sim. 

 

How much of a difference would 16GB vs 32GB of system ram make? 

 

How about Vram? 

[Andrew]

3 hours ago, UltraMega said:

I have a customer right now doing some upgrades to his PC who is actual a pilot and uses the PC pretty much just for flight Sim. 

 

How much of a difference would 16GB vs 32GB of system ram make? 

 

How about Vram? 

32GB does make a surprising difference over 16GB. I'd recommend 16GB as minimum.

VRAM depends on resolution. I've got 8GB at 4K and it seems fine, but more would be better.

[J7SC_Orion]

With more games (including MSFS 2020) suggesting r_BAR and forced r_BAR works for others, I would definitely suggest the minimum system RAM at 32 GB (I'm running 2x 24 = 48GB DDR5). MSFS 2020 hammers one CPU core particularly hard and the reason why AMD X3D are top performers with MSFS2020 is the extra cache which in turn benefits from being fed by lots of fast system memory.  

 

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Dune's ornithopter at night in Finland --- sometimes upside-down...but no matter what the orientation, super-smooth at 4K max w/4090, 7950X3D and DDR5 8200...CPU sips power, GPU guzzles it...