That guy flies over my old building :)
The fps thing is important too of course.
Huh that might make the thing actually playable on my decrepit GPU!
It will help, but it sounds like the big gains are for people who are CPU constrained. Theyāve done some process threading, for instance.
That said, they were demonstrating it on a 2060 Super, which is not exactly a powerhouse these days.
Even with a fantastic video card Iāve been hindered at times with the wonky CPU spikes, etc. This should -hopefully- help me being able to run other things in the background while the sim is running.
I recently got a 3070. First thing I did was fire up MSFS 2020. Even on medium low settings I was barely getting 30-40 fps. Itās really bad :( Glad to see them addressing it! :)
The reduction in memory theyāre talking about is kinda insane.
During a recent Twitch stream, spotted by Twinfinite , Asobo demonstrated just how significant the performance improvements will be on older systems with an Intel Core i7-9700K and an RTX 2060 Super. Microsoft Flight Simulator jumped from around 30fps to nearly a solid 60fps just thanks to the patch. CPU utilization also drops from 100 percent to 75 percent on this particular PC, and memory drops from around 16GB to 4.7GB.
I donāt think until now most folks have fully comprehended just how hard theyāve been working on optimizing for the XBox, and how much benefit it would have on PC. :) Itās still not flawless, but itās a lot improved.
I bet they just removed all the NPCs :)
All of it sounds insane. We have devs and other game folks on this forum. This game has been out just short of a year now. How on earth was it that unoptimized that theyāve added faster framerate, less CPU use and less memory use while still keeping the display quality up? Like, did they leave the game engine in debug this entire time or something?
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All I know is every time I load up this game I have a 10GB to 50GB download waiting for me. Hell I just downloaded the 90GB Nordic update and went to do one of the bush flights and the game said ānope sorry, hereās a 3GB download firstā.
Sheās a hungry beast, for sure. I think some people here were joking they need a dedicated drive for the game. Iām hoping they were jokingā¦ they were, right?
Well, as discussed above (and at length earlier in the thread), the sim as released does not take much advantage of multiple cores at all. So it seems theyāve got some fairly big gains to efficiency by shifting some stuff (they mention glass cockpit instruments) to other threads. Not sure about the memory side of things, but it was clearly pretty unoptimised on that front given that it was threatening to eat up all of even 32GB systems.
Not entirely. I my install is 170GB, not including mods, or, I think, the rolling cache.
I still see weather affecting my framerate at times and I donāt think itās (all) GPU based. Iām hoping thatās going to be better now.
I can definitely only install this game on my SSD. Itās kind of a shame, I was looking forward to more SSD gaming with my new computer.
On the other hand, this game is amazing! So I actually donāt mind that I canāt install much else to the SSD. When itās a game like this that continues to blow my mind in some way nearly every time I play it, itās okay!
I meanā¦ define āneedā? I could fit everything in my main installation onto my primary Steam library drive if I wanted to not have a bunch of other things installed, and if I werenāt an utterly shameless addon hoarder. But, even before I started keeping multiple installs around for work, I had it on a dedicated drive just so Iād have plenty of headroom. (Not just for MSFSā¦ itās also held P3D and XPlane over the years.)
I guess I should tally up what I have as well. Itās not a light install I know. But I have some other games that are greedy for space so Iām not knocking it.
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FWIW, my Official directory, with all the world updates installed, totals 144GB. This includes a few Marketplace purchases, so the total ācoreā content is probably somewhere between 130 and 140GB.
Which isnāt overly massive compared to the size of some of the top tier AAA games these days.
But then you all all the other cool content you can get on top of that, and, well. You know :D
I think the recent update reduced the core install by 40 Gig, unless Iām misremembering.
Actually a quick Google suggests it was a much bigger change - 170 to 83ā¦
