WARNING:
If you are running Windows 11, be careful with the recent Cumulative Update (KB5007262).
My MSFS crashed to desktop after 5 to 10 minutes running.
I can confirm that on my system since I experienced the same situation twice in the last few days.
The first time was last Friday, Continue reading
My graphics setting in MSFS has been changed accordingly to the recent SU7 and Game of the Year (GOTY) update. Improvements are seen in general.
Regarding the highly anticipated DX12, although the overall image quality with the new feature is enhanced and refined, and framerate seems affected very little only; unfortunately, it does brings frequent micro-stutters in many locations. So DX11 is kept to be my choice. Continue reading
Just upgraded one of my computers to Windows 11 today. I wouldn’t say it’s perfect. But I am impressed !
Frankly, I was a bit hesitated since I heard pros and cons from the Internet. So before the process, I backed up my whole system just in case something goes wrong.
Despite the Apple mac-like centered taskbar and new layout designs, all programs on my computer generally start a lot faster than what they are with Windows 10.
Both MSFS and X-Plane 11 start up a lot quicker. They run smoother with some frame-rate improvements, too. Continue reading
As the price of graphics cards goes down a bit lately, I decided to replace my 3-year-old GTX1080 Ti card with an RTX3080 Ti card last week. I was planning to get the ASUS ROG version but it was out of stock and no schedule for next shipment at that moment. So I got the TUF edition instead.
Frankly, with 12GB GDDR6X memory and a 1,755MHz over-clock rate, it is still a very powerful card to be used in MSFS for the next few years…I guess.
In general, I got an extra 75% to more than double the framerates with the new card straight from the box. Not to mention I pushed many settings to Ultra in the Sim.
Here’s the update of my Graphics Settings in SU6 with the new card. And I listed the framerates I roughly got from various activities and locations at the bottom of the table. Continue reading
While I was staying up late downloading the SU6 in the middle of the night, I received an email from John H. Helms saying that he couldn’t get his MSFS (Store version) updated to SU6.
He said the Sim notified him there was an update and took him to the Store. But there was no update option at all.
He tried resetting the MS Store and logging off the Store, rebooting computer, and logging on again. Neither worked. He added that all previous updates worked without any problem.
While he was a bit confused about it all, he thought he did the followings to get the update eventually: Continue reading
After spending about 2.5 hours completing the SU6 Update, I played with it for 30 minutes with all addons and settings I last used in SU5. Although I couldn’t tell what differences are exactly made, I am pretty impressed that the SU6 is quite good.
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Probably like most of you, I don’t deliberately overclock my computer even though the hardware I got are OC-capable. Normally I just leave it to the BIOS to auto tweak the computer a bit by default.
Surely this is fine as our systems can run to spec stably.
Unfortunately, no difference from other flight simulators, the MSFS 2020 performs better on better performing computers.
Therefore I lately further enabled XMP, thru which I got about 8-10 fps increase in MSFS by pushing the DDR4 RAM from standard 2400MHz to its rated 3200MHz. That’s not insignificant I dare say.
Since my Graphics and nVidia Settings for MSFS are continually changing, instead of writing new Posts for them everytime, corresponding static pages with highlights of changes to them have been created.
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In MSFS, objects in far distance, even on a clear fine day, are too hazy to me. This is one thing in particular I dislike. And the Sim Update 5 (SU5) further worsens it as the overall color tone has been washed out, making the scenery looks very dull.
I use ReShade to tune the screen to my preferences. Click image to enlarge.
The app is somewhat like the “Shade for FSX” that changes the atmospheric effects in FSX in the old days, but ReShade for MSFS is more sophisticated. And most importantly, I don’t see any impact from using it at all.
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FSX TIMES 