There are an insanely amount of different setups out there with hardware and software and what updates have been done or not been done.... Anyone that doesn't understand that things like this will affect people differently doesn't have a good grasp on the complexity of hardware/firmware/software. Thanks for your trails-efforts-and re-re-research and sharing. Much appreciated!
I followed your instructions as I also have a 3080TI and applied them all, I was absolutely blown away with the image that was in front of me wow it was fantastic. Thank you so very much for taking the time and for sharing this with us, it is stunning thank you
Thank you so very much for this detailed, brilliant, informative explanation! I fly exclusively in VR (Reverb G2, RTX 3090) and my PC is very much CPU bottlenecked. I didn’t find any option to go beyond the native resolution of the Reverb G2. Nevertheless I can report a huge improvement in image quality applying DLAA, I would go so far to describe it as a night-and-day difference of the sort that it looks like I have a new, much better headset than before (and until watching your videos I was under the impression I dialed in my graphics settings in a fairly optimized way!) Thank you and please continue sharing your insights with the MSFS 2020 community, very much appreciated!
OMDG!!!! This tiny little tweek is amazing!!! Who knew? and why did it take three years for someone to figure it out and share it? THANK YOU. Not only has my 2D flying never looked better (I tested the FENIX in downtown NY), but even VR (which for me has always been choppy, especially in turns) looks smooth as ice. Oh, my wife hates you know, becuase I'm going to spending more time enjoying this amazing simulation which YOU have made even better!!! 😆. I'm sharing your channel with all my friends. :)
Thanks so much for this video. I have been flopping and twitching for years trying to get this sim dialed in, and I could not do it until I found your channel. You are the man when it comes to great performance!
Once again thank you! This has unlocked the full potential of my system! I'm fortunate enough to have a 7900X3d and an RTX 4090 and have been slightly disappointed in the performance and this has improved my sim so much while trying to fly out of INIbuilds KLAX or KJFK with full on Real Traffic and PSXTraffic in the pmdg or fenix.....this has boosted my FPS enough to where these flights run so much smoother now. So, thank you for your work.
@@twambilileHey! That's a good question. In the islands typically 50+ at the bigger airports (TNCM, TJSJ, etc.) and 60 in cruise. I have a 60 Hz monitor and I have my frames capped at 60.
I paused my flight to come leave this comment. Asobo should hire you...your videos are outstanding! Thank you for all of your testing. I spent hours on tutorials and tweaking but couldn't get things running smooth in VR. Now it's an incredible experience. Great work and thank you so much for sharing!
Ok... I rarely comment on youtube videos but after watching this one and the newer one talking about the DLSS 3.6 I can say: Dawg... you are a genius. I run a Ryzen 7 3700x with a RTX 3070... usually I would get 20-35 FPS durinng the last years in flight sim... it was fine, playable, cool and all. But this saturday I took 50 min of my time to watch these videos and simply enough now im getting constant 60FPS no matter the circustance in game... the Flight sim experience changed from water to wine for me thanks to these videos... your guides simply render all "best graphics settings" videos and guides on the internet totally useless ! thanks you so much... this is awesome.
Wow! this is a game changer. I’ve been tweaking msfs for three years and this one thing has allowed me to go from med-high to ultra settings with improved fps. i7-10700, RTX 2070 Super, SSD,32 GB ram, flying pmdg 737 over Japan and running approx 35 fps. Sweet. Thank you so much!!! I am now a subscriber.
Thank you!! I had good performance anyway on my 3080 but this has boosted it and gave me a boost on the image quality also!! Thanks very much for this well made video and in depth info you gave. Helped my understanding much better!
I have to add to my original comment. This has been a huge game-changer for me. I thought I would have to spend several thousand dollars upgrading my GPU and switching to a 4K monitor. You've given me everything I wanted from all that spending except FPS, and I've got enough of that to be happy. Thank you again.
This video was SOOOOO helpful! I'm running an Nvidia 4070Ti Super and an Intel i9-12900KF with 32GB RAM... I'm getting 120-130 fps around this lovely airport and it's SO smooth and looks so good. Thanks so much for sharing!! I'm only in 2K because that's what my monitor supports, but I'm loving it now.
Holy crap dude, just tweaked my card with your settings and you nailed it. I was barely dropping below 60 FPS in heavy traffic areas with custom scenery and live traffic. And that most annoying jerkiness when panning around is entirely gone. Fantastic, your hours of crawling the forums were not wasted, appreciate the advice. Even thinking of downgrading my card because the 4080 was damn expensive, lmao.
WOW, I have been a flight simmer since MSFS first came out, and I have never experienced visuals like this. I have a 4K OLED monitor (MSI Gaming Laptop with Nvidia 3080 graphics card, which I only use for MSFS), and I have increased the resolution to 5461 x 2880. The graphics are absolutely unbelievable. My FPS is around 43-50fps, which is good enough for me, but, the depth of field is what has astounded me, it is absolutely mind-blowing. I have been flying to locations that I previously loved, and I just cannot explain the difference, it is amazing. Thank you so much for your recommendation, time and effort in figuring this out, you are the MAN!!!! I cannot thank you enough, you have revitalised my enthusiasm and excitement for flight again.
You did it man! I have been trying multiple other settings I found in multiple other videos and the results were meh at bets or significantly worse fps than what I had before. Your video is so well explained DLSS final makes sense to me. Now I seem to be getting solid 30fps with an image quality that looks absolutely stunning. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
First of all, thank you for taking the time to put this together. I know how long all the experimenting takes. For me, the 2.25x plus finally understanding DLSS worked like a charm. But moving my default settings to ULTRA nuked my FPS. I went back to mostly HIGH which makes FPS better and frankly I can hardly tell the difference. 7800X3D and 4070Ti
We have very similar systems and I have been using the NVidia GForce experience app to launch with the optimum settings. I have great performance now. The one thing that caught my attention is that you have 1080P monitor and I have a 4K monitor and I see your videos are in 4K I downgrade mine to 1080P to help "frame drop" of the end product. That said, your water looks great. I still get the lines on the water when the water is smooth. Thanks for explaining not just the settings but also the logic behind the settings. And you are also correct in no two systems are alike. Once we start installing anything the performance changes and we have to find what works for each of us. But you have given us a wonderful starting point with an understanding of what we are dealing with. Thanks a bunch!
Actually I’m on a 2k system. I did the math yesterday and it’s basically like a 1.5x upscale after you do both DLDSR and DLSS. I’m still tweaking around the margins but overall I’m blown away. I can run the sim at literally completely maxed out settings.
I have an i9-9900K with 8 physical cores, and an RTX 3080 Ti. I applied all of this and hopped into the SWS PC-12, and was gobsmacked by the fidelity. It looked like I was sitting in the real airplane. I'm glad you talked about tuning, as I don't have enough time to determine if I need to tone it down. Great job! Thanks for the info.
I recently went from a 27 inch 4k monitor to a 45 inch super ultra wide. It was mostly a good move apart from the fact that after using 4k for so long, the step down to half the vertical resolution was painful. Stumbled across your video and gave it a go. It actually worked. Crystal clear graphics with no performance hit. Oddly, my GPU is now working less hard than before for some reason. I expect it has something to do with the ultra low latency setting being enabled. Anyway, thank you. You're a legend. 👍🏼
I have trying all tips, but none of them worked great. However I need to tell you your settings worked like a charm. Congratulations I am very pleased now. No words to describe how happy I am. I am from Brazil.
thank you - really appreciate your exhaustive work on researching these configuration settings and also taking the time to explain the intent and use. Well done. I have applied this to my RTX 2080 Ti and it improved my image quality by an order of magnitude.
Your videos popped up in my feed with perfect timing. I just upgraded to a 12g 3060 from 8g 1080. Your knowledge & time to explain how the settings work have helped me out so much. Thank you for your time and the nice flight!
Yup you did it. Thank you so much for explaining this. Here I am sitting here with a 4070ti and not even really understanding how to use it. And you also found the closest thing to a solve for fuzzy screens in the cockpit with DLSS. Amazing work man
Thank you!!! I'm running a 13900K with a RTX 4090 on a Samsung 49" 32:9 monitor and was so frustrated with the soft resolution, low FPS and stutters. I followed your settings to the T and it's insane how much sharper the image is and how smooth the gameplay has become. I was getting mid 70 FPS flying through NYC and now get mid 80 FPS with no stutters and much sharper terrain detail. What a change!
I have an i7-13620H 2.40 GHz and an RTX 3050. I thought I had it tweaked to the best settings, then I tried the additional settings described in this video. Wow! I now have LODs set at nearly max and the sim runs great. Thank you!
Thank you! At last a really good explanation of how to get msfs to deliver what I knew my setup was capable of. The detail, quality and control are just Wow!
Thanks for all the work you have done and for sharing it with us. I have a 13600K CPU and a 4070ti GPU and have seen tremendous improvements in frame rate from one of you previous videos, and have seen great graphics improvement from this video. BTW: I am running MSFS on a 4K TV and I don't have resolution options in MSFS that are 1.78 or 2.25 times the native resolution of the TV, so I just set the resolution in MSFS to match the native resolution of the TV and everything seems to be working great.
Happy New Year … ISP! Colorado Mountain Pilot here. I too am a Private pilot, and still fly MS Flight Sim “Old School” in Windows 7! LOL! I built an amazing sim with all SAITEK peripherals and I even built a panel out of wood to install all my Saitek instruments in. I use ForeFlight in the sim, and a few other cool add-ons that make flying cool. I even use my Bose headset while flying. With all that said, I feel it’s time to move up to MSFS 2024! But, I will need to build a new PC so I can run it because my old one will lock up! I’m certain of that. I would appreciate you sharing your build with me so I can have a baseline to start with. I really enjoyed this video and decided to SUB to your channel. Well done fellow pilot! Hope to hear from you soon so I can get started in the new year. 😎👍🏼
Hey man, that means a lot to me, thanks for reaching out! I upgraded from an 8700k/1080 to a 12700k/3080ti about a year ago and honestly, I think MSFS 2024 is going to be WAY better optimized for multi-core CPUs. I think we’re actually going to get way better performance in the new sim than the current one. I’m really looking forward to it. Thank you so much for subscribing!
@@IslandSimPilot … No worries! Always good to support a fellow pilot and Sim’r! Can you list your build so I can take notes and start searching for parts for my build? Did you buy prebuilt or build your own? What brands did you find worked best! Specifics would be very helpful. Seems like you are one step ahead of me on the computer build. I’ll follow your lead and if I find anything, or any info that might help both of us, I’ll be happy so share that. Looking forward to getting started!
@@COMtnPilot Thanks man! This is pretty much exactly what I have except I have a 12700 and not a 12900; all the other specs are exactly what I have: www.amazon.com/MSI-Aegis-RS-12TF-253US/dp/B09MSKNMN7/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2Z313DAEMC1WL&keywords=MSI+Aegis+RS+%28Tower%29+Gaming+Desktop&qid=1704203232&s=electronics&sprefix=msi+aegis+rs+tower+gaming+desktop%2Celectronics%2C101&sr=1-4&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.ac2169a1-b668-44b9-8bd0-5ec63b24bcb5
@@IslandSimPilot … Thank you for that! It will give me a starting point, and, I really like that I don’t have to build it. Off the shelf is good now days because I just don’t have the time to build like I used to. Happy flying!
Amazing, you nailed it! I have been struggling to get past 35 fps with my rtx4090 on an older 5900x cpu, bottleneck at cpu. After configuring this, my cpu latency drooped from 22 ms to 12 ms matching the gpu, fps jumped over 78. Works like magic!!!!
This is one of those groundbreaking videos that gets filed into my "FS TIPS TWEAKS" reference folder....and not too many make it there. Thank you. Been doing this hobby since 1983, yep I'm 64 yrs young, Private pilot. My next wish : find the Holy Grail for VR. cheers,
Great video, I have been exploring these same options for a few years now. Only item I wanted to highlight was your low latency setting. Ultra is for use when you are using G-sync along with Vertical Sync On. Just set to the setting above it. Otherwise it adds ~ 20ms to your latency. And I tried your High Quality scrubbing with the 16x anti setting and I love the sharpness. Thank you. Otherwise I use the exact same settings on my rig with a 4090 in it and a 3440x1440 gsync screen @ 160hz running 2.5x DSR.
Oh my god you did it! I've been tinkering with this for 3 years now and I'm pretty sure I've watched every video and and discussion 3x. Lol. I even spent $5000 upgrading my pc just for this Sim with not much improvement from a 2080 super to a msi 4090. This one trick fixed it all. Traded 240hz for 120hz but I don't care haha. Thank you so much. Cheers!
Thank you Sir! I'm primarily an IL2 guy and occasionally play MSFS. Been exclusively VR for about three years. Initially a G2 but lately switched to an AERO. I9-12900k, RTX 4090. Your settings have improved my MSFS experience to the point that I finally look forward to using that sim. The image quality is also noticeably better in IL2. I have my settings set to DLAA and smoothness at 30 percent with everything else pretty much a mirror image of yours.
Thank you very much for these settings. It works in VR as well. It seems like the PC has now more room to render the game on the monitor and in the headset. In my case a Reverb G2. I kept my ingame VR settings the same. (Native resolution, DLSS Quality and Medium to High for the other settings) As a result, the image in the headset is more clear and without any stutters. My FPS are still locked at 45 in the openXR toolkit, but it is butter smooth and crisp now. FYI, I have a i7 with a 3080 10Gb and 32Gb ram.
Thanks for sharing, I have almost the same hardware (Reverb G2, RTX 3090, 32GB RAM but an AMD Ryzen processor). Also medium to high settings however still getting stutters. Could you perhaps please share more details on your settings? Thanks in advance!❤
yeh would be good to know wouldn't it. I've just upgraded to a 4090 with a I910850 32gb ram and I'm lucky if I get 45 fps. it didn't seem to improve my performance that much upgrading to a 4090 which is depressing after spending nearly £2000. @@D0meson
Great advice on the settings debate plus a fine flying demomstration.i noticed your pre landing checks went a bit awry but you were talking to us a s well as flying the aeroplane. I like it, thanks.
So I was pretty skeptical about this when I first opened the video and I said to myself how good could it really be (I have a 4090 already). But damn dude, it was an amazing difference. It was obvious how much better it was, so no before and after needed for me. It really looks incredible. Not that the sim looked bad before, but it really, really looks much better now. Thanks for doing the work and sharing.
This is freaking awesome! Minus the ghosting which I'm ok with living with for the smoothness, my 2070 Super has traded sad and in pain screams pushing mid FPS to now just sad screams while pushing great FPS. Fantastic tutorials man!
Wow.. I had issues the first time I tried it, but it turns out I had to reinstall MSFS because it wasn't performing right. After the reinstall, I applied these changes again and this time it's smooth as butter. Sometimes with my settings and my specs it drops to 40 FPS if I'm in an airliner 100 ft above New York, but it's still super smooth. That, and the sharpness of the resolution, make you a freaking lord in my book. Thanks for sharing
You Sir, are a genius. I did lose some frame rates, but gained a prettier sim. With a 9700k and an RTX 3070 and 32 GB RAM, I can use the DLDRS or whatever at the 2.2 and set my res in MSFS to the 4.5k like you from 1440p, and if I set it to quality DLSS I get 50-59 FPS with waves to medium, motion blur off, and everything else set to ultra with the global setting. With balanced I get about 60-65 FPS, and with performance I get 65-75 FPS. Good enough for me. I have yet to try the PMDG 737 over NYC, but I am happy. I subscribed and rung the bell for all. My GPU usage is up, and my CPU usage is in the green. Thank you. Most of my NCP settings for global and MSFS were already about where yours are in the video.
Subbed. Thanks for the great content and sharing. Been exciting to see so many big names in MSFS YT mentioning your channel and contributions. Kudos! If we could just get MSFS to make it so the displays don't look so blurred while they're moving. Thanks.
Thanks a lot, really appreciated it, great configuration, my system is better now and CONGRATS on that beautiful landing, seems like you are a REAL pilot. Cheers LCL
I have the same setup as you (almost). I7 12700K, RTX 3050, 32GB DDR5 RAM. I was using NVidia's "Optimized" settings. This is amazing! The performance and quality difference is night and day. Thanks for putting in the effort and doing the research on this.
Your DLSS explanations and tips have greatly improved the looks of my sim. I had to do some tweaking due to my system being a little different than yours but man what a difference. My channel is not a big one I'm new at TH-cam but I am going to post a video showing the results of your advice and post a link to your channel. Thanx for sharing your efforts, my sim has never looked so good. Definitely a fan and new sub, cheers! Edit: I will also provide my system specs and show my settings in the video I post.
Great info IslandSimPilot! Not only was I able to see a major improvement after making changes in my own setup, but I am also able to enjoy this improvement via Virtual Desktop, which permits me to choose from many of its own virtual monitor screens, one of which is the size of a 70mm screen in a movie theatre environment. The improved high resolution on such a display makes MSFS a really enjoyable thing to experience. I also wanted to convey that the VDXR api that is supported in Virtual Desktop is such that I no longer need to access Oculus nor Steam XR api’s, as I have found VDXR to be the most stable and reliable of the 3 API’s. The switch from regular screen to virtual display on my Oculus headset is seamless and almost instantaneous, with no issues in playability. A single API is all that is needed for Oculus headset to work harmoniously in VR with MSFS. Thanks again for conveying your research.
Dude...Duuuddee. I can't believe my eyes. Only JFK from Inibuilds is not friendly but the rest of the world...dude...Thank you very much. What a pleasure to fly now. And I am also pilot myself. The VFR is very enjoyable. Thank you again I have 3080 and i9 finally I synchronised it. 🙏🙏🙏
I've found that you can use the same technique (sort of) for VR headsets. Oversample the VR headset by using whatever VR software will let you do that, and then use DLSS to downscale as described. It's looking great for me!
Wow! Thanks for this tweak! I have all your setting and same hardware. Only thing i had to change was run at 50% monitor rate on a 4k tv. A few stutters at KJFK,EGLL with real traffic AL. Frames never below 28 at those airports with a quick jump to 30. Tested VHHH and it was smooth. I don't need the Frame Generation it was running my GPU at 100%. I thing the Dynamic LOD will work great with this. Thanks for all you time testing to find the Holy Grail! My sim world is more fun and smooth in all phases. 😊😊😊 GPU 35-45% CPU 15-30 never see this before in all my years of simming.
Wow Wow your the man Islandsimpilot what have you done???? Its like having a completely new sim. The graphics is unbelievable honestly. I also have the RTX 3080TI and my GPU was never being used 20% now its up about 80 -90 %. CPU is about the same but the difference in graphics is amazing and no problem with the temps. Everything on ultra and getting 45-50 fps in the air above cities and about 35 landing in big airports Thanks so much .
I have a G9 Odyssey OLED 5120x1440 and a 4090. Initially upon entering the NVIDIA control panel, there was no DSR option available. I had to do two things to get the DSR option to show. Change refresh rate of the monitor from 240Hz o 120Hz in system settings and turn Game Mode OFF in the monitor settings. I had to go with 1.78x as 2.25x was just too much of a hit. The change in graphical quality is nothing short of amazing. Thank you for posting this as well as posting the DLSS update video. Hopefully my above comments may help others. Edit: actually just turning Game Mode off on the monitor may do it. There is no option for 240Hz refresh rate once Game Mode is turned OFF.
@@phillypunk91587This one is not so much about getting better performance. It is about achieving a better graphical quality. You play with the DLSS settings to get you to your sweet spot....good looking graphics and decent performance. For me an a 7950X3D / 4090. I ended up with DLDSR at 1.78x with DLSS on the balanced setting.
This mod finally maxes the quality for my system - RTX3070, AMD Ryzen 5, 4K monitor now running at a full p60 plus FPS with FSR of 6144 x 3240. I reproduced your settings at the same airport and the result was excellent. Scenery water and cockpit panels are sharper, more deailed (my eyes appraciate it already ) Good job!
Wow. What a difference! Great visuals and great performance. I'm running a 13700 kf with a 4090. Seems like the computer is not working nearly as hard. The room that my computer is in usually heats up by 10 degrees or so during long flights. After a six hour flight last night my room hardly heated up at all. Very interesting stuff! Thank you....
13900KS, 32G, 4090 using 546.29 drv, Samsung C49RG9x -native 5120x1440 now 7680x2160, DX12Beta; matching your settings. I was happy to begin with but now it is absolutely beautiful. Using DLSS 3.5.10.0 as you suggested. Did not gain much FPS but did not lose any either. Thank You
WOW! I have a pretty good system or so I think :-) 7800X3D, 4070Ti Super with 32GB and I was never really happy with the visuals given the specs I have and doing this has transformed it :-) I left anisotropic filtering on in game and had to lower most of the settings from Ultra to High but it didn't have much impact. I have a ultra wide 34" monitor with a native resolution of 3440x 1440 so pushing the system to 5160x2160 at ultra was a step to far!. Even on high it is so much better that when I was running in native resolution . Thanks so much!
I was happy with the FPS I had with my 4090 card and with 14900K CPU. But having the DSR option is a different level. Thank you. I didn't know such feature. Since I have the fastest CPU and the GPU, I left the smoothing at 33% and also I tried TAA instead of DLSS. I tried this because I thought that my GPU may not need to reduce the quality because it already is a powerful card and everything was great even without the DLSS option. But I hear my GPU fans quite a lot :) Oh when I used TAA, my FPS with everything ULTRA was around 60-70. With DLSS it's over 90-100. For now I stick with DLSS but it was nice to have the option to use TAA without loosing any quality and still having a great FPS. Oh my monitor resolution is also 2K.
I tested this today and I can confirm a good result. I got a Ryzen 7 2700X, RTX3070 and 32GB RAM. Although I couldn't get it to be 100% fluent at every scenery, I got somewhat fluent gameplay with the Fenix at Heathrow (FPS drops if you get scenery-heavy areas in your view, maybe from 30-40 fps down to 20-25). Same with PMDG in KLAX, although there it seemed to have much more consistent fluidity, I think at about 35-40fps. I think that's because PMDG manages much better performance-wise. Although DLSS always caused me trouble on the tapes or when changing altimeter setting because it makes the values very blurry when the digits are changing, I'm going to ignore that for the sake of more fluent gameplay. Thank you dear Sir ! PS: My graphics card still only got up to about 30-40% but I think maybe thats because I upgraded my PC a few times over the years and I use an ASUS RoG Strix B450F Mainboard, which only has PCIe 3.0, so that's probably another bottleneck for the card since it's using PCIe 4.0.
I just wanted you to know that your tips completely changed my life. Although I have to load into the game at my TV's resolution otherwise it crashes, I can change it after loading in. I'm upscaled to 5461 x 2880. I am getting 85-90 fps with Frame generation, v-sync, TLOD 200, running PMDG and a host of other mods, it looks so much better and the best part... NO MORE STUTTERS! Thank you thank you thank you thank you.
Thanks so much for this. I have within the last month, come from xbox series x to brand new pc. And I am lacking in pc knowledge, as I have not had one for years. I have liked subed and will be sharing on other platforms.
This works pretty well for me, only downside being the DLSS causes a lot of blurriness on the displays of some addon aircraft. However visually and performance wise a great improvement and I can tell my 3080Ti is actually doing some work now!
You can fix this by doing the following. Open your usercfg.opt file. A quick google will tell you how to find this file. Find the line in the top block of options that says "Secondary Scaling" Change that line to read "SecondaryScaling 2.000000"
Great video, well done and thanks for making it. Best test to use as well is bad performance airports to see worst case scenario fps... Needs to be during daytime, Do New York, Manhattan, Depart JFK, Arrive Newark, Set One World Trade Centre building as the point of interest. Now do a take off JFK and fly over the one WTC building and land at Newark. This gives a great indicator of the lowest fps you will get. I also fly the Bonanza as well. Before video changes I got 26-28fps doing this test. I will post back once I've made this video changes with my results... My specs: W3690 @ 4GHz HyperThreading Off, 24GB DDR3 1333MHz Triple Channel ECC, Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB There's also huge stability to be found by: 1) Start MSFS, 2) On the main menu, open up Task Manager 3) Go to Processes tab, 4) MSFS executable and set Affinity to untick Core 0 This works so well to reduce stutters by leaving the first core free for the OS - why is this important? MSFS does a lot to pull in datasets off the internet and if your OS cant even process downloads, the sim stutters on approach, new areas, new weather updates/refreshes etc. Free up Core 0 to let the OS have room to function. I should add, turning off HyperThreading (SMT) is a huge gain in stability and better minimum frames as well. This is due to the L2 cache amount being halved per core when HT (SMT) is on. This introduces additional CPU bottleneck, not to mention a virtual core is only 30% of a real core so again, introducing further CPU bottleneck.
I was skeptical watching this video, but HOLY COW - what kind of voodoo magic is this? I followed your settings (with a couple of minor differences within the MSFS graphics settings), and the difference is phenomenal! I'm running a Core i9 10900KF and a new RTX 4070 (replaced my RTX 3070 last week) on a Dell S3220DGF (1440p) curved monitor, and I swear this has taken away the fuzziness of the gauges in everything I've tried so far. The overall clarity of everything is amazing. It honestly makes the monitor appear look like it's (near) 4k. I still plan on getting a larger 4k OLED sometime in 2024, but this has given my Dell a renewed life. One question, would there be any benefit to someone who's already running on a 4k monitor? Are these settings even necessary on one?
Again great video thank you!!!! Finally someone explains this complicated stuff so it can be understood by non computer engineers. I have tried DLSS and all your settings with my RTX4090: Love the smoothness and fluidity BUT big issue for me was always the blurry cockpit: What about setting DSR sharpening to 0%?
Hey, thanks so much for the feedback! I'm glad this is working for you. You can try playing with that. I think the one thing that helped me is setting "Texture filtering - Quality" to "High quality" in NVCP. Give that a try.
Thank you so much! First of all for the (for me self learning) exercise. Very well explained. The graphics are phenomenal. The fin noise however is with every option a bit loud. So my DLSS setting "Balanced" is the least with still good images. I struggle though with "End game"and "Go to main menu" as the sim than terminates completely and I have to restart. Interesting.
What a great, comprehensive video. I'm applying these changes and have high hopes lol. One thing I'd add to this is maybe the shadows to 4096 in the cfg file. MSFS cockpit shadows are ugly, this makes them a little less annoying. edit: OK, this has already taken my fps to levels I dont think I ever saw before while looking great. Love it!
@@roxout5743 I know what you mean but they don't because this method uses DSR to massively upscale the resolution and then DLSS to downscale a little to get the performance boost. So you end up with a clearer picture, easier to read instruments AND better fps. Gotta love this new AI-powered stuff!
@@davidtsw sadly even with 2x DSR and DLSS set to quality I get a minor performance improvement and glass instruments are very blurry and unreadable when the text moves fast (like on the altitude or speed readings)
@@roxout5743 I went back to my native 2k resolution and TAA at 100 and I don't understand why but the performance stayed more or less the same. I'm absolutely sure when I was going the other way it gave me a noticeable boost. I also did some more thorough testing and I gotta say you're right, even at 2.25 and dlss to quality it doesn't look quite as nice as taa without any upscaling or downscaling. Another thing I noticed is that the AA looks better with Taa and at 2k res. Significantly less jaggies visible on airport buildings for example
Thanks for all of your dedication and hard work and sharing all that knowledge with the rest of us. I haven't made the changes yet and as I fly using the Quest 3 headset which is awesome. However, i run an i7 10700k, 4060Ti gpu with 32 g of ram and i think my CPU is the bottleneck and have been thinking about an upgrade, this could save me some significant cash. I would like to do a before and after test. I know this is a rookie question, but how do you get the cpu/gpu info to display on your monitor. Thanks so much for your videos, keep them coming. With this kind of grass roots info you will build your channel for sure.
I've spent about 2 months this year tweeking mfs on my 2060ti super and it worked great . This right here is mind blowing . I play on a 65 inch Toshiba TV that hasb60 MHz refresh rate at 1080 now after the settings it's still 60 MHz but now it's 2010 dpi and I play at 5580x3840 resolution and holy crap man I can't believe the difference this shit made, now I spent about 3 hrs twerking everything and it was worth every minute. I've spent 12 hours yesterday doing bush trips because the scenery and the way it's so flawless now . And I play on a Nvidia 2060ti super and I have a 9i 9700 processor which gets 5.5 and I can't tell u how much this helped . Thank you 1000 times .
Nice tips, I didnt even know DLDSR existed. With a 3060 card I cant push my resolution above 2560 x 1440 without fps becoming unusable, but I can now run with quality settings rather than balanced and it all seems much smoother , considering I used to have to run at 1920 res to egt goos stable fps this is a great visual improvement for me. Not sure if its psychological but performance in VR (Oculus Quest 2) also seems more stable and views more detailed. Cockpit is a lot crisper.
Dude… 3060 12GB/3600x/ 36GB ram. I’m suffering bad because I got a 4k tv back when I bought my Xbox one. Now I’m on the same tv and anything lower than 4k gets all jaggy. So I gotta live without traffic and low LODS. It feels like my CPU just can’t handle this game tbh, because even at low res I get only 40 fps at most.
I have to admit, I was very skeptical of the video. Specially since I have watched many videos and have tried a many different things. HANDS Down, this has had the greatest impact for me. In addition to what you did, I actually also disabled all airport traffic, based on another video I watched and I can confirmed its a HUGE FPS killer when on approach and landing. Since I use FSLTL and GSX Pro, don't really miss the traffic much. I also have frames generation enabled which is available in the RTX 40 series. I went from having around 60-80 FPS on highest settings and on high demanding scenery to 90 - 120 FPS. It's like butter, thank you very much. My specs: MB: MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI LGA 1700 AT CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700KF, 3400 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s) GPU: RTX 4070 12G RAM: DDR5 32G Storage: 3TB Nvme Power: 700w
Man, than you so much for this video! I tried your suggestions on my RTX 2060 and boy what a difference to the quality and the framerates. Wasn't expecting this much out of my somewhat old graphics card. Hope you're looking forward to the Caribbean World Update like I am 🙂
There are an insanely amount of different setups out there with hardware and software and what updates have been done or not been done.... Anyone that doesn't understand that things like this will affect people differently doesn't have a good grasp on the complexity of hardware/firmware/software. Thanks for your trails-efforts-and re-re-research and sharing. Much appreciated!
Now you're getting it...
I followed your instructions as I also have a 3080TI and applied them all, I was absolutely blown away with the image that was in front of me wow it was fantastic. Thank you so very much for taking the time and for sharing this with us, it is stunning thank you
Thank you so very much for this detailed, brilliant, informative explanation! I fly exclusively in VR (Reverb G2, RTX 3090) and my PC is very much CPU bottlenecked. I didn’t find any option to go beyond the native resolution of the Reverb G2. Nevertheless I can report a huge improvement in image quality applying DLAA, I would go so far to describe it as a night-and-day difference of the sort that it looks like I have a new, much better headset than before (and until watching your videos I was under the impression I dialed in my graphics settings in a fairly optimized way!) Thank you and please continue sharing your insights with the MSFS 2020 community, very much appreciated!
So, are you saying that this guide works for VR as well?
What is your cpu? Mine gpu same i needed to change my cpu. I took a video about it which is in my channel.
OMDG!!!! This tiny little tweek is amazing!!! Who knew? and why did it take three years for someone to figure it out and share it? THANK YOU. Not only has my 2D flying never looked better (I tested the FENIX in downtown NY), but even VR (which for me has always been choppy, especially in turns) looks smooth as ice. Oh, my wife hates you know, becuase I'm going to spending more time enjoying this amazing simulation which YOU have made even better!!! 😆. I'm sharing your channel with all my friends. :)
I'm so glad it has worked for you!
Thanks so much for this video. I have been flopping and twitching for years trying to get this sim dialed in, and I could not do it until I found your channel. You are the man when it comes to great performance!
Thanks so much, Michael! Yeah these settings are the best you can get. Surprised more people don’t know about it.
Once again thank you! This has unlocked the full potential of my system! I'm fortunate enough to have a 7900X3d and an RTX 4090 and have been slightly disappointed in the performance and this has improved my sim so much while trying to fly out of INIbuilds KLAX or KJFK with full on Real Traffic and PSXTraffic in the pmdg or fenix.....this has boosted my FPS enough to where these flights run so much smoother now. So, thank you for your work.
I'm really glad to hear that!
How much fps are you running now? I have similar specs
@@twambilileHey! That's a good question. In the islands typically 50+ at the bigger airports (TNCM, TJSJ, etc.) and 60 in cruise. I have a 60 Hz monitor and I have my frames capped at 60.
I paused my flight to come leave this comment. Asobo should hire you...your videos are outstanding! Thank you for all of your testing. I spent hours on tutorials and tweaking but couldn't get things running smooth in VR. Now it's an incredible experience. Great work and thank you so much for sharing!
That really means a lot to me, thanks so much and happy simming!
Ok... I rarely comment on youtube videos but after watching this one and the newer one talking about the DLSS 3.6 I can say: Dawg... you are a genius. I run a Ryzen 7 3700x with a RTX 3070... usually I would get 20-35 FPS durinng the last years in flight sim... it was fine, playable, cool and all. But this saturday I took 50 min of my time to watch these videos and simply enough now im getting constant 60FPS no matter the circustance in game... the Flight sim experience changed from water to wine for me thanks to these videos... your guides simply render all "best graphics settings" videos and guides on the internet totally useless ! thanks you so much... this is awesome.
Dude! I don't know what kind of voodoo your peddling, but these changes have completely changed the game, it's like brand new! Thanks a bunch!
That’s what I like to hear!!!
Wow! this is a game changer. I’ve been tweaking msfs for three years and this one thing has allowed me to go from med-high to ultra settings with improved fps. i7-10700, RTX 2070 Super, SSD,32 GB ram, flying pmdg 737 over Japan and running approx 35 fps. Sweet. Thank you so much!!! I am now a subscriber.
That's great news! So glad to hear it!
Thank you!! I had good performance anyway on my 3080 but this has boosted it and gave me a boost on the image quality also!! Thanks very much for this well made video and in depth info you gave. Helped my understanding much better!
I’m so very glad to hear that!
I have to add to my original comment. This has been a huge game-changer for me. I thought I would have to spend several thousand dollars upgrading my GPU and switching to a 4K monitor. You've given me everything I wanted from all that spending except FPS, and I've got enough of that to be happy. Thank you again.
These comments make my day, thank you so much!
This video was SOOOOO helpful! I'm running an Nvidia 4070Ti Super and an Intel i9-12900KF with 32GB RAM... I'm getting 120-130 fps around this lovely airport and it's SO smooth and looks so good. Thanks so much for sharing!! I'm only in 2K because that's what my monitor supports, but I'm loving it now.
Holy crap dude, just tweaked my card with your settings and you nailed it. I was barely dropping below 60 FPS in heavy traffic areas with custom scenery and live traffic. And that most annoying jerkiness when panning around is entirely gone.
Fantastic, your hours of crawling the forums were not wasted, appreciate the advice.
Even thinking of downgrading my card because the 4080 was damn expensive, lmao.
WOW, I have been a flight simmer since MSFS first came out, and I have never experienced visuals like this. I have a 4K OLED monitor (MSI Gaming Laptop with Nvidia 3080 graphics card, which I only use for MSFS), and I have increased the resolution to 5461 x 2880. The graphics are absolutely unbelievable. My FPS is around 43-50fps, which is good enough for me, but, the depth of field is what has astounded me, it is absolutely mind-blowing. I have been flying to locations that I previously loved, and I just cannot explain the difference, it is amazing. Thank you so much for your recommendation, time and effort in figuring this out, you are the MAN!!!! I cannot thank you enough, you have revitalised my enthusiasm and excitement for flight again.
Comments like this absolutely make my day!
You did it man! I have been trying multiple other settings I found in multiple other videos and the results were meh at bets or significantly worse fps than what I had before. Your video is so well explained DLSS final makes sense to me. Now I seem to be getting solid 30fps with an image quality that looks absolutely stunning. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
So glad to hear that!
First of all, thank you for taking the time to put this together. I know how long all the experimenting takes. For me, the 2.25x plus finally understanding DLSS worked like a charm. But moving my default settings to ULTRA nuked my FPS. I went back to mostly HIGH which makes FPS better and frankly I can hardly tell the difference. 7800X3D and 4070Ti
We have very similar systems and I have been using the NVidia GForce experience app to launch with the optimum settings. I have great performance now. The one thing that caught my attention is that you have 1080P monitor and I have a 4K monitor and I see your videos are in 4K I downgrade mine to 1080P to help "frame drop" of the end product. That said, your water looks great. I still get the lines on the water when the water is smooth. Thanks for explaining not just the settings but also the logic behind the settings. And you are also correct in no two systems are alike. Once we start installing anything the performance changes and we have to find what works for each of us. But you have given us a wonderful starting point with an understanding of what we are dealing with. Thanks a bunch!
Actually I’m on a 2k system. I did the math yesterday and it’s basically like a 1.5x upscale after you do both DLDSR and DLSS. I’m still tweaking around the margins but overall I’m blown away. I can run the sim at literally completely maxed out settings.
I have an i9-9900K with 8 physical cores, and an RTX 3080 Ti. I applied all of this and hopped into the SWS PC-12, and was gobsmacked by the fidelity. It looked like I was sitting in the real airplane. I'm glad you talked about tuning, as I don't have enough time to determine if I need to tone it down. Great job! Thanks for the info.
So glad, John!
I recently went from a 27 inch 4k monitor to a 45 inch super ultra wide. It was mostly a good move apart from the fact that after using 4k for so long, the step down to half the vertical resolution was painful. Stumbled across your video and gave it a go. It actually worked. Crystal clear graphics with no performance hit. Oddly, my GPU is now working less hard than before for some reason. I expect it has something to do with the ultra low latency setting being enabled.
Anyway, thank you. You're a legend. 👍🏼
I have trying all tips, but none of them worked great. However I need to tell you your settings worked like a charm. Congratulations I am very pleased now. No words to describe how happy I am. I am from Brazil.
You're so very welcome!
thank you - really appreciate your exhaustive work on researching these configuration settings and also taking the time to explain the intent and use. Well done. I have applied this to my RTX 2080 Ti and it improved my image quality by an order of magnitude.
I really can't tell you how happy that makes me to hear, that's what it's all about!
Your videos popped up in my feed with perfect timing. I just upgraded to a 12g 3060 from 8g 1080. Your knowledge & time to explain how the settings work have helped me out so much. Thank you for your time and the nice flight!
You're very welcome, Robin!
Yup you did it. Thank you so much for explaining this. Here I am sitting here with a 4070ti and not even really understanding how to use it. And you also found the closest thing to a solve for fuzzy screens in the cockpit with DLSS. Amazing work man
Glad I could help!
Thank you!!! I'm running a 13900K with a RTX 4090 on a Samsung 49" 32:9 monitor and was so frustrated with the soft resolution, low FPS and stutters. I followed your settings to the T and it's insane how much sharper the image is and how smooth the gameplay has become. I was getting mid 70 FPS flying through NYC and now get mid 80 FPS with no stutters and much sharper terrain detail. What a change!
I am so glad to hear that! These comments make it all worthwhile! Enjoy!!!
Congratulations, you have done what millions of usres were not abloe to achieve! Great settings for me as well. Thank you!
That means a lot to me, thank you!
Was skeptical at first, but I tried it and it works great work. You have found the holy Grail.
Yep, still the best visuals I've been able to produce!
Thanks! Big improvements for me, saved me from a HW upgrade now.
That’s very kind of you, Erick! Enjoy your simming!
I have an i7-13620H 2.40 GHz and an RTX 3050. I thought I had it tweaked to the best settings, then I tried the additional settings described in this video. Wow! I now have LODs set at nearly max and the sim runs great. Thank you!
Thank you! At last a really good explanation of how to get msfs to deliver what I knew my setup was capable of. The detail, quality and control are just Wow!
I'm so happy to hear that! Happy simming!
I see you're using my livery! I'm flattered! Nice video, trying to get it stutter-free is always a challenge with MSFS.
Dude that’s the best Bo livery by far! Love it!
Thanks for all the work you have done and for sharing it with us. I have a 13600K CPU and a 4070ti GPU and have seen tremendous improvements in frame rate from one of you previous videos, and have seen great graphics improvement from this video. BTW: I am running MSFS on a 4K TV and I don't have resolution options in MSFS that are 1.78 or 2.25 times the native resolution of the TV, so I just set the resolution in MSFS to match the native resolution of the TV and everything seems to be working great.
Do you remember what video helped you dramatically increase FSP?
Happy New Year … ISP! Colorado Mountain Pilot here. I too am a Private pilot, and still fly MS Flight Sim “Old School” in Windows 7! LOL! I built an amazing sim with all SAITEK peripherals and I even built a panel out of wood to install all my Saitek instruments in. I use ForeFlight in the sim, and a few other cool add-ons that make flying cool. I even use my Bose headset while flying. With all that said, I feel it’s time to move up to MSFS 2024! But, I will need to build a new PC so I can run it because my old one will lock up! I’m certain of that. I would appreciate you sharing your build with me so I can have a baseline to start with. I really enjoyed this video and decided to SUB to your channel. Well done fellow pilot! Hope to hear from you soon so I can get started in the new year. 😎👍🏼
Hey man, that means a lot to me, thanks for reaching out! I upgraded from an 8700k/1080 to a 12700k/3080ti about a year ago and honestly, I think MSFS 2024 is going to be WAY better optimized for multi-core CPUs. I think we’re actually going to get way better performance in the new sim than the current one. I’m really looking forward to it. Thank you so much for subscribing!
@@IslandSimPilot … No worries! Always good to support a fellow pilot and Sim’r! Can you list your build so I can take notes and start searching for parts for my build? Did you buy prebuilt or build your own? What brands did you find worked best! Specifics would be very helpful. Seems like you are one step ahead of me on the computer build. I’ll follow your lead and if I find anything, or any info that might help both of us, I’ll be happy so share that. Looking forward to getting started!
@@COMtnPilot Thanks man! This is pretty much exactly what I have except I have a 12700 and not a 12900; all the other specs are exactly what I have:
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@@IslandSimPilot … Thank you for that! It will give me a starting point, and, I really like that I don’t have to build it. Off the shelf is good now days because I just don’t have the time to build like I used to. Happy flying!
@@COMtnPilot Yeah out of the box this thing kicks butt!
Amazing, you nailed it! I have been struggling to get past 35 fps with my rtx4090 on an older 5900x cpu, bottleneck at cpu. After configuring this, my cpu latency drooped from 22 ms to 12 ms matching the gpu, fps jumped over 78. Works like magic!!!!
That's fantastic! Glad to hear it.
This is one of those groundbreaking videos that gets filed into my "FS TIPS TWEAKS" reference folder....and not too many make it there. Thank you. Been doing this hobby since 1983, yep I'm 64 yrs young, Private pilot. My next wish : find the Holy Grail for VR. cheers,
I'm so very glad to hear that - happy simming my friend!
Gosh dang , it worked thank you so much . I have Ryzen 7700x , 4070ti and 32g of ram 1440p monitors. Results are more than incredible.
That’s what we like to hear!!!
Great video, I have been exploring these same options for a few years now.
Only item I wanted to highlight was your low latency setting. Ultra is for use when you are using G-sync along with Vertical Sync On. Just set to the setting above it. Otherwise it adds ~ 20ms to your latency.
And I tried your High Quality scrubbing with the 16x anti setting and I love the sharpness. Thank you.
Otherwise I use the exact same settings on my rig with a 4090 in it and a 3440x1440 gsync screen @ 160hz running 2.5x DSR.
Thank you! I've since changed this setting.
NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL
6:11 NVCP DSR-FACTORS (DSLR): 2.25 *AND* 1.75 (BOTH ON)
17:37 NVCP DSR SMOOTHNESS: 60%
18:35 NVCP TEXTURE FILTERING: HIGH QUALITY
19:16 NVCP ANISTROPIC FILTERING: 16X
19:35 NVCP LOW LATENCY MODE : ULTRA
20:20 NVCP POWER MANAGEMENT: if cpu fan noise is a problem then: NORMAL, otherwise PREFER MAX PERF.
MSFS GENERAL OPTIONS GRAPHICS
21:30 MSFS ANTI-ALIASING: NVIDIA DLSS SUPER RES.
21:43 MSFS select a resolution: highest (for 2k monitor 3840x2160 = 2.25X) (3rd from bottom is native resolu.)
22:00 MSFS NVIDIA DLSS SUPER RESOLUTION: QUALITY
23:17 MSFS GLOBAL RENDERING QUALITY: ULTRA
24:12 MOTION BLUR: OFF
Thank you
@@jpamintuan96 I incorporated this into the video, thanks again!
Thank you
Just on from this , to get dsr on my i9 3980 laptop I having to use the studio driver for whatever reason
Used to get terrible frames at DTW, this fixed the problem. Thank you so much!
Oh my god you did it! I've been tinkering with this for 3 years now and I'm pretty sure I've watched every video and and discussion 3x. Lol. I even spent $5000 upgrading my pc just for this Sim with not much improvement from a 2080 super to a msi 4090. This one trick fixed it all. Traded 240hz for 120hz but I don't care haha. Thank you so much. Cheers!
Thank you Sir! I'm primarily an IL2 guy and occasionally play MSFS. Been exclusively VR for about three years. Initially a G2 but lately switched to an AERO. I9-12900k, RTX 4090. Your settings have improved my MSFS experience to the point that I finally look forward to using that sim. The image quality is also noticeably better in IL2. I have my settings set to DLAA and smoothness at 30 percent with everything else pretty much a mirror image of yours.
I'm so glad to hear that!
Thank you very much for these settings. It works in VR as well. It seems like the PC has now more room to render the game on the monitor and in the headset. In my case a Reverb G2. I kept my ingame VR settings the same. (Native resolution, DLSS Quality and Medium to High for the other settings) As a result, the image in the headset is more clear and without any stutters. My FPS are still locked at 45 in the openXR toolkit, but it is butter smooth and crisp now. FYI, I have a i7 with a 3080 10Gb and 32Gb ram.
Thanks for sharing, I have almost the same hardware (Reverb G2, RTX 3090, 32GB RAM but an AMD Ryzen processor). Also medium to high settings however still getting stutters. Could you perhaps please share more details on your settings? Thanks in advance!❤
yeh would be good to know wouldn't it. I've just upgraded to a 4090 with a I910850 32gb ram and I'm lucky if I get 45 fps. it didn't seem to improve my performance that much upgrading to a 4090 which is depressing after spending nearly £2000. @@D0meson
DLSS looks awful in VR.
@@nrosko cannot confirm - for me it works great!
@@D0meson Will do that on my channel when I have all the settings locked in for recording in VR.
Great advice on the settings debate plus a fine flying demomstration.i noticed your pre landing checks went a bit awry but you were talking to us a s well as flying the aeroplane. I like it, thanks.
For sure, I definitely need to be more consistent with prelanding checks!
Holy mackerel dude!!! This looks to good to be true, like I really have to rub my eyes...feels like I am in the bloody game. THANK YOU.
So I was pretty skeptical about this when I first opened the video and I said to myself how good could it really be (I have a 4090 already). But damn dude, it was an amazing difference. It was obvious how much better it was, so no before and after needed for me. It really looks incredible. Not that the sim looked bad before, but it really, really looks much better now. Thanks for doing the work and sharing.
You're so very welcome!
This is freaking awesome! Minus the ghosting which I'm ok with living with for the smoothness, my 2070 Super has traded sad and in pain screams pushing mid FPS to now just sad screams while pushing great FPS. Fantastic tutorials man!
I’m so glad to hear that! Enjoy your simming!
Just found your content, and followed closely.
These tweaks have made my performance soooo smooth and it looks incredible, excellent subbed!
Welcome aboard!
Wow.. I had issues the first time I tried it, but it turns out I had to reinstall MSFS because it wasn't performing right. After the reinstall, I applied these changes again and this time it's smooth as butter. Sometimes with my settings and my specs it drops to 40 FPS if I'm in an airliner 100 ft above New York, but it's still super smooth. That, and the sharpness of the resolution, make you a freaking lord in my book. Thanks for sharing
You Sir, are a genius. I did lose some frame rates, but gained a prettier sim. With a 9700k and an RTX 3070 and 32 GB RAM, I can use the DLDRS or whatever at the 2.2 and set my res in MSFS to the 4.5k like you from 1440p, and if I set it to quality DLSS I get 50-59 FPS with waves to medium, motion blur off, and everything else set to ultra with the global setting. With balanced I get about 60-65 FPS, and with performance I get 65-75 FPS. Good enough for me. I have yet to try the PMDG 737 over NYC, but I am happy. I subscribed and rung the bell for all. My GPU usage is up, and my CPU usage is in the green. Thank you. Most of my NCP settings for global and MSFS were already about where yours are in the video.
That’s fantastic news! Really glad to hear that it worked for you. Happy flying my friend!
Subbed. Thanks for the great content and sharing. Been exciting to see so many big names in MSFS YT mentioning your channel and contributions. Kudos! If we could just get MSFS to make it so the displays don't look so blurred while they're moving. Thanks.
Thank you so much! The best DLSS setting I’ve found for the screens blurring is DLSS-DLAA, but DLAA doesn’t work well for me with this DLDSR thing.
Thanks a lot, really appreciated it, great configuration, my system is better now and CONGRATS on that beautiful landing, seems like you are a REAL pilot.
Cheers
LCL
I am :) And thank you!
I usually don't leave comments but man what a difference. Bravo! And absolutely no cost in performance. Truly amazing.
That’s awesome! Glad to hear it.
I have the same setup as you (almost). I7 12700K, RTX 3050, 32GB DDR5 RAM. I was using NVidia's "Optimized" settings.
This is amazing! The performance and quality difference is night and day. Thanks for putting in the effort and doing the research on this.
You’re very welcome!
Your DLSS explanations and tips have greatly improved the looks of my sim. I had to do some tweaking due to my system being a little different than yours but man what a difference. My channel is not a big one I'm new at TH-cam but I am going to post a video showing the results of your advice and post a link to your channel. Thanx for sharing your efforts, my sim has never looked so good. Definitely a fan and new sub, cheers!
Edit: I will also provide my system specs and show my settings in the video I post.
I’m so glad to hear that! I never would have thought so many people would benefit from this. Happy simming!
Great info IslandSimPilot! Not only was I able to see a major improvement after making changes in my own setup, but I am also able to enjoy this improvement via Virtual Desktop, which permits me to choose from many of its own virtual monitor screens, one of which is the size of a 70mm screen in a movie theatre environment. The improved high resolution on such a display makes MSFS a really enjoyable thing to experience. I also wanted to convey that the VDXR api that is supported in Virtual Desktop is such that I no longer need to access Oculus nor Steam XR api’s, as I have found VDXR to be the most stable and reliable of the 3 API’s. The switch from regular screen to virtual display on my Oculus headset is seamless and almost instantaneous, with no issues in playability. A single API is all that is needed for Oculus headset to work harmoniously in VR with MSFS. Thanks again for conveying your research.
I have a RTX 3060, this has boosted my fps to a stable 60 fps! - thank you so much :D
That’s fantastic!
Interesting, what CPU do you have?
@@marknewellmusic I have a I9 11th kf
@@marknewellmusic I have a 12700K.
One of the best fps tweaks I ever seen. I tryed it out and it works perfectly! Thanks a lot
You’re very welcome!
Great video. Thanks!
Is there a Holy Grail for the VR settings?
I have a Quest 3 and I am looking for the best settings for MSFS 2020.
Dude...Duuuddee. I can't believe my eyes. Only JFK from Inibuilds is not friendly but the rest of the world...dude...Thank you very much. What a pleasure to fly now. And I am also pilot myself. The VFR is very enjoyable. Thank you again I have 3080 and i9 finally I synchronised it. 🙏🙏🙏
So happy to hear that!
I've found that you can use the same technique (sort of) for VR headsets. Oversample the VR headset by using whatever VR software will let you do that, and then use DLSS to downscale as described. It's looking great for me!
Wow! Thanks for this tweak! I have all your setting and same hardware. Only thing i had to change was run at 50% monitor rate on a 4k tv. A few stutters at KJFK,EGLL with real traffic AL. Frames never below 28 at those airports with a quick jump to 30. Tested VHHH and it was smooth. I don't need the Frame Generation it was running my GPU at 100%. I thing the Dynamic LOD will work great with this. Thanks for all you time testing to find the Holy Grail! My sim world is more fun and smooth in all phases. 😊😊😊 GPU 35-45% CPU 15-30 never see this before in all my years of simming.
I’m so glad to hear that, Maurice! Thanks for letting me know.
When tweaking graphics is more difficult than learning to fly a plane.
Wow Wow your the man Islandsimpilot what have you done???? Its like having a completely new sim. The graphics is unbelievable honestly. I also have the RTX 3080TI and my GPU was never being used 20% now its up about 80 -90 %. CPU is about the same but the difference in graphics is amazing and no problem with the temps. Everything on ultra and getting 45-50 fps in the air above cities and about 35 landing in big airports Thanks so much .
I’m so glad to hear that!
I have a G9 Odyssey OLED 5120x1440 and a 4090. Initially upon entering the NVIDIA control panel, there was no DSR option available. I had to do two things to get the DSR option to show. Change refresh rate of the monitor from 240Hz o 120Hz in system settings and turn Game Mode OFF in the monitor settings. I had to go with 1.78x as 2.25x was just too much of a hit. The change in graphical quality is nothing short of amazing. Thank you for posting this as well as posting the DLSS update video. Hopefully my above comments may help others. Edit: actually just turning Game Mode off on the monitor may do it. There is no option for 240Hz refresh rate once Game Mode is turned OFF.
Thank you! Was struggling to figure out why that wasn't an option for me.
Also what kind of FPS are you getting. I'm trying to get decent FPS in the worst case scenario, aka inibuilds JFK in the Fenix A320.
@@phillypunk91587This one is not so much about getting better performance. It is about achieving a better graphical quality. You play with the DLSS settings to get you to your sweet spot....good looking graphics and decent performance. For me an a 7950X3D / 4090. I ended up with DLDSR at 1.78x with DLSS on the balanced setting.
This mod finally maxes the quality for my system - RTX3070, AMD Ryzen 5, 4K monitor now running at a full p60 plus FPS with FSR of 6144 x 3240. I reproduced your settings at the same airport and the result was excellent. Scenery water and cockpit panels are sharper, more deailed (my eyes appraciate it already ) Good job!
Just tried this on my system and it works amazingly! 5800x3d, RTX3060, 32gb RAM. Thank you!!!
Fantastic! Glad to hear it.
Without doubt, the most effective (for me) increase in quality and performance ever posted! Thank you
You have no idea how much I appreciate comments like these. Enjoy!
Great job there "Super Pilot"*, keep the good content coming.
*King videos
I knew exactly where you got that haha! John and Martha are something else!
Oh god…this is a huge game changer for me !!! Awesome with my rtx4090, ryzen 9 7950X3D and LG Oled C3 4K 55’’ thanks a lot 😄
Yep! It's absolutely amazing.
Wow. What a difference! Great visuals and great performance. I'm running a 13700 kf with a 4090. Seems like the computer is not working nearly as hard. The room that my computer is in usually heats up by 10 degrees or so during long flights. After a six hour flight last night my room hardly heated up at all. Very interesting stuff! Thank you....
13900KS, 32G, 4090 using 546.29 drv, Samsung C49RG9x -native 5120x1440 now 7680x2160, DX12Beta; matching your settings. I was happy to begin with but now it is absolutely beautiful. Using DLSS 3.5.10.0 as you suggested. Did not gain much FPS but did not lose any either.
Thank You
Thanks so much for this. Absolutely first class. All at the max and NO stutters over LA.
Another great recommendation that worked! I got another 10fps with this and saw details I had never seen before.
Great to hear!
WOW! I have a pretty good system or so I think :-) 7800X3D, 4070Ti Super with 32GB and I was never really happy with the visuals given the specs I have and doing this has transformed it :-) I left anisotropic filtering on in game and had to lower most of the settings from Ultra to High but it didn't have much impact. I have a ultra wide 34" monitor with a native resolution of 3440x 1440 so pushing the system to 5160x2160 at ultra was a step to far!. Even on high it is so much better that when I was running in native resolution . Thanks so much!
Gladly, Peter! Enjoy!
I was happy with the FPS I had with my 4090 card and with 14900K CPU. But having the DSR option is a different level. Thank you. I didn't know such feature. Since I have the fastest CPU and the GPU, I left the smoothing at 33% and also I tried TAA instead of DLSS. I tried this because I thought that my GPU may not need to reduce the quality because it already is a powerful card and everything was great even without the DLSS option. But I hear my GPU fans quite a lot :) Oh when I used TAA, my FPS with everything ULTRA was around 60-70. With DLSS it's over 90-100. For now I stick with DLSS but it was nice to have the option to use TAA without loosing any quality and still having a great FPS. Oh my monitor resolution is also 2K.
41:33 when you're trying to hold a conversation with someone while you're gaming :D
I tested this today and I can confirm a good result. I got a Ryzen 7 2700X, RTX3070 and 32GB RAM.
Although I couldn't get it to be 100% fluent at every scenery, I got somewhat fluent gameplay with the Fenix at Heathrow (FPS drops if you get scenery-heavy areas in your view, maybe from 30-40 fps down to 20-25).
Same with PMDG in KLAX, although there it seemed to have much more consistent fluidity, I think at about 35-40fps. I think that's because PMDG manages much better performance-wise.
Although DLSS always caused me trouble on the tapes or when changing altimeter setting because it makes the values very blurry when the digits are changing, I'm going to ignore that for the sake of more fluent gameplay.
Thank you dear Sir !
PS: My graphics card still only got up to about 30-40% but I think maybe thats because I upgraded my PC a few times over the years and I use an ASUS RoG Strix B450F Mainboard, which only has PCIe 3.0, so that's probably another bottleneck for the card since it's using PCIe 4.0.
That’s great, I’m very glad to hear it is working for you!
This is great!! I recently built a 7800x3D w/RTX4080 and the results in 2D with are excellent. Will test VR in the next week. THANKS!
Hope you enjoy it! Let me know how it works!
I just wanted you to know that your tips completely changed my life. Although I have to load into the game at my TV's resolution otherwise it crashes, I can change it after loading in. I'm upscaled to 5461 x 2880. I am getting 85-90 fps with Frame generation, v-sync, TLOD 200, running PMDG and a host of other mods, it looks so much better and the best part... NO MORE STUTTERS! Thank you thank you thank you thank you.
I am so glad to hear that my man! That's what it's all about! Enjoy!
Holy Hell! Thank you so much for this! Go a 4060, R7 5700X and this worked amazingly for me, thank you
I’m so very glad to hear that!!
Thanks so much for this. I have within the last month, come from xbox series x to brand new pc. And I am lacking in pc knowledge, as I have not had one for years. I have liked subed and will be sharing on other platforms.
This works pretty well for me, only downside being the DLSS causes a lot of blurriness on the displays of some addon aircraft. However visually and performance wise a great improvement and I can tell my 3080Ti is actually doing some work now!
You can fix this by doing the following.
Open your usercfg.opt file. A quick google will tell you how to find this file.
Find the line in the top block of options that says "Secondary Scaling"
Change that line to read "SecondaryScaling 2.000000"
Great video, well done and thanks for making it.
Best test to use as well is bad performance airports to see worst case scenario fps...
Needs to be during daytime,
Do New York, Manhattan,
Depart JFK,
Arrive Newark,
Set One World Trade Centre building as the point of interest.
Now do a take off JFK and fly over the one WTC building and land at Newark.
This gives a great indicator of the lowest fps you will get.
I also fly the Bonanza as well.
Before video changes I got 26-28fps doing this test.
I will post back once I've made this video changes with my results...
My specs:
W3690 @ 4GHz HyperThreading Off,
24GB DDR3 1333MHz Triple Channel ECC,
Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB
There's also huge stability to be found by:
1) Start MSFS,
2) On the main menu, open up Task Manager
3) Go to Processes tab,
4) MSFS executable and set Affinity to untick Core 0
This works so well to reduce stutters by leaving the first core free for the OS - why is this important?
MSFS does a lot to pull in datasets off the internet and if your OS cant even process downloads, the sim stutters on approach, new areas, new weather updates/refreshes etc.
Free up Core 0 to let the OS have room to function.
I should add, turning off HyperThreading (SMT) is a huge gain in stability and better minimum frames as well.
This is due to the L2 cache amount being halved per core when HT (SMT) is on. This introduces additional CPU bottleneck, not to mention a virtual core is only 30% of a real core so again, introducing further CPU bottleneck.
Thanks for sharing this! Definitely going to check it out.
I was skeptical watching this video, but HOLY COW - what kind of voodoo magic is this? I followed your settings (with a couple of minor differences within the MSFS graphics settings), and the difference is phenomenal! I'm running a Core i9 10900KF and a new RTX 4070 (replaced my RTX 3070 last week) on a Dell S3220DGF (1440p) curved monitor, and I swear this has taken away the fuzziness of the gauges in everything I've tried so far. The overall clarity of everything is amazing. It honestly makes the monitor appear look like it's (near) 4k. I still plan on getting a larger 4k OLED sometime in 2024, but this has given my Dell a renewed life.
One question, would there be any benefit to someone who's already running on a 4k monitor? Are these settings even necessary on one?
All I can say is thank You! Stunning 😀😀😀
This is the second time you have given me more fps, gained about 8 more with 5900x and pimax crystal, many thanks love your video's 👍🤗
Great to hear!
such a good video. thank you. Sim looks and performs so well now...
Very good tips. Its a game changer. It work well in VR. Thanks!
Again great video thank you!!!! Finally someone explains this complicated stuff so it can be understood by non computer engineers.
I have tried DLSS and all your settings with my RTX4090: Love the smoothness and fluidity BUT big issue for me was always the blurry cockpit: What about setting DSR sharpening to 0%?
Hey, thanks so much for the feedback! I'm glad this is working for you. You can try playing with that. I think the one thing that helped me is setting "Texture filtering - Quality" to "High quality" in NVCP. Give that a try.
Amazing work, thanks for doing this. Will be emulating these setting with my new 4080S.
Let me know how it goes! It should be a match made in heaven with that card!
It's like having a brand new sim. Thank you!
You are so very welcome!
Thank you so much! First of all for the (for me self learning) exercise. Very well explained. The graphics are phenomenal. The fin noise however is with every option a bit loud. So my DLSS setting "Balanced" is the least with still good images. I struggle though with "End game"and "Go to main menu" as the sim than terminates completely and I have to restart. Interesting.
What a great, comprehensive video. I'm applying these changes and have high hopes lol. One thing I'd add to this is maybe the shadows to 4096 in the cfg file. MSFS cockpit shadows are ugly, this makes them a little less annoying.
edit: OK, this has already taken my fps to levels I dont think I ever saw before while looking great. Love it!
do your instruments look blurry now ? (glass instruments)
@@roxout5743 I know what you mean but they don't because this method uses DSR to massively upscale the resolution and then DLSS to downscale a little to get the performance boost. So you end up with a clearer picture, easier to read instruments AND better fps. Gotta love this new AI-powered stuff!
@@davidtsw sadly even with 2x DSR and DLSS set to quality I get a minor performance improvement and glass instruments are very blurry and unreadable when the text moves fast (like on the altitude or speed readings)
@@roxout5743 I went back to my native 2k resolution and TAA at 100 and I don't understand why but the performance stayed more or less the same. I'm absolutely sure when I was going the other way it gave me a noticeable boost. I also did some more thorough testing and I gotta say you're right, even at 2.25 and dlss to quality it doesn't look quite as nice as taa without any upscaling or downscaling. Another thing I noticed is that the AA looks better with Taa and at 2k res. Significantly less jaggies visible on airport buildings for example
Thanks for all of your dedication and hard work and sharing all that knowledge with the rest of us. I haven't made the changes yet and as I fly using the Quest 3 headset which is awesome. However, i run an i7 10700k, 4060Ti gpu with 32 g of ram and i think my CPU is the bottleneck and have been thinking about an upgrade, this could save me some significant cash. I would like to do a before and after test. I know this is a rookie question, but how do you get the cpu/gpu info to display on your monitor. Thanks so much for your videos, keep them coming. With this kind of grass roots info you will build your channel for sure.
I've spent about 2 months this year tweeking mfs on my 2060ti super and it worked great . This right here is mind blowing . I play on a 65 inch Toshiba TV that hasb60 MHz refresh rate at 1080 now after the settings it's still 60 MHz but now it's 2010 dpi and I play at 5580x3840 resolution and holy crap man I can't believe the difference this shit made, now I spent about 3 hrs twerking everything and it was worth every minute. I've spent 12 hours yesterday doing bush trips because the scenery and the way it's so flawless now . And I play on a Nvidia 2060ti super and I have a 9i 9700 processor which gets 5.5 and I can't tell u how much this helped . Thank you 1000 times .
You’re so welcome, these comments really make me glad!
No more fuzzy instruments! Thank you very much.
You're welcome!
Nice tips, I didnt even know DLDSR existed. With a 3060 card I cant push my resolution above 2560 x 1440 without fps becoming unusable, but I can now run with quality settings rather than balanced and it all seems much smoother , considering I used to have to run at 1920 res to egt goos stable fps this is a great visual improvement for me. Not sure if its psychological but performance in VR (Oculus Quest 2) also seems more stable and views more detailed. Cockpit is a lot crisper.
Dude… 3060 12GB/3600x/ 36GB ram. I’m suffering bad because I got a 4k tv back when I bought my Xbox one. Now I’m on the same tv and anything lower than 4k gets all jaggy. So I gotta live without traffic and low LODS. It feels like my CPU just can’t handle this game tbh, because even at low res I get only 40 fps at most.
@juanwhick1691 I got a 4050 laptop which is comparable I'm running it until it melts
I have to admit, I was very skeptical of the video. Specially since I have watched many videos and have tried a many different things. HANDS Down, this has had the greatest impact for me. In addition to what you did, I actually also disabled all airport traffic, based on another video I watched and I can confirmed its a HUGE FPS killer when on approach and landing. Since I use FSLTL and GSX Pro, don't really miss the traffic much. I also have frames generation enabled which is available in the RTX 40 series. I went from having around 60-80 FPS on highest settings and on high demanding scenery to 90 - 120 FPS. It's like butter, thank you very much.
My specs:
MB: MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI LGA 1700 AT
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700KF, 3400 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s)
GPU: RTX 4070 12G
RAM: DDR5 32G
Storage: 3TB Nvme
Power: 700w
Thank you so much! I'm really glad it worked for you, you've got the perfect system for this. Happy simming!
nice video, the only thing to improve is that I had to set the playbackspeed to 1.75 for better experience
Man, than you so much for this video! I tried your suggestions on my RTX 2060 and boy what a difference to the quality and the framerates. Wasn't expecting this much out of my somewhat old graphics card. Hope you're looking forward to the Caribbean World Update like I am 🙂
Oh am I ever! And I’m really glad this worked for you!
This is great. Thank you! Getting a bit stressed by the power draw on my GPU now though!
That's a totally different story. Can't help with that :)