Ladies and gentlemen, I just want to put a quick pinned comment in here regarding some of the discrepancies that have been pointed out since this video was published. Here goes: - There is a part 2 to this mini video series where a lot of discrepancies are addressed. You can check it out here (highly recommend you do): ruclips.net/video/zBZwaFBjLR0/видео.html - To find your userconfig file, please check the description section of the video as there are paths there that might help you find your file location - PLEASE ENSURE YOU TURN IMAGE SCALING 'OFF' IN THE NVC. THE ADVISE IN THE VIDEO WAS MISGUIDED IN THAT REGARD! Do let me know if you have any more questions, as I continue to answer your comments on a regular basis. Thanks for watching guys, and thanks for Flying By!
I have the Microsoft Store edition and the path for UserCfg.opt was different than you mention in your description: C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache
I've tried a lot of settings recommended by other folks, with incremental results. Your step-by-step guidance has completely transformed my experience. The simulator now runs and looks like the Microsoft advertising videos. Thank you! 😊
Hey Rick, thanks for the warm comment. Super glad that your sim now looks and runs great :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I have to say this is by far one of, if not the best settings video I have seen. The information was concise and extremely well organized. Your explanations were clear and well articulated. You can tell a considerable amount of time and effort went into creating it. Well done, and thank you for sharing. 😀
That's really sweet of you to say Miro! I did spend a lot of time and effort in trying to make this the best settings guide on RUclips, and I'm very glad the results are paying off :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Varun, I cannot say this enough... "Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!" for creating and sharing this video. Your style is so easy to follow and understand, and I absolutely appreciate 🙏 you and your channel. Wishing you all the very best sir. You deserve it! 😊
Oh my god Glenn, this comment means the world to me. You're very kind and I will strive to continue to bring quality flightsim content for the community for as long as I can :)
I can say without any doubt that the combination of increased performance and improved graphic output I have seen since trying out the settings today is astonishing! This is the biggest single improvement I have seen in the sim since I started using it two years ago. Amazing! After just a half-hour of tweaking, its like I'm using a monster PC or an entirely different sim. Certainly an eye-opening experience. You deserve a proper congratulations for bringing our attention to this. Wow, and thanks so much!!
Thank you so much for your kind words Kirt! Glad I was able to help you out:) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Varun , your Western Australian Captain, Again so well thought out I have struggled with these settings for a while now congratulations " The legend steps in again " and throws a life jacket to people like myself so good to catch up my trusted friend. Sincere best wishes Captain M.N. retired Robert.
Heyyy Robert! My god has it been a while since I've seen you. Hope my favourite retired captain has been doing well and enjoying the virtual skies :)) Do stay in touch as you have a tendency to disappear for months on end haha.
This is a pretty good guide and I appreciate your tinkering abilities. After following fs2020 simmers and q8pilot I noticed that my decent pc was suffering with low fps, stutters etc. They were essentially providing advice that was not helping me. In fact, one of the channels used your advice on A.filtering and setting it to 16x in the NVCP vs the sim. Funny that it happened after you made a video. Good work here. I agree with the philosophy that less is more. Their advice (I should have known better) was not helpful for me. Instead, I reset everything to default and high performance and I get my FPS back. So again, thank you. I appreciate when people like you take the time and are honest about their PC and results. Not all of us have ridiculous monster computers.
Super glad to be able to do what other flight sim RUclipsrs couldn't in this regard mate. Great to see your system is performing well now. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
You sir, are a graphics settings genius. I just bought a new pc with an I7-12700k and Rtx4070 card, moved my sim over to it and the graphics were shocking. Used the tweaks in your video and now it looks amazing. You've got yourself one more subscriber here.
They're uploaded on the channel now mate! Check it out here: ruclips.net/video/zBZwaFBjLR0/видео.html Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Fantastic, the one that did it for me was switching the Anisotropic filtering off in the SIM and on in Nvidia, this improved my LOD radius significantly.
EXACTLY MATE!! That one was huge for me too :)) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you so much! My PC now runs MSFS 2020 as smooth as silk with fantastic clarity! My system is a scratch-built PC (8 years old), Intel i7 with 16MB RAM and an Nvidia 3060 with 12MB RAM running the latest driver and using 4K resolution. The two tweaks using the Nvidia control panel worked wonders without any fuss. FYI: I went through the 2020 FSER's RUclips channel that made countless changes to the Windows settings and the Nvidia control panel which gave my system severe stuttering. For the first time since MSFS 2020 was released, I can fully enjoy the sim without building a new PC nor purchasing another graphic card! Thanks again!!!!!!
I agree with the other viewer about you messing up GB and MB haha, but thank you so much for your kind words! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
after about 4 months of unexpected simulator crashes 2 hours into flights, and noticing terrible stuttering, THIS was the video that made everything better. I suppose my only "cosmetic" complaint, and i guess it's more of a nuance and that can be adjusted personally, is the sharpness on some buildings. even then though, this actually helped me spot a runway in foggy conditions MUCH easier (I live in new england and tried to fly with the forest fires), which I suppose is more realistic. i never realized how much ambient occlusion was destroying how immersed I could be in this simulator.
I have to say thanks a million for this settings guide. I followed your settings to the T (dialing back on the discrepancies :)) and have been slowly adjusting back to where I was except for a few very important changes to improve the sharpness and overall quality as suggested by you. I suffered greatly from lag and stuttering and the real change for me happened in the Nvidia control panel anisotropic filter change. A literal game changer. Many thanks!
Hey Chris, super glad to hear I made a positive difference for you :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
6 Months later I find this and wonder how I found a video that Ive been looking for forever along with almost the EXACT specs. Just a 2070 super (Runs faster than the 1080) and higher speed ram. Bravo
I don't use to comment on videos, but I'm in the required to post on this awesome master piece... I've been strugleging with my MFS tryng to reach the best quality/performance settings and I've failed many times, from getting a error message from MFS that there was no memory available from unexpected quits. But today I think that a found the saint grail of MFS settings explanation and already I have two hours of flyng with an a exceptional quality/perfomance experience since I started flying on MFS2020... I have a gaming laptop with a i5 12th gen CPU, a RTX 3050, 500GB SSD and 16 GB of RAM. Also I have to say that the main changes were in Windows settings, NVIDIA Control Panel and general configuration in MFS such as all above Global Rendering Quality setting. Thank you so much! ✈🎊
I don’t often comment but today your settings guide has transformed my sim - with both stunning visual and performance improvements. It’s not often in life where you get both. Thank you so much. I had been battling to get my sim into a sweet spot and you’ve nailed it. I would like to say that I ended up turning off the global image rescaling as my screen is 1440p and turning it on produced some shimmering / anti aliasing issues which didn’t look right. Turning off the resizing in the nvidia control panel did not affect the performance and kept the visuals looking phenomenal.
Thank you so much Rhett - Glad I could help you out. I address the shimmering and such in my latest video if you want to check it out:) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Glad I could help you out in some way at least mate! Love that you're rocking high FPS now :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I was lucky enough to have the same spec PC with you, so your settings made ALL the difference to my experience as I was struggling to find the optimum setup. Thank you!
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Absolutely phenomenal settings guide & I'm sure this guide would help 99.9% + users improve there experience with the sim, from the community we cannot thank you enough
Thank you so much Dev - words like these make my so motivated to keep making better videos :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Just needed to say Big Thank You. We almost have the same setup but I have the GTX 2060. Been looking and playing with the settings and have never gotten it right. Not only did your setup work, but is looks and runs great, didn't have to change anything. Plus I used the same settings for my Quest 2 and man what a difference looks great. Thanks again for showing your setup.
Glad I could help you out John! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I’ve been struggling for months with constant freezing making msfs unplayable. Your settings have solved all my problems and looks great. Thanks for posting
Oh my god, i would highly recommand tu use Ultra windshield effect instead of just High, it creates actual reflection from the dash to the windshield, this is a must for Immersion.
Hmm, well for me personally, those reflections cost performance and I'd rather not use them. If your system allows the overhead, by all means! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
If anyone was wondering if the settings still hold up, I can confirm it does! I'm using a 3070 and it plays like butter. Great video man, appreciate it!
I can't express how grateful I am! Everyone that plays the game needs to see this video - an increased visual output... while lessening performance impact!
I'm speechless, thank you SO much for this guide... after all this time looking for videos and trying different ''tweaks'' NONE of them worked out but this one... HOLY SH! thanks so much brother. subbed
I made these settings with rtx 3060 and the result is excellent, the game has changed, congratulations, I respect the effort, the image and clouds are realistic, thank you for your issue bravoooooo
Really truly glad to hear that mate! Clear skies :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I'm not overrating, but this is the best setting optimization guide I've found on the hole internet so far! It really feels like you know what you're talking about and it really helped improving my FPS while keeping a really decent quality. After that I also tweaked a few settings (as you recommended) like the shadow mapping and a few more and now it looks even more beautiful. I do not have the greatest PC (Ryzen 7 5800X, RX 6700XT, 32GB of 3600MH-CL16 RAM (2x16), a 2TB SSD from Kingston with 7000MB of reading and writing speed), but it is definitely in the mid-range and enough for those settings in the flight sim even though it is really performance hungry. I always thought you need a real high-end graphics card (like RX 7900XT(X) or even higher), but after this well-structured and really helpful guide I realized, that you don't even need that high settings to make the sim look this beautiful or if you want to have them maxed don't need such a powerful GPU if you know, where to tweak settings (and where not to). Thank you again for this really awesome guide!!! I hope you keep making this good videos. Good luck with your chanel and have fun! :)
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Thanks so so much. Made my sim look fantastic! 1080ti Ryzen 7 3700x 32gb ram on a dedicated ssd. Only difference is I lock my sim to 39fps and to help with my micro stutters I turned on VSync to fast and Low Latency on in the NVIDIA control panel program settings for MSFS. This has given me a solid 39fps even around EGBB in the Fenix and over big cities. Thank you!
Really glad to hear that mate! Stay tuned for Nvidia colour settings I'll be publishing soon as well :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you so much Mario - Glad I could help :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Hello so good to see you again. Captain Robert from Perth Western Australia ocean going **Retired ** so good to see you maintaining your (Legend Status) I believe I read some where you were having health issues ? Sending forever and a day best wishes, my friend .Rob.
Thanks mate, this is by far the best msfs20 settings video I've seen. Extremely helpful, easy to follow and most importantly, Its improved my experience very nicely indeed.
No worries at all Neil - Glad I could help you out :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Glad I could help mate! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you for this…this is a great complete walkthrough from PC settings through Userfile through msfs settings….and not sure what change particularly solved it but the micro stuttering i have had since update 11 is almost completely gone ! It was extremely frustrating when trying to land. Thank you again !!!!!
No worries at all Grant! Glad to have helped out in some way at least :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you so much for this awsome tutorial! I‘ve struggled with performance since buying MSFS, even though I have a high-end PC. Because of your settings i‘m getting 15-20 fps more, everything runs super smooth and it even looks better than before. Huge shoutout to you my man!
I was amazed at your specs which are not as high as mine, this gave me some hope 😊. My rig is i9-10700k, RTX 3070, not really a beast but powerful enough to run in 4k. I followed your settings to the letter but tweaked some higher such as building details etc. I have to say things do look better than they did, especially at high altitude. Many people have told me you need a monster PC to play MSFS in 4k but that is not the case at all. If I play the game with the above setting it would run the GPU at 220 watts and about 73 - 75`c which is a bit toasty (and noisy). What I do is cap the frame rate to 40 fps in Nvidia control panel (in program settings for MSFS) and this keeps the GPU at about 100 - 170 watts and 62 - 65`c. I think 40 fps is plenty for this game.
Glad to hear I could help Allen:) 40fps is indeed plenty for this sim. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I have a liquid cooled 3090ti and i7 top of the line. It rocks. Edit but it never worked right til now on ms. I’ve been fighting it for a 2 years. Finally got it.
I'm sure it does mate! Can't wait to upgrade my PC too! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
followed your directions and tweaked my settings a bit for my own system... WOW !!! what a difference .. so smooth and the gfx are fantastic now... top notch video.. thank you
This is the best video I have ever watched. It is very in-depth yet easy to follow, and your system almost perfectly matches mine. I have a R5 2600 with a 3060ti on a 1080p monitor, its so cool to see quality performance on a mid level computer. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much mate! Glad I could help out :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
This has been my reference video for my graphics settings in msfs. I feel the nvida control panel is really what helps the most in all this, but I'm not a computer expert, solid video!
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I'm so thankful I found your channel and this tutorial. I have a 10th gen i9 Intel, BenQ 2k monitor, and RTX-2060 Super, and these settings were spot on and made my game enjoyable again. Especially as a low-and-slow flyer. The only thing I didn't change was the UserCfg.opt, but my display is still perfectly fine (only because I think one of those settings can be changed via MSFS options panel?). I had some screen jitter at first, but I deleted my rolling cache and jitter gone. Most importantly, cities that have poor photogrammetry, such as London UK, improved by 80-90%. London used to continuously show melted buildings and transformer trees no matter how many times you flew over, but these settings also corrected that issue. You have a new sub and no doubt your channel will surpass 100k. Keep 'em coming and thanks again!
Thank you. I'm new to MSFS. With my decent home-built system, I couldn't understand why the sim was sometimes so choppy. Following your guide, all is now well. Thank you very much!
Such an excellent comprehensive guild , thank you so much . My experience : if I turned off the HAGS, I found the FPS in DCS in VR decreased to 24-27 from 36-40, that is , DCS in VR almost became unplayable. My system is Ryzen 7 5800 3D , 3080 , G2 and 48gb ram . I am aware that HAGS can cause all sorts of problems , such as the issue with open XR toolkit . However in my system for some reason the HAGS increases FPS and decreases stuttering in DCS in VR . Strange .
Thanks for watching mate, glad I could help out. VR settings would look a little different to be honest - so as I said, it's best to play around with your own settings and see what works best :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
This was great, thanks so much! I have to say since I recently started playing MSFS 2020 my god, the visuals in this game blow my mind! The amount of detail and photo realism is incredible! I have a 10 year old PC but I upgraded to a 3060 just to play on high settings and it runs pretty good which is surprising. A lot better than my old GTX 680 hahaha.
Thank you for your warm words Rich! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
So, I followed your guide and used exact same settings (will tune later). Wow, what an instant improvement - went from 40-50fps to over 60fps with insanely improved quality, graphics and smoothness. I may just leave all as is without tuning... Thank you sir. You meantion about some colors tuning as well - will look forward for it.
There are several configurations, but it is well worth it. I am already seeing great results, thank you very much for your time and effort, congratulations!
Brother I appreciate this video I also have a mid gaming laptop and this video has helped me enjoy my sim experience a lot more with out having to shell out more cash to upgrade my set up this 10k is the start of many successes for this awesome Channel
Thank you so much for your warm words brother, truly appreciate them. Yeah, hopefully we go far with this channel and people like you can join me in the journey :)
Brilliant work. Comprehensive but simple. It hasn't helped my severe stutters since Update 11 came along, but it has vastly improved my Display quality. Massive improvement, though fps remains about the same at 45-50 fps. The best part of all your work is that you have gone to the trouble to explain what each setting actually does, and I haven't seen anyone else do that, so I will continue to tweak settings now with more knowledge now of what they actually do within the sim. I could not find the "UserConfig.opt" file anywhere on my system. Searched the whole of my C drive SSD, and my D drive "Scratch" SSD ( which had remnants of the many previous MSFS re-installations I have done. ) I download from MS each time ( takes about 6-8 hours as my cable internet here in Sydney is slowish at 50mbps), and I seem to need to do it every 3 months. But alas, the stutters are still with me. I always run MSFS in Admin mode to remove other programs and updates butting in, I have removed the Rolling Cache entirely, and removed many programs from the "startup" list. Nothing really helps. All my drivers are right up to date, I have repasted the CPU and GPU, re-filled the AIO chamber etc. I undervolt the GPU a little to keep temps down and remove any chance of throttling, and have set a temperature limit of 80 degrees C on the GPU. Nothing gets rids of those damn stutters. Up until Update 9 or 10, I never had them at all. I agree that TAA is better than DLSS 2, and with most of your reasoning on other matters , though I am certainly no expert like you and not qualified to agree or disagree. My system : Ryzen 7-5800X, Nvidia RTX 3080 (OEM version not FE), 3 x 2tb SSD, 1 x 8TB HDD, MSI X570S Max Wifi motherboard, ! x 32inch Xaimo curved monitor running at 144mhz refresh rate , and 1 x old crappy 12 inch moniitor for diagnostic and monitoring programs and ATC and Nav sub-menus. Thanks again. You are Gold Standard.
Thank you so much for your kind words Howard! I try my best to be as comprehensive and detailed as possible. As for the userconfig.opt file, the latest video on my channel has a comment in the comments section that shows perfectly how to find it. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you so much for sharing the settings you use for MSFS! This has been so helpful to me with a 6800xt. I noticed that I was lacking some of the quality of textures especially some of the clouds with that grainy look. But these settings have helepd. I tweaked these a little bit, trading some things for others, for example setting "glass cockpit refresh rate" to high and making a few other graphics tweaks that are amd related. I also recommend setting the frame rate limit to only around 30 - 60 fps, since you really don't need anything higher than that for a sim! Doing this stopped my gpu from trying to push to 144 fps in turn this stopped some stuttering on the ground I was experiencing during densely populated airports.
That's fantastic to hear Dennis! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Hey Robert, no worries at all - glad to be able to help. When I do get the upgraded system, I'll be sure to create an updated settings guide. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Glad I could help you out mate! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
It should be noted, that if you amend settings by editing a file, that you should make the file read only so the sim doesn’t apply changes when you make further settings using the sim. Also, locking the file will cause file updates with subsequent updates to the sim. I really don’t like this type of tweet for these reasons.
@@FlyBySimulations I'm running into this problem. I change the config file to film grain off (0) but FS just writes over it next time i run. how does one keep that setting sticky? looked at the file properties and its marked read only?
Thank you so much for the very informative video. Upgraded my "old" rig... i5 with a rtx3060 second hand card... and voila. from a terrible 15 fps. with fenix a320, to a lovely 25-30 fps.. which in my world is enough for a decent flightsim experience... thank you again. and a happy new year!!! greetings from Tenerife...
Of course Rob, it's my pleasure to help the flight sim community :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thaaank you for this. Using a 3080 with a 5900x and was way to choppy.. used this as a guide to tweak and getting a steady 50.. some kind of witchcraft!
Of course mate, anytime! Glad that I was able to help people out with this one. Thank you so much for warm wishes :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Glad to hear that it helped you out mate :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
You are amazing man! Followed all your settings, had to turn up quite a lot of settings to ultra that were on medium or lower at first so I was a bit worried that fps would be lower. But somehow I went from 45 fps to 59 with better looking visuals. You're a wizard man! Running a i7 10700k, rtx 3080, 32gb ram
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It's all about resource management as I said mate - too many people expect too much from their components and don't know how to maximize with what they have in the locker. Cranking everything up to ultra and complaining you're not getting 30+fps is obviously a very daft way to look at things - so I decided to get a little smart with my components - glad you enjoyed it though :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Really truly glad to hear that Michael! Clear skies :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
A lot good tips here. However I'm glad you said it would be specific to each system. Things got worse for me when I started setting similar settings to your system. I have an RTX 3080 gaming Trio card. An I9 processor and 32 gigs of RAM. I also have my flight Sim installed on a dedicated 1 TB SSD hard disk. I find that using DirectX 12 with my dlss on is much better. Everything is smoother and everything looks so much more realistic when it comes to the textures. I am using a 40 inch Vizio gaming TV for my primary monitor at 4K HDR. When trying to change some of the settings to match yours things got way worse for me. Everything looked grainy and the stutters went way up. So the only thing I don't agree with in your video is that unless you have a 4090 the dlss is not good. I disagree with that. But a lot of good other tips in your video.
Hmm, well glad you found at least some parts of the video helpful mate. I think higher resolution screens wouldn't benefit from some of the settings I described as it over-sharpens the image, causing the graininess you mentioned. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Hey there mate, thank you so much for watching and I'm glad this video was helpful for you. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you! Subbed. Nvidia2060Super 32 Gig. Terrific results. I've tried many of these suggestions in past and this one seems to be ideal for my 1080 p AMD system. Merry Christmas!
I really appreciate the tips and especially the effort put into this video. This was very helpful for me, and I wanted to get started on MSFS 2020 with good graphics. Thank you so much!
Thank You very much. Even with a Nvidia 3080ti my frame rates were never higher than mid 30s to low 40s and had stuttering during landing. After following your suggestions I now have frames between 50 and 90s and no stuttering. Now lets hope MSFS doesn't break anything in the next update.
Glad I could help mate! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Glad to hear it Shamir! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
In my experience the one thing that makes the largest difference, especially when you come to denser areas, is that you have everything running on an SSD. I had it running on my C drive, but I ran out of room and had to move to to my D drive. My C is SSD, but my D is HDD. It's a fast HDD, but still it makes an incredible difference. I noticed immediately my framerates dropping down to 30fps in some cases where it's really dense. I have an i7-9700k (not OC), with an RTX-3060ti (OCd slightly - not even enough to need to undervolt) and 32GB dual channel RAM. So my system specs are almost identical - aside from the card - and I can match the visuals, but the framerate takes a nosedive where there is a lot of detail. Flying over the desert near Sedona AZ is beautiful and I'm getting 66fps (my monitor is not the greatest and has a low framerate, so 66 is probably the best it's going to get). Flying over LAX and I get 30fps. I do have added content for the LAX area, so that might be contributing, but I see the same frame drop in other areas where I don't have add-on content for.
Hmm, that's a great point mate. I should have maybe stressed a little bit more regarding my SSD and it's quality. I'll do some more tests and get back to you at a later time perhaps :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
@@FlyBySimulations Just to give you an idea on the impact on my system when running of HDD. I see my HDD max out at 100% utilization constantly. I have a Barracuda 2TB HDD drive that is plenty fast at 7200RPM. When I run it on a decent SSD (870 EVO 2TB) I see max 20% usage. My frame rates went from about 30fps with an HDD to about 80fps with the SSD. It was almost a three fold improvement. Don't get me wrong - your card is going to be the most bang for the buck, but if you are getting stuttering especially while entering dense areas then you might want to look at your storage situation.
Thank you for sharing, this was an awesome and informative video, your time and efforts are appreciated!!!!!! I just now discovered your channel now and subscribed. You're a Super Star!!!!
Oh my god, what is this witchcraft? My sim is now at the same time WAY more gorgeous and much more fluid! So sad that I can only leave a single like. I also second what others have written before, you have an amazing, calm, well organised, and easy to understand way of presenting things.
Hahaha well, it's called the FlyBy Simulations witchcraft mate. Glad it helped you and truly appreciate the warm words. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thanks so much! Just upgraded to a new pc & dwnloaded msfs from Steam. The default graphic settings werent that great and l was disappointed after seeing how nice everyone's looked. Tried tweakin the settings, but still could not find one that looked great.I will try your settings & suggestions! 👍
Oooh Lala that's awesome. I'm looking to build something very similar mate. Would you be able to provide me with the exact part list you used? Might be helpful :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
@@FlyBySimulations Here's the list: Intel 13900K CPU Asus ROG Z790 Maximus Hero motherboard Corsair 5000D case Corsair iCUE H150i RGB Elite CPU cooler Lian li AL240 fans (7 total) G.Skill Z5 DDR5 RAM (2 x 32GB) EVGA 1300W power supply Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 4090 Samsung 2TB 980 SSD (M.2) The details: this machine is a dedicated flight simulator. My friend and I have known each other for 42 years, and he's been previously certified both for fixed wing and helicopters. We originally were flying the Apple ][ version of subLogic's Flight Simulator in 1981 before Microsoft acquired it for the first MSFS in 1982. He has two different simulator rooms at his place of business. The "good one" uses three Samsung curved 65" LCD 4K TVs are primary displays. It also features a Yoko yoke, Saitek Pro switch panel and Cessna trim wheel and the Saitek Pro throttle for Cessnas. He has another throttle/flaps control for heavy jets but I can't remember who made it, nor can I remember who made the pedal controls on the pilot side. Finally in the co-pilot seat he has a CH Products Thunderstick (helicopters) and a CH Products Flightstick Pro and CH Products pedals. He also has a custom built overhead panel using a Leo Bodnar USB board but it isn't programmed right and I promised I'd help him with it. He uses a few iPads as secondary displays (Air Manager 4 and other tools). The new rig replaces one I built for him six years ago with a Intel 6850 Xeon, 32 GB of RAM and dual GTX 1080 cards running SLI. That machine was lucky to run X-Plane 10 or 11 at 25 fps at 3 screen 4K resolution and often much less than that in complicated areas. This new machine easily runs X-Plane 12 at 30 fps which most of the graphics settings turned way up. We're still trying to get 3 screens working on FS2020 WU11...I'll try again in a few days when I see him again. We just installed this machine yesterday so there are still some minor issues to solve. The choices of the hardware were pretty basic. ASUS makes great motherboards and we got the best that we could get our hands on (the Extreme version was out of stock at the time). The Intel CPU was tops in class. The memory was tops in class. The SSD was almost tops in class but we couldn't get the newer Samsung 990 in time. The choice of the Gigabyte RTX 4090 was mainly because that was one we could get our hands on due to the current shortages. And yes, we overpaid for it.
@@FlyBySimulations Another update: I went over to my friend's studio again to get a few things working that I didn't have time to finish before, most notable three monitors on FS2020. This time due to some RUclips videos I'd seen on the subject, the process was a lot easier and it didn't take long to get three 4K TVs going, at 4K resolution with the RTX 4090. The only real tweak was adjusting the zoom setting to 70 to even out everything. The goal for FS2020 was to get it working at about 30 fps through most flight scenarios. And it actually worked! We used the Nvidia graphics suggestions for FS2020 which were pretty close to what I had originally done including DLSS3 at "Performance", Terrain objects at "350" which is very hard to do and pretty much "ULTRA" on everything else. And then we chose the Discovery flight through Manhatten/New York City since the buildings are a good torture test. And wouldn't you know, it pretty much kept 28-32 fps throughout the flight. So we decided to do DLSS3 - QUALITY and try again. This was a little tougher but again, we saw mostly 28-31 fps with occasional dips to 23-25. But this was excellent for my friend's needs and we choose to keep it at QUALITY since the performance hit was minimal under most conditions. And it looks absolutely gorgeous. I'm sure there are other tweaks we can do and I'm sure the drivers and FS2020's use of the drivers will get better. Right now, the worst I saw of use of G-RAM was about 8.3 GB on a 24 GB graphics card. So is a RTX 4090 worth it? Absolutely YES.
Haha mate I think you're a ways behind. Sim Update 11 was released 2 weeks ago with gliders, helicopters and the Airbus A310 (the 40th anniversary edition). Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Hey mate, thanks for watching. Seems like a lot of people want to see them - I'll create a guide soon :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you so much mate! Glad I could help in some capacity - everyone's sim is different so feel free to tinker around with the settings and see what works for you :)
Ladies and gentlemen, I just want to put a quick pinned comment in here regarding some of the discrepancies that have been pointed out since this video was published. Here goes:
- There is a part 2 to this mini video series where a lot of discrepancies are addressed. You can check it out here (highly recommend you do): ruclips.net/video/zBZwaFBjLR0/видео.html
- To find your userconfig file, please check the description section of the video as there are paths there that might help you find your file location
- PLEASE ENSURE YOU TURN IMAGE SCALING 'OFF' IN THE NVC. THE ADVISE IN THE VIDEO WAS MISGUIDED IN THAT REGARD!
Do let me know if you have any more questions, as I continue to answer your comments on a regular basis. Thanks for watching guys, and thanks for Flying By!
If it throttles try cleaning the fans and apply new thermal compound.
I have the Microsoft Store edition and the path for UserCfg.opt was different than you mention in your description: C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache
@@Sluijsens Thanks, helped a lot
@@Sluijsens life saver mate thank yopu!!!!
Also have the store edition but i couldn’t find it with your explanation either. Anyone that can help me?
I've tried a lot of settings recommended by other folks, with incremental results. Your step-by-step guidance has completely transformed my experience. The simulator now runs and looks like the Microsoft advertising videos. Thank you! 😊
Hey Rick, thanks for the warm comment. Super glad that your sim now looks and runs great :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I have to say this is by far one of, if not the best settings video I have seen. The information was concise and extremely well organized. Your explanations were clear and well articulated. You can tell a considerable amount of time and effort went into creating it. Well done, and thank you for sharing. 😀
That's really sweet of you to say Miro! I did spend a lot of time and effort in trying to make this the best settings guide on RUclips, and I'm very glad the results are paying off :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Varun, I cannot say this enough... "Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!" for creating and sharing this video. Your style is so easy to follow and understand, and I absolutely appreciate 🙏 you and your channel. Wishing you all the very best sir. You deserve it! 😊
Oh my god Glenn, this comment means the world to me. You're very kind and I will strive to continue to bring quality flightsim content for the community for as long as I can :)
I can say without any doubt that the combination of increased performance and improved graphic output I have seen since trying out the settings today is astonishing! This is the biggest single improvement I have seen in the sim since I started using it two years ago. Amazing! After just a half-hour of tweaking, its like I'm using a monster PC or an entirely different sim. Certainly an eye-opening experience.
You deserve a proper congratulations for bringing our attention to this. Wow, and thanks so much!!
Thank you so much for your kind words Kirt! Glad I was able to help you out:) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Totally agree my micro stuttering is just about gone!!! Was so frustrating trying to land…thank you !!!
I need help it dose not look like yours😢
Varun , your Western Australian Captain, Again so well thought out I have struggled with these settings
for a while now congratulations " The legend steps in again " and throws a life jacket to people like
myself so good to catch up my trusted friend. Sincere best wishes Captain M.N. retired Robert.
Heyyy Robert! My god has it been a while since I've seen you. Hope my favourite retired captain has been doing well and enjoying the virtual skies :)) Do stay in touch as you have a tendency to disappear for months on end haha.
This is a pretty good guide and I appreciate your tinkering abilities. After following fs2020 simmers and q8pilot I noticed that my decent pc was suffering with low fps, stutters etc. They were essentially providing advice that was not helping me. In fact, one of the channels used your advice on A.filtering and setting it to 16x in the NVCP vs the sim. Funny that it happened after you made a video. Good work here. I agree with the philosophy that less is more. Their advice (I should have known better) was not helpful for me. Instead, I reset everything to default and high performance and I get my FPS back. So again, thank you. I appreciate when people like you take the time and are honest about their PC and results. Not all of us have ridiculous monster computers.
Super glad to be able to do what other flight sim RUclipsrs couldn't in this regard mate. Great to see your system is performing well now. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Exactly! Less is more! I just followed his setup, and I'm seeing day and night performance changes. Much smoother!
You sir, are a graphics settings genius. I just bought a new pc with an I7-12700k and Rtx4070 card, moved my sim over to it and the graphics were shocking. Used the tweaks in your video and now it looks amazing. You've got yourself one more subscriber here.
Haha thank you so much mate! Truly do appreciate the kind words and glad the video helped :)
These changes have made the sim so much more playable for me, on an old GTX 1080 ti, seriously the improvement is so noticable. A big thankyou.
One vote for the colour settings would be much appreciated. Thanks
They're uploaded on the channel now mate! Check it out here: ruclips.net/video/zBZwaFBjLR0/видео.html Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Fantastic, the one that did it for me was switching the Anisotropic filtering off in the SIM and on in Nvidia, this improved my LOD radius significantly.
EXACTLY MATE!! That one was huge for me too :)) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you so much! My PC now runs MSFS 2020 as smooth as silk with fantastic clarity! My system is a scratch-built PC (8 years old), Intel i7 with 16MB RAM and an Nvidia 3060 with 12MB RAM running the latest driver and using 4K resolution. The two tweaks using the Nvidia control panel worked wonders without any fuss.
FYI: I went through the 2020 FSER's RUclips channel that made countless changes to the Windows settings and the Nvidia control panel which gave my system severe stuttering.
For the first time since MSFS 2020 was released, I can fully enjoy the sim without building a new PC nor purchasing another graphic card!
Thanks again!!!!!!
I think you’re mixing up MB and GB xD unless you really have such low RAM lol
Ahhhh....of course I meant GB!!!! LOL too!
I agree with the other viewer about you messing up GB and MB haha, but thank you so much for your kind words! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
after about 4 months of unexpected simulator crashes 2 hours into flights, and noticing terrible stuttering, THIS was the video that made everything better. I suppose my only "cosmetic" complaint, and i guess it's more of a nuance and that can be adjusted personally, is the sharpness on some buildings. even then though, this actually helped me spot a runway in foggy conditions MUCH easier (I live in new england and tried to fly with the forest fires), which I suppose is more realistic. i never realized how much ambient occlusion was destroying how immersed I could be in this simulator.
I have to say thanks a million for this settings guide. I followed your settings to the T (dialing back on the discrepancies :)) and have been slowly adjusting back to where I was except for a few very important changes to improve the sharpness and overall quality as suggested by you. I suffered greatly from lag and stuttering and the real change for me happened in the Nvidia control panel anisotropic filter change. A literal game changer. Many thanks!
Hey Chris, super glad to hear I made a positive difference for you :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
6 Months later I find this and wonder how I found a video that Ive been looking for forever along with almost the EXACT specs. Just a 2070 super (Runs faster than the 1080) and higher speed ram. Bravo
Thankyou for all your help; It has helped me fix my msfs !
Glad to help! Please do consider subscribing for more!
I don't use to comment on videos, but I'm in the required to post on this awesome master piece... I've been strugleging with my MFS tryng to reach the best quality/performance settings and I've failed many times, from getting a error message from MFS that there was no memory available from unexpected quits. But today I think that a found the saint grail of MFS settings explanation and already I have two hours of flyng with an a exceptional quality/perfomance experience since I started flying on MFS2020... I have a gaming laptop with a i5 12th gen CPU, a RTX 3050, 500GB SSD and 16 GB of RAM. Also I have to say that the main changes were in Windows settings, NVIDIA Control Panel and general configuration in MFS such as all above Global Rendering Quality setting.
Thank you so much! ✈🎊
I don’t often comment but today your settings guide has transformed my sim - with both stunning visual and performance improvements. It’s not often in life where you get both. Thank you so much. I had been battling to get my sim into a sweet spot and you’ve nailed it. I would like to say that I ended up turning off the global image rescaling as my screen is 1440p and turning it on produced some shimmering / anti aliasing issues which didn’t look right. Turning off the resizing in the nvidia control panel did not affect the performance and kept the visuals looking phenomenal.
Thank you so much Rhett - Glad I could help you out. I address the shimmering and such in my latest video if you want to check it out:) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I like so much that you appeal to the medium performance systems and not to the very small community of extremely high-end pcs.
The best. It works fantastic. Thank you very much!!!! I have a powerfull PC (RTX 3090) and it was impossible to get good FPS. Now I'm very happy.
Glad I could help you out in some way at least mate! Love that you're rocking high FPS now :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I was lucky enough to have the same spec PC with you, so your settings made ALL the difference to my experience as I was struggling to find the optimum setup. Thank you!
Glad to hear it mate! If you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Absolutely phenomenal settings guide & I'm sure this guide would help 99.9% + users improve there experience with the sim, from the community we cannot thank you enough
Thank you so much Dev - words like these make my so motivated to keep making better videos :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Just needed to say Big Thank You. We almost have the same setup but I have the GTX 2060. Been looking and playing with the settings and have never gotten it right. Not only did your setup work, but is looks and runs great, didn't have to change anything. Plus I used the same settings for my Quest 2 and man what a difference looks great. Thanks again for showing your setup.
Glad I could help you out John! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I’ve been struggling for months with constant freezing making msfs unplayable. Your settings have solved all my problems and looks great. Thanks for posting
Oh my god, i would highly recommand tu use Ultra windshield effect instead of just High, it creates actual reflection from the dash to the windshield, this is a must for Immersion.
Hmm, well for me personally, those reflections cost performance and I'd rather not use them. If your system allows the overhead, by all means! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
If anyone was wondering if the settings still hold up, I can confirm it does! I'm using a 3070 and it plays like butter. Great video man, appreciate it!
I can't express how grateful I am! Everyone that plays the game needs to see this video - an increased visual output... while lessening performance impact!
I'm speechless, thank you SO much for this guide... after all this time looking for videos and trying different ''tweaks'' NONE of them worked out but this one... HOLY SH! thanks so much brother. subbed
Mate, glad I could help you out!
I made these settings with rtx 3060 and the result is excellent, the game has changed, congratulations, I respect the effort, the image and clouds are realistic, thank you for your issue bravoooooo
Really truly glad to hear that mate! Clear skies :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I'm not overrating, but this is the best setting optimization guide I've found on the hole internet so far! It really feels like you know what you're talking about and it really helped improving my FPS while keeping a really decent quality. After that I also tweaked a few settings (as you recommended) like the shadow mapping and a few more and now it looks even more beautiful. I do not have the greatest PC (Ryzen 7 5800X, RX 6700XT, 32GB of 3600MH-CL16 RAM (2x16), a 2TB SSD from Kingston with 7000MB of reading and writing speed), but it is definitely in the mid-range and enough for those settings in the flight sim even though it is really performance hungry. I always thought you need a real high-end graphics card (like RX 7900XT(X) or even higher), but after this well-structured and really helpful guide I realized, that you don't even need that high settings to make the sim look this beautiful or if you want to have them maxed don't need such a powerful GPU if you know, where to tweak settings (and where not to). Thank you again for this really awesome guide!!! I hope you keep making this good videos. Good luck with your chanel and have fun! :)
Thanks for the settings it works well with my system. the video is perfecto.
Glad to hear Rob! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thanks so so much. Made my sim look fantastic! 1080ti Ryzen 7 3700x 32gb ram on a dedicated ssd. Only difference is I lock my sim to 39fps and to help with my micro stutters I turned on VSync to fast and Low Latency on in the NVIDIA control panel program settings for MSFS. This has given me a solid 39fps even around EGBB in the Fenix and over big cities. Thank you!
Really glad to hear that mate! Stay tuned for Nvidia colour settings I'll be publishing soon as well :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
You have one more subcriber. Incredible change in my flightsim performance. Dude, thanks for share this video.
Thank you so much Rodrigo - glad I could help :)
this is truly the holy bible of settings and games. thankyou for this glorious gift.
Best video ever I found here! Thanks and congrats for it!! My MSFS works like a charm now....
Thank you so much Mario - Glad I could help :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Hello so good to see you again. Captain Robert from Perth Western Australia ocean going **Retired **
so good to see you maintaining your (Legend Status) I believe I read some where you were having health issues ?
Sending forever and a day best wishes, my friend .Rob.
You deserve every dollar you earn from your channel. Thank you. Best video I’ve seen on youtube
Thanks mate, this is by far the best msfs20 settings video I've seen. Extremely helpful, easy to follow and most importantly, Its improved my experience very nicely indeed.
No worries at all Neil - Glad I could help you out :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I Can only say Thank you veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Much i have RTX 3070 and with your video i really improve my sim whaaaaaouuuuuuu I LOVE YOU
Glad I could help mate! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you for this…this is a great complete walkthrough from PC settings through Userfile through msfs settings….and not sure what change particularly solved it but the micro stuttering i have had since update 11 is almost completely gone ! It was extremely frustrating when trying to land. Thank you again !!!!!
No worries at all Grant! Glad to have helped out in some way at least :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you so much for this awsome tutorial! I‘ve struggled with performance since buying MSFS, even though I have a high-end PC. Because of your settings i‘m getting 15-20 fps more, everything runs super smooth and it even looks better than before. Huge shoutout to you my man!
I was amazed at your specs which are not as high as mine, this gave me some hope 😊. My rig is i9-10700k, RTX 3070, not really a beast but powerful enough to run in 4k. I followed your settings to the letter but tweaked some higher such as building details etc. I have to say things do look better than they did, especially at high altitude. Many people have told me you need a monster PC to play MSFS in 4k but that is not the case at all. If I play the game with the above setting it would run the GPU at 220 watts and about 73 - 75`c which is a bit toasty (and noisy). What I do is cap the frame rate to 40 fps in Nvidia control panel (in program settings for MSFS) and this keeps the GPU at about 100 - 170 watts and 62 - 65`c. I think 40 fps is plenty for this game.
Glad to hear I could help Allen:) 40fps is indeed plenty for this sim. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
I have a liquid cooled 3090ti and i7 top of the line. It rocks. Edit but it never worked right til now on ms. I’ve been fighting it for a 2 years. Finally got it.
I'm sure it does mate! Can't wait to upgrade my PC too! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Oh and thank you!
followed your directions and tweaked my settings a bit for my own system... WOW !!! what a difference .. so smooth and the gfx are fantastic now... top notch video.. thank you
This is the best video I have ever watched. It is very in-depth yet easy to follow, and your system almost perfectly matches mine. I have a R5 2600 with a 3060ti on a 1080p monitor, its so cool to see quality performance on a mid level computer. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much mate! Glad I could help out :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
This has been my reference video for my graphics settings in msfs. I feel the nvida control panel is really what helps the most in all this, but I'm not a computer expert, solid video!
Thank-you for this. I'm just about to order a new computer and this has been most helpful in how to set it up.
Glad I could be of help Peter! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
@@FlyBySimulations Already done, subscribed and liked.
I'm so thankful I found your channel and this tutorial. I have a 10th gen i9 Intel, BenQ 2k monitor, and RTX-2060 Super, and these settings were spot on and made my game enjoyable again. Especially as a low-and-slow flyer. The only thing I didn't change was the UserCfg.opt, but my display is still perfectly fine (only because I think one of those settings can be changed via MSFS options panel?). I had some screen jitter at first, but I deleted my rolling cache and jitter gone. Most importantly, cities that have poor photogrammetry, such as London UK, improved by 80-90%. London used to continuously show melted buildings and transformer trees no matter how many times you flew over, but these settings also corrected that issue. You have a new sub and no doubt your channel will surpass 100k. Keep 'em coming and thanks again!
Looks like you are a happy man! :)
Subbed
VERY VERY happy man now! ;)
New Subscriber, Excellent Video, best I have seen so far, Thank you.
Thank you so much Andrew! Welcome aboard!
Thank you. I'm new to MSFS. With my decent home-built system, I couldn't understand why the sim was sometimes so choppy. Following your guide, all is now well. Thank you very much!
Such an excellent comprehensive guild , thank you so much . My experience : if I turned off the HAGS, I found the FPS in DCS in VR decreased to 24-27 from 36-40, that is , DCS in VR almost became unplayable. My system is Ryzen 7 5800 3D , 3080 , G2 and 48gb ram . I am aware that HAGS can cause all sorts of problems , such as the issue with open XR toolkit . However in my system for some reason the HAGS increases FPS and decreases stuttering in DCS in VR . Strange .
Thanks for watching mate, glad I could help out. VR settings would look a little different to be honest - so as I said, it's best to play around with your own settings and see what works best :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
This was great, thanks so much! I have to say since I recently started playing MSFS 2020 my god, the visuals in this game blow my mind! The amount of detail and photo realism is incredible! I have a 10 year old PC but I upgraded to a 3060 just to play on high settings and it runs pretty good which is surprising. A lot better than my old GTX 680 hahaha.
Glad to be able to help out Phil. Please do check out some of the other content on my channel as well :)
that was one mighty upgrade!
Well done! No fluff and very specific reasons for each change. Thank you.
Thank you for your warm words Rich! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
@@FlyBySimulations Done and done!
So, I followed your guide and used exact same settings (will tune later). Wow, what an instant improvement - went from 40-50fps to over 60fps with insanely improved quality, graphics and smoothness. I may just leave all as is without tuning... Thank you sir. You meantion about some colors tuning as well - will look forward for it.
There are several configurations, but it is well worth it.
I am already seeing great results, thank you very much for your time and effort, congratulations!
Brother I appreciate this video I also have a mid gaming laptop and this video has helped me enjoy my sim experience a lot more with out having to shell out more cash to upgrade my set up this 10k is the start of many successes for this awesome Channel
Thank you so much for your warm words brother, truly appreciate them. Yeah, hopefully we go far with this channel and people like you can join me in the journey :)
Brilliant work. Comprehensive but simple. It hasn't helped my severe stutters since Update 11 came along, but it has vastly improved my Display quality. Massive improvement, though fps remains about the same at 45-50 fps.
The best part of all your work is that you have gone to the trouble to explain what each setting actually does, and I haven't seen anyone else do that, so I will continue to tweak settings now with more knowledge now of what they actually do within the sim.
I could not find the "UserConfig.opt" file anywhere on my system. Searched the whole of my C drive SSD, and my D drive "Scratch" SSD ( which had remnants of the many previous MSFS re-installations I have done. ) I download from MS each time ( takes about 6-8 hours as my cable internet here in Sydney is slowish at 50mbps), and I seem to need to do it every 3 months.
But alas, the stutters are still with me. I always run MSFS in Admin mode to remove other programs and updates butting in, I have removed the Rolling Cache entirely, and removed many programs from the "startup" list. Nothing really helps. All my drivers are right up to date, I have repasted the CPU and GPU, re-filled the AIO chamber etc. I undervolt the GPU a little to keep temps down and remove any chance of throttling, and have set a temperature limit of 80 degrees C on the GPU. Nothing gets rids of those damn stutters. Up until Update 9 or 10, I never had them at all.
I agree that TAA is better than DLSS 2, and with most of your reasoning on other matters , though I am certainly no expert like you and not qualified to agree or disagree.
My system : Ryzen 7-5800X, Nvidia RTX 3080 (OEM version not FE), 3 x 2tb SSD, 1 x 8TB HDD, MSI X570S Max Wifi motherboard, ! x 32inch Xaimo curved monitor running at 144mhz refresh rate , and 1 x old crappy 12 inch moniitor for diagnostic and monitoring programs and ATC and Nav sub-menus.
Thanks again. You are Gold Standard.
Thank you so much for your kind words Howard! I try my best to be as comprehensive and detailed as possible. As for the userconfig.opt file, the latest video on my channel has a comment in the comments section that shows perfectly how to find it. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Bro u have amazing system why u here lol
Thank you so much for sharing the settings you use for MSFS! This has been so helpful to me with a 6800xt. I noticed that I was lacking some of the quality of textures especially some of the clouds with that grainy look. But these settings have helepd. I tweaked these a little bit, trading some things for others, for example setting "glass cockpit refresh rate" to high and making a few other graphics tweaks that are amd related. I also recommend setting the frame rate limit to only around 30 - 60 fps, since you really don't need anything higher than that for a sim! Doing this stopped my gpu from trying to push to 144 fps in turn this stopped some stuttering on the ground I was experiencing during densely populated airports.
Thank-You for this video as it helped me fine tune a few tweaks to squeeze out the last few FPS! 😀
Amazing vid! My system is brand new and can accept the higher settings, however, I chose yours just to make it even better! Thank you!
That's fantastic to hear Dennis! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Great video, thanks. If and when you upgrade to 2022/23 hardware (RTX4090 etc.) please do another one.
Hey Robert, no worries at all - glad to be able to help. When I do get the upgraded system, I'll be sure to create an updated settings guide. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Appreciate all the suggestions. hopefully I can enjoy it now...will advise, thanks again, Richard
This was super helpful! It all worked beautifully and you explained everything well and quickly.
Glad I could help you out mate! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
@@FlyBySimulations It is done!
It should be noted, that if you amend settings by editing a file, that you should make the file read only so the sim doesn’t apply changes when you make further settings using the sim. Also, locking the file will cause file updates with subsequent updates to the sim. I really don’t like this type of tweet for these reasons.
Great point Paul! I'll be sure to mention that in my next guide just for people who might have missed your comment :) Thanks for pointing it out :)
@@FlyBySimulations I'm running into this problem. I change the config file to film grain off (0) but FS just writes over it next time i run. how does one keep that setting sticky? looked at the file properties and its marked read only?
Thank you so much. These seetings really make the difference. I have around 25 fps which is incredible with amazing graphics.
Thank you so much for the very informative video. Upgraded my "old" rig... i5 with a rtx3060 second hand card... and voila. from a terrible 15 fps. with fenix a320, to a lovely 25-30 fps.. which in my world is enough for a decent flightsim experience... thank you again. and a happy new year!!! greetings from Tenerife...
great help thank you for taking time to do it!
Of course Rob, it's my pleasure to help the flight sim community :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
@@FlyBySimulations done and done
Thaaank you for this.
Using a 3080 with a 5900x and was way to choppy.. used this as a guide to tweak and getting a steady 50.. some kind of witchcraft!
you definitely helped me squeeze about 10-15 fps out of my game around cities and such, thank you
Well...this was the best thing to happen to my msfs experience since buying it on opening day! Thank you so much!
This is massive man! Thank you feels like you made the video only for myself😂 keep up the amazing work!!! 🎉
Haha, well maybe I did mate ;) Glad you enjoyed :)
Thanks mate its much appreciated great video
Also congrats on 10K
Of course mate, anytime! Glad that I was able to help people out with this one. Thank you so much for warm wishes :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you for this great guide. It made a massive difference in the visual and performance on my machine. Very impressed!
Glad to hear that it helped you out mate :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
You are amazing man! Followed all your settings, had to turn up quite a lot of settings to ultra that were on medium or lower at first so I was a bit worried that fps would be lower. But somehow I went from 45 fps to 59 with better looking visuals. You're a wizard man!
Running a i7 10700k, rtx 3080, 32gb ram
Glad to be able to help you out Ananad! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thanks and now my game if officially CRASHING
This quality and performance with a RTX 2080 is awesome!! 😲
It's all about resource management as I said mate - too many people expect too much from their components and don't know how to maximize with what they have in the locker. Cranking everything up to ultra and complaining you're not getting 30+fps is obviously a very daft way to look at things - so I decided to get a little smart with my components - glad you enjoyed it though :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Superb!! My system is running so nicely now!
Really truly glad to hear that Michael! Clear skies :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
A lot good tips here. However I'm glad you said it would be specific to each system. Things got worse for me when I started setting similar settings to your system. I have an RTX 3080 gaming Trio card. An I9 processor and 32 gigs of RAM. I also have my flight Sim installed on a dedicated 1 TB SSD hard disk. I find that using DirectX 12 with my dlss on is much better. Everything is smoother and everything looks so much more realistic when it comes to the textures. I am using a 40 inch Vizio gaming TV for my primary monitor at 4K HDR. When trying to change some of the settings to match yours things got way worse for me. Everything looked grainy and the stutters went way up. So the only thing I don't agree with in your video is that unless you have a 4090 the dlss is not good. I disagree with that. But a lot of good other tips in your video.
Hmm, well glad you found at least some parts of the video helpful mate. I think higher resolution screens wouldn't benefit from some of the settings I described as it over-sharpens the image, causing the graininess you mentioned. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thanks! I have been looking for a good video like this for a long time!
Hey there mate, thank you so much for watching and I'm glad this video was helpful for you. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Thank you! Subbed. Nvidia2060Super 32 Gig. Terrific results. I've tried many of these suggestions in past and this one seems to be ideal for my 1080 p AMD system. Merry Christmas!
Thank you mate - glad I could help :)
Worked amazing! Almost Doubled my fps while also having it not looking not noticeably worse. Thank you!
I really appreciate the tips and especially the effort put into this video. This was very helpful for me, and I wanted to get started on MSFS 2020 with good graphics. Thank you so much!
Glad you found it helpful mate:)
Thank You very much. Even with a Nvidia 3080ti my frame rates were never higher than mid 30s to low 40s and had stuttering during landing. After following your suggestions I now have frames between 50 and 90s and no stuttering. Now lets hope MSFS doesn't break anything in the next update.
Very clear and good Information. Well done. 😊
Thank you really much, this improved the visual quality and performance at the same time
Great video and thanks 👍🏻🛫
Glad I could help mate! Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
This is about trial and error, but this is already a great start, thanks for sharing
Thank you Captain ! Simple and effective video, the result is Tremendous 😊
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In my experience the one thing that makes the largest difference, especially when you come to denser areas, is that you have everything running on an SSD. I had it running on my C drive, but I ran out of room and had to move to to my D drive. My C is SSD, but my D is HDD. It's a fast HDD, but still it makes an incredible difference. I noticed immediately my framerates dropping down to 30fps in some cases where it's really dense. I have an i7-9700k (not OC), with an RTX-3060ti (OCd slightly - not even enough to need to undervolt) and 32GB dual channel RAM. So my system specs are almost identical - aside from the card - and I can match the visuals, but the framerate takes a nosedive where there is a lot of detail. Flying over the desert near Sedona AZ is beautiful and I'm getting 66fps (my monitor is not the greatest and has a low framerate, so 66 is probably the best it's going to get). Flying over LAX and I get 30fps. I do have added content for the LAX area, so that might be contributing, but I see the same frame drop in other areas where I don't have add-on content for.
Hmm, that's a great point mate. I should have maybe stressed a little bit more regarding my SSD and it's quality. I'll do some more tests and get back to you at a later time perhaps :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
@@FlyBySimulations Done and done 😀
@@FlyBySimulations Just to give you an idea on the impact on my system when running of HDD. I see my HDD max out at 100% utilization constantly. I have a Barracuda 2TB HDD drive that is plenty fast at 7200RPM. When I run it on a decent SSD (870 EVO 2TB) I see max 20% usage. My frame rates went from about 30fps with an HDD to about 80fps with the SSD. It was almost a three fold improvement. Don't get me wrong - your card is going to be the most bang for the buck, but if you are getting stuttering especially while entering dense areas then you might want to look at your storage situation.
Thank you for sharing, this was an awesome and informative video, your time and efforts are appreciated!!!!!! I just now discovered your channel now and subscribed. You're a Super Star!!!!
Thanks Dennis - Welcome aboard!
Great to watch and listen to your explanations. You talk very clearly, easy to understand, and nice you keep to the point.
Oh my god, what is this witchcraft? My sim is now at the same time WAY more gorgeous and much more fluid! So sad that I can only leave a single like. I also second what others have written before, you have an amazing, calm, well organised, and easy to understand way of presenting things.
Hahaha well, it's called the FlyBy Simulations witchcraft mate. Glad it helped you and truly appreciate the warm words. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Just Amazing!! Many Many Thanks Varun from Toronto, Canada!!
Thank you so much for your warm words mate! Cheers from Vancouver, Canada :)
Thanks so much! Just upgraded to a new pc & dwnloaded msfs from Steam. The default graphic settings werent that great and l was disappointed after seeing how nice everyone's looked. Tried tweakin the settings, but still could not find one that looked great.I will try your settings & suggestions! 👍
I just built a new system with an RTX 4090 + Intel 13900K for a friend. DLSS3 seriously rocks.
Oooh Lala that's awesome. I'm looking to build something very similar mate. Would you be able to provide me with the exact part list you used? Might be helpful :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
@@FlyBySimulations Here's the list:
Intel 13900K CPU
Asus ROG Z790 Maximus Hero motherboard
Corsair 5000D case
Corsair iCUE H150i RGB Elite CPU cooler
Lian li AL240 fans (7 total)
G.Skill Z5 DDR5 RAM (2 x 32GB)
EVGA 1300W power supply
Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 4090
Samsung 2TB 980 SSD (M.2)
The details: this machine is a dedicated flight simulator. My friend and I have known each other for 42 years, and he's been previously certified both for fixed wing and helicopters. We originally were flying the Apple ][ version of subLogic's Flight Simulator in 1981 before Microsoft acquired it for the first MSFS in 1982. He has two different simulator rooms at his place of business. The "good one" uses three Samsung curved 65" LCD 4K TVs are primary displays. It also features a Yoko yoke, Saitek Pro switch panel and Cessna trim wheel and the Saitek Pro throttle for Cessnas. He has another throttle/flaps control for heavy jets but I can't remember who made it, nor can I remember who made the pedal controls on the pilot side. Finally in the co-pilot seat he has a CH Products Thunderstick (helicopters) and a CH Products Flightstick Pro and CH Products pedals. He also has a custom built overhead panel using a Leo Bodnar USB board but it isn't programmed right and I promised I'd help him with it. He uses a few iPads as secondary displays (Air Manager 4 and other tools).
The new rig replaces one I built for him six years ago with a Intel 6850 Xeon, 32 GB of RAM and dual GTX 1080 cards running SLI. That machine was lucky to run X-Plane 10 or 11 at 25 fps at 3 screen 4K resolution and often much less than that in complicated areas. This new machine easily runs X-Plane 12 at 30 fps which most of the graphics settings turned way up. We're still trying to get 3 screens working on FS2020 WU11...I'll try again in a few days when I see him again. We just installed this machine yesterday so there are still some minor issues to solve.
The choices of the hardware were pretty basic. ASUS makes great motherboards and we got the best that we could get our hands on (the Extreme version was out of stock at the time). The Intel CPU was tops in class. The memory was tops in class. The SSD was almost tops in class but we couldn't get the newer Samsung 990 in time. The choice of the Gigabyte RTX 4090 was mainly because that was one we could get our hands on due to the current shortages. And yes, we overpaid for it.
@@FlyBySimulations Another update: I went over to my friend's studio again to get a few things working that I didn't have time to finish before, most notable three monitors on FS2020. This time due to some RUclips videos I'd seen on the subject, the process was a lot easier and it didn't take long to get three 4K TVs going, at 4K resolution with the RTX 4090. The only real tweak was adjusting the zoom setting to 70 to even out everything.
The goal for FS2020 was to get it working at about 30 fps through most flight scenarios. And it actually worked! We used the Nvidia graphics suggestions for FS2020 which were pretty close to what I had originally done including DLSS3 at "Performance", Terrain objects at "350" which is very hard to do and pretty much "ULTRA" on everything else. And then we chose the Discovery flight through Manhatten/New York City since the buildings are a good torture test. And wouldn't you know, it pretty much kept 28-32 fps throughout the flight. So we decided to do DLSS3 - QUALITY and try again. This was a little tougher but again, we saw mostly 28-31 fps with occasional dips to 23-25. But this was excellent for my friend's needs and we choose to keep it at QUALITY since the performance hit was minimal under most conditions. And it looks absolutely gorgeous.
I'm sure there are other tweaks we can do and I'm sure the drivers and FS2020's use of the drivers will get better. Right now, the worst I saw of use of G-RAM was about 8.3 GB on a 24 GB graphics card. So is a RTX 4090 worth it? Absolutely YES.
Currently we are in SU10 ! However I believe you are confused by the fact that we also just received " World update 11", which is Canada !
Haha mate I think you're a ways behind. Sim Update 11 was released 2 weeks ago with gliders, helicopters and the Airbus A310 (the 40th anniversary edition). Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Yes, I would love to see how to set NVidia color settings, PLEASE!
Hey mate, thanks for watching. Seems like a lot of people want to see them - I'll create a guide soon :) Nevertheless, if you enjoy the content on the channel, do consider subscribing and giving the video a like to be part of the FlyBy Simulations community - would love to have you!
Bro thank you so much i got this game and was kind of disappointed when it ran like 20 fps but now im getting like 40 to 50 bro thank you fam
Thank you Varun So much . Hope my sim looks awesome with this . Subbed to you .
Thank you so much mate! Glad I could help in some capacity - everyone's sim is different so feel free to tinker around with the settings and see what works for you :)