Flight Simulator 2020: The Best Settings For Next-Gen Visuals + Best Performance!

With Flight Simulator 2020, Microsoft has delivered the first properly next generation experience - but it's demanding in a way we've not seen for many years. So how do you tune for best performance while retaining the lion's share of the next generation visual experience? Alex Battaglia has you covered - but we warned, a hardware upgrade may be required. In fact, even Alex needed one to get closer to a locked 60fps, so thanks to Origin PC for providing the Flight Simulator-themed Core i9 10900K/RTX 2080 Ti setup used in this video.

[KizaruB]

11:27
“First you have anisotropic filtering which you will leave on 16x no matter what because we’re gaming on PC here”
Nice Alex

[XYZaidy]

The game needs a dx12 update. It's severely bottlenecked by the cpu (mainthread). Surprised it wasn't released with it from the beginning.

[neoKushan]

I normally really appreciate DF's content and how transparent they are, but this whole video feels like an ad for Origin PC and the lack of transparency on what's clearly a paid sponsorship is unsettling.

[Tuskin]

The next update coming out in the next 10 days is supposed to help with threading performance. So this might have to be revisited, if it’s significant

[Chocapic_]

Hey, I really love DF, you guys are really passionate about graphics in modern games, and actually know what you're talking about compared to most of others "journalists". But PLEASE indicate clearly that this is a sponsored video or that some part is sponsored, this was actually cringe to watch at the end

[pipgoesthepossum]

Can we talk about how well the TAA handled the image at 540p? That looks much, much, much cleaner than 540p. Soft, sure, but there is very little aliasing or artifacting. Remarkable image quality considering the pixel count.

[anurgaprasad]

Origin trying to get rid of their 2080ti PC before 3070 launch xD

[Xeirus]

You should make it a little more clear that this is a sponsored video.

[gamingblowsofficial]

I cannot imagine one single person who watches Digital Foundry jumping on a 2080ti build today.

[huablabua]

Why do I want a Origin system now?
Oh, i get it, i just watched a 20 minute ad for it without anybody telling me..

[markcentral]

Video content is great except when it awkwardly returns back several times to revisit sponsorship from Origin PC

[benjaminpevzner]

Next week in the benchmark, this game will be interesting

[lasseberg]

To DF - Please say: sponsored by Origin PC I just seems more legit.

[ducnguyen-xeon]

i imagine playing this with a CRT is like looking through an airplane's window

[rosen]

Could just have said that this video is spononsored by Origin PC, now it just seems like the whole video is an ad.

[Sackboy]

Just curious, is this not a sponsored vid? Or has sponsored content considering the Origin plug? I thought that you had to display that

[misterPAINMAKER]

Flight Simulator 2020 Needs VULKAN or DX12 asap, so it can use more cpu cores.

[logicalfundy]

I don't mind that you have a sponsored video, but it's a bit overbearing to be honest, I can't really watch the video to the end as the last part is basically an ad for the system. From what I'm hearing though, if I clock my i7-8086K CPU to 5 GHz it should be fine.

[Lazirus]

Origin picked a weird time to try to flex a 2080 Ti system.

[rsolsjo]

This feels like the type of game to buy in about five years.