Your MSFS Settings Guide | Improve your FPS with these options

A general guide covering the main settings, and their impact on your FPS and smoothness of your flight, in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Traffic, Texture Level Of Detail (TLOD) plus others. Time Stamps below.

My thanks to FlightSim PC Specialist Wired2Fire for the loan of the 4070ti S

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction & Sys Spec
03:36 Test Environment
06:00 FPS Counting
07:02 General Settings
10:45 Traffic
14:32 Monitor resolution for VR Pilots
15:58 DLSS 3.0
16:33 Low Latency & V Sync
18:54 TLOD
23:57 Other Settings
28:34 Summary

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[adamluke]

Holy mackerel, I haven't heard anyone bring up the AI Offline (Traffic type) before... what a difference!

[karmabasedj]

About time we needed an updated guide from Mark!

[q]

Excellent video, Mark. A real change from the sponsored videos you've been doing lately.Almost like old times.

[TBMPilot]

Or: install Lossless Scaling and put ALL of your sliders to the max. I‘m amazed how well it works!

[jlboynton]

Thanks Mark! Very helpful in making my setup run a bit smoother.

[roysole]

We are still looking at setting in MSFS2020 4 years in well done for doing this but its a well beaten rug by now

[pmf]

Cool. Another channel or two have recommendations for more Nvidia tweaking that's made a big difference for me.

[delalima]

excellent video, thank you so much i'll play around with my settings

[natedogg]

With my 4090 all settings are set to YES!

[sky]

Great video. I sure hope FS2024 is more optimized. I have the 4070Ti Super also and I'm still being choked by the CPU...

[JMABCD]

Great video. Any VR setting recommendations?

[robo]

8:50, under 'Change Resolution' - you could click the 'Use NVIDIA colour settings' and change the 'output dynamic range range' from 'Limited' to 'Full' to get 0-255 colours.

[richardPalmisano]

So I see you are using DX12 with TAA I thought TAA works better with DX11 what do you use the most DX11 or 12? Of course, I only fly with the Pimax Crystal VR headset. So I should probably use dx 12

[stevedenton]

I wish you had gone with the 7800X3D instead of the 14900K, I would like to see what you would have done with that.

[iantroup]

Mark, thanks for such an informative video. I am currently exploring the idea of migrating from my XBOX series X to a PC solution as I want to run a few 3rd party programs that you can’t run on XBOX at the same time. I was thinking of going for a wired2fire Valkyrie machine, but I have also seen a few vendors offering the spec (RTX4070 Ti Super) that you have demoed here. I’m starting to wonder if I need to go all out with the Valkyrie as it represents a significant investment when I possibly don’t need to as (like you) I’m predominantly a GA (low & slow) flyer as I like to enjoy the scenery along my route. I guess it’s a case of how deep your pockets are at the end of the day. Much food for thought here. I have bookmarked the video for future settings. Thanks once again.

[jackr.]

Thanks for the video Mark.
You gave me a few ideas on what to try in VR to make thing even better with my Reverb G2 (Crystal Light not here yet), I'm fairly new to MSFS, can't say I have much interest in learning all the intricacies of flying, if I fly a small plane myself, it's in "easy" mode with a Logitech Extreme 3D pro (yep, it's older than dirt LOL). What I do really much enjoy is using the A320 Neo (v1) and letting the AI autopilot fly the plane while I just look around. Too bad not all planes allow the AI autopilot to fly the plane, the new V2 of the Neo doesn't work, neither does the 747 or the A310. Some plane work, some don't.
I am getting much enjoyment from MSFS this way, I'm actually a sim racer but this MSFS is a lot of fun in VR. LOL

[DavidBrown-tlft]

These settings are all with ref to monitor. Do these tweeks apply the same in the VR settings for us that dont use 2D? I have had a break flying DCS for a couple of months and MSFS is now a stuttering mess in Q3.

[Despiser]

If I go under 60FPS the Framerate meter blinks/goes red but I notice you are at 30-40 FPS and still in the green with a deep yellow graph. I wonder why? It does look smooth on the youtubes. Also I see your Alloc stuff in the framerate meter is blinking red. Do you have any idea what that means? In TAA you can run a lower res in the game and then simply upscale it using the Render Scale Option. 150 seems to be 1:1. I use 2640x1440 then 150 render scale to upscale back to 4k. I get the same quality but the GPU is being used more than the CPU. With a 4090 we have the over-head. This would even out your Main Thread and GPU Thread a lot.

[minase]

will upgrading my ram increase my fps i got a Ryzen 5600H and a gtx 1650 mobile with 8Gb ram i get 25-30 fps but in big airports its 10fps even if my graphics are lowest

[Valkron]

Just waiting to finish the mandatory 129.34gb update, its going very slow 😢