MSFS 2020: The Holy Grail | The BEST Graphics and Performance You Can Get | DLDSR + DLSS

In this video I will show you how to use DLDSR and DLSS to achieve the best graphics and highest performance possible in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

00:00 Intro
03:50 The What
06:11 NVCP DSR-FACTORS (DSLR): 2.25 AND 1.75
15:20 The How
17:37 NVCP DSR SMOOTHNESS: 60%
18:35 NVCP TEXTURE FILTERING: HIGH QUALITY
19:16 NVCP ANISTROPIC FILTERING: 16X
19:35 NVCP LOW LATENCY MODE : ULTRA
20:20 NVCP POWER MANAGEMENT
21:30 MSFS ANTI-ALIASING: NVIDIA DLSS SUPER RES.
21:43 MSFS select a resolution: highest (for 2k monitor 3840x2160 = 2.25X) (3rd from bottom is native resolu.)
22:00 MSFS NVIDIA DLSS SUPER RESOLUTION: QUALITY
23:00 The Setup
23:17 MSFS GLOBAL RENDERING QUALITY: ULTRA
24:12 MOTION BLUR: OFF
29:40 The Details
32:10 The Flight

[darrenblack]

There are an insanely amount of different setups out there with hardware and software and what updates have been done or not been done.... Anyone that doesn't understand that things like this will affect people differently doesn't have a good grasp on the complexity of hardware/firmware/software. Thanks for your trails-efforts-and re-re-research and sharing. Much appreciated!

[Dmeson]

Thank you so very much for this detailed, brilliant, informative explanation! I fly exclusively in VR (Reverb G2, RTX 3090) and my PC is very much CPU bottlenecked. I didn’t find any option to go beyond the native resolution of the Reverb G2. Nevertheless I can report a huge improvement in image quality applying DLAA, I would go so far to describe it as a night-and-day difference of the sort that it looks like I have a new, much better headset than before (and until watching your videos I was under the impression I dialed in my graphics settings in a fairly optimized way!) Thank you and please continue sharing your insights with the MSFS 2020 community, very much appreciated!

[davegrainge]

I followed your instructions as I also have a 3080TI and applied them all, I was absolutely blown away with the image that was in front of me wow it was fantastic. Thank you so very much for taking the time and for sharing this with us, it is stunning thank you

[patches]

Once again thank you! This has unlocked the full potential of my system! I'm fortunate enough to have a 7900X3d and an RTX 4090 and have been slightly disappointed in the performance and this has improved my sim so much while trying to fly out of INIbuilds KLAX or KJFK with full on Real Traffic and PSXTraffic in the pmdg or has boosted my FPS enough to where these flights run so much smoother now. So, thank you for your work.

[ztublackstaff]

OMDG!!!! This tiny little tweek is amazing!!! Who knew? and why did it take three years for someone to figure it out and share it? THANK YOU. Not only has my 2D flying never looked better (I tested the FENIX in downtown NY), but even VR (which for me has always been choppy, especially in turns) looks smooth as ice. Oh, my wife hates you know, becuase I'm going to spending more time enjoying this amazing simulation which YOU have made even better!!! 😆. I'm sharing your channel with all my friends. :)

[michaelwilliamson]

Thanks so much for this video. I have been flopping and twitching for years trying to get this sim dialed in, and I could not do it until I found your channel. You are the man when it comes to great performance!

[JohnMeaders]

I have an i9-9900K with 8 physical cores, and an RTX 3080 Ti. I applied all of this and hopped into the SWS PC-12, and was gobsmacked by the fidelity. It looked like I was sitting in the real airplane. I'm glad you talked about tuning, as I don't have enough time to determine if I need to tone it down. Great job! Thanks for the info.

[matthawk]

I paused my flight to come leave this comment. Asobo should hire you...your videos are outstanding! Thank you for all of your testing. I spent hours on tutorials and tweaking but couldn't get things running smooth in VR. Now it's an incredible experience. Great work and thank you so much for sharing!

[paulofranca]

Ok... I rarely comment on youtube videos but after watching this one and the newer one talking about the DLSS 3.6 I can say: Dawg... you are a genius. I run a Ryzen 7 3700x with a RTX 3070... usually I would get 20-35 FPS durinng the last years in flight sim... it was fine, playable, cool and all. But this saturday I took 50 min of my time to watch these videos and simply enough now im getting constant 60FPS no matter the circustance in game... the Flight sim experience changed from water to wine for me thanks to these videos... your guides simply render all "best graphics settings" videos and guides on the internet totally useless ! thanks you so much... this is awesome.

[cdnrod]

Wow! this is a game changer. I’ve been tweaking msfs for three years and this one thing has allowed me to go from med-high to ultra settings with improved fps. i7-10700, RTX 2070 Super, SSD, 32 GB ram, flying pmdg 737 over Japan and running approx 35 fps. Sweet. Thank you so much!!! I am now a subscriber.

[MatthewSmall]

I recently went from a 27 inch 4k monitor to a 45 inch super ultra wide. It was mostly a good move apart from the fact that after using 4k for so long, the step down to half the vertical resolution was painful. Stumbled across your video and gave it a go. It actually worked. Crystal clear graphics with no performance hit. Oddly, my GPU is now working less hard than before for some reason. I expect it has something to do with the ultra low latency setting being enabled.
Anyway, thank you. You're a legend. 👍🏼

[tfisher]

I have to add to my original comment. This has been a huge game-changer for me. I thought I would have to spend several thousand dollars upgrading my GPU and switching to a 4K monitor. You've given me everything I wanted from all that spending except FPS, and I've got enough of that to be happy. Thank you again.

[expataviator]

First of all, thank you for taking the time to put this together. I know how long all the experimenting takes. For me, the 2.25x plus finally understanding DLSS worked like a charm. But moving my default settings to ULTRA nuked my FPS. I went back to mostly HIGH which makes FPS better and frankly I can hardly tell the difference. 7800X3D and 4070Ti

[FlightSimVRDad]

We have very similar systems and I have been using the NVidia GForce experience app to launch with the optimum settings. I have great performance now. The one thing that caught my attention is that you have 1080P monitor and I have a 4K monitor and I see your videos are in 4K I downgrade mine to 1080P to help "frame drop" of the end product. That said, your water looks great. I still get the lines on the water when the water is smooth. Thanks for explaining not just the settings but also the logic behind the settings. And you are also correct in no two systems are alike. Once we start installing anything the performance changes and we have to find what works for each of us. But you have given us a wonderful starting point with an understanding of what we are dealing with. Thanks a bunch!

[acratone]

NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL

6:11 NVCP DSR-FACTORS (DSLR): 2.25 *AND* 1.75 (BOTH ON)
17:37 NVCP DSR SMOOTHNESS: 60%
18:35 NVCP TEXTURE FILTERING: HIGH QUALITY
19:16 NVCP ANISTROPIC FILTERING: 16X
19:35 NVCP LOW LATENCY MODE : ULTRA
20:20 NVCP POWER MANAGEMENT: if cpu fan noise is a problem then: NORMAL, otherwise PREFER MAX PERF.

MSFS GENERAL OPTIONS GRAPHICS

21:30 MSFS ANTI-ALIASING: NVIDIA DLSS SUPER RES.
21:43 MSFS select a resolution: highest (for 2k monitor 3840x2160 = 2.25X) (3rd from bottom is native resolu.)
22:00 MSFS NVIDIA DLSS SUPER RESOLUTION: QUALITY
23:17 MSFS GLOBAL RENDERING QUALITY: ULTRA
24:12 MOTION BLUR: OFF

[mercianeightseven]

Thank you!! I had good performance anyway on my 3080 but this has boosted it and gave me a boost on the image quality also!! Thanks very much for this well made video and in depth info you gave. Helped my understanding much better!

[petrolekh]

Holy crap dude, just tweaked my card with your settings and you nailed it. I was barely dropping below 60 FPS in heavy traffic areas with custom scenery and live traffic. And that most annoying jerkiness when panning around is entirely gone.
Fantastic, your hours of crawling the forums were not wasted, appreciate the advice.

Even thinking of downgrading my card because the 4080 was damn expensive, lmao.

[dennis.oosthuizen]

WOW, I have been a flight simmer since MSFS first came out, and I have never experienced visuals like this. I have a 4K OLED monitor (MSI Gaming Laptop with Nvidia 3080 graphics card, which I only use for MSFS), and I have increased the resolution to 5461 x 2880. The graphics are absolutely unbelievable. My FPS is around 43-50fps, which is good enough for me, but, the depth of field is what has astounded me, it is absolutely mind-blowing. I have been flying to locations that I previously loved, and I just cannot explain the difference, it is amazing. Thank you so much for your recommendation, time and effort in figuring this out, you are the MAN!!!! I cannot thank you enough, you have revitalised my enthusiasm and excitement for flight again.

[Hypnotoast]

You did it man! I have been trying multiple other settings I found in multiple other videos and the results were meh at bets or significantly worse fps than what I had before. Your video is so well explained DLSS final makes sense to me. Now I seem to be getting solid 30fps with an image quality that looks absolutely stunning. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

[Virtusim]

Thank you very much for these settings. It works in VR as well. It seems like the PC has now more room to render the game on the monitor and in the headset. In my case a Reverb G2. I kept my ingame VR settings the same. (Native resolution, DLSS Quality and Medium to High for the other settings) As a result, the image in the headset is more clear and without any stutters. My FPS are still locked at 45 in the openXR toolkit, but it is butter smooth and crisp now. FYI, I have a i7 with a 3080 10Gb and 32Gb ram.