Flight Simulator 2020 - DirectX 11 vs DirectX 12 | Sim Update 7

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 - DirectX 11 vs DirectX 12 | Sim Update 7

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Microsoft Flight Simulator: Game of the Year Edition Sim Update 7 is arriving on November 18th with DirectX 12 support. The free update will include five new aircraft, eight new airports, and new discovery flights and tutorials. The big addition will be DirectX 12 Ray Tracing support for PC players.

Asobo, the developers of Microsoft Flight Simulator, already shipped an update earlier this year that included huge PC performance improvements. This new DirectX 12 update should improve things even further for certain PCs, as DirectX 12 includes better CPU utilization.

The move to DirectX 12 will also open the door to ray tracing in Microsoft Flight Simulator in the future. Effects should include better water, improved shadows, and the usual reflections we expect to see in ray-traced games. Asobo is also introducing an updated weather system and a dev mode replay system in this upcoming update.

🖥️ Computer Specifications :
• Monitor : BenQ Zowie XL2411P 144Hz (24 Inch) FHD
• Processor : Intel Core i5-9400F
• Graphics Card : Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition / GTX 1050 Ti 4GB OC
• Motherboard : MSI H310M PRO-VH
• Ram : Kingston 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 HyperX Fury 2133Mhz (OC to 2666Mhz CL15)
• SSD #1 : Samsung 750 EVO 120 GB (For OS)
• SSD #2 : Crucial BX500 240 GB (For Games)
• HDD : Seagate 1TB BarraCuda
• PSU : Corsair Builder Series CX600
• Operating System : Windows 11 Home 64bit Version 21H2
• Nvidia Drivers : v496.49
• Gameplay Recording : Nvidia Shadowplay
• In-Game Statistics : MSI Afterburner

[gamesapp]

Looks like frametime is a lot more stable in dx11 for this game.

[stuntpowa]

Stay with Dx11 for now... dx12 in this game is not worth it yet.

[chookin]

Made my frame rate go from butter to molasses. Every thing reset itself too....All the sliders in assist were defaulted to easy, pilot assist were all on
Nice F-18 though.

[adama]

How come I don't have a direct X option in my "options" menu ? It doesn't even exist.

[starchild]

DX12 frame-times fluctuating more compared to more stable DX11.

Just wondering though if the ‘Direct Storage’ feature within DX12 is working with MSFS yet, now that MSFS 2020 has DX12? That is, if MSFS has been patched to take advantage of it. Many of us are just eager to get those initial game boot load times down (for those with NVMe M.2 SSD’s).

[jaouhar]

On mine it went from 50-60 to 20-30 with dx12 so i leave it on dx11. Playing on 5600x, rtx3070, 32ram 3200hz 1440p on max settings. Test on the new F-18 weekend chalanged

[majeedzakariah]

Why do you have your in game fps set to 20 and still getting smooth performance

[yoshoinks]

this update completely broke my game :(

[carlamoreira]

Boas, eu tenho i7 última geração 32gb RAM disco c quase vazio, eo d drive tb, tenho gráfica rtx2070s para mim o dx12 simplesmente não roda, fps caiem do 40 para o 1 fps, está sempre a travar imagem, para mim não roda kkkk

[braneden]

Direct x 12 seems to be overall smoother and just looks more realistic overall with reflections but does seem to have the fps surge occasionally but direct x 12 is better I won't go back.

[AldrikEthelward]

Please i have a problem : when i select DIRECTX 12 and i restart the game, when i go to options the game puted again DirectX11 why? anybody know why? and i have windows 10 with Direct x12 graphic card and looking with DXDIAG it says version of directX 12 then why every time i try to put the beta option when i restart the game automatically put again the 11 version? :(

[sithmetal]

So Direct X 12 has around 2fps better advantage?