I’m over all the grifting from Government and Corporations.  Unregulated capitalism is not making me feel great again.  What happened to the days when product creation meant something good and innovative … now it’s grifting, corruption, consumer manipulation, and insider trading?  $900 (probably $1500 retail) for zero gain.  

I used to think voting with my wallet mattered, but it doesn’t (and yes I do have a lot of AMD stock, but this IS not why I invested in them, time to dump it).  The entire PC industry has shifted into something not worth investing in … please no lectures on “satisfy shareholders” … I’m a share holder, this is NOT why I invested in AMD.  I invested in AMD because of innovation and because they brought competition to the market giving consumers a choice.

Oh well, time to move on I guess … just hate to see a PC hobby go the way side of greed and corruption.

Still waiting for the 9950X3D2, it might set the bar even higher by overtaking the lead from the 9850X3D again. We will see 😉 

I'm feeling a rare sense of gratitude and blessing while I write these lines. My first post ever in this forum was back in 2005 and my last post was in 2011, when my first kid was one years old. Tom Allensworth was still well alive, unique, hard-working, influential visionary for the Flight Simulation community...

So I'm back 15 years later, in my 50's now (time flies!), eager to contribute my personal findings in an all-inclusive post about optimal MSFS 2020 settings in 2026 that can guarantee, all things considered, best image quality and no performance compromise (fluid motion, no stutters) for MSFS 2020. These are my current PC specs: 

Case: Lian Li O11 Vision Compact (White) | PSU: Lian Li Edge Gold 1200W 80+ Gold | Mobo: Gigabyte Aorus X870E Pro Ice (rev 1.1) | CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D @ 4.2GHz (5.0GHz Boost) | CPU Cooler: Lian Li Hydroshift LCD AIO (White) | RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5 6000MHz | GPU: Sapphire RX 7900 XTX 24GB Nitro+ Vapor-X | SSD: Samsung 990 Pro 4TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 | OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit | Monitor: LG 39GS95QE-B 39'' UltraGear OLED | Keyboard: Keychron Q6 Max (Jupiter Brown) | Mouse: Glorious Model O White Glossy | Headset: Razer Barracuda X White | Extra: Lian Li TL LCD Fans & Strimer Wireless RGB Cables | Joystick: Saitek X52.

As per title, this is a specific AMD/Radeon approach. I'm taking an overkill scenario, all settings maxxed (except TLOD which I set to 250).

Airport/aircraft: LGTS, rwy34, "Black Square King Air 350 Steam Gauges", engines running, clear weather. In this baseline scenario, my frames in Full Screen (=AMD Frame Generation) are around 130 in my setup. Here is a screenshot from my mobile phone from AMD Adrenaline Metrics Overlay:

And here is a short video to show the fluidity of the sim, again from my mobile to capture in "raw" format the output on my monitor:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sc0dtkYS9obg0_UBW176fmUlIkM6KL_Y/view?usp=drive_link

In game settings:

AMD Adrenaline Settings:

Would be happy to contribute further if needed. Posting for benchmarking reasons, no affiliation/no marketing whatsoever, happy to be back!

Blue skies!

-George.

I have just about given up trying to use these without hum or static in both speaker or in the headphone.

Are there better ones which will not have sound or background hum issues? 

 

I'm thinking about upgrading my PC to replace my current setup, which is starting to show its age 😉 (See signature).

1-What do you think of the following PC setup, considering I’m running at 1080p?
2-Will I be able to run P3Dv5 and, in the near future, likely MSFS2024 without any issues if I max out all the settings?
3-I mainly use FSLABS (All Bus and Concorde), PMDG, A2A, MILVIZ, Leonardo, and so on

Carte mère MSI B850 Gaming Plus wifi6E (wifi + BT)     164.00 € 
Proc AMD Ryzen 7 9700X     289.00 € 
Ventirad Be Quiet Pure Rock 3 Black + kryonaut Extreme     36.00 €
32Go DDR5 5600Mhz Kingston Fury Beast / Crucial PRO (2x16Go)     419.00 € 
Geforce RTX-5070 Windforce 12GoDDR7 Gigabyte     749.00 € 
SSD M.2 1To Black SN770 Western Digital     102.50 € 
Controleur son intégré à la carte mère     0.00 €
Alimentation 750W MSI A750GL 80+Gold     99.00 € 
Boitier Endorfy Ventum 200 Solid 3 x ventil 12cm et 14cm     65.00 € 
Ventilation fournie avec le boitier choisi     0.00 €
MONTAGE PC + MAJ Bios + réglages Bios + Tests de stabilité - DEEE 2,52€HT inclus     69.00 € 

To all that, I’ll add Windows 11 Pro, keyboard, and mouse.

Feel free to comment or offer criticis.

Thank you and Regards,

Richard.

Seems like our fears of an AI exec abandoning Xbox hardware are unfounded:

Sounds neat, but also sounds like price might also move up a tier. 
 

Personally, I’d rather have a hardware-refreshed Xbox X v2 for cost-effectiveness. 

I would like to find out if my PCSystem will handle MSFS2024

I have a 12th Gen i9 -12900 3200mhz 16 core with 64 gig ram

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TI 16gig ram 

2TB SD Card.

I am just running a 51" TV 1080 

With 5 other small screens as I have a Vision Jet SF50 simulator. This works well with MSFS2020

WIFI Speed 350mps

Thanks in advance 

Kevin

In many 3D scenarios FPS is dropped to 15-20 and almost always shows “Limited by mainthread”!
I want to upgrade the CPU.

I’m considering two options:

1. Intel i7-14700K with old my DDR4 (need new CPU + motherboard)

2. Ryzen 7 7800X3D (need new CPU + motherboard + DDR5)

Option 2 would be better, but it’s twice as expensive because I would need to buy DDR5 (and it’s very expensive right now).

Which option would you recommend?
And what kind of fps increase will I get in these options, approximately?

Thanks

I’m gonna post the specs, will these specs allow Ultra settings? It’s already built and shipped so I can’t have them modify it.

I’m just asking what people might think about the performance.

Thanks.

Jack

Jetline Gravity GTX Series Flight Simulation PC

Windows 11 Professional Edition
Chassis: Corsair Frame 5000D ATX Mid-Tower, Black
Standard 4 Chassis Fan
Mainboard: Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite WIFI7
Processor: Intel Core Ultra 7 265K (5.5GHz Boost Clock) 20-Core
CPU Cooling: 240mm AIO CPU Liquid Cooler
System Memory: 64GB DDR5 SDRAM 6400MHz
Graphics Processor: 16GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080
System Power: 1000-Watt ATX 3.0 Gold-Rated Power Supply
Sound Card: High-Definition Integrated Audio
Storage Drive 1: 2TB Crucial Gen 5 Solid State Drive
Storage Drive 2: 4TB Samsung NVMe Solid State Drive
Networking: Wired High-Speed Internet Ready (2.5GbE)
Networking: Integrated 802.11be Wireless (WiFi 7) Card
 

Get ready for 2026 to get worse.

How do you set Simapp pro not to switch profile auto ?

Any other tips apreciated

Thanks

Michael Moe 

https://www.msi.com/blog/introducing-gpu-safeguard-advanced-gpu-protection-on-msi-next-gen-power-supplies

7:33

Tried a few time restarting but as soon as there was any load BSOD.

Looking at HWMonitor I could see that one core in particular was spiking to 93C

I though that was the end of my system CPU!

I uploaded the Crash dump file to Grok and it suggested it was almost certainly TIM degradation.

Sure enough I redid the TIM and problem solved.

Grok tell me you need to change that stuff every 2 to 3 years

I use Coollaboraties Liquid Pro.

I had CPU Max Temp set to 93 in my Bios so at least I got a warning!

I though CPU TIM was once and done for the life of the system.

NO SO!

Check your TIM !🧐

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Today I  thought 128G would be better so off I raced to amazon only to find the same ram was 818 (CND)

Some pairs  (2X32) were 1200 $$$ CDN

All due to AI demand of higher end RAM