I've taken a closer look tonight and performance and quality. I refuse to go lower than High-End in settings, it just looks miles better than medium.
So at 4K I am GPU bound by my 980TI, I get around 20FPS over San Fran with dips in frame rate. It's playable, but, not great.
Switch to 1080p frame rate is a lot better, but now CPU bound by my 4470K. However, running non native res is not nice on the best of days, on a 32" 4K monitor, it just looks really horrible.
I'm in two minds what to do to improve performance here. I could either buy a second monitor, either 1080p or 1440p and run with that, or stick with 4K and spend a lot on a new build when the time is right for components. Damn this sim and damn 4K for spoiling me, not sure I could go back. But then you look at the highest end GPUs and they are scraping in to the 30FPS @ 4K, add some fancy 3rd party aircraft in to the mix, and we will be back in the 20FPS territory again. Gotta love flight sims.
I suspect is not your spec but the servers or internet, during alpha I never had loading taking more then 1min on 120 Mbps
4k is fine on my 1080, with the render scaling dropped to 75-80%, so you can get a sharp UI and there's very little blurriness.
If the render scaling is 70-80%, it's only the UI that's 4K.
1440p with 80% render scaling is outputting the game at 2048x1152 for example.
Yes exactly, you get the UI at 4k and the rest of the game at the reduced scaling. The upsampling is pretty good. Very playable at 4k without ridiculous hardware.
Anyone else using an x52 pro by any chance?
Trying to locate a stick profile but there doesn't seem to be anything about
I had a real blast today. The Bush flights in the activities section are really fun. The Vfr navigation kinda keeps you on your toes while you enjoy the scenery, and it's a bit more hands on than the airliner flights which are all instrument focused. I'm usually all about the airliners, but it was a really nice change of pace. Also, for anyone trying to learn the airliners from scratch, the checklists are your friend. They'll help you get from cold and dark to the runway and beyond. I'm still a bit rubbish at following a flight plan, and that's my main challenge. I followed ATC instructions to JFK but they wanted me to go from FL190 to 2k feet and land all at once.
I noticed last night mine was using all 11GB of my GPU Vram then it dropped to 10.5GB of VramBit more tweaking - (I know you're probably all getting tired of my posts haha).
Looks like 16GB DDR4 3200MHz makes a big difference over 16GB DDR3 1600MHz - I still don't think 32GB is necassary unless you're trying to play with all settings maxed out.
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I noticed last night mine was using all 11GB of my GPU Vram then it dropped to 10.5GB of Vram
This was at 3440 x 1440 with almost all the settings maxed out..
Difference between IAS and TAS?
Just been flying around St Malo and it was only using 8GB around thereYep it loves VRAM, my Vega 56 is struggling now that my CPU isn't holding it back. Will be good to see what improvement the new Nvidia and AMD cards bring.