The best voice to hold viewers/audience back after Morgan Freeman is Osamah Alabdullah (Q8Pilot). 🤩🥰😍

Hey Q8 I very rarely write comments on KZfaq but I have to say that you are an amazing guy and content creator.. I have been going through a lot of stress lately and you always manage to provide me with very comprehensive content that reminds me of the hobby that I enjoy so much! Especially these videos always help me to keep up with whats going on and just make me look forward to whenever I have time to hop back into the sim after some long work hours. Please keep up the good work and dont bother with any useless critique… you are doing everything right - much appreciation from switzerland - Stėphane 😊

I must say after following this video i didn't notice a significant amount of fps gain but the sim is so much smoother overall. Thank you sir!!

I normally don't expect too much from these sorts of guides, however I gave this a try and wow, so much better than before! This is a fantastic detailed and well explained guide which really does help. Thanks for taking the time to put this together for the flightsim community! 👍

With FPS hovering between 18-22, I was seriously considering buying a new computer. Following your recommendations, I am now getting 35-40 FPS. Many thanks for your efforts!

If you're running MSFS from the Microsoft Store, you add MSFS to the 'Graphics settings' mentioned at 2:58 by selecting 'Microsoft Store app' from the 'Choose an app to set preference' drop-down menu, and then select 'Microsoft Flight Simulator' from the drop-down menu that subsequently appears below the first one.

Thank u Q8. As usual, your videos are spot on not only on quality of content but on the topics. Well covered guide. Some people don't understand that there are many different pc configurations out there and it would be almost impossible for a single person to cover everyone's specs. Q8 explains in this guide what each function does, and how it works for his specs, the actual number on settings should still be experimented by the user to achieve their best settings. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into your content. Keep u the great work my friend.

I have just built a new flight sim pc and I used your guide as a starting point for my overall settings. Your video was very concise and gave the justification for your settings based upon experience, software and hardware. The 27 or so minutes was time well spent, and learning, to make an informed choice on a setting selection with the hardware/software and within the sim settings. Thank you for sharing this with the community!

Thank you Q8Pilot for taking so much time out of your busy day to come with these tips and sharing them with the community! These tips are really helpful.

I drank your words with great thirst. Followed almost to the letter every aspect and the result is great pleasure in enjoying my MSFS with suitable peripherals acquired less than a year ago. Your article is a cornerstone among the other data I collected. Thank you Q8Pilot.

Loved this and managed to get from 32 FPS to 43 FPS using your tips. Then I did something that pushed my FPS up to 54 FPS with Ultra settings and live heavy cloudy weather and up to 67 FPS with clear skies. I renamed my community folder and created a new one. Popped a couple of liveries in for the default planes (Premium edition) and wow what a difference flying at that level of performance. I had a very full community folder with 3rd party aircraft, Mods, airports etc., now when I want my community folder back I just rename it back but with a slimmed down version. I have an i9, 2080 Super 32GB Ram.

That Power setting to high performance made a big difference for me. Also turning on Game Mode. I don’t have hardly any stutters anymore. Thanks for the video and tips

I just wanted to say that your guide to improve the settings has been a godsend, I went through your video last night step by step and adjusted them accordingly. The results are astounding when compared to how I had them before. Thank you so very much for taking the time to put this all together as I could never get the look and the performance to balance out with such spectacular results. Thank you and keep up the great work. Love your channel!

An excellent and highly useful video, the quality and relevance is spot on, a must-see for those aiming to better understand all those options and get the best out of the SIM. A big thank you for another great contribution to our flight simming world.

Big thank you for sharing this valuable information. I used settings as suggested and now had butter smooth flights.

Thank you for all the helpful information on maximizing the PC performance which I am sure that most casual flight simulator users need.

Been struggling getting over 30 fps with a high end computer @ 2k res. This helped big time, thanks so much!

Hey I loved you x-plane videos for tweaking and settings and really happy to find same content for msfs 😊

New Subscriber here. I basically built my gaming PC just for the release of this title. I have done at least two core upgrades since. My fiancee ( bless her heart) had bought me an XBox One S because she knew it was to be available on console. Well, when that didn't happen (for a looong time) I picked up my old hobby of PC builds and Overcloclocking. Unfortunately I'm a hardware veteran but a software illiterate. I knew what the settings meant but just could never get the optimal compromise of realism vs performance. Ive watched this video twice today and have found it to be the most concise around. Just upgraded from a 1660 Ti to a 3060 12GB. While I've achieved pretty good results with 82fps (try getting that on the day one release, right?) , I still get the terrible micro-stutter with pan and zoom. Cant wait to get home tonight and try these settings (with lower values probably). I know they will work for me since I've never touched half of the settings that were shown here and your instructional makes perfect sense as in hitting my forehead and saying "Doh !". Thanks for the time you put into this. " You sir are a steely eyed missile man.". . Flight Commander on Apollo 13. I also hold a private pilot certificate w/complex endorsement and tail-dragger add-on. 2349 hrs. TT logged in type...177 Cardinal RG.

Amazing content and very good tutorial. I had some of the settings made about a year ago which I think was causing performance issues, but your video cleared it all up and MSFS setup is looking brand new. Thanks for educating the flight sim community on the technicalities! Appreciate it very much and hope you continue to do such videos after major Sim updates, especially with changes coming through on DX11 and DX12. Thank you!

Thank you! Followed this to the T and it has improved my flight experience!!!! 🎉

Thank you for this thorough guide. I have implemented your recommended settings and I’m getting good FPS, visuals and stability. Much appreciated.

Hi Q8Pilot! I listened to your excellent video and did some changes to my sytem. I have a ROG Strix GA15DH, AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor 3.80 GHz w/ 16GB memory. My GPU is NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super w/ 8GB memory. I have a SAMSUNG LU28R55 28". So, nothing fancy! After I listened to you, I realized that, for 1 (one) year I had not taken advantage of the feature FreeSync on my display, as it is supported using the G-Sync feature on my NVIDIA GPU. The reason why I missed all that, was that I attached my display using an HDMI cable, not a DisplayPort cable 1.4! So now I do. MSFS 2020 SU10 is now soo much smoother! WOW! A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU, Q8!

I have a 2080 Super with a i9 10850K 32mb 4.81 ghz (overclocked) and this worked SPECTACULAR for me... thanks so much for the updated video

Thanks Q8Pilot. As always this is right on point and you go through a lot of trouble and time making these guides for us. Thanks very much!! Will follow these instructions when Im on MSFS later!

Many thanks. Still relevant and very useful even after the recent update. Thanks matey.

Your suggestions/tweaks have had a significant positive impact on performance. The simulator is smooth as silk and quite enjoyable. Just flew Martha's Vineyard to LGA.. one of my favorites short hops in the Daher TBM. My Specs i9-10900K CPU @ 3.70GHz | 32.0 GB RAM DDR4 - 3600 | TUF Z590-PLUS WIFI | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Great settings tutorial. It improved my game performance & visuals. Great job Q8. Thank you for taking the time to sort this out 🏆✈️

Great settings video. Thanks for all your hard work. BTW do you every fly in VR? If you do can you share your VR setting?

You’re doing the lords work. Thanks for putting this together!

Thank you so much!! I significantly raised my settings and got better FPS and fewer stutters after working your magic

Excellent as always, thanks for all your hard work.

You are the first person who recommended Game Mode on! I will try it.

Absolutely amazing video and walk-through...no fluff, great explanation, and what a beautiful cadence, vocabulary, and tone...you should also be on radio! Come start a new station or be a TV broadcaster in USA (ours been 'suck' ing for the past 20 years).

Another excellent and thorough video Q8Pilot. Great analysis. I'm going with DLSS Quality for now, as I fly in VR, this has essentially replaced the OpenXR Toolkit, so I don't use that anymore. I have kept DX11, as you stated DX12, this introduces stutters for me so not quite ready for prime time, but some content creators are saying it gives them smoother performance and higher fps. I'm not seeing it though. 👍

Thank you so much! your guide has dramatically improved my performance.

Your experimental research is amazing and deserves a strong recognition from all of us. The matter is complicate and has a huge number of combination. I have a personal question: i have NVIDIA 4090 and 4k G-synch monitor, do you suggest to keep the TAA antiliasing option or migrate to diss quality/performance? Thank a lot for your help and work

Thanks for this. Love all your videos!!!

Great Video, I was having issues with Carenado's Beechcraft D-18 with loads of continuous stuttering. This fixed the issue. Greatly appreciated, I will check out more videos. Thanks from KROC.

Great workshop and very thorough and helpful. Cheers Jens x Salmya resident

The game mode does make a big difference. Thank you!

Excellent video, thanks for sharing your experience, which requires a lot of testing time. On the other hand, I think you should add to the video, the considerations about HyperThreading on/off.

Well done. Now, headed off to see if these settings work well with my machine. Thank you.

I have been using flight sims for a very long time. No matter how many tweaks you do the best option is to have the latest and fastest hardware if one can afford it.

Thx for the great video! Which add-on is the scenery at the intro and which aircraft? Looks amazing!

Bravo for this very useful video. It did help a lot. Greetings from France.

Unfortunately i have to question the way you approach this. The necessary settings vary depending on your graphics card! Your tips are valuable for users of the same or similar GPU's, yet if users with weaker/better hardware use your recommendations they will come to very different results. Take the clouds: As you stated on a high-end GPU it doesn't impact the fps much, yet i can tell you that on a RTX3060 it will tank your system when you run it over medium settings./DX12 introduces stuttering because the LOD distances are higher then with DX11. Lower the LOD's and you get the same performance and comparable or better details/viewing distances. Thank you for your effort, yet i think the video would be more helpful if you would name it with a hint of the used GPU. THX 💙

Hi guy. First of all, agree your effort for share community your expierence and knwlogment. I own a little more step hardware you use, so your setup for MSFS was very similar to mine. Only i have changed, trying your recomendations, windows game-mode off to on, and in Nvidia control panel, MSFS settings, Vsync from Aplication controled to off. Some stability and sttuters works better so, many thanks again. Only one thing. After all changes, restart your system. Some changes in Nvidia CP works on registry, so if you dont restart, you dont have it. Cheers my friend.

Thank you very informative.

Great video. Deep of field off gave me stutters. R7 5800 with rtx 3080.

Excellent Job

I am fortunate. I ramp everything to max and MSFS and XP12 run very smoothly.

It may be a good idea to note that this guide is running on windows 10 and not 11. Some of the options showed are not available in windows 11

thank you sir!

Thank you!

Typically the HDR setting is greyed out if you don’t have an HDR monitor. Are you sure yours isn’t HDR?

As always a great video, no surprise, your passion for flight sim is noticeable!! Would like to ask you please, some recommendation for AMD GPU user please. We have just adrenalin software and not the control like in Nvidia... I guess you will help a lot of people based on AMD gpu. I don t know why msfs is so oriented to Nvidia while they are very decent gpu. btw I have two crossfire 6800 xt and they compite with Nvidia at same level, thanks again!!!

Really great video. Not only suggestions but also explanations. Thank you v much. Two questions if you don't mind. 1. Do you think my RTX 3060 TWIN EDGE 12GB will accommodate these settings? 2. My instruments are blurry. Altitude numbers etc. Any ideas?

Thanks Q8!

Thanks for effort

On your setup I’d definitely recommend ramping your render scaling up to to 200 - I do that on a similar system (but with a 3080) and it makes a nice difference on the image quality. ‘2k’ is nothing to those cards and it’s the cpu that’s limiting your performance and changing mine to 200% of the resolution makes absolutely no difference to frame rates or smoothness - in fact in some conditions it can improve frame time as the gpu is not having to wait so long for the CPU. Flying through ultra clouds will tank it though lol.

No joke, I think I have a FREAK pc. I am running 2k with everything on 65" samsung at ultra and 300 LOD with maxed out settings @ 35-45 (big city) and 55-60 (everywhere else). This is on dlss quality mode... I seriously dont understand it after watching people with 3070's and even 3080's not get as good as performance at 2k. Specs are 10700k OC to 5.0- msi Apro mobo- msi 240 rad- 2070 super, Over clocked +125 mhz and +650 mem - 32 G 3600 cl16 ram and a 650 PS. Any idea how? Then I see you with a 30 fuckin 90 using mid to high end settings! what is going on?? BTW I subscribed, good work.

Great video as usual! Many thanks for doing all the hard work testing for us. Would you have any idea why my .EXE file properties have the "Disable Fullscreen Opt" and "Override High DPI Scaling" options grayed out? They are both set and I cannot change them to follow your recommendations.

thank you a lot

wow thanks a lot

Thanks. Good info.

Hey nice video. But what about Re-Bar inside Bios settings? Did you tried it and any conclusion about it? Best regards.

Hi Q8! Are you going to be doing a setting video for update 11?? Thanks!

Thank you very much for the excellent video. I got a G-sync compatible monitor, would you recommend on that setting the Vsync off? Or "let the 3d application decide"

Dude your sim update 9 video doesn't show us how to find the exe for MSFS so I can add it to graphics settings. Also I have a HDR Dell GSync monitor and when I turn off V-Sync it runs terribly. Best option I found is V-Sync on with 50% monitor refresh rate and it gives me very smooth performance.

thank you!

Hey, thanks for the vid. One question, is it still correct NOT to disable fullscreen optimization??? I was wondering where you got that info from? Thanks again

I followed the video to the letter but have not had a good outcome. As a flight continues the frame rate becomes very choppy with fluctuations in the order of 12 fps. I don't have AI Traffic loaded and have toned down a couple of settings such as render Scaling from 150 to 100 and TLD also from 150 to 100 but with no change in behaviour. I will have to revert my settings for all to default and start again from scratch. 😥

In the Update 9 VIdeo u did not explain, how to get MSFS App in Graphic settings

Hi Q8Pilot, thanx voor this upload, really helpt me a lot. I also have a 165hz monitor, msfs realy is buttery smooth now, but my pc is making a lot of noise trying to reach the 165fps. Is there a way to cap the fps without enabling Vsync?

nice

Why setting Vsync in NVIDIA settings to off ? I thought gsync is working together with vsync for the scenario that the fps going under the lowest (or highest) refresh rate of your monitor. In fs 2020 this is not an unusual situation… without any vsync option it could give a lot of stuttering… vsync fast + gsync works great for me

Have you made a video on control settings like throttle pedals and yoke?

So I went to your update 9 vid and it did not show how to find the Microsoft Flight Simulator app. Can you forward that info. I've looked and looked. Thank you kindly

Hi Osamah, thank you my friend! And How is UserCfg/PostProcess settings? (Sharpen-FilmGrain etc..)

Thank you for your great videos and help. I have found problems with Update 10 with Flybywire and 737-300 I can not get the rudders to work right I have uninstalled and reset the settings when I press the left rudder pedal the plane on the ground turn far to the right and if I press right it will still turn right I can not get it to work right. On other planes it works ok I do not understand the way to fix it.

Unfortunately made my stutters worse. Disabled HAGS kicked off Frame gen

Hi mate, will you release a guide to SU11 as well? thanks

How do much do you think the air traffic settings (end of settings) for people who don't use a separate multiplayer addon?

With these settings what kind of FPS are you getting at KEWR? For the life of me I can't get above about 23fps no matter what I do with a 3090 and 12900KF. Monitor is a 38inch ultrawide... Even sitting here at KATL I'm getting 25 in the 738. I'm in the teens in the Fenix and gave up completely on that one. Just curious

Which Nvidia Driver are you on mate?

Thanks for the video! For some reason if I don't cap my refresh rate it leads to a black loading screen instead of the pictures it usually shows. Should I cap it in nvidia control panel? If so should I cap it at 60 frames or 144 frames (I have a 1440p G-sync monitor). Thank you so much for you help!

Dude.. with u’r setting my game was locking like minecraft! Pixels anywhere.. i have a i7(7700k with rtx 2060), 24gbRam, 1t Md and stl don’t know what is rng… if I set all on medium in LAX (airport) 11 FPS.. on low almost 14 FPS. 😂So, what I don’t do right??

Under "Graphics Options" it wont allow me to add the MSFS executable to the list. Is there a workaround?

With latest Nvidia driver and DX12 i get better performance basically no stutters compared to DX11

Nice indepht video - thanks. When I select the MSFS exe from Graphics Settings Browse, I get a Permission error. Similar if I choose to run MSFS in Administrator mode, I get an error and can't launch the game. Anyone knows how to workaround?

Since last Update Iam stuck with completly blurry Ground Textures in Ranges of over 20 Miles. Settings on Ultra with 50-60 fps. Also when iam flying the Ground Textures behind the Aircraft are instantly unloading. Never had this before Sim is unflyble now. Reinstalled it but no changes. Do you have any Ideas?

By the way, I don't know if you've commented this subject before, but is there a real advantage to using the gameready Nvidia driver?

I have a gsync monitor. When I turn off vsync , I have extreme image flickering ! This only goes away when I turn on vsync and turn off gsync

Hi sir, I can't find the file flight sim…… from nvidia control panel

For me changing to half refresh rate and DX12 has been a game changer for my performance

There is some fundemental issues with this guide I am afraid. Terrain and objects has diminishing returns over 100. Setting to 150 for "medium" machines is poor advice.

all i learned was that i need to switch from an AMD gpu to nvidia sooner than later 😅

For Graphic Settings how do you get the option to choose Microsoft Flight Simulator? I checked update 9 video and it didn't say how to either.

Any suggestions for NVIDIA REFLEX LOW LATENCY - OFF/ON/ON+BOOST ?