Imagine if they had a campaign mode where you start of with a starter plane of your choice and you hade to fly cargo and passengers to get money to buy planes fuel repairs etc. All the planes had real prices.

This man has earned my respect, he made a tutorial for a game that hasn’t even been released yet.

You know its an incredibly complex game when the entire first 38 minute episode is not about learning to fly lmao. Great vid, cleared a lot of stuff up for me

This series will be a keeper.

Finally a top drawer tutorial for us newbies which are new to the sim world. Thank you!

I have work the next 4 days in a row, then tuesday game is released, ill get home, put the game on to download on my new pc, then wake up to a new generation. Im excited.

Thank you so much for taking the time to go thru the settings and playing around with the graphic settings and looking at their results, not to many reviewers do that.

These tutorials are EXTREMELY helpful (for me, at least) and I look forward to having you continue producing them, even after MSFS 2020 is well circulated and understood. Thank you for the time and patience it takes to make them... Lee Graves

I was hoping you’d do a series like this. Will be a massive help. I would like to see an animal spotting video, the animals look surprisingly good

Hey Squirrel - I've spent many hours watching and re-watching these MSFS tutorial videos while practicing - they have been invaluable. The quality of instruction is superb. Subbed and liked! I hope you keep this channel going!

I've watched a ton of videos on FS2020, but your tutorials are by far the best one can find. Your deep knowledge and your way to convey even complex matter is outstanding. Subscribed!

I have watched a lot of MSFS 2020 videos but this by far is the very best setup overview video that have seen. Very logical and direct approach. Outstanding! Thank you for taking the time to do this.

Disabling AI traffic to get 2 times more fps, was best and most usefull tip i have ever seen from MFS! Thank you very much!

Running a gpu at 100% when gaming is totally normal and won't degrade it. Still keep an eye on temperatures.

Hi Squirrel! Thanks for the videos. Have watched pretty much all your pre-release for this sim so far. Needless to say I'm super excited. Three days to go, WOOHOO! And yes, please keep up the tutorial vids. Really appreciate it.

Fauna is animals not forests matey, it’s the markers for where to see the elephants, giraffes and flamingos etc 😁👍🦒🐘🦩

Hi Squirrel. As a total newbie to flight sims, I find myself revisiting these videos as they are extremely detailed and informative. As I proceed to attempt to climb my extremely mountainous learning curve in flying this sim, I find some of the things you discuss mean more to me than when I first saw the video. I am so grateful that you have created this tutorial series. Thank you and stay well.

Thank you for these tutorials, Squirrel. I'm looking forward to learning this new sim with you!

Thanks so much mate. I’ve owned pretty much every version the 80’s and can’t wait for this to start downloading on the 18th as I’ve pre-ordered on Steam. This will be an epic tutorial series

Hi Squirrel. Your tutorial series for MSFS is the most detailed and comprehensive set of videos to date. I am new to flight sims in general so am obviously new to MSFS and watched many of these videos to help me get started. Since becoming slightly more comfortable and a bit more familiar with MSFS, I have revisited the tutorial series often and have learned more each time. Obviously, my learning curve is very steep so having these videos available has amazingly helpful. BTW, as a new gamer (started gaming around January 2020 after building a new PC), I also got into ETS and ATS after following your series on those games. So now that I am hooked on these sims, I thank you again for a great series and for all your efforts.

My pc is gonna sound like a jet engine when I fly at night

Fantastic so excited for this I’ll take my first steps into flight sim with this series. Thankyou

Thank you Squirrel. This was such a well-done and detailed video showing all kinds of options to make this sim work. I have been debating whether to jump into the world of flight sims and having no experience and a mid-range system, it is looking more and more like I might be able to make this work. Your videos helped me tremendously to get into sim gaming in general starting around the first of the year in ATS/ETS in particular.

This guy is in my eyes the best teacher for Flight Simulator ! Many thanks for this advices and clear tutorials !!!!

"I'm going to assume you already have it installed" no need to rub it in :(

So are we just going to ignore the fact that turning off AI traffic almost doubled his FPS?

I currently fly X-Plane and was considering MSFS 2020. After this video, I am going to give it a try. The details/techniques in this video is EXACTLY what all new users of the sim should use. We can really dial in the sim to OUR systems, and not use universal settings. Thanks for the series! !! !!!

Unbelievable!! How much time and enthusiasm you must have spent into this series. The perfect match between too many useless details and not providing necessary information. Already looking forward to watching the other videos. Thanks!

2 Episodes in one day, feels like the lottery 😂

Me: hoping for 20-25 fps in msfs Squirrel: questioning whether 50fps is too low

I'm new to flight sims (well since v3) and I'm really glad someone is doing tutorials for this, as it's a daunting task to get going. What would be great, is tutorials on how to startup various planes, auto pilot tutorials on various planes, cockpits overviews, proper taxi and ATC protocols, etc. Looking forward to your content!

Ohh yes!! I can feel in-game flight lessons incoming!!!. Thank you for this.

The fauna markers point out animals in the sim. (Giraffes, elephants, etc, which are modeled in certain areas of the world.) I don't know how common these are globally. But there are regions where they've included bears, flamingos, giraffes and elephants (and perhaps other wildlife). I'm hoping they'll add more - like whales, sharks, dolphins, etc. Some random deer on a remote landing strip would be pretty cool too, as long as you can shoo them off the runway with a low pass! Lol.

United Airlines on the left at 0:09 - That's the second livery I have seen

After some survey, this is by far the best MSFS tutorial videos, crystal clear and easy to understand. Thank you 👍

I've just ordered a new Thrustmaster joystick, that's sold out LOL, and will ship the 26th. So your tutorials are just what the Dr. ordered...Thanks so much Mr. Squirrel these are great.!!

Argh, now there even are tutorials before I can play this game * .*

Where are Orbit Airlines, Pacifica and World Travel? 😂 Or am I getting too nostalgic?

I've watched 3 of your flight simulator trips and and one of your real trips (Cessna) and this video. ALL SUPERB! Thanks for doing this. This is my first flight simulator (MSFS) and your presentations are super informative. Please keep them coming.

By far these are the best tweak settings tutorial I've seen for this game. It sacrifices almost no graphics and gives fps to enjoy flying and the visuals. Close to cities at 3000ft I used to get 25-30fps now, practically no visual difference and got 45-50fps flying low in Sully mode hue hue. Thank you Squirrel!

Would be nice to have some insight on what must have been discussed on the beta/alpha forum about what is responsible for what. Meaning, which settings are GPU and which are CPU. FSX's downfall was it was primarily dependent on CPU (unless you used DX10 mode which never worked). P3d made major headway throughout their great efforts in both making it 64bit and giving more to the GPU. I don't sim much anymore (currently) but am an organization junkie so took massive amounts of notes over the years. These are my notes from P3d. I only post them to give an example of what I wish you beta privileged simmers would share. With the latest full NDA lift it would even be nice to have read only access to the beta forums. Anywho, here are my notes from P3d. I'm hoping this new platform gives even more to the GPU where it belongs. Leaving the CPU for what it should be doing. All of my notes are my notes, thus written by me and confirmed by me unless otherwise noted in parentheses. GPU heavy features: - Shadows - Dynamic Reflections - SSAA - Dynamic Lighting - 3D Water (water set to ultra) - New 3D rain/snow effects (set weather to storm theme to test). GPU Bound: Anything to do with shadows (cast, receive, distance, quality) gets handled exclusively by the GPU. The same with anti-aliasing and screen resolution. And also dynamic lighting and dynamic reflections. CPU Bound: Settings are water reflections, water detail level, texture resolutions (clouds, airports etc.), autogen density and drawing distance, scenery complexity, ai density, cloud draw distance.

firstly thanks for the video, it was awesome and helpful. i think you missed a trick or 2 with the graphics settings though, i think you will claw a good amount of FPS back by reducing the render scaling down to 80 percent maybe 90 if it starts looking soft but go with 80 and then hopefully if nvidia do good by us and drop a driver update around the release for this game with direct support we will be able to press alt f3 and that will bring up the nvidia freestyle filter options, going into that you will be able to apply the sharpening filter which is actually a good quality sharpening tool and then adjust this to what looks pleasing to you, it will help offset the softer look you end up with by reducing the scaling and get it looking pretty good but you will gain a good chunk of FPS back doing this with hopefully minimal impact on your visual experience. also i noticed you said about it not being a good idea to have the gpu running at 100 percent. this is actually the very best outcome and is ''ideal'' for gaming, if your gpu is less than 100 percent it almost always means it is waiting for frames to be delivered from the cpu or ram or your settings are too low and your hitting your monitors frame limit/vsync cut off, you want the gpu to deliver the frames as soon as possible, 97 to 100 percent is where you want to be with the gpu, it will do absolutely no harm at all provided your cooling is on point. if your trying to keep the gpu at 90 percent for fear of stress to the component your just leaving frames on the table and probably should have got the next gpu down. my 2080ti overclocks quite well, i can gain 9fps on average between stock and overclocking so if your hovering somewhere between 50fps and 60fps it might be worth applying an overclock to drag you even closer to that sweet spot of 60 but that is ofcourse on whoever reads this, do your research dont just push sliders for fun. thanks for the video, hopefully my comment is helpful rather than critical.

Thanks for this! I hope you continue to make more of these because you’re great at explaining things to us newbies.

So many unasked questions answered. Thank you so much Squirrel ! I feel like I'm ready for the release now.

Even for people who know what they're doing with graphics settings this is incredibly useful in showing what a high end system (with a high-res monitor) can do (and indeed even it can't run full Ultra!). I don't have a 2080Ti for my new 10900K 5.1GHz all core OC system bundle arriving Monday 17th as I am waiting for the 3080ti or 3090 depending on price. Looks like medium for now 🙁. This will be an indispensable series of tutorials to decide on hardware and software settings. Thanks for making these tutorials!

Would be cool if these tutorials start going into more depth with ILS flying, maybe introduce charts and how to use them with this sim. When I played fsx very casually I couldn't get my head around ILS flying very well :(

To a newbie like me this series is GOLD. Thank you so much.

Perfect timing ! Thanks a lot for this video, it will be VEEERY useful for those like me (guess they're numerous) who have already preordered this fantastic game. Very impatient about the next ones, too !

Seems quite cpu heavy. Will be interesting to see how clock speed and thread count affect it. I heard it’s currently dx11 so I’ll be interested in seeing what dx12 does if they implement it.

Having not owned a flight sim game since the 80's, the definition of legacy music for me would be "none".

I’m super excited about this series of videos! Keep them coming!

I heard about your channel from reading forums about MSFS and after watching this first video, I pressed Subscribe. Well done!

4k is a bit extreme

I would love for you to make a video showing us your standard takeoff procedure going through the checklist with every single detail. As well as your interaction with traffic control. Anyone else who wishes to see a video like that can give this comment a like

Thank you very much Squirrel; this is genuinely gonna help me a lot. I have low end specs and your very thorough yet simple explanation is gonna come infinitely useful. Thanks bro :D

Dear Sir, I just purchased FS2020 and I found your videos invaluable! Thank You so much for your time and effort. Fly High And Straight And Land Soft. Cheers!

The Fauna option shows you the animals just like the cities and airports ingame Paul

Could you possibly go into a little further about the rolling cache, i would like to do the same thing

The best MSFS tutorials I have found. Really well done Mr. SQRL

Excellent tutorial. Just purchased the game and while its so overwhelming as I know nothing about planes....this series has been very helpful in breaking down the obstacles for me. Thank you very much! Just SUBSCRIBED

me: Okay, seems pretty good. 60 FPS...40 FPS...30 FPS...What is his GPU...a 2060 maybe... looks it up, hoping my 1060 3gb will do something like medium with 30 FPS... sees, that he has a 2080 TI OC

If they release a future patch that allows DLSS 2.0 this should almost double frame rates and with better rendering to boot!

Just started to play MSFS2020, before XP11. Great tutorial! This really helped me setting up & testing my system-readyness for the sim. Thanks a lot!

I’m fascinated by this game. I’m a console gamer (always been PlayStation and have a PS5) and have always been fascinated by flight sims but never had one to play. I’ve just received a Series X and I can’t stop playing this game. It’s fantastic and your guides are much needed thanks 🙏

I'm a little disappointed with the FPS and jitters. Thought it would be smoother

Has R9 3950x and 2080ti Squirrel: I definitely wont be able to play this on ultra Me with an rx 580 : *pain*

This is the series ive been waiting for... Keep it up :)

Fantastic video. Thanks Squirrel, this has been invaluable prior to downloading and setting up the sim on Tuesday.

A moment of silence for all those who doesn't have the latest window 10.

My man in struggling to run it with a RTX 2080 ti, we have no chance.

You are the best simulator gamer on KZfaq, you are the reason I got started playing several simulator games.

I'm new to flight sims, been waiting for a video like this its gold thank you for making it

"Most likely you will put 1920x1080" you calling me a plebe sir?

Hopefully they sort the ai LOD issue. A flight sim isn't a flight sim without having to deal with ai traffic

Everything that Squirrel touches is magic! Thanx Squirrel

Excellent set of turorials! As a long-time flight simmer from the early days, these tutorials are really good. The new MSFS 2020 is definitely a new off-the wall product, and definitely not as intuitive as earlier renderings. I spent hours trying to suss this FS out, and was given this URL from Paul at Alpine Computers - he creates Flight-sim hardware - I've got a few of his PCs - excellent stuff. Thanks, Paul and thanks Squirrel!

Squirrel: when you do the controls episode, would you drop some knowledge on how to use our racing pedals as rudders? Thanks.

How did you learn flying a plane? From a Squirrel What?

Fantastic tutorial. I first played flight sim back in the late nineties as a teen and super stoked to get this.

Damn it I shouldn’t of watched this.. now I want to play so bad . Iv been trying to ignore these videos for the last week cuz it makes time go by so slow lol. So excited for the release !

Keep in mind that his monitor has a relatively high resolution...

Hi, your graphics card is designed to run at 100% anything less there is a bottleneck

So happy I found your channel! I am new to MS flight sim 2020 and was looking for someone to help me get used to flying for the first time. I really liked how you make settings changes and then show them on screen right after doing so. Seems I have found my flight instructor..... :) Keep up the good work!

I feel like this channel should have a discord server where new players/pilots can chat and play together! After learning from your tutorials I want to find players to fly with and possibly make friends with. Players could even learn from others with more experience!🙌🏼

This is so jerky and stuttery. Most of the time . This isn’t right. I hope this is improved on future updates . Very disappointing. It takes away from the realism

Oh my..I'm scared of how crappy it's going to look on my poor mans computer: Ryzen 5 1400 quad core 3.20 gig 16 gig ram NVIDIA gforce 1050ti 4 gig

Have been really enjoying your FS videos Squirrel and hoped you would do a tutorial series. Looking forward to going through all aspects of flight planning, avionics, autopilot etc. Maybe detailed videos on each default aircraft, etc. Cheers!

Good video Squirrel. Bet that helped a lot of newcomers get to grips with the sim. Improving all the time and third party add-ons now looking and flying incredibly well.

If your system can’t run this smoothly Then something Is wrong with the game

I already love this series, the best person to do it!!!!

YES YES YES!! So much yes!! This exactly what I asked for in the last episode 🙌

Really enjoyed your presentation and some good old fashion common-sense recommendations. My hope is that Microsoft/Asobo folks should pay attention to your work. I have been enjoying flight sims since the early days of Sublogic and with each new version, the sim pilot was left to figure it out on there own. This new Flight Simulator is fantastic and your tutorials enhance the start-up and ease the learning curve.

I'm new to MS FS so this tutorial has been fantastic, especially to help me get a decently rendered environment out of my rather aging 1080ti GC

Has hardly dated at all well done young sir, what an amazing starting point .Thank you Young Sir. From Australia

this video is the video that Microsoft needed to include w the game but in typical Microsoft fashion, didnt. THANK YOU SQUIRREL for all of these, i am breaking my old FSX habits and learning FS2020 with your vids :)

Good Stuff, i'm new to flight sims and its great that your going to make time to show off your skills and help others.

Thanks for going over these settings, and options. Very nicely done. :)

Thank you so much for this very helpful tutorial. I just installed FS2020 and found it completely overwhelming. I am looking forward to seeing the rest!!

I’m finding this to be a fantastic crash course on GPUs and graphics cards, and how it all works. I literally know nothing about this stuff. We just bought an HP Omen 15, and I was just hoping for the best. Time to go home and fiddle around with everything! Great video!!

Quality as usual Paul!