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LandGreen2
Sorry in advance for thread drift but this thread gets da views.
Next door neighbor has a son interested in flying. Still young, 13 y/o. His Dad asked me about MS Flight Sim 2020? I said I have no idea and he looked at me like I had 4 heads! Anyway, I wanted to reach out to those tech savvy pilots to see if you have any personal experiences with it.
He wants to get a computer but apparently it requires a monster! Also curious how realistic it is...YouTube vids look great but hard to tell from perspective of real pilot.
thx
I have a Ryzen 3800XT a Nvidia RTX 3090 and 32gb of Ram. I can run it in Ultra graphics with a 1440p monitor and it runs at 40-58fps. MS FS 2020 is very very CPU dependent, so it will need a high end Intel (like the 10900k) or AMD (5900X or 5950X), my CPU is last generation and didn’t wanted to try to snag the new gen. The price for the chip alone is $500-800. The graphics cards, a 3080 is around $800 (if you’re lucky to find one) and the 3090 is $1500 (only 10% better performance, but it was the easiest for me to find).
It looks great, but my PC is considered a monster, but I bought the parts and built it myself. I’m sure I saved some money, but it was north of $3,500 in parts.
The Airbus 320 needs some work, it doesn’t fly like an Airbus. But everything else it’s fun, graphics are great and like previous FS you can upgrade it with freeware and or pay wares.