New MS Flight Simulator update to deliver dramatic performance uplift on PC

Fresh Magnolia State Trajectory Simulator update to deliver impressive execution lift up on PC

Microsoft Flight of steps Simulator developer Asobo Studio has incontestable a new update that is coming to the game next calendar month, one that should dramatically improve frames per second and memory usage—we're talk massive performance improvements on Microcomputer that could make your next transatlantic trajectory a totally turbulence-free experience.

During a developer live stream yesterday, CEO and co-founder of Asobo, Sebastian Wloch, outlined all the improvements coming to PC with the coming update, alongside the version for Xbox Series S/X.

"So basically we have rewritten a lot of the parts of the locomotive, the architecture, or developed, in order to begin the upper limit performance KO'd of the sim. And the token, I would say, imagination connected memory or bandwidth footmark," Wloch says during the stream (via VGC).

Wloch then demonstrated the improvement we're talking here, and it's rather impressive.

"You nates see the memory of the system is down to 14GB, and the sim is downwards from 16GB to 4.7GB. Frame rank is 50, or 54 therein guinea pig, where it's really hard for the system. I residual information technology betwixt GPU and CPU, it's rattling the GPU which is more payload because of the buildings in the background, but completely stutter free on my computer. It's risen by 20 frames, I would say, per second, 20-30 frames per bit, and 25% CPU give up happening the system."

"You arse see the GPU is 100% and the CPU is 75% exclusive and then IT's totally moved over the lic and now the CPU is resign, so you can even run another choke up in the background which is not gonna make your sim stutter anymore," Wloch continues.

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Microsoft Flight Sim stream screenshots showing performance with Sim Update 4 and Sim Update 5 — Sim Update 4 (ongoing) (Image course credit: Asobo, Microsoft)

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The essa scheme is an Intel Core i7 9700K and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Ace, which is flying the game at 4K, Ultra settings with a 40% render scale. Wloch admits that not all the testing has been completed yet, either, so your system may vary in just how much improvement IT will gain from the update.

I imagine most gaming PCs will see a serious benefit from the update, leastways. Greater use of the GPU and lessened load on the CPU will help remove bottlenecks that may have been the rout of the game's stuttering issues. Similarly, so too volition lessened memory demand from the sim itself.

We may have Xbox gamers to give thanks for these updates. The new consoles are puissant, that we know, but even extraordinary of today's cover PCs struggled to run Flight Sim in its first commonwealth. No doubt Escape Sim has received a New thrash of paint soon enough for its release on the RDNA 2 and Zen 2 supercharged consoles later this month.

Sim Update 5 will arrive that same day, July 27, 2021, and includes heaps of bug fixes too. Check out the board below for the full scoop.

An update schedule table for Microsoft Flight Simulator — (Image quotation: Asobo, Microsoft)

Furthermore, once the game moves to DirectX 12 on Microcomputer (it already is on DX12 connected Xbox but the PC version is lagging slimly behind), Asobo will fit ray tracing into the halt. There's no exact date for that yet, but Wloch says the migration is already in progress.

Meter to stab out the ol' flight baffle again, I think.

Jacob earned his number 1 byline writing for his own tech blog from his hometown in Wales in 2017. From there, he graduated to professionally breaking things at PCGamesN, where he would later win command of the kit cupboard as hardware editor. Now, as aged hardware editor at PC Gamer, he spends his days coverage on the latest developments in the technology and gaming industry. When he's non writing about GPUs and CPUs, you'll find him trying to get arsenic far away from the modern font world as possible by wild camping.