Flight sim 2020 - which PC

chewed wrote: »

I'd be interested to know a decent PC to run this as well. I see they have some minimum requirements on the MS FS page - https://www.xbox.com/en-IE/games/microsoft-flight-simulator


OS Windows 10 (v. 1909)
Processor Intel i5-4460, Ryzen 3 1200
GPU NVIDIA GTX 770, Radeon RX 570
Memory 8 GB RAM, 2 GB VRAM
Storage 150 GB
DirectX DirectX 11

How much is your budget? The better the PC the better the game will run!

chewed wrote: »

It's not for me....for my uncle! He loves flight sim and is eager to play this. Budget-wise....not sure, but he's looking to upgrade his main desktop anyway, so I suppose something that will allow him to play this as smoothly as possible.

You could easily sink 3K into a machine for this bad boy. It's not only the tower but a monitor as well.

beauf wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9VAxhYBq2o&feature=youtu.be

you would be wise to wait and see how it performs on reviewers systems after the release.

Yeah, good idea. Hopefully he's willing to wait :-)

Psychlops wrote: »

I bought this on advice from a dear friend to run XP11 & I’ve a heap of add ons from Ciano & soon to get his Helipads & I’m daily hitting 70-90 frames per second. Monitor included.


https://www.dell.com/en-ie/shop/desktops-and-all-in-ones/new-inspiron-desktop/spd/inspiron-3671-desktop/cd367110?AID=100023255&cjevent=1ae6d57cdcd411ea82f400800a180513&gacd=9694607-23736398-5750457-266319267-127795103&dgc=af&VEN1=12578053-100023255-61111X1383796Xd4c798609ce656c1030108bf1f9a5206&dclid=CjkKEQjwps75BRCWhI7J1YWi0dIBEiQAPGZ5U90C6-28P0psFW1OAdTGPwjCQoBuBVBOaxNT-tZXMDHw_wcB

We'll see but I think you'll need something better than that for FS 2020. Defo a better Graphics Card, and perhaps a better CPU too, time will tell.

be interesting to see what peripherals ms release with the xbox version

I'm going to wait for a while before buying a PC, these are all Alpha releases so far.
I do think that to get the most out of it you should get as good a PC as you can afford.
There is going to be some new Graphics cards out early next year that far surpass what is currently on offer, so I am told by PC builders and that may help reduce the price of current ones to more affordable levels.
Ultimately PC hardware never stays current but if you get a decent spec first day you will have it a lot longer before needing to upgrade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ2vWrheeVw

Was obsessed with flight sims as a kid. Had all the microprose games, secret weapons of the Luftwaffe, the janes series and of course a few FS.
My last upgrade was a GeForce 3. Gave up when the Xbox 360 came out and started using macs for college, work. I reckon this will pull me back into pc gaming. That and DCS, which I’ve been watching for years.

The VR integration is what’s really pulling me in though. I’ve absolutely no knowledge of the state of computing now. None. I only heard of PC specialists yesterday. And I know there’s new cards coming soon. So I’ll be plaguing people for advice. I take it the likes of Alienware are still massively overpriced, but by how much % wise in general?