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Flight Simulator will be 30 fps on Series consoles and higher potentially on VRR displays
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I was curious what FPS target they'd hit, with it being pretty performance intensive and all that. Any word on how they've adapted the control scheme to run on a pad yet?
I'm curious too. Someone please send a tweet to this account asking about it.
Wasn't this game utilizing only a single or two cores on PC (heavily) ? Which would explain this. Unfortunate that the developers didn't properly multi-thread their tech. It's not because of the graphics the Series X can't get this to 60 fps but rather just a lackluster use of the CPU behind this game (super taxing on PC even when attempting to reach 60 fps).
Wow, that's really awful news. They're not even going to offer a performance mode?
Not surprising, this game is very taxing on PC, although I think this is partly because it makes poor use of the CPU?
It's bottlenecked by the cpu. They can't just drop the resolution and get 60fps.
Expected and I think that should be fine. This isn't a game that seems like it will be filled with quick camera changes and zipping by landscapes (generally :p)
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While that is an issue (they are working on a DX12 update which I think is coming with the console release), the game is graphically intense as well plus reliant on a complex SIM model plus streaming assets.
I wouldnt expect this game to go over 60fps the whole gen on PC
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This game doesnt need anything over locked 30 fps. I say this as a PC gamer who plays this with a 3080.
There will be use cases like VR and hardcore simmers who will need more but on a 65 inch TV with a console, 30 fps will be more than enough.
(I reserve the right to change my opinion when the Top Gun pack comes out lol)
They announced ages ago that they were switching over to DX12 and significantly optimizing the code to run better on Xbox consoles on release.
On a 2080 you couldn't maintain anywhere close to 60fps and there were frequent dips into the 30s. This isn't surprising news to anyone that has played it on PC.
30fps is totally fine for this kind of release. Heck it's a lot more than many of us have had in the past on PC in some situations.
MS may have a communication issue on the matter though with gamers without experience of the genre. I expect there will be plenty of concern trolling from folks who haven't dabbled with PC flight sims.
MS may have a communication issue on the matter though with gamers without experience of the genre. I expect there will be plenty of concern trolling from folks who haven't dabbled with PC flight sims.
the XSX CPU is nowhere near capable of bringing this up to a fluid 60 while having the game look good.
Honestly? Flight Simulator is basically the one game where you can get away with 30FPS. The PC version is really difficult to run at 60, and I doubt the console version will magically resolve the CPU bottleneck the PC version suffers from. I'm assuming the devs got it as far as a consistent 30 and declared it good enough.
this doesn't seem like the sort of game that needs to be 60fps.
you're piloting an aircraft that moves in one direction. not a whole lot of action going on screen to necessitate higher than 30.
you're piloting an aircraft that moves in one direction. not a whole lot of action going on screen to necessitate higher than 30.
DX12 will just enable the graphics command buffer to be shared by multiple threads/cores. It doesn't change the core game logic behind it all if that's written in a near-single threaded fashion (if it is it won't matter much anyways if you have DX12 or not on top).
