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Hi,

I've been watching some of the new videos for FS2020 on youtube, I was going to hold off on buying it, but it looks so great! In order to do so I'm going to need a new computer (without breaking the bank), I currently have an HP all in one desktop that I use for FSX, it works well most of the time but sometimes will struggle to keep up.

I've looked at the specifications for the new FS, and while I can look at those numbers such as VRAM and different types of video cards I was wondering what sort of computers people would recommend for the new FS, or what you plan on using. The specs don't mean much to me since I'm not really too big into computers, I've taken a look and will put links to several different computers that look to be on par with the middle range for the FS2020 specs. Also wondering, does anyone use a laptop for FS? I've always used a desktop so I'm not sure how FS would work on a laptop, I would figure as long as the specs are similar it shouldn't make much a difference, other than the likely smaller screen size.
Looking at the specs for FS2020 are those video cards (I'm assuming that's what GPU is?) the only ones that would work for FS2020?

These are the computers I've looked at so far (not only on Walmart but just copied links from there for convenience)

Desktop
https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Pavilion- ... /659060749

https://www.walmart.com/ip/CYBERPOWERPC ... /239778578



Laptops
https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Pavilion- ... /136519056

https://www.walmart.com/ip/EVOO-Gaming- ... /545386564



Thanks for any response!

The chart given here is a good general idea.


https://forums.simviation.com/phpBB3/vi ... 0&t=180100

briancar89 wrote:Hi,

I've been watching some of the new videos for FS2020 on youtube, I was going to hold off on buying it, but it looks so great! In order to do so I'm going to need a new computer (without breaking the bank), I currently have an HP all in one desktop that I use for FSX, it works well most of the time but sometimes will struggle to keep up.

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Thanks for any response!

Maybe this will give some useful input for you;
Here is a my recently purchased setup which I also now use for the new flight simulator.
After installation the simulator analysed this setup and recommended a 'High end' setting which is one away from Ultra.
This surprised me a bit but works well. I havent experimented much with ultra settings yet. All settings were set to 'high'
I dont actually concern myself much with framerate as 30 gives good smooth flying so thats what I have set my framerate at but it could go higher.

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8 core
Ram 32 G
Graphics card NVidia Geforce RTX 2070 Super (they have updated their driver to include the new flight simulator)
Harddrive Barracuda SSD 1 Tb

my download speed is 56 MB/s

It is a desktop, not a laptop.
Screen is a rather old HP Pavillion 27XI but does a good job at 1920x1080

Ofcourse, all this goes to hell as soon as I use Spad.Next as the Simulator start to stutter like mad and you would have
to go down to extremely low settings to get any use.
This is NOT a fault of Spad.Next but has to do with the way Microsoft has frigged with CONNECT.
I understand the issue has been raised with them as all external programs that use CONNECT have the same result.

However the sim does recognise the Saitek yoke, controls and pedals so they can be configured.
without using Spad.Next.
however Spad.next is such a brilliant system, I do hope all this gets sorted soon.
Hope this was useful.

My computer used to be good, but I am not certain if it will be sufficient for FS2020

Intel i7-3770K at 3.5 GHz
16 G ram
NVidia GeForce GTX560 (Ti?)