None of them change the way that the silicon works and yes, all of them will work with the GPU manufacturers own drivers. They are using Nvidia or AMD silicon which they slap onto a PCB which doesn’t really deviate much from the reference design. How many different board manufacturers are there?Īnd how many of them are making their own silicon? The end result though, once that " FLY NOW" button lights up, is that no 2 PC’s are ever the pop into Amazon and shop for that chip. There are only really 3-4 primary players in the computer world.
You start running into issues because you can’t get your headset software past your virus protection.
Each with there own proprietary drivers and configuration software.
Now you start plugging in head trackers, control boxes, joysticks, throttle quadrants, pedals, headsets, VR.
So you have your PC up and running and you install MSFS.
Are the MB drivers proprietary? Are you using the default intel drivers that Windows wants to install? Does your Wovelot card use their own driver or have you installed the Generic NVidia driver? Now that you have a system built, let’s set it up. No issues.īetween case, cooling, PSU, CPU, GPU, Mem, MB, even quality of internal cabling and routing, the number of possible combinations, price ranges, hardware quality and reliability is off the chart. I cruise along nicely in MSFS with 0 CTD. No way that the $1000 no name brand hardware would have been as reliable and trouble free. I could have purchased all my components for just over $1000. Power supplies, same.Īfter selecting my components and placing the order, I decided, just for fun, to see how cheap I could have gone. Wow! the price ranges for 32GB of memory. I settled on a board maker I trust with the options I wanted. Built in WiFi or no, 1 NVME or 4, 2 RAM slots or 4, Optical audio or no… on and on. The number of possible options were soul destroying. Hundreds of choices from nearly as many manufacturers. Then I looked for MB’s that supported that CPU. I haven’t shopped components since last August when I built my MSFS system. How many different board manufacturers are there? What is the price range? Remember to filter just that one chip. Now pop into Amazon and shop for that chip. This is about as far as I am willing to go with the “no 2 PC’s” premise. If you are O/C’ing that CPU you will find there are differences in the tolerances from one to the next but overall, negligible difference. Two Intel or AMD CPU’s with the same number on the box are going to be darn close. Almost every PC out there will be built using these primary components. Ok, let’s take a bit of a dive into that premise.ĪMD, Intel, Nvidia. The myth that no 2 PC’s are alike is just that. Nothing to do with my system but definately has something to do with MSFS. SU5 was a game changer.Īnother thing, yesterday while flying along happily at 32000ft along came a Asobo/MSFS A1 aircraft towards me at an angle and it was at 34000ft and there was not stutter but a complete freeze of the sim which lasted about 5 seconds. SU5 was soul destroying especially that MSFS was working so well for me…until SU5. I am not really complaining, but considering the untold problems a huge amount of users of MSFS have had wtih some or all the Sim Updates and that includes myself. Everyone should read very carefully what I have said in my posts. It can be a specific combination of things that can lead to having a problem within FS. I know for a fact that the chances that anyone else has the exact bought or freeware addon scenery files that I have are about zero (combination wise is what I am talking about). I know that the stuttering has come from some payware addon scenery. It runs MSFS2020 very well with everything set at Ultra (when MSFS is running and I am flying along happily the CPU temp max’s out at 46-48C).
I can assure you that I do not have a problem in any way or form with my pc (the components are irrelevant).