Gaming PC Specs for FSX Play

[Khilgen4]

All,

I'm getting close to pulling the trigger on a new GC3. I'm looking over gaming PC specs now for the simulator with FSX Play. Foresight recommends Intel only (i5 or i7) and Nvidia only but I can't help but think that may be from a few years ago. I'm curious for those that have FSX Play setup as to what you think is really needed to render and minimize lag. Right now I am looking at various Intel i7 builds with either Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti or RTX 3070. Does anyone see much of a difference. Is there something else I need to be looking more closely at in terms of RAM (16GB vs 32GB). What about AMD builds? Anyone running one and happy? Thanks!

[MarkSC]

I don’t have FSX Play yet (waiting for the Bushnell launch), but I’ve read a lot about it. I recall reading from Foresight that Nvidia GPU is a requirement because of the tensor core programming that is not available with AMD. However, AMD cpu should be fine (it is for every other game written in Unity). What resolution are you running at? RTX 3060 should be fine for 1080p. I would want 3080 for 4k. 16GB ram is perfectly fine.

[Khilgen4]

Thanks! I haven’t purchased anything yet. I have a 4K projector already and watch as much in 4K as I can. I’m likely
going to hit into a net off to the side of our projector and just look over for the result. As least for phase 1.

I had mostly rules out the 3060 but was looking at the 3060 Ti and the 3070. I’ll go study some more 1080p vs 4K experiences of those 2 vs 3080.

[Davisr197]

I bought a GC3 in Nov and got a cheap $450 PC just so I could run the system over to a television. I wasn't really excited to spend a ton of money on a PC system solely dedicated to playing simulated golf...which I mostly use as a driving range at home (live in CA and play year round). I haven't hooked up my projector to this unit yet and can't attest to lag with a projector but don't experience any lag when playing on the tv. I looked at what the basic requirement were to run FSX on a PC and pretty much have the bare minimum in this PC (Nvidia GTX 1060, Win 10, i5 processor, and 8gb ram). No issues hitting into a net...on a rare occasion the system will just crash but I just close the program and pick right back up where I was once I reopen it.

[PittsburghRed]

FWIW I built my own around a Asus Z690 motherboard. went with 3070ti graphic card (asus) and 32GB of RAM using SSD 500GB drive as main drive with some WD red backups and storage drives. I upgraded from my previous build which was running just FSX2020. Comparing FSX2020 way better and seems to handle Play just fine. No lag.

[siebo]

Brought this from Best Buy earlier this year: Cyber Powered PC - Gamer Supreme Gaming Desktop - Intel Core i7 - 11700KF - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti - 1TB SSD. Paid $2,099.99. I hope this is the last one I have to buy. Of course, I said the same thing 4 years ago when I brought the last one.