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Optimizing PC Performance for <i>MSFS2020</i>

Glitches, errors, crashes, stutters, and nothing but aggravation with running MSFS202 on your PC can sometimes seem the norm.

Sometimes everything takes a nosedive, so let’s fix it and refresh back to new. [Courtesy: Peter James]
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Key Takeaways:

  • Optimal MSFS2020 performance demands a dedicated, high-end gaming PC (e.g., with GSYNC), a fast internet connection, and minimal bloatware to maximize system resources.
  • Thorough Windows configuration is crucial for new or reset PCs, involving all updates, maximizing power settings, disabling sleep/fast startup, turning off USB power-saving, enabling HAGS for modern GPUs, and excluding the sim from Windows Defender scans.
  • Maintain up-to-date GPU drivers (via clean installs) and when installing MSFS2020 on a new system, re-download add-ons individually rather than directly copying an old "Community Folder" to prevent issues.
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Glitches, errors, crashes, stutters, and nothing but aggravation with running your PC sim can sometimes seem the norm. If you’re a die hard “flight simmer” you already know all about the vast resources available via fellow hobbyists, Facebook groups, online forums, and more. They are fabulous for both resources and camaraderie. Maybe one of the best reasons for social media today. Instant help, FAQs, and fellow simmers and real world pilots ready to lend a hand when everything goes down the tubes. 

Since that beautiful day in August of 2020 when Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (MSFS2020) was born, some of us have had a pretty delightful time of it. Little trouble and mostly a great experience. There are others, however, who have had nothing but headaches and misery. 

Peter James

Peter is an experienced Part 135 business jet pilot with a passion for simulators and how they blend with the real world. Learning to fly at age 12, he supplemented his passion and career goals with the early versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator. With the growing realism of all PC simulators today, he frequently uses them for extra proficiency, and loves to show other pilots how great they are.

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