Microsoft Flight Simulator is a notoriously demanding PC sport, however an enormous patch is arriving later this month that guarantees important efficiency enhancements. Asobo, the developer of Microsoft Flight Simulator, has been busy rewriting its engine to carry out properly on Xbox Series X / S, and the adjustments can even carry some much-needed enhancements to the PC aspect on July twenty seventh.

During a latest Twitch stream, noticed by Twinfinite, Asobo demonstrated simply how important the efficiency enhancements will likely be on older programs with an Intel Core i7-9700K and an RTX 2060 Super. Microsoft Flight Simulator jumped from round 30fps to almost a strong 60fps simply due to the patch. CPU utilization additionally drops from 100% to 75 % on this explicit PC, and reminiscence drops from round 16GB to 4.7GB.

“We have rewritten a lot of the parts of the engine … in order to get the maximum performance out of the sim,” explains Asobo CEO Sebastian Wloch. The crew has been primarily engaged on CPU optimizations, as the sport has been extremely CPU heavy since its launch final yr.

While Microsoft Flight Simulator will transfer to DirectX 12 for Xbox Series X / S, the sport will stay on DirectX 11 on PC for now. “All the performance improvements come from just improving the simulator,” confirms Wloch. “PC has not yet moved to DirectX 12, the team is still working on it. It may bring improvements further, or not.”

Martial Bossard, an government producer on Microsoft Flight Simulator at Asobo, confirmed the upcoming transfer to DirectX 12 on PC can even enable the crew to allow ray tracing within the sport. Effects ought to embody higher water, improved shadows, and the standard reflections we anticipate to see in ray-traced video games.

With the Xbox model of Microsoft Flight Simulator launching on July twenty seventh, alongside these PC adjustments, the crew confirmed that the simulator will run at 30fps on each the Xbox Series X and Series S. As each consoles help variable refresh charges (VRR), there will likely be an choice to go larger than 30fps on TVs and screens that help it. The Xbox Series X will run Flight Simulator at 4K, whereas the Xbox Series S runs the sport at 1080p.