Digital Foundry: Flight Simulator PC Hands-On

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SvennoJ said:

Captain_Yuri said:

DF did also test with a i5 8400 and paired it with a 580/1060 on medium and it ran fine which is another reason they said it scales well. Idk how extensive that i5 test was though. 

Yep, they said they were getting 30 to 40 fps at 1080p on medium settings. They don't say where though, was it another clear skies high above test.

It seems my CPU is slightly worse than the i5 8400
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8750H-vs-Intel-Core-i5-8400/m470418vs3939

Only problem with a gaming laptop is the heat and enabling turbo on the cpu quickly heats it up throttling both cpu and gpu. FH4 runs fine without turbo enabled but with turbo soon gets heat limited and actually goes down in overall performance. Guess I'll be keeping an eye on the cpu/gpu temps next to the aircraft instruments haha. Base clock of my cpu is 2.2 ghz vs 2.8 ghz of the i5, same amount of cores yet the i7 has twice the amount of threads. PC gaming :)

I personally use throttle stop on my laptop to keep the temps in check. The annoying thing with a lot of laptops is their voltages don't get tuned properly from the factory so with throttle stop, you can generally get much better performance at lower voltages which keeps the heat in check. Ironically with 10th generation intel cpus, you can't do that anymore due to a vulnerability. More reason to get Ryzen mobile I suppose loll.

Hopefully they will get the kinks worked out sooner than later though. My laptop has a 512GB Nvme SSD so most likely, I will be playing it on my desktop which has 1TB Samsung 970 Evo+ but with a 3900x and 1080. The best part about this game is that it supports Ultrawide screens.