{"id":273224,"date":"2025-10-09T22:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/?p=797085"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:44:44","slug":"microsoft-flight-simulator-performance-about-to-get-a-major-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/microsoft-flight-simulator-performance-about-to-get-a-major-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Flight Simulator performance about to get a major boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/microsoft-flight-simulator-performance-about-to-get-a-major-boost.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/microsoft-flight-simulator-performance-about-to-get-a-major-boost.jpg' alt='' title='microsoft_flight_simulator_e32021_shot_1' width='600' height='338'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of Microsoft Flight Simulator&rsquo;s engine has been rewritten, resulting in big gains in performance.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-797085\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the release of <strong>Microsoft Flight Simulator<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/06\/13\/microsoft-flight-simulator-coming-xbox-series-x-s-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Xbox Series X\/S<\/a>, Microsoft and developer Asobo hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1072488104?filter=archives&amp;sort=time\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a livestream<\/a> to reveal some of the work the team has been doing in preparation for Update 5.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3j6M-S6Dp9I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Update 5 is the version of Microsoft Flight Simulator that will launch on Xbox, and it will also land on PC on the same day. The main advantage of the game&rsquo;s engine rewrite is significantly improved CPU performance. To demonstrate, Asobo CEO Sebastian Wloch showed a flight over Manhattan with the current version, averaging around 40fps. The same flight averages 60fps using the same settings and on the same PC after Update 5.<\/p>\n<p>This is all without DirectX 12 optimisations, which should further boost the game&rsquo;s performance. Even without DX12, you can clearly see on the graph how less CPU-bound the game will be after Update 5, making better use of GPU resources as a result. Asobo also pointed out that VR performance will improve thanks to this update, but didn&rsquo;t go into specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Update 5 arrives alongside Microsoft Flight Simulator&rsquo;s Xbox Series X\/S release on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/06\/17\/video-game-release-dates-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/07\/01\/microsoft-flight-simulator-big-performance-boost-update-5\/\">Microsoft Flight Simulator performance about to get a major boost<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\">VG247<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/07\/01\/microsoft-flight-simulator-big-performance-boost-update-5\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of Microsoft Flight Simulator&rsquo;s engine has been rewritten, resulting in big gains in performance. Ahead of the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator on Xbox Series X\/S, Microsoft and developer Asobo hosted a livestream to reveal some of the work the team has been doing in preparation for Update 5. Watch on YouTube Update 5 is the version of Microsoft Flight Simulator that will launch on Xbox, and it will also land on PC on the same day. The main advantage of the game&rsquo;s engine rewrite is significantly improved CPU performance. To demonstrate, Asobo CEO Sebastian Wloch showed a flight over Manhattan with the current version, averaging around 40fps. The same flight averages 60fps using the same settings and on the same PC after Update&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/microsoft-flight-simulator-performance-about-to-get-a-major-boost\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[761,47,24,134,515,1827,93,26,59,137,54,56,110,111,112,113],"class_list":["post-273224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-asobo","tag-blockbuster","tag-headline-b","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-flight-simulator","tag-microsoft-flight-sim","tag-multiplayer","tag-news","tag-pc","tag-simulation","tag-single-player","tag-videos","tag-xbox-series-s","tag-xbox-series-x","tag-xboxseriess","tag-xboxseriesx"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This 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