Microsoft Flight Simulator Patch 1.8.3.0 has been released

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/23/2020 09:22 AM | source: | 23 comment(s)

Microsoft and Asobo have released a new performance patch for Microsoft Flight Simulator. According to the teams, patch 1.8.3.0 brings a number of CPU and GPU performance improvements.

Going into more details, this latest update tweaks CPU thread priorities to reduce interruption of frame critical threads. Furthermore, it optimizes loading system to reduce overall loading times, as well as heavy airport scenes impact on CPU. In addition, it reduces the amount of GPU overdraw to improve GPU performance. As always, Steam and Microsoft Store will download this update the next time you launch their clients

-- MS --

The primary focus of this patch is to address many of the « in-sim » issues reported by the community. We are constantly triaging the issues/feedback we have received to help plan our future patch work. Feedback from the community is a vital part of how we define our focus for each update. Thank you for all your help and we look forward to continuing working with the community to improve the Microsoft Flight Simulator experience.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

Optimized cockpit screen display when screens are not displayed on screen.
New option available to control cockpit screen update frequency.
Tweaked CPU thread priorities to reduce interruption of frame critical threads.
Optimized loading system to reduce overall loading times.
Optimized heavy airport scenes impact on CPU.
Reduced the amount of GPU overdraw to improve GPU performance.
Memory optimizations to reduce software memory footprint and improve performance on memory limited computers.
Overall performance optimizations.

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asturur
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#5833981 Posted on: 09/23/2020 01:05 PM

Don't throw stones at me, but I never understand games ( the appeal ) without actual objective. Perhaps the fact that my first games were Doom I & II and Heretic, played their role.

Same for instance for Minecraft craze.

I certainly do however understand different people like different games.

The obvious objective of a flight simulator is to take off and land without crashing, exactly like euro track simulator driving the truck and deliver something.
You will find agreement that can be boring and less exciting than other games, it mostly depends in what kind of entertainment you are in.
The appeal is in the fact that is hard, and particularly this version seems a pleasure to the eye.

I think we covered it all for this game.

geogan
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#5834013 Posted on: 09/23/2020 02:11 PM

I am always amazed at the number of people who get confused between the terms "game" and "simulator". They are not the same.

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#5834045 Posted on: 09/23/2020 03:36 PM

I am always amazed at the number of people who get confused between the terms "game" and "simulator". They are not the same.

I don't think it is quite as clearcut as that. While there are lots of simulators which aren't games there are also a lot of games which have Simulator in the name.

I don't think anyone would class Theme Park simulator or The Sims as anything other than games depsite what the title says.

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#5834053 Posted on: 09/23/2020 03:50 PM

Not really a game, even the name of the product has "Simulator" in it!
I could argue that the objective is to take the plane somewhere else, do routes like real planes do. Or learn how to fly the plane like a real pilot (actual objective for a Flight Sim).
If you don't like it, don't play it!

for me my goal was to simulate landing a plane in my back yard.......

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#5834097 Posted on: 09/23/2020 05:19 PM

for me my goal was to simulate landing a plane in my back yard.......

What kind of plane: Cessna, Airbus or Boeing?

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