Stop Guessing Your MSFS 2024 VR Settings. I Measured Everything.

I swapped a Ryzen 7 7700 for a 9800X3D and logged every flight in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 VR. Time at full frame rate went from 38% to 80%, on the same RTX 4070 Super and the same settings. Here is what worked, what did not, and every setting I ended up with. The flights are out of MRJY, Aeroclub La Joya, in Tacares de Grecia, Costa Rica. The airfield does not exist yet. It is a project that will be built soon, and I use the simulator to rehearse how it will operate. Scenery by Adolfo Castro (@akastro). WHAT I FOUND CPU: 38% to 80% of the flight at the full 45 FPS, for about $300 net Memory: a BIOS update had switched EXPO off (4,800 instead of 6,000 MT/s). Free fix. DLSS Quality beats TAA clearly on a 12 GB card DLSS preset M removes almost all ghosting, with no measurable frame rate cost here Foveated rendering is what makes this headset workable on this card The limit now is the graphics card and its 12 GB of video memory London was flown only as a stress test. It is not how I normally fly. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:54 The starting point: Ryzen 7 7700 3:40 The swap to the 9800X3D 5:24 Stutters and memory 6:37 TAA against DLSS 8:06 Foveated rendering and DLSS preset M 9:50 What is still unsolved, and the verdict MY SETUP Ryzen 7 9800X3D · RTX 4070 Super 12 GB · 32 GB DDR5-6000 · Varjo Aero NVIDIA Studio driver 617.42 · DLSS Quality, preset M · Foveated rendering on, scale 20 Varjo Base capped at 45 FPS · Terrain level of detail 150 Full settings are on screen at the end of the video. HOW IT WAS MADE I flew and recorded every flight. The log analysis and this script were done with Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic. The narration is a synthetic voice. All numbers come from my own flight logs (NVIDIA app, HWiNFO and MSI Afterburner). There is no standard VR benchmark for this simulator. Build your own baseline: fly the same flight, log it, change one thing, and fly it again. What does your rig hold in VR? Tell me your CPU, GPU and headset in the comments. #MSFS2024 #VR #9800X3D