FOR BEGINNERS: HOW TO Record Realistic Flight Simulator Videos
In this video I explain the basics of how to record realistic flight simulator videos of top quality.
My hardware
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
• CPU: Intel Core i7-12700
• Internal Memory: 32 GB
• NVIDIA Game Filter settings (for more vibrant and natural colours, more sharpness, and other screen improvements). I have used the following settings for the NVIDIA Game Filter (but please note they may look different depending on your monitor colour and refresh settings - please try out yourself to find what works for you):
----- Color, with: Tint Color = 0, Tint Intensity = 20, Temperature = -12, Vibrance = 50;
----- Details, with: Sharpen = 0, Clarity = 60, HDR Toning = 50, Bloom = 12;
----- Sharpen, with: Intensity = 50, Ignore Film Grain = 100.
How to boost your FPS and avoid screen tearing:
- Reboot your PC before opening MSFS.
- Keep CPU intensive apps closed while playing MSFS.
- Set terrain LOD never above 200, rather around 100-150.
- Avoid moving aircraft traffic. Moving aircraft traffic always ruins FPS, even with RTX 4090. Even ship traffic and airport vehicles cost FPS.
- Use native monitor refresh rate.
- Try lower resolution. My videos are all recorded at 3840x1440, which is lower than 4K, but still the same horizontal pixel number as 4K. This frees up system resources.
- Turn on adaptive sync in your monitor menu.
- Turn on 'HAGS' (Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling) in windows settings
- Turn on G-Sync in the Nvidia Control Panel
- Set max FPS to 60FPS in the Nvidia Control Panel
- Check tutorials in Youtube to set up optimal Nvidia Control Panel settings for you, e.g., set Power management Mode to 'Prefer maximum performance'.
- If you want to record videos, replay them at 50% speed in your Replay tool and speed them up to 100% in your video editing software, that doubles your FPS.
Chapters:
0:00 - Microsoft Flight Simulator
0:27 - PC minimum requirements
2:47 - Additional hardware
4:33 - MSFS graphics settings
7:57 - Nvidia Control Panel settings
8:53 - Realistic aircraft
11:29 - Understand your airplane
13:08 - Upgrade your simulator
14:24 - Colours
15:24 - Sound packs
16:49 - Video recording
20:29 - Replay tools
21:53 - Double or quadruple your FPS
24:43 - Drone camera
26:31 - Video editing software
27:13 - Audio editing software
29:48 - Time commitment
31:48 - Summary