Published On: 2024-09-10/146 words/
- Finally figured out the name of a game I played in the mid nineties. It was called H.U.R.L. and was a non-violent FPS.
- I have been doing benchmarks in MSFS 2020 to find a relatively stable 30fps+ under most conditions. Unfortunately it seems as if my sim is CPU-bound, since, even at the lowest graphics settings, obtaining more than 60fps is unlikely.
- My main observations are that DirectX 11 is preferable to DX12 and that the Terrain Level Of Detail options, with a range of 10-400 in 5 unit steps is a very influential slider. Setting this to 400 hobbles the framerate, 100 reduces performance and even 50 has an effect. I have settled on 50 as a reasonable value.
- Also played Elite: Dangerous for the first time in at least 5 years. Just remembering how to control my ship with my HOTAS is a fairly large task.