Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Best Settings To Use

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 enters the series with a bang, encapsulating some of the most advanced visuals and mechanics you'll ever see. As a title geared toward enthusiasts, however, it's geared towards an audience with sophisticated taste and expertise, preferably with a dedicated HOTAS (Hands On Throttle and Stick) controller and a high-end PC.

Fortunately, the game doesn't lack technical customization, letting you personalize every detail for a seamless flight. You can go into any category you want — visuals, controls, audio, and more — only to find a boatload of settings you can toggle. Still, it may seem daunting at first, but a quick navigation through them can definitely help you craft a fine-tuned experience.

This guide does not include settings for Controls and Accessibility as these highly depend on your environment, hardware, and personal preferences.

Best General Settings To Make A Smooth Flight

Most of your experience rests in the General Settings, including aspects like visuals, interface, camera, and so on. Although some of these aspects, like camera movement and audio, solely rely on preference, there are several settings you can toggle for a net positive, regardless of your specifications or personal needs.

Graphics

Setting	Recommended Value	Description
Display Mode	Full Screen	Determines how the game is displayed on your monitor.
HDR10	On (If available)	Enable for enhanced brightness and contrast.
Full Screen Resolution	Variable (Depends on PC)	Adjust sharpness according to your monitor. Pick the highest option.
Anti-Aliasing	AMD FSR 2 (Quality)	Smooth out jagged edges on objects to improve visual quality. Pick NVIDIA DLSS for RTX GPUs.
Render Scaling	100	Adjusts the internal rendering resolution of the game.
AMD FidelityFX Sharpening	100	Adjusts image sharpness without significantly impacting performance.
V-Sync	On	Synchronizes the game’s frame rate with the monitor's refresh rate.
NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency	On Boost	Reduces system latency to provide a more responsive experience.
Frame Rate Limit	100%	Caps the game’s frame rate to a specified value.
Dynamic Settings	Off	Manually adjusts frame limit cap.
Global Rendering Quality	Custom	Allows toggling visual quality of finer in-game elements (see below).

Global Rendering Quality Settings

Setting	Recommended Value	Impact On FPS
Terrain Level Of Detail	160	High
Off-Screen Terrain Pre-Caching	Medium	Low
Displacement Mapping	On	Low
Buildings	High	Medium
Trees	Medium	High
Plants	Low	Medium
Rocks	Low	Medium
Grass	High	Medium
Objects Level Of Detail	80	Medium
Volumetric Clouds	Ultra	High
Texture Resolution	High	High
Anisotropic Filtering	8x	High
Texture Supersampling	4x4	Medium
Water Waves	High	Medium
Raytraced Shadows	Off	High
Shadow Maps	1536	Medium
Terrain Shadows	128	Medium
Contact Shadows	Medium	Medium
Windshield Effects	Medium	Low
Ambient Occlusion	High	Low
Cubemap Reflections	Medium	Medium–High
Raymarched Reflections	Low	High
Light Shafts	Low	Medium
Depth Of Field	High	Medium
Motion Blur	Off	Low
Glass Cockpit Refresh Rate	Medium	Medium
Characters Quality	Low	Low
Traffic Airport Quality	Off	Medium
Air Traffic	High	High
Road Traffic	Off	Low
Sea Traffic	Low	Low
Fauna	Medium	Low

You can only adjust these settings in the Graphics tab if you have Global Rendering Settings set to 'Custom'.

Flight Model

Setting	Recommended Value	Description
Flight Model	Modern	Adjusts flight model options (Modern = allows third-party add-ons).
Global Preset	Realistic	Sets overall flight realism.
Generals	80	Controls overall flight dynamics sensitivity (like inertia and drag).
Crash Realism	65	Determines how realistic crash impacts are simulated.
Gyro	100	Sets the gyro effect for tilting the aircraft according to the controller's positioning.
P-Factor	100	Adjusts engine torque and propeller effects to simulate real-world behavior.
Torque	100	Controls torque-based flight handling.

Flight Interface

Setting	Recommended Value	Description
Aerodynamic Visualization	Off	Shows airflow visualization to understand lift and drag forces.
Show The White Dot Cursor In Freelook	Off	Enable or disable a cursor when freelooking.
Landmark Markers	On	Displays markers for key landmarks.
City Markers	On	Displays markers for nearby cities.
Airport Markers	On	Displays markers for nearby airports.
Show Preflight Pins	On	Shows pre-flight configuration markers, highlighting critical parts for inspection.
Display Labels For All On-Screen POIs	Off	Shows on-screen labels for all nearby Points of Interest.
Show Traffic Nameplates	Off	Shows nameplates for other nearby aircraft.
HUD In Cockpit View	Yes	Shows information regarding critical instruments while in Cockpit Camera mode.
Cockpit Interaction System	Lock	Adjusts how you interact with cockpit instruments.
Instrument Name Tooltips	Delayed	Adjusts how a cockpit instrument's name appears when hovering over it.
Instrument Instruction Tooltips	Delayed	Adjusts how a cockpit instrument's description appears when hovering over it.
HUD In External View	Off	Shows complete HUD while in External HUD mode.

Best Assistance Settings For Balance

The Assistance settings determine how much of the experience you want to handle compared to the game itself. Generally, these depend on your familiarity with the mechanics — the more you know, the less assistance you need.

Nonetheless, finding a solid middle ground, beginner or not, ensures you're neither reducing the experience too much nor overwhelming yourself by it.

Piloting Assistance

Setting	Recommended Value	Description
Auto-Rudder	On	Assists in leveling flights while in the air and steering while on the ground.
Assisted Yoke	Off	Assists in maintaining flight levels when you leave the controller for too long.
AI Auto-Trim	Off	Assists in maintaining flight levels all the time.
Gliders: Tow plane take-off assistance	On	Assists in yoke controls (like pitch and roll) for glider planes.
Helicopters: Assisted Cyclic	Off	Assists in cyclic controls (like altitude, airspeed, and direction) for rotorcraft.
Helicopters: Assisted Tail Rotor	Off	Assists in tail rotor controls (like heading) for rotorcraft.
Helicopters: Assisted Collective	On	Assists in collective controls (like pitch control) for rotorcraft.
Assisted Controller Sensitivity	On	For Xbox Controller: Allows better control over yoke commands.
Hot air balloon: Accelerated Envelope Inflation	Off	Adjust whether you want the envelope of hot air balloons to be inflated.
Hot air balloon: Moored Basket	Off	Moores the basket of hot air balloons.
Automixture	On	Engine fuel mixture is automatically adjusted in the appropriate aircraft.
Gyro Drift	On	Gyro drift occurs during a flight.

Visual Assistance

Setting	Recommended Value	Description
Display Active Waypoint Marker	On	Shows the location of the waypoint in your active Flight Plan.
Flight Path	Off	Shows on-screen gates that lead you to your destination.
Taxi Ribbon	Off	Shows an on-screen ribbon for the optimum taxi route.
Piloting and Controls Notifications	Off	Displays an always-on notification for flight controls.

Realism

Setting	Recommended Value	Description
Disable Crash Damage	Off	Nullifies any damage taken to the aircraft.
Disable Aircraft Stress Damage	Off	Nullifies any damage taken to the aircraft via a high G-Force.
Disable Engine Stress Damage	Off	Nullifies any damage taken to the engine via a high G-Force.
Icing Effect	Visuals Only	Implements the physical and/or visual effects of icing in colder regions.
Unlimited Fuel	Off	Lets you have unlimited fuel for a flight.
Turbulence	Realistic	Lets you experience turbulence when flying.
G-Effect	Off	Simulates loss of pilot consciousness.
G-Suit	On	Simulates the effect of a G-Suit when flying at an extreme G-Force.
AI Radio Communications (ATC)	On	Let an AI communicate with the Air Traffic Control.
ATC Enforce Flight Plan	Off	Let Air Traffic Control judge whether to consider weather conditions during departures, arrivals, and so on.

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