Yeah kts been Whi,e since 8 looked at cards, I woild have thought the 1050 would drop more, but maybe I paid $400 or more, I can’t recall now. A 50% hit is pretty significant, UT I was using a 9800 not too long ago and it played a lot of games ok, but some it woild just choke on. I think,the 1050 is a significant upgrade over that card, and woild thi k the 1030 shou,d be sig ificznt upgrade too to the 9800, Nd should handle al..the Sims pretty well. There are a few newer games that make most rigs choke, but I avoided those games anyways
I remember when games were only a few dozen megabytes lol, and thinking I woild never need over 250 mb hard drive- now I am running out of room on a 1 terabyte drive and I remember downloading games on 56k dialup and it would take hours and hours,praying that nothing g disrupted the phone connection. 😆. We’ve come a long way since those days
Yeah, I could have continued with my old GT 730 and still enjoyed the older simulators (25 - 30 FPS). So the GT 1030 at 3X as fast will undoubtedly be playable.
I am ignoring MS Flight Simulator 2020 as the usable minimum hardware specs are far beyond mine. I believe that the minimum graphics capability is spec’d at GTX 770 but people say that is nowhere near the real usable minimum. So I’m ignoring it for now and a few folks say they see no reason to change anyway. Then there is the open source Flightgear which has been continually updated since 1996 (last update in July). I have installed it but not used it and people say it is very good now. I think I read it downloads scenery on the fly like FS2020. And Aerofly which I got just for the R-22 and really runs fine on the old GT 730.