To start off, here is mine locked at 30fps.
And here is a short tutorial you guys can try.
First of all, for this to work you need to look at your monitor’s display settings and see if your refresh rate can be changed to 30hz. If you can then don’t do anything yet and continue below:
STEP 1:
Open the simulator and on the settings and turn developer mode ON. And FPS counter ON.(External FPS counters will not be as accurate so don’t use those)
On the graphic settings follow this: (yes, this is just the initial setting that should work for most PC’s)
Resolution - whatever your native monitor resolution is
Vsync - Off
Render scaling - 100
Buildings - med
Trees - med
Grass - med
Antialiasing- TAA
TLoD - 100
OLoD - 100
Clouds - Ultra
Water - low
Ambient Occlusion - high
Anisotropic / TSS - 4x ; 4x4
Tex synthesis - low
Texture resolution - ultra
Shad maps - 2048
Terr shad - 1024
Lens f - on
Bloom - on
Light shafts - low
Windshield eff - ultra
Contact shadows - low
Reflect - high
Depth of field - high
Lens correction - off
Motion blur - off
Traffic sliders at 50
STEP 2:
Now load a flight at KLAX in the A320 at Gate 55. Clear skies. 12:00pm. AI traffic OFF
STEP 3:
Once loaded, connect to external power then slowly pan around the cockpit to load the textures. Then go to exterior view and slowly pan around the plane 360 degrees 3 times to load the scenery.
STEP 4:
Now go back in the cockpit on the default pilot view by pressing “F”
STEP 5: Slowly pan around and look out the windows while observing the FPS counter and see if you’re MAINTAINING 28 and above (very important so don’t cheat yourself).
If yes, then go to STEP 6.
If no, then tweak your graphic settings and come back to the cockpit every adjustment until you can MAINTAIN 28 and above. Start by lowering Ambient Occlusion / then clouds / then Object LOD / then render scaling.
STEP 6:
If you are getting between 28-35 fps, go to STEP 7.
If you are getting more than 35fps, you can now adjust your settings higher starting with buildings then the Anisotropic / TSS then LOD sliders until you can MAINTAIN 28-35FPS while panning around.
STEP 7:
Go to settings, set Vsync - ON @ 60. Then turn off the developer mode then exit the sim.
STEP 8:
Now on the desktop open your display settings and change the monitor refresh rate to 30hz and click apply. Monitor will flicker for a bit. Confirm that you want to “KEEP” the settings. Then restart your computer.
STEP 9:
Open your display settings and confirm you are at 30hz.
STEP 10:
Open the sim and load the flight I described above and pan around the cockpit and exterior. At this point your movement should be smooth. If not, then turn on the fps counter again and start STEP 5. ADJUST UNTIL YOU CAN MAINTAIN 28+ fps while panning.
If you have done everything correctly you should now be able to hop on any plane at most airports (except KJFK and LFPG) and have a smoother flight.
This guide is just half of what it takes. The other half is optimizing windows and programs to be efficient.
I am currently writing a full guide including the Windows installation/optimization part which I will post on a different thread.
