Is there any performance gain to be had by removing unwanted aircraft/scenery via the content manager?
I only fly GA (172, Mooney) in MSFS at the moment and use XP11 for the rest until the MSFS matures (as it surely will). So, I would like to know if there is any advantage to removing the unwanted content or whether this is likely to cause issues.
Specifically, I am asking if there would be any performace gain IN FLIGHT rather than just sim loading times and time spent in the UI selecting a flight. I tend to think there would not be any advantage but would appreciate anyones experiences or thoughts.
If unwanted aircraft are removed is this likely to dork the update process (or will it just download them again)?
I am one of those who suffer the download loop issues (it took 13 hours to update on Dec 23rd update and took 137GB of my data limit to get 14GB) so it is just not practicle for me to experiment right now and then potentially have an issue at the next update.
Obviously I donāt know for sure, but I would be very surprised if there was any performance gain during flight from deleting any AC. Maybe (???) there would be a slight improvement in sim load up times (which you have said is not your main interest) but I wouldnāt expect a massive difference. If all the ACs are loaded into RAM and your system RAM is on the very low side maybe (???) it could reduce stuttering but canāt see it making much difference.
My feelings would be that if the sim is working okay for you to leave well alone and look for performance improvements elsewhere e.g. lower sim settings, remove background programs, tweak nvidia settings etc
I have optimised as much as I possibly can and the sim is great, performance wise, for my system.
Iām not at RAM limited. I donāt suffer from the major performance issues some poeple do, so itās as much about keeping the sim and OS as lean as is sensible. I have M.2 drives so traded amount of storage for perfomance but Iām not running out yet.
I think I will go with your gut feeling before I dork the whole thing !
Iām very much a ātinkererā like you and my personality is usually to āhave a goā and see what happens. In X-Plane 11, for instance, I was tweaking more than simming. Honestly !
However, I try not to mess about too much with the core program in FS2020 after having read about other peopleās issues when they have uninstalled this and that. By and large the sim is working well for me and just this once I am leaving well alone. I have honestly so far had very few problems unlike a lot of other people and I want to keep it that way.
If you remove unused aircraft, you will be removing any AI aircraft of that type as well.
Removing airports and special scenery for ireas you are not flying close to, in theory should not make much difference, because they should never load in any case. ??
Personally, while,flying in the USA, I remove anything that is not USA ā I can always install any of it at any time (I hope !!), if I need it.
Maybe what you do, depends on your Internet speed.
If you have a nice fast connection, leaving unused content back ob the MS Store server, is not an issue, should you want to download it āon demandā
I have to make a conscious effort to keep all tools locked away from the children. Luckily the 2a.m āurgeā to ājust fix thatā is tempered by going to the shed retrieve the hammer. Luckily, I have the attention span of a gnat so tinker in software instead (still dangerous)! I have lost PCās because of a handy screw driver ā¦ LOL.
Unfortunately, I get the download loop and have data caps or Iāde do exactly as you suggest.
just to explain, if you donāt get the download loop bug ā¦
This causes files to download, stop at a random point and then restart from scratch . It can do this many times per file.
So to download on demand would soon eat my data caps and take many many hours (and be an unpleasant task). The last update cost me 137GB of data downloaded to get the 14GB update due to all restarts. Same is true of the content manager. And, Yes, this is unique to MSFS
I think Iāll stick with the sim as provided meantime, Iām sure the download bugs will get sorted at some point.
I have tinkered with things all my life in an effort to enhance or improve them. Iāve broken quite a few things in the process but learned a lot from the (sometimes expensive) mistakes iāve made. Now, finally, iām at the stage where, thankfully, I seem to fix more than I break, that or I decide to leave well alone
Itās 4G WAN, as Iām quite rural, and all LAN is Ethernet.
Honestly, Iāv been through this one with a fine tooth comb (Iām very network savvy). My local network is not an issue and no other application has any issue whatsoever. I tinker a lot with socket/network programming so have a detailed view of my networks performance.
Unfortunately, my ISP uses a double NAT layer (CGNAT) and it could concievable be a part of the issue. Without another provider (Iām rural, there is none) I canāt prove this is not part of the issue. Of course, Iāv tried all the suggestions returned by Zendesk, I did beat on them quite hard initially. Iāv concluded itās a rare bug, they know about it and theyāll fix it at some point maybe.
I can live with it but I do dread update days
This is why I was asking if I could delete stuff in the sim without, potentially, having to redownload it or dorking my otherwise okay sim.
I am no expert here, but as well as the obvious Osobo folders, there is a config file, that has those folder names in them. If you just delete the folders, without updating that list of folders, I have no idea what will happenā¦ maybe it will try to re-download them.
IF it were not for the current Covid-19 situation, I would suggest you throw your PC in the Car, and go visit a friend with a different Internet connection, to see if its really the Internet or some hardware issue you have.
I had an issue a few years ago, where downloads were getting randomly corrupted when being downloaded. Everything else seems to be OK. Ended up being a failing network card !!
I doff my hat to you! Iāll get to that stage but itās the āwhat can I do for 5 mins that wonāt cost 5 hours laterā problem that still gets me. Five minutes, just enough time to clean my throttle perhapsā¦