After playing a few hours, FPS drops from 40 to 5FPS

Very similar experience here. I have a four month old rig,

Alienware Aurora A10,
i9 9900K,
Nvidia RTX 3080,
32 gig RAM.

all running FS2020 beautifully until last week. Using the A320 FBW on 2-4 hr. flights and enjoying 60+ fpm throughout.

Now, after 30-40 mins. of flight, (mostly from EINN to the Canaries, over Atlantic Ocean)
I have a steady linear frame drop from around 60 fpm down to around 6-9 fpm at which stage I’m forced to re-start the sim.

I’ve tried all the tips mentioned on this and other forums, to no avail. The only thing I changed prior to this performance drop, was to update my GPU driver to the latest.
I’ve rolled back, tried three of the best regarded older drivers, but there’s no improvement. Hoping a fix is offered soon!

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Exact same here. After landing i noticed low frame rate while turning on the taxiway. I was limited by the main thread and about 23 fps. After restarting the flight at the landing location i was back to 40fps and GPU limit like ususal.

I have had similar performance degradation over time since release of MSFS, also with my previous PC.

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I never appreciated how many thinks show up as Errors in the Dev Console - till I took a look – It’s amazing that MSFS keeps running at all !!

Me reading a kernel log for the first time:
“OMG, it’s spitting out errors during boot!”

Software team:
“Oh, yeah, you can ignore all of those”

Me:
:confused:

I have hoped next update will fix it. Sad to hear it was still not fixed. We have unplayable Sim for longer flights but Asobo does not care. If only we could roll to older versions.

Hey guys, I tried all of the above including other methods discussed with similar issues, AKA, fps drops and all that. The only solution that worked was, don’t plan a departure and arrival airport, for some reason the flight plan messes things up, so all I did was takeoff from a departure airport and left the arrival airport blank and the issue was completely gone. no more sutters no more fps drops. Ive posted this in other threads as well so people are aware of this issue!!

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So for the FBW it is no issue if you plan only departure. Because the Aircraft syncs the Flightplan with MSFS after you put it in, if you set the option in the flypad

I did a test doing what you said. The FPS drop still occurs beyond 30 mins.

Has the zen desk answered anyone on this problem?

I never plan with the msf2020 planner and still have this issue.

have the sim running for last 7 hrs no issue yet

What FPS do you lock your frame rate at? and at what resolution?

Is that how that setting works? It takes the MCDU flight plan and “sends it back” to the sim so your ATC is (mostly) correct?

I always thought that option was to take whatever plan you created in the MSFS planner and load it into the MCDU for users that don’t utilize Simbrief.

If I’ve had that wrong the whole time, I’m a bit embarrassed.

Exactly that is what it is made for

from 2 days after about 2.5 hours of flight, stuttering and fps trimming did not change anything in the settings what is going on?

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Same issue started recently with my sim as well. I’m playing with Dx12 because Dx11(even I got more FPS on DX11) crashes in 30-40 seconds. Anyways, My spec;

Intel i5 8600K 4.5 OC
32 Gb Rams
Nvidia 1080

As you can o on cruise my FPS dropped to below 10 FPS and GPU Core and Memory frequency dropped as well.

But when I got into the Menu to close the game GPU core clock and memory clock increases again but same thing happen after I get into game again.

I would like to help to debug the issue if anything is needed.

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Second message because performance on the menu

I made some flight today and I have the issue again but this time, turning the Live Traffic to Off doesn’t solve the issue. I have to restart the sim to have good performance again. (Thanks to the FSUIPC autosave!).

There is also a weird behavior is that when this happens, I have sizzling when I move the cursor (and it worst when I move the the secondary screen)

here is a video to show (listen) the issue
(while I’m in descent to the Canary Island, so over the sea… not much scenery to load).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VT9QVbyU_hMhFcqm8bgNZS8JaqeXiezv/view?usp=sharing

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What planes do you fly? The issue seems to be with WASM planes like the FBW A320.

Yes for me this is the FBW A320 in that case.