Strangely, the fps on this flight went back to 30fps for a while after this, and then dropped right back again later in the flight.
I wish they could get this sorted. Complete immersion killer, and a regular occurance as I fly mostly longer flights.
Thatâs strange. Did you limit to 30fps? And what did the fps meter say limited by main thread or GPU when you got back to 30fps?
I hope they fix it before the PMDG 737 comes out. The BBJ version has a range of 6000NM. 
Vsync 30.
GPU and CPU only at 35% utilisation both when at 30 fps and when at 5fps.
Itâs very inconsistent.
I am now in a session which has been running for 14.5 hours. In that session I have already completed 3 flights and Iâm not on a fourth. London to Dundee. Dundee to Iceland and back (one flight chasing an amazing jetstream). Dundee to Inssbruck. And now Iâm in the middle of Innsbruck to Crete.
At times during all of these flights I have had solid Vsync 30fps, and at other times, it been 5-14fps and not at all smooth.
I cannot see a pattern to it. It doesnât matter what altitude Iâm at, whether Iâm over ocean or land, whether Iâm over countryside or city, or even whether I am flying or parked at an airport with engines off.
And Iâm really getting fed up with it after all these months.
Here it is currently at 13fps
So what does âLimited by manipulators meanâ, and why isnât it limited by them all the time?
And seconds later itâs down to 7fpsâŠ
Now limited by Main Thread, which is obvious from the TaskMan where the last cpu core is too busy. But none of this was a problem after SU5(?) when they moved a lot of the graphics scheduling away from that core, and this same hardware was then running the sim at 50+fps.
This flight was at a smoooooth reliable Vsyncâd 30fps when I departed.
I really dont understand - can anyone explain this?
I left only crj in community folder. Everything else move out folder. And im during long flight and after 3h everything is cool - fps doesnt drop.
Maybe some content drops fps down?
In next step im going to put to community folder some content, but not as much as earlier. Only departure and ariival airports.
I will report the results.
Your results confirm what many users are experiencing. Since the minimum hardware configuration is 8 GB, MSFS not working with 7 GB is âworking as designedâ.
I assume you only changed available RAM and nothing else. It might be interesting but very time consuming is to try each RAM size with each general graphics settings of low, medium, high, and ultra.
Asobo must have had good reasons to create four separate, distinct graphics profiles. If they wanted everyone to use ultra, MSFS would only have the ultra setting. If they wanted to have one universal setting that would run on all modern hardware, there would only be a low setting. But MSFS has the four different settings. They must know that only certain hardware will perform well using ultra while other hardware would have terrible, unusable performance.
I still believe that most of these CTD could be avoided with better exception handling.
Also, the drop in FPS, while the Coherent thread takes longer & longer to complete should not be that difficult to debug, and the cause determined and eliminated.
If MSFS can run Initially at a given Frame rate, it should be able to tale care of itself, and maintain that rate, or close to it under varying conditions, of which TIME should not be one that cause a slow down.
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Iâve noticed in the couple of videos from sufferers that Iâve seen not just their vram use changes (normal) but also the vram size which actually baffles me as I havenât ever seen it happen on my system⊠Maybe some kind of so called optimiser is being used or a 3rd party mod isnât all it says it is. Riva tuner is another suspect.
We over at the sdkdev community have been experiencing these issues but a lot faster when working on complex airports over a period of time (20-40mins). This has caused us to every 30 mins or so reboot the sim to continue work.
This week after the Dev Q&A and the heads of development explained they were having issues with use cases, I reached out to them and supplied them with a 45 min video showing the whole issue, and at the end a lot of diagnostic data.
They reported back this allowed them to identify and fix the memory leak causing this issue. Not sure when this will make it to production and im sure they will officially have some news about it at some point after more testing, but Iâm glad they have found it and should be able to go back to stable FPS over time.
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Hopefully this is one and the same issue.
Thanks for reaching out to them letâs hope they can fix it.
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Hereâs for hoping, this was reported fixed a long time ago
But then again, is it a memory leak? My memory usage never really goes really high, looks like old tasks pilling up on the mainthread and not getting killed when they should
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Exactly â a lot of my ârun sim for long timeâ eventual CTD seem to be caused by something like this.
ntdll!NtWaitForMultipleObjects:
**ntdll!NtWaitForMultipleObjects:**
00007ffc`623ad8b0 4c8bd1 mov r10, rcx
00007ffc`623ad8b3 b85b000000 mov eax, 5Bh
00007ffc`623ad8b8 f604250803fe7f01 test byte ptr [SharedUserData+0x308 (00000000`7ffe0308)], 1
00007ffc`623ad8c0 7503 jne ntdll!NtWaitForMultipleObjects+0x15 (00007ffc`623ad8c5)
00007ffc`623ad8c2 0f05 syscall
00007ffc`623ad8c4 c3 ret
The memory leak thing is a very generic programmer thing to say where there is bug with slow loss of system resources. I have an idea of what went wrong based on the behavior and 3d geometry loadings that were causing it but not really going to go into it on here as its just my speculation and wonât really be helpful. Good news is theyâve have seemed to have nailed it so thatâs the takeaway.
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If you wouldnât mind PMing me the details of your therory, Iâd be very intrested to hear
Same story today, changing aircraft mid flight doesnât fix it either.
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Same here, shame cause I like to do long hauls while working⊠:S⊠But this is terrible.
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Yup! Reporting the same issue myself, and latest patches as of Sim Update 7 has not affected this for me. Reported to Zendesk:
On all occasions of flying a long haul flight, by the time I return to the PC later in the trip the sim is heavily stuttering maintaining 10 fps (Salty 747 mod or Heavy Division 787) I donât usually have this problem with Longitude as flight does not last as long, but it did happen when I pushed limit on range once (so weâll say flights that are longer than 5-6 hours can see this problem). All online services are disabled, all AI / Player traffic is disabled as well as ground equipment and it does not affect the occurrence of the problem. Current trip as I am reporting this: EGLL-VTBS 8-1/2 hours in, no applicable mods to this trip other than Salty747. This issue has been applicable for me since more than a year, and Iâve tested WITHOUT mods and no change. Live Q&A requested more detailed reports, so hereâs mine!
From hardware metrics: 15-22% CPU utilization; 4800/32000 MB Memory usage (49% system overall); GPU 14% usage / 6.7 Gb of 10 Gb memory usage HOWEVER, task manager reports GPU power usage as âvery highâ.
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Hi All,
I found solution to fix this issue!
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change windows page file size (min 50mb max 5000mb).
U canalso try turn off it. But I have in hudge airports crash before final landing (I think due to big size of addons). -
remove all not using during flight content from Community folder. Dont use liveries for vatsim as well.
I got about 10 long trips and its works perfect!
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Nice find ⊠and yes it does sound like a paging issue. Advice to all users is to let Windows manage virtual memory however if the drive it is on is getting full it may be wise to move it to another SSD (Note: I had to reallocate it as manual first and then confirm before setting it back to Windows managed otherwise it reverts back to C:).
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note: never turn windows pagefile off⊠wrong setting in windows pagefile , or also that auto-increasment not works as expected e.g. because of less disc space, is a common reason for issues and I guess one in the top10 list 
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You can find recommendations for pagefile settings in forum⊠A manual setting of 5Gig may be too low , also in case you own 32GIG RAM.
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