I skimmed over your posts and I don’t think I’ve seen you post what your current frame rates are, but did notice your monitor capping out at 60Hz. That brings up two things in my mind.
Unless something changed, FMF isn’t even recommended unless you can maintain 60fps native. Otherwise artifacts become very noticable. Since your monitor maxes out at 60fps, running FMF necessarily means the best you can do would be 30fps, and that resulted in major artifacts when I tried it.
I have a similar setup performance wise on a 60Hz monitor that is also good for 40-60fps freesync. I’ve found I can achieve performance at 45+ in most every scenario while maintaining really good visuals by simply tuning my settings. I suggest you just forget about FMF for now and do the same to see what you can get natively.
Thanks everyone, you’ve given me great support. From what you’ve told me, the problem most likely lies in the monitor, and I won’t be able to fix it without an upgrade, so for now I’m going to forget about FMF. While testing, I’ve been using just one monitor, but normally I use a 3-screen setup - my GPU has three DP output ports. Upgrading would mean replacing three 28-inch monitors. What refresh rate should I be looking for? And would it be at all possible to do it incrementally - would I run into problems if I just upgrade the centre monitor for now?
I forgot to mention that my reason for wanting to use AFMF is because when I’m running MSFS with three monitors my FPS often drops below 30. I was hoping AFMF would push my frame rates well over that. You’ll find my CPU and GPU earlier in the post.
I’ll stand by my earlier comment that even if you did get FMF working, the artifacts would likely be too distracting. And if you are running 3 monitors, I would upgrade the GPU and/or work on tuning settings before replacing monitors. If you go with higher refresh rate monitors, your native frame rates would still be extremely low and you’ll still be in the same boat. Depending on the monitors you’d consider, it may even be cheaper to upgrade the GPU.
Many thanks for your advice - I really appreciate it. It all makes more sense now and that’s the way I’ll go. First though, I’ll wait to see what MS 2024 brings.
Well, I couldn’t wait and went ahead and upgraded my GPU. Given the 60 Hz limit of my three monitors, and that I won’t be using FMF, which of the other settings in Adrenalin’s Graphics tab would you recommend?
Other than turning on freesync/VRR you can most likely just go with the defaults if you’re not wanting to do AFMF. The only other recommendation I would have is to enable Radeon Chill and set the 2 sliders under it to 60 fps since 60 fps is the max for your monitor(s). This will limit your gpu to pumping out no more than 60fps so no wasted effort of any frames over 60 being thrown on the floor and will probably reduce your gpu fan noise a little. Not sure how it would work though with the 3 monitor setup that you have…
Thanks for the tip. FreeSync is set to AMD optimized - the default. For the graphics settings I’ve just now enabled Chill and set it to 60 and 60. For the others (Super Resolution…etc) the default setting is Disabled. I’ll leave them like that.
I have to set to on via the global settings, but I’m not seeing it actually working in-game. At least I really don’t think it is. The frame rate doesn’t seem as fluid as it does in 2020, so I don’t think it is active.
Nope - AFMF2 is not working for me in MSFS 2024. As a matter of fact, I can’t get Radeon Chill to work either. I’ve installed MSFS 2024 only on my secondary rig which has a Ryzen 5900x/RX 7700xt and performance is abysmal (constant micro-stutter fest). I can switch over to MSFS 2020 on the same PC and it’s smooth and looks great. I was just getting ready to install 2024 on my main sim PC to see how my 7900xtx would do but I think I’m going to hold off.
Lol I was thinking that MSFS 2024 was somehow blocking Adrenalin from changing those parameters rather than some type of driver issue in recognizing the sim as a game. I guess it could go either way.
I think this is right. I was able to go into the global gaming settings to turn on framerate target control to limit maximum fps, and that seemed to work, but I don’t think Radeon Chill did in the same tab. I know you can manually add any program as a game, but it wouldn’t allow me to do it to the new sim. It told me I needed administrator privileges to do that, and this is my own personal machine with only my account on it.
Same issue. I also can’t add programs from the XboxGames folder to activate other apps that look to see if a .exe is running. This would include opentrack and Razer Synapse, etc.
