Brand new PC here that I received as a gift this week. RTX 3080, 10700k, 32gb ram, NVme drive. I get anywhere from 45 to 60 fps in the air but on or near the ground my fps goes down to 30 and even 20 fps at times with stuttering and lots of fluctuation. I notice photogrammetry areas are worse but it happens everywhere. Stutters and fluctuations are much worse on the ground.
I tried playing around with all manner of settings and fps still stay low with stutters when on the ground no matter whether high or low settings are selected.
I noticed today at payware KORD my gpu usage went down to 50% when on the ground and it said I was CPU limited instead of GPU limited which was the reverse, i.e. GPU limited up until touchdown. Even when parked at the gate and staring at the terminal wall, my fps stay at 29/30 and at times go lower when taxiing.
Obviously my PC is clean and all new with no bloatware. I have max performance set in the driver and PC settings and latest drivers with Windows fully updated.
I actually thought something was wrong with my PC and cpu for the first 5 days. I mean how could my fps be so low at or near the ground and stutter so much and be limited by a 10700k cpu that is hitting 5.1ghz? You hear people with the same hardware saying they get 50 to 60 fps on Ultra all the time, smooth as butter. How? Is this a SU5 bug that messes the sim up for high end rigs?
I was using a 6700k and gtx1080 before that and expected much more of an increase in fps when on or near the ground and less stutters.
Apart from having much lower fps on or near the ground than I expected compared with before, I now also have more stutters than I had on my old machine.
I feared this would be the case based on other threads I had read before receiving my new PC. I actually had decent performance on my old machine for what it was. It is as though MSFS does not scale well on newer machines with high specs.
I hope MS and Asobo do something to make it a better experience for high end users because honestly it is a bit ridiculous. I don’t expect high fps at all times just because I have a great new rig but to be as inconsistent and stutter prone as that, worse than my old rig at times is quite something.