Just providing an update, it has now been almost 2 weeks since I have downgraded to 23H2, I have yet to have the Audio Stutter in either 2020 or 2024 in that time. I am not sure how many hours it has been but I spent plenty of time both in the air and on the ground rebuilding my AAO scripts, flying, and testing, both with VATSIM and without. Most flights are using ActiveSky, Smoothtrack, and when in 2020 PMDG 737 with Avia CDU. I am not saying that this will help anyone else but it has for me.
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I’ve been saying for a long time now that something isn’t sitting right with some people’s systems and the 24h2 update, mine included.
But I did manage to resolve things and didn’t need to downgrade in the end.
Since I set about finding the causes on MY system, I have been flying for the past few weeks without a single audio pop or stutter, a far cry from the beginning where I was plagued by them, right after upgrading the OS.
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What was the problem, corrective action?
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Lot of talk about this being tied to 24H2, but I’m getting this issue on 23H2
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The problem was to do with latency issues which were solved by using TCP optimiser and also changing a setting on my WiFi card.
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Have you checked to see what your CPU is doing while the audio popping occurs?
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I have the same issue, on XSX. Whenever its loading things in, especially when looking around.
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It doesn’t spike or anything? And the stutters seem to happen at random stages of flight. Sometimes switching camera models induces them…but other than that I can’t see any corresponding events…
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Well that surprises me a lot.
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Try latencymon, it may just point you in the right direction as to what is causing these stutters.
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So far this “solved” the issue. The stutters happen at the beginning of the flight, but then seems it kinda stabilises.
I tried different headset, via Bluetooth, USB, and it was the same, now it seems better.
I also Disabled the TCA sidestick audio output, just FYI in case someone has the same setup.
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still happens on my end. latest audio driver, lowered the graphic settings. any support from Asobo on this?
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Today from EHAM to EDDM was terrible!. This is so annoying. I disabled Realtek USB driver, uninstalled also some console :■■■■ that I found. Also uninstalled some “Gamerfirst IV” app that “prioritises” networking.
Nothing nada.
@asobo, amigos, stop doing community fly overs, and fix the ■■■■ thing!
This audio issues happens only in YOUR product. I can play COD, or any other MP game and nothing like this appears.
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The problems really seem to be the servers at Microsoft, the same problem exists in MSFS2020.
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Yesterday, I completed an evening flight from LZIB to EPWA without any.
The thing is, I had disabled all audio devices and deactivated RealTek USB audio via the BIOS.
Now, the funny thing happened. I started the game without having any audio device connected. You can notice this seeing the speaker icon in the taskbar with an ‘x’ mark indicator If this is state of the system, the game won’t launch. will load the screen where starts loading, then when it goes full screen, after second or so, it will crash to desktop (CTD).
I was kinda getting crazy yesterday because, at the same time, I updated to the new NVIDIA drivers and I thought that was the reason for the CTD restored to the previous driver, to realise the game still wouldn’t open. Then I connected my wireless headset and started listening to music while looking for a solution and decided to give it another try. This time the game loaded normally. I was quite surprised, as the only thing that changed in my system was that I was listening to music.
I disconnected the headset and the ‘x’ icon on top of the speaker icon on the taskbar was shown. I tried to launch the game again, and it crashed to desktop I restarted the PC and tried again, it crashed again. Connected the headset and launched, it worked. I quit the game, disconnected the headset, and launched game, and crashed desktop. I connected the headset, the game, and everything was fine.
So, what did next was enable the NVIDIA HD audio as I had it disabled (remember, I disabled all audio devices except for the headset to help with the audio stutter). I launched the game, and it worked problems.
In conclusion, I left only the NVIDIA HD audio and my headset enabled (Realtek USB Audio disabled in BIOS).
No audio stutter last night, and no CTD on. I also updated the NVIDIA, and everything is still good I think audio stutter problem is related to RealTek USB Audio.
I also reported the bug here:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/disabling-realtek-audio-in
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[update]:
Last night I made a flight I don’t remember where, but the stutters happened, not as bad, but annoying enough.
So Today I kept researching, and came to this solution:
- Change the Intel WiFi Transmit Power settings
Step 1. Press Windows and R at the same time to open the Run command.
Step 2. Type devmgmt.msc, click OK and then select Device Manager.
Step 3. Click Network adapters, right-click on your Intel WiFi driver, and then select Properties.
Step 4. Open the Advanced tab, find Property, and then click Transmit Power entry.
Step 5. In Transmit Power, change the value to 3, and then click on OK.
I did a EHAM/LFPG and no stutters whatsoever. I will do a flight in the evening to EDDF and see what happens..
TBH, I don’t know what impact has in the wifi performance by doing this change, but I did a speed test before and after, and nothing was affected in regards to download speed.
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still happening on my end. A couple of flights were fine and now it is back in 2024. GPU at around 70 % and CPU at around 50 % when this happens. It ONLY happens in MSFS 2024. No other game whatsover. Please please please look into it Asobo it is ruining the fun.
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I did a couple of flights, and again, stutters, I really don’t know already what else to do since this is the only game where this occurs.
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Hello,
Could we ask you. please, to be more descriptive in what you did and how?. I read you mentioned something on the TCP layer, but I have no idea how to get there, or what within windows it needs to be done.
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Yes no problem, I downloaded TCP optimizer and ran that with admin rights and set it to optimal settings and let it run, then I rebooted my pc to allow the settings to stick.
Then I downloaded latencymon and set that to run while staring up msfs24. That then indicated what drivers were causing high latency, then I searched on the website for the solutions to those high latency errors I was getting, and applied each fix in turn, that for me equated to 2 instances in total,.one indicating I should use TCP optimizer and the other was a setting in my intel WiFi card which I applied. I haven’t had any problems since.
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