hello guys,just want to know and if you want to share with me how many addons currently in your community folder,and is there any fps impact on it?
I don’t think (my opinion only) there is a direct link to the number / size of addons and FPS. It’s how the Addon was made that matters.
Also matters if you are flying in the area of that affected addon.
Example:
I have about 150GB worth of addons, no real FPS loss (when I empty the community folder for testing verse loading it up).
One of those add-ons and is RegDesigns CYYZ. Beautiful handcrafted airport inside and out, but it is an FPS killer. So once I fly near that airport, then I notice the loss.
All that to say, you could have 200 well optimized add-ons that take up 300GB, and really have no real performance hits (other then sim startup when they are all read). And as soon as you add in one poorly created one, tank the FPS.
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The amount of items in the Community Folder. as mentioned by skypilotYTS, does not affect FPS.
It does however, increase the loading time of the sim.
The more in the community folder the longer the load time.
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what do you mean about this sentence?
Basically, you could have 199 mods in your community folder that are all well optimized and run great within the simulator.
But as soon as you add in one poorly created one (such as RegDesigns YYZ Airport) you can experience great performance issues and FPS loss.
Basically, it’s not the quantity of addons that affects FPS, it’s the quality of those addons.
I hope that helps.
Hey, @Syarasd. I have moved your post to the “Community Help Center / Install, Performance & Graphics” category where I believe it fits better for ongoing discussion. Enjoy.
My big problems are:
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I’m running out of SSD disk space for everything I’ve downloaded. Need a solution.
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Recently hitting some kind of limit whereby 2 things happened:
A) Content Manager doesn’t load
B) Trying to return to main menu after a flight and the game hangs. Need to quit via Task Manager.
Seems this limit is about 1028 mods loaded at same time.
I really need to spend some time to sort out a nice set of profiles and the dependencies properly in Addons Linker!!
“tank the FPS”
If you install a poorly built addon, your FPS will decrease.
Some really poorly built addons can cause a significant FPS drop.
so i manage to find the difference in loading time beetwen addons on vs off
FS 2020 ADDON ON VS OFF LOADING COMPARISON
I HAVE 34 ADDONS AT 74.5GB IN TOTAL OF ADDONS
I USE INTEL CORE I9-11900K ( NOT OC ) ASUS ROG STRIX OC 3080 Ti ( NOT OC / UnderVolt ) 64GB 3200MHZ ( NOT X.M.P ) OF RAM AND SSD 1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS.
IN GAME SETTINGS
GRAPHICS: ULTRA AT 4K ( 3840x2160 ),NO CHANGES ( DX-11 )
DATA : 10GB OF ROLLING CACHE ( NO MANUAL CACHE ) EVERYTHING SET TO “ON”
—ADDONS ON—
AIRCRAFT: A320NEO Default
LIVERY: DEFAULT
LOCATION: AEROSOFT I GUSTI NGURAH RAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
TIME: 12.55 PM
WEATHER: CLEAR SKIES
LOADING TIME WHEN I CLICK"RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR" : 03.39 Minutes
LOADING TIME WHEN I CLICK"FLY" CLEAR SKIES,12.55 PM SET AS DEPARTURE AT RWY : 49 Second
—ADDONS OFF—
AIRCRAFT: A320NEO Default
LIVERY: DEFAULT
LOCATION: DEFAULT I GUSTI NGURAH RAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
TIME: 12.55 PM
WEATHER: CLEAR SKIES
LOADING TIME WHEN I CLICK"RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR" : 03.35 Minutes
LOADING TIME WHEN I CLICK"FLY"SET AS DEPARTURE AT RWY : 27 Second
SO I THINK THERE’S NOT MUCH OF A DIFFERENT IN LOADING TIME WHEN THE GAME STARTING,BUT THERE’S A DIFFERENCE WHEN LOADING INTO AIRPORT.
NO FPS IMPACT.
34 add-ons is a very low number for me hahaha
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Where you will notice the loading time is in the Sim startup itself (from completely shutdown, to the time you can start selecting things in the sim main menu).
This load time increases with the more add-ons you have. As stated, 34 addons @ 74GB isn’t very much. As your collection grows, so to will your sim boot times.
Although they (Devs) did touch on this during Q&A in that it is being addressed.
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btw what time do you guys get when start the sim?
Times below, each test was from the sim completely shut down and time taken from the time the start icon was pressed on my stream deck until I was loaded into the sim and able to navigate the menus.
3 minutes 26 seconds with full community folder (72 add-ons @ 106GB)
2 minutes 46 seconds with empty community folder
Hardware:
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Liquid Cooled)
128GB Dual Channel XMP @ 3600Mhz
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 24Gb GDDR6X
2TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
1,000W PSU
Add-ons can be found here;
For comparisons sake here are my stats.
929 addons = 310gb
(I have 1312 addons on disk = 534gb total, but loading 929 today, since the issue I mentioned before 
)
- Loading time to main menu = 8 mins
- Loading to flight (test in UK where I have most of my airports) = 1 min 30 seconds
- Loading to flight (test in Spain Photogrammetry area from World Update, no other “local” addons in) = ~35 to 40 seconds
I’m playing on a One Xplayer hand-held PC.
- Intel i7-1195G7 (2.9ghz up to 4.8ghz boost)
- 16GB Dual-Channel LPDDR4x @ 4266Mhz
- 1TB High-Speed PCI-E NVMe SSD
- Thunderbolt 4 running RTX2070 eGPU
I have some of my lesser flown planes and all liveries on a 1tb SDXC Card, which is unfortunately limited to 30mb/s read so that probably doesn’t help. Really want to upgrade the internal SSD but I’m scared of bodging it up!
Also running FS Realistic in the background.
you have so many addons dude,what are most of them?
All sorts 
A lot of UK airports. Scenery. About 200 planes (40 of which are the full Reno pack plus the full premium deluxe game extra planes though).
Seems to be a daily ritual of mine to pick a couple new things on fs.to and add to the collection!
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Hey @Baracus250, can you confirm if you can load all 929 addons post Sim Update 9?
I am trying to troubleshoot what I believe might be a limit that causes CTD. I have 922 addons total for .99TB, this worked fine prior to Sim Update 9.
I am noticing that no matter what the file is, once I have 894 addons in my community folder I will CTD when loading into a flight, but at 893 everything is fine.
I’ll try and find out tonight. Yesterday I was having all sorts of CTD problems after the update so first I need to identify what was causing it. Ran out of time before bed last night to be sure, but getting there!
Once I figure that out I can try loading that amount again 
Will let you know….
Sounds good thank you!
I take a letter by letter approach, but after getting through that there was no single addon causing a CTD so I now think it’s either some limitation on the total # of addons or total GB size.
Sounds likely. I use Addons Linker and have things sorted in top level categories (aircraft / liveries / utilities / airports / scenery) and subfolders for countries within the last two.
I tested with one category at a time and just UK stuff so far. Think I narrowed it down to a scenery within UK folder but need to do half and half testing inside that to narrow it down faster. Could take some time. Then I need to do the same for other countries!
If they all work alone then I agree it’s a combination of mass rather than a specific file. Fun fun…