Clearing cache but dont know, where to look for? I got solution for you: Corsten´s cache & shader removal tool: https://flightsim.to/file/71729/corsten-s-cache-shader-removal-tool
VBS -scripts are made by help of ChatGPT. Tool has been tested and works good with steam & store versions. Tested also with Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. If you dont want to trust this code made by AI, you can manually delete those cache folders that i have listed in this post.
What is the point to clean your MSFS cache and GPU drivers shader cache?
- MSFS cache and shader cache makes MSFS run less smoother, when cache arent cleaned for a while.
- Specialy Sim updates and world updates makes MSFS run less smoother because of incombatible cache files.
- New GPU graphics drives could also make a diffrence in smoothness, so shader cache and MSFS cache is recodemmend to be cleaned with these tools after GPU driver update.
Shader cache removal tool
- This script will move shader cache folders to desktop and creates a folder and ‘cache_locations.txt’ file inside of that folder.
- with that cache_locations.txt you can see, where the tool did move cache. Basicly it is a backup.
- Make sure to disable shader cache in Nvidia Control Panel, otherwise, all the shaders won’t be cleaned.
- If there is problems with moving, try to restart pc and try again. Cache folders might be in use by some process.
MSFS cache removal tool
- This script will move MSFS cache folders to desktop and creates a folder and ‘cache_locations.txt’ file inside of that folder.
- with that cache_locations.txt you can see, where the tool did move cache. Basicly it is a backup.
- If there is problems with moving, try to restart pc and try again. Cache MSFS folders might be in use by some process.
Here are the locations, tools are looking for:
Shader Cache locations:
- C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\D3DSCache
- C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\GLCache
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\shadercache\
- C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\NVIDIA\ComputeCache
- C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\DXCache
- C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\GLCache
- C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\AMD\DxCache
MSFS cache locations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MicrosoftFlightSimulator\cache
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\cache
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\SceneryCache
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\SceneryIndexes
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\DCE
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SceneryCache
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SceneryIndexes
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\cache
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DCE