If your system is not high end, try turning V-Sync on (it worked for me!)

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As many users do, I have tried many things in order to improve the MFS2020 performance in my PC (especially decrease stuttering and chopping). So since I found something that works for me, I would like to share it and hope it will help you too. I have a system that is not high-end and I guess this advice applies mostly to users whose systems are not high-end. My system is as follows:
NVIDIA 1660 Super
Ryzen 5 2400G
16GB RAM
SSD Drive
I play the game in 1080p

My simple advice is turn V-Sync on (30fps). It made a huge positive impact for me and maybe it coould do to you too.

I play MFS with a mix of medium-high settings and had V-Sync turned off for the last 2 or 3 months. Some days ago I turned V-Sync on again. It was the first time I felt that the game was smooth. I am not implying that it went 100% stutter-free but for the first time I thought it was “smooth enough” and felt natural. I am talking about a big difference. For example it was the first time that I was able to turn the camera right or left and watch the landscape from the side windows passing by without stuttering or choppiness.

I am not a hardware expert and I do not try to convince anyone that turning V-Sync on or off is technically right or wrong. I just say that by trial and error, I discovered that having V-Sync on, works for me.

So, I decided to create this topic because most guides that I have read, advice to turn v-sync off. I thought that maybe this is the case for high-end systems. In my case it works the other way round.

After the latest updates I think there has been a performance increase and a graphical quality decrease. I don’t know if this just my idea but I see that many people share the same view. I say this because today I disabled V-Sync for a while just for experimenting and I got 40fps which was a pleasant surpise for me! Enen though I was flying out in the nature, not in a city, 40fps is a high number for me. However, frames don’t matter when stuttering and chopping are there. With V-Sync off, I had 40fps with stuttering and choppiness. By the time I switched it on again, immediately the game became smoother again. No need to say that I prefer 30 smooth fps than 40 stuttered fps!

So, if you have V-Sync turned off for a long time and you also have a system which is not high-end, try turning it on again. Maybe it will make things better for you too.

I hope this advice will help!

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I’m no expert either, but perhaps this will be of use. It suggests we should turn off V-Sync. Experiments with your setup with MSFS are definitive, however.

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I agree with your assessment to try it for hardware a bit older. For a long time I would get better performance with it off, but I also recently switched it back on and it definitely is much smoother and stable than it used to be. I also noticed with it off, the images were tearing a lot more than they used to using TrackIR head tracking and is why I even tried again. There must have been an optimization change recently that the v-sync is now benefitting from.

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