I am getting micro stutters since the last update even though my fps counter says 60. I was thinking about what could cause it and tried a internet speed test. I have a 500gb line and when I ran the test while msfs is running it starts at 500 and drops all the way down to 190. Is this normal? Asking all the experts out there because I’m not sure about these things. Thanks for the info. Anthony
I live in the country and only have 15 GB Internet. The sim runs fine albeit at 30 fps. You may have 500 GB but you only get the speed of the weakest link in the connection. So if the MS server only sends you 190 GB that’s all you get. That’s my understanding anyhow.
If the FS is running while your doing your test it probably more of 500g-190g=what the sim is using.
But the reality of it all is that Most if not all providers only guarantee you that speed to the 1st hop of the connect, after that all bets are off.
So for all you know they could be feeding everyone a 500g connection but only connecting to the backbone at 200g. The only way to tell for sure is to shut all programs using the net, and then run a traceroute to the server that your game connects to, and then watch and see where the bottlenecks are.
It could be your provider having a crappy connection, it could be the MS servers are overloaded, or it could be something in between the two of those causing problems.
190 mega-bits per second is pretty good. That’s 23.75 mega-bytes per second.
As a comparison 4k video streaming demands about 25 mega-bits per second.
Are we saying that MSFS draws such a huge amount of bandwidth? That seems quite excessive but I guess it is pulling ground mesh and textures continuously.
I’d say that stuttering is more likely to be caused by your disk drive trying to write all that data into a cache or writing huge amounts of data to a swap file perhaps. Total guess. I switched off my rolling cache because I’m never fly the same.place twice. I get fewer pauses and smoother frame rates. Less crashes too. Maybe worth a try?
Thank you for the explanation.
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