Is loading time for scenery and objects dependent on CPU or RAM? When I approach Stockholm I experience heavy stutters for a couple of seconds (then it’s fine). I have the Orbx Stockholm scenery installed. I have a decent CPU (i7 10700) and an RTX 4070 but only 16 gb RAM. Could the RAM be the bottle…

this is a rare time that yes, RAM is your bottleneck. Sort of. Now your CPU aint bad but this game is still CPU heavy and is likely processing slower than what your GPU can render at. But you’re asking about RAM in this case. MSFS will use around 14-16gb (average high-ultra settings) under most ci…

Thanks! I ordered a new set of 32 gb RAM and I’ll see if it gets better. Next step will be a new CPU but we’ll see how the extra RAM works out first.

If you unload Orbx Stockholm, do you still get the stutter on approach?

I’m not able to check for a while but I don’t think so. Didn’t have the problem before buying it. It’s not even just stutter, it’s a complete freeze for a couple of seconds.

While I don’t discout that RAM could very well be part of your problem, I must also tell you that I have similar effects when flying into an area with heavy PG or city scapes from SamScene or Orbx. I can’t say if they’re of the same magentude, but they are definitely there. And I have 64 GB DDR5. I…

Fast NVME drive may also help. I recently replaced my SATA SSD with NVME and it’s 10x (if not more) faster.

I’d venture to ask more specific questions such as the resolution you’re playing at, not to mention what your stats say is your actual inhibitor. Can you screenshot it? I’m running an older PC myself with lower end GPU but slightly newer CPU than you and run into no stuttering issues at all at 2K r…

A complete 2 seconds freeze shouldn’t be RAM related, except if you’re paging maybe, and even then it can’t be confirmed. However it is true that you’re kinda short on RAM. I have 32GB RAM, run two monitors and generally have Chrome with several tabs (>10) on one monitor and the sim on the other one…

Test that. And there’s your answer then. You have stutter with the Orbx Stockholm, but no stutter without. However, if you have the stutter regardless, then it can’t be the scenery.

I installed the new RAM and the freezing when approaching Stockholm has vanished. The load times when starting the sim and a flight are now noticeably shorter too. However I still experience low fps inside the Fenix when looking at the center of the instrument panel, especially at my home airport of…

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SebastianJ7210 September 13, 2023, 5:54pm 16

Same experience here! You can check in this link