Hello,
I remember there was back then in FSX time a cfg calculator. You could provide it with your PC specs and it would calculate and generate a *.cfg file with the according settings.
Do you know if something like that exists for MSFS?
I really love this game but its kinda annoying that my best settings midair cause framestuttering at big airports while its perfect in the air. So I want to find something in the middle so I have the best quality midair and at the airport without getting performance problems.
Not sure about such a calculator, but if you have stutters at big airports you are likely CPU limited there, so the first setting you should look at is terrain LOD, which tends to be the most CPU heavy setting.
You could and perhaps should turn on developer mode and the FPS counter though, and ensure you’re not limited by GPU when this happens; if you are, it won’t help a ton.
It would be simple to write this app., which would be specific to the computer it was run on, provided SimConnect would make available the following variables:
Readout of the current fps (taken over, say, a couple of seconds).
The ability to set/read various graphic parameters (e.g. LOD, anti-aliasing, etc).
The user would set a minimum/desired fps goal. An enhancement would allow the user to specify minimum settings and priorities for some of the graphics parameters. She would then start MSFS in a “medium dense” or other “typical” scenery setting .
The program would do a systematic “search” of the graphics parameters, setting them, measuring the fps, setting them to other values, measuring the fps, etc. Such a systematic parameter search is a well known technique in machine learning.
At the end, the app. would suggest the best graphics settings given the user’s fps goal and the “typical” scenery density. It would thus be based on the specifics of the user’s machine and her fps goals.
I have written such an app in other contexts with similar goals.
