When I run MSFS I don’t feel like I am getting the best performance out of my system. Sitting on the ground at Manchester Payware scenery with fps capped at 30 I am struggling to maintain it with stutters, tearing and fps drops not drastic drops but still drops. I have tried loads of graphics videos, system settings and in game settings to try and combat this but i cant get constant 30 fps on the ground, and even getting tint stutters in the air also. If someone could let me know either the best settings for my system or if I need to Upgrade my parts or just help in general. Thanks Specs are as follows:
MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max
Ryzen 7 3700x (stock cooler)
4 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3000Mhz
AMD Radeon Sapphire Pulse 6800 16GB
TX750M Corsair Power Supply
1TB MP510 SSD
2TB Seagate HDD
Yeah, even fairly high-end systems can have issues at big complex add-on airports.
However, your system seems like a perfect candidate for swapping your 3700x with a 5800X3D. Prices have dropped recently. I’ve heard as low as $280. You could leave everything else as-is, and likely see a dramatic improvement. Just be sure to upgrade your motherboard BIOS before swapping.
Ok that might be what I need to do then as you say the 5800x3d will work with my current setup. I updated my BIOS Yesterday. What cooler would you suggest to go with the 5800x3d I have a corsair 465x RGB Mid tower case
You could easily stay with your current stock cooler at first and see how temps look during MSFS. If your temps stay, say, under 80C then I wouldn’t worry about it.
If you run a synthetic benchmark and force all cores at 100% indefinitely, your temps are going to be high. But… Almost no one ever does that in practice, and MSFS never does that.
If they start approaching 90C in MSFS, then invest in a modest tower cooler (Hyper 212 or similar) and you should be good.
Maccosim Manchester isn’t the best on framerates. I think it’s the quantity of cars in the car parks.
I’ve noticed significant deterioration in fps since the last update. Using the Fenix I used to get about 50 at cruise it’s now nearer 30. Lots more stutters on the ground as well.
Yeah not had great fps since the last update myself. I think I will upgrade my pc to the 5800x3d anyway but might wait until the next update to see if anything improves
I have pretty much the same setup as you and yes, in complex airports I’m below 20fps. I’m pretty sure the limit is the 3700X and well, that it isn’t a 4090. Nevertheless I’m not sure about changing the processor (though it’s not a bad idea) since apparently MSFS 2024 will have multithreading (actual multithreading) and will need to see what happens with the 3700X, which still in terms of multicore performance is a decent one.
I’ve always refrained from writing negative comments about the game, I’m lucky to have never had any issues with crashes and freezes. I do however feel it’s going down hill significantly. Worse fps than the initial release, worse graphics, ground texture issues and that white dot and frame around cockpit screens is just ridiculous that it was released like that.
Yeah may wait until msfs 24 and see what my performamce is like with my current setup. At least I know my specs aint totally wrong which is what I was expecting to be told so always a bright side I just cant seem to get rid of these little micro stutters while taxiing around even basic airports any ideas?
I’ve disabled the rolling cache and the stutters alleviated a lot. Still have some, but much less than before. Let me get home later and I’ll screenshot my whole setup since we almost have the same gear (I’m with the 3700X, Asus TUF 6800XT, 2x16GB RAM bad timings, dedicated 500GB SSD for MSFS, Asus TUF X570 mobo, playing on a 1080p monitor but scaled up to near 1440p).
That is unbearable, and still no solution. The worst part is that sometimes it affects also the ability to interact with knobs and switches. The only solution I’ve found is setting absurdely huge dead zones on all my inputs.
Ok mate thats great thanks for your help made the most sense what you have said to be honest rather than just jumping into upgrading but ive tried so many things to get stutters gone and good fps the only thing i though was left was to upgrade but will take your advice and go from there
Alright, just tested one of the most demanding flights I’ve tested, which is KLAX to KPHX with the A320FBW.
In the airport I’m between 19-23fps, most often around 20. No stutters, but of course it isn’t cinematic at that framerate. Nevertheless FPS are constant with no sudden stops nor anything like that. Just framerate is clearly visible.
Departure rises almost instantly to steady 23-28fps
During climb and cruise I’m steady at 34-40fps.
Descent and approach are at a steady 26fps
Landing is at 20fps with drops to 17 and moving in the airport is between 20-24fps with some drops (much less than when landing).
My settings are WAY overkill for my equipment, so reducing to something reasonable should give you a decent experience. Take into account that in any case, KLAX is a known frame eater. Another thing that could be done to improve performance is disabling all AI traffic. I have disabled multiplayer because I frankly don’t feel a departure from KLAX with an F18 trying to do a sonic boom while crossing an Extra 300 doing lomcewhats is the idea of a flight simulator.
I think I said something like that on another thread, as a joke. Something like MSFS 2024 will support multithreading, but now we need 64 cores and 128 threads. We’ll be massively selling our gear to get a datacenter grade multiprocessor one.
Thanks for all of that will try out those settings later do you use any traffic mods or do you just have empty airports? Could you also show your amd settings aswell please. Thanks
There’s real time online traffic enabled, so airports are populated (that’s what MSFS does through FlightAware when that option is enabled).
And for the rest of the settings they’re mostly default. I have SMA enabled, and pretty much nothing else customized.
You can run MSFS with super resolution to 1440p and have MSFS rendering natively at that res. I’m still testing what gives the best performance, that or supersampling to 135-150% but natively rendering at 1080p which is my monitor res.
Additionally, you could get better performance by enabling rage mode for the GPU, just keep an eye on temperatures. I personally don’t use it since in most airports I fly to, with most airplanes I use, I get normally above 25fps stable as a rock, with very few hiccups or stutters. Of course, something like the A320 Fenix in KLAX will make it struggle, but that isn’t something I do often so I don’t care that much.
All in all after some time I’ve arrived to the conclusion that for me personally the best setup is the one that gives me the best balance I can achieve between frame by frame consistency and eye candy in most scenarios I usually play, and living with the fact that, in demanding scenarios, it will struggle a little.
