Hello everyone. I am a real pilot and a flight simulator user since its 4.0 version. After that I’ve used 5.0, fs98, 2000, 2004 and FSX. Nostalgic of those Chicago Meigs days. (:
This last new FS is really amazing. Congrats to the developer teams!
Although I have an incredible experience, I don’t have a very smooth experience on glass cockpits. My computer has a 2nd generation i7, 16gb ram and a gtx1650. I know it is not a very good setup but I have amazing fps and smoothness on non glass cockpit airplanes. On glass cockpits though I don’t have the same smoothness. I get some stutters sometimes and in general it is a bit slow.
I wonder if there is any setting I could change to make it a little better. I’ve tried lowering the refresh rate but it doesn’t seem to improve anything at all. I don’t notice any changes on low, medium or high. I run it on 1600x900 pixels (my monitor limit) and all the graphic settings on high.
As there are no other GA aircraft with autopilot without glass cockpit, I am a bit stuck cause any long flights get me really tired after a while.
So thanks in advance for your help. Any advice will be appreciated. Sorry if there are any english mistakes, it is not my native language.
I think it’s just an Issue with the sim at the moment.
They introduced the option to lower the instruments refresh rate in a recent patch as they realised it was causing problems.
I have no idea how successful it has been as I am mostly flying the Cessna 172 (steam gauge version).
I have been playing around with the Cirrus SR22 recently though, and I have the refresh rate set to low and haven’t noticed any worse performance. My PC is a bit higher specced than yours though so it might not show up so much on my setup.
Hopefully they will improve the performance in future patches.
There were some mods around to help alleviate this problem but I’m not sure if they offer any extra improvements over the in game low,medium, high options.
Hopefully somebody with more experience with this can comment.
@XTCQuinn Thanks for your answer.
I have lowered some settings and it is a bit better but there is still a noticeable FPS difference between glass cockpits and non glass cockpits. I really hope this can be improved anytime soon.
If someone knows something I could do to improve it a bit more I would really appreciate it. Maybe ASOBO and MS could release some non glass cockpits versions of the airplanes? Me for example, I only fly analog panel airplanes so being restricted to almost only glass cockpit is a problem for some, even though it is probably the future
I have the same problem of stutters with the A320 NEO during taxiways especially in rotation movement and in external view all is smooth. I notice that in external view glass-cockpit are not refresh when you come back in cockpit.
In cockpit view I you switch off all glass-cockpit then there is no more stutters problems.
My computer is I7 9700K with Nvidia RTX 2060 super.
The strangest thing is that I tested FS2020 on a friend’s computer which is high-end I9 10th gen and RTX3070 and those stutters on glass cockpits are still present. I really thought it could be my machine but it’s not. They are a bit less frequent but are still present and frequent enough to break smoothness. There is definetely something bad about the coding of those panels. Besides all my experience with the FS franchise I’ve been using other simulators aswell and the glass cockpit is always heavier but not to the point where any computer will stutter. Besides that, there are still so many bugs with autopilot, FMC and the glass cockpit itself that I would say to someone thinking about buying FS to wait a bit longer. Unless Asobo and MS fix those issues it cannot be taken as a serious simulator, unfortunetely.
I will keep using it and testing it as to fly non glass cockpit planes it is a very good sim (if it is your intention the sim is already good enough). As soon as I see improves on those features I will come back here and feedback again.
I’ve noticed this as well. I have a brand new high end system. Looking forward and not turning during taxi is usually very smooth, but when I turn, the stutters happen in the A320. Does not happen in GA aircraft, or as you said, in external view. So there is definitely a problem with the flight deck panels causing a stutter when processing turns. I don’t notice it too much once airborne. Changing graphic settings makes no difference.
Actualy, for me, with the FBW A320neo, the solution is to switch off the two ND (navigation display) left and right for taxiing. I switch on the two ND just before take off. So of course there is a problem and this why Asobo has put an adjustment for the refresh rate of the glass cockpit but this adjustment is not very usefull for reducing the stutters.
One thing is very interesting, with the Aerosoft CRJ 700, wich is a glass cockpits aircraft, I don’t have any problem of stutters.
