The past 2-3 day’s I’ve noticed PG not looking that great & overall SIM performance being a little off from what it has been recently - Not terrible, but noticeably worse.
Last night I took off from Sand Diego Int’l (KSAN) for a short dusk flight in the PMDG 737 and observed a notable improvement in both visual quality (PG) and SIM performance.
This makes me think that internet / MS server performance plays a key role in how MSFS runs day-to-day.
That’s the aircraft.
Don’t know how on Earth they’ve managed it, but it’s the best performing aircraft I’ve used by some margin.
Agreed, PMDG has done wonders for sure!
That said, there’s something more to MSFS performance than just the plane…
I have had recent flights in various aircraft that have been spectacular (visually & performance wise), and other’s where the outside world seemed a little lackluster (less detail) & with a little less performance.
Certainly not anything I can put my thumb on anyway…
PC Gremlins… Microsoft Gremlins ??
I totally, 100%, agree with you.
Honestly though, if I’d never played this sim before and was presented with the 737 (the most complex and detailed aircraft available) I’d have been blown away by the performance. I don’t understand how it can be so smooth, yet a GA aircraft stutters along like nobodies business.
There are clearly issues with CPU load that go back a long way and got worse after SU9, which makes what PMDG have achieved all the more bonkers.
Strangely I’ve switched back on my rolling cache and the PG is starting to load in we
ll again, not sure why that’s seemed to work, I thought it was the opposite but the sim can blow hit and cold quite a lot
I get a similar result with the loss of frames. However whenever I look down and then outside the camera hangs and it stutters. Sometimes the dropped frames causes me to be looking completely the wrong way. Like the mouse and view gets hung for a split second. Happens everytime going from looking down at the controls to looking outside.
Anyone managed to test performance with the new patch?
Has there been a new patch today? Can’t check just yet.
Yes hotfix was released today, however the patch notes don’t mention anything relating to the poor FPS. The update hasn’t started for me yet (updating Windows to see if that sorts it).
Ok, evidently the update is so small I never even noticed it had installed. Confirmed I’m now running 1.25.9.0.
Dare I say, I’m actually getting slightly higher FPS than pre-SU9 now.
Okay on the patch and fps performance has gotten worse for me until about 5000’. Before it seemed to recover at about 2500’. Not listed as fixed and no comments regarding the investigating…
Well, that’s weird. It definitely appears to be fixed on my end 
After 1.25.9.0 fix…
I have now a really unstable FPS from about 19 to 5.
My settings is just a bit lover of High End in Full-HD
I think that something is still not solved…
I just had a test flight. The hangups and lagging have not changed after the patch.
Why is your CPU clockspeed so low?
Your GPU is just there chilling.
After the updating, my fps dropped from 45 to 30 on the big airports. I’m really disappointed.
Performance seems to be all over the place since the latest ‘hotfix’. An increase in stutters noted during panning in external view.
Doh, I was hoping to read this update returned performance to SU8 levels but it seems its made it even worse than SU9.
seems like my performance is even slightly worse too.
I was thinking maybe it is because of all the 737 everywhere around me (which is a positive thing btw).
