MSFS 2024 start / launch time is significantly impacted by NVIDIA Control Panel's Maximum Frame Rate setting

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: The time to launch MSFS 2024 is significantly slowed by setting a maximum frame rate in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? Yes and yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you? Every time on sim load

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Prerequisites: Use NVIDIA graphics card and drivers; remove everything from the MSFS 2024 Community Folder.

  1. Before launching MSFS, start the NVIDIA Control Panel then navigate to 3D Settings > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings
  2. From the Select a program to customise list, choose Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, then set Max Frame Rate to 60 FPS (for example)
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  3. Press Apply in NVIDIA Control Panel
  4. Launch MSFS 2024 and observe the time taken
  5. Exit MSFS 2024, repeat steps 1 and 2, however set Max Frame Rate to Off, then press Apply
  6. Launch MSFS 2024 and observe the time taken

Expected result: NVIDIA Frame Rate cap should have no impact on the time taken to launch MSFS 2024
Observed result: The NVIDIA Frame Rate cap has a direct and significant impact on the time taken to launch MSFS 2024, as shown below. The vast majority of the time lost is in the “Loading language” phase of launching MSFS 2024. Note I have performed these tests multiple times to ensure the data is reliable.

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It’s quite possible that this isn’t unique to NVIDIA - but I don’t have the ability to test with another GPU.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant: N/A

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No

[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card. Please state your Graphics Card Driver Manufacturer (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) and Version: NVIDIA RTX 3080, driver version 566.36

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? i5-13600KF, 32GB DDR4 RAM, NVME SSD, Windows 11

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Nothing new, but thanks for the details I have already reported this several times, the Nvidia filters also have a huge influence on the loading time

Simply turn everything off, reactivate it in the main menu - Riva Tuner can be helpful for this - can be activated afterwards!
Since then I have normal loading time!

BR

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Thanks - I think it was your comments in some other posts that put me onto this. But however hard I searched I couldn’t find your comments again, and I wanted this to get some more attention by having a dedicated post with the bug report tag. Hopefully Asobo can add it to the bug backlog and investigate it at some point.

I’ll take a look at Riva Tuner as a workaround.

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WOW, the last time I saw something like this was in Fallout 4.

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I’m very curious about this post and just run a quick 4 MSFS2024 launch tests. Each separate by a Windows reboot. My community folder is empty.

2x with fps limit and 2x set to Off. Sorry, but I didn’t see any differences.

On my PC, fps limiter via nVidia App seems to have zero impact.

RTX 3080, driver 366.36, nvidia App 11.0.1.189, FG mod, DLSS 3.8.10. i710700kf, 64GB, Windows 11 23H2.

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Interesting, thanks for checking. I’m defintely not alone in having this problem (see arniex78 above) but it sounds like there is also some other factor in the mix which means it doesn’t occur universally.

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