Opening the ATC window causes a stutter

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: A stutter / freeze is generated each time the ATC window is opened. It seems this didn’t happen in beta 1.6.3

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

Always

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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  1. Open the ATC window in flight

YOUR SETTINGS

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What peripherals are you using:

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

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 5080

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? Ryzen 7800X3D, 64 GB 6000 MHz DDR5

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Yes I see this also. I think the ATC window is dynamically loading in the previous communication messages when it is opened (rather than them being updated in the background) and hence causing a stutter. I guess this is ‘optimisation’ for the simmers not using ATC.

9800x3d/rtx5090/32gb/500mbps/ultra settings

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Also getting this, the more messages in the window the worse it is. Was fairly bad around Adelaide International this evening. The stutter occurs even if you minimize and then expand the comm window.

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Same issue here, massives slutters when opening the ATC window, except that all is slutter free

You can also see in this video the classic ATC issue wich consist to send multiple planes on the runway while you are cleared to land on short final.

And the thing that you can’t click on any button when someone else is speaking on the radio is really really annoying

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Yes you should be able to switch frequencies even if someone is talking on your current frequency. It makes no sense for the ATC window to prevent this.

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Same here, opening the ATC menu now causes a stutter in 1.6.5 SU4 beta (in the moment it’s opening)

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I think this was introduced on the last release.

It seems to get worse the longer the flight goes on. Oddly it even caused the engine on the airplane I was using to briefly stall.

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If it helps for diagnosis, I’ve seen this on some other menus, but much worse on ATC. I also had an experience in VR, where I turned my head fast and the open ATC menu came into view. Once it hit my view the same kind of stutter happened.

As a workaround, I keep it opened and minimized.

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The textbox is also much more broken than before, when it starts to get populated it’s almost impossible to read old messages… the slider seems forced to go up when trying to browse the text and the text disappears randomly.

It’s really baffling how Asobo cannot fix what should be a simple text box, it has always had one or the other problem through all these years.

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Yes the window/textbox has always be broken, but at least in SU3 it wasnt freezing the whole game…

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Only noticed this a few days ago flying the A2A Comanche, the stutter when opening the ATC window feels like you are hitting a vicious speed hump in a car . Not noticed it getting worse over time though, but I rarely do flights over 1 hour or so.

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That’s the same issue with the slider and mouse that I reported here in the Control Settings.

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Yes there is clearly an UI issue, IDK if It’s causing the slutter for ATC, because the scroll issue in the ATC box is here since the SU1 for me but I never had this kind of slutter before

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Yes, 1.6.7.0 SU4 Beta suffers from this ATC stutter

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Indeed still the same in last build

Chewwy94 17

Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.

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SU4 beta 1.6.11 still has this issue for me.

5800X3D, 7900XTX, 32GB 3200, Win11 Steam

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Oh no :sob:

I had some hopes when I saw this “Fixed an issue where the ATC communications could be cropped when replies were displayed” ..

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I still get the stutters when opening the ATC window. In fact the whole ATC seems to affect performance, especially on final approach, or when ATC is about to talk. I’ve done a few flights without using it now, and performance is much better.

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Still not fixed in beta .13.