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Brief description of the issue:
Note: This might only be reproduceable on mid to low end hardware (see DxDiag.txt for my specs).
Since some time I monitor situations on the sim where loading times from world map into the flight take up to 20 Minutes after completing or aborting some other flight in before. As the flight loaded I usually got 2FPS - If I let the sim just run the FPS slowly increase back up to my locked 33FPS. This randomly happened since ~SU8 but the likeliness increased since SU10 and especially since SU11.
I usually use MSFS default live traffic in combination with AIG but also traffic injected using simconnect, however I focus on live traffic as this is a key feature of the sim. I noticed that the low FPS situation is a thing when I have live traffic with AIG enabled.
Also I found out that whenever the flight loaded with low FPS a workaround to this (instead of waiting) is to open the options and set aircraft traffic to “Off”. Instantly the FPS will jump back to 33. Reenabling live traffic afterwards will still lead to stable FPS during this flight. On the following flight however I can see FPS slowly dropping again.
This will continue on the next one or two flights until I reach the same long loading time + low FPS situation again.
As there were improvements on traffic amount in SU10 (or better said traffic now spawns also on gates and taxiways) I watched this situation which led to the duplicated flights bug I reported here: Live Traffic - duplicated flights on ground
To me it seems that these duplicates lead to such performance issues as somehow traffic seems to always get injected over again at least on ground and also seems to stay in some cache. Maybe the sim even tries to inject cached flights over and over again even if the player is sitting at an entirely different airport after a system reboot. As I use AIGs solution this might fill GPU RAM with liveries not even used as the flights are not active in this region.
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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
Precondition: AIG is installed, at best the full pack to create the load needed
- Load a flight in some area with busy air traffic like SoCal or NY, measure FPS
- Fly for half an hour
- Abort the flight in mid air, head back to the menu
- Start the next flight in some other busy region for the next half an hour, monitor FPS
- End the flight
- Load another flight for half an hour, again in some busy area, monitor FPS ← if FPS drop continue
- End the flight
- Whenever the issues start and you end up with 2FPS after the sim finally loaded go to options/traffic and set traffic to “Off”. Apply changes and go back into the flight. Measure FPS
- Switch traffic back on to “live online”, continue the flight and monitor FPS
PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:
DxDiag.txt (108.3 KB)
Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
~SU8
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