For me, there’s three types of fps issues:
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reproducible, extreme and recovering (high Manipulators in FPS display):
The issues described with the example of 76T or some VORs that if you fly close to you get 1-3fps at max and as soon as you gain distance it suddenly fully recovers.
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non-reproducible, playable and recovering (high MainThread in FPS display):
Randomly appearing fps drop to ~15-20fps not specific to a location for me. Recovers when I simply continue (recovers even if I fly circles around the spot of occurrence).
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non-reproducible, playable but not recovering (high CoherentGTDraw in FPS display):
Appeared yesterday in Peterborough (UK) on the arrival of a 2-leg segment back to origin. No Photogrammetry, probably everything cached. Did not recover by turning online mode off, setting to clear skies etc. Receovered after going to main menu and spawning again.
I think many threads are not specific enough which “Stutters” they really mean - but they should as otherwise you’ll get responses that are all over the place just because they are talking about completely different effects with probably entirely different causes.
Luckily I ran into these issues only rarely (most I’ve seen is case 2, happens 1-2 times each flight, the others did happen only 1-2 times since WU3 except if I try to reproduce them).
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Welcom to CPU Potato land. Mine is O.C. and it’s from 2010. lol.
This is interesting we may be dealing with several issues
We definitely do. And if you read the countless threads, you’ll see people writing various effects in random threads, diluting the view on what unique issues there are.
Many reports aren’t precise either, since low fps and stutters could mean anything of the above.
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lol I have an i5 8400 and that’s the real OG potato. Its locked @3.8ghz with only 6threads.Don’t blame me bought it over 3 years ago when I knew little about cpus 
I am hoping to get my hands on the 5600x before the price skyrockets again.I am hoping the 5600x performs some miracles.
■■■■■ dude you are flying. I have an i5 2500k O.C. at 4.5. lol. And it was working great before this update.
Yes I am flying but with micro stutters a lot due the low clockspeeds.When I get my hands on the 5600x I will let you know the improvements.
Can’t you overclock the 8400? The O.C took mine from 3.7 to 4.6 I went down to 4.5 for long term stability. I manage 65fps on sparse areas and lowest in london was 25fps all ultra 2k. Except for object detail all sliders at 100%
No that’s why I mentioned its locked. Any intel cpu that does not have a K or X cannot OC so you loose out on some performance. Anytime the 8400 had 12 threads and the ability to OC I would probably keep it a little longer but that job was handed to the i7 8700k which brand new is more expensive than a 5600x.
Terrain Level of Detail and buildings maxed out has the largest performance impact on my system.The rest of stuff I can max out.
Oh right that sucks… Yeah those have the largest impact on mine as well. I paired it with a 2080s so most graphic stuff I can get quite high it’s when it involves the CPU that I must be careful.
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Yes exactly I have a 2060super which is lower tier than a 2080super.I do have to knock down some stuff on 1440p ultrawide. Ambient Occlusion,terrain shadows,texture res and clouds to high.Otherwise I find the bottleneck on the cpu is much worse.
LICC, Cairo city, LICJ, EBBR, KATL, Catania City, Tuscany…etc…etc…
Just west of the port in Reykjavik while flying around Iceland. FPS dropped from 45 to 12, GPU dropped to 10% and my processor jumped to 75%. About a minute later everything went back to normal. I circled back and sure enough it happened again in the same exact spot. The interesting part is I started circling over the area of trouble and eventually everything cleared and I didn’t have any more trouble. I turned around and flew back through the area again and the FPS never dropped and my GPU stayed at 95%.
Columbus, Ohio is another trouble spot for me. Particularly south/southeast of KCMH. GPU drops to 20% and I get about 18fps. Once I get back to north of downtown or to the west side of the city my GPU jumps back to 75% and the frames go back up.
I was flying RJTT to RJFF I just rage quit on it. I thought I could persevere but a simple 90 minute flight was taking over 2 hours and became so slow and unflyable I lost it. It’s the worst its ever been and my setting were fine until recent updates. Shame because my TCA joystick and throttle showed up yesterday too.
KIWS is always a stuttering mess for me.
I see many talk about 76T so I loaded up there as well. As expected I also got a lot of stuttering.
What I found interesting is that if I change to Drone Cam and slew away from the airport (1-2 kilometers) then the stuttering goes away. This is something I can reproduce whenever/wherever I get this stuttering. I can locate the exact spot where the stuttering occurs and slew back and forth a few meters and trigger the stutters on and off.
Another observation is that while I usually am limited by GPU or MainTread, I am always limited by Manipulators in these cases. Does anyone know what that would indicate?
I do not see any change in memory usage (RAM nor VRAM) when I am getting the stutters.
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Except that for alot of us it dont matter where we’re flying. Dont matter if I try to fly from Cleve Oh to Erie Pa, it dont matter If I just randomly fly through the south texas desert, nothing but cactus and adobe huts. It dont matter if I have PG on or Bing or have Data off. Still does it. Never did it before. Does it on two different but similar machines.
The only thing that seems to make one little bit of difference here is the icue / steelseries software. If I kill that before I launch, I might and I mean might get an extra 10 min before it starts.
This morning started flying around 6:30 am eastern, Dam thing was butter smooth, (pg off) and Im flying along land at the next airport save log take off again still running real nice, the clock hits 7:04 on the computer, and BAMMMM stutter city just like that. Everyone woke up and went to work school play online. Its about the right time of the day for something like this to happen (am prime time). And with MS having issues with it Azure service ( which this rely’s on ) hmmm, well just another variable for the fodder.
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76T (Bishop) Guaranteed every time
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LPPT at night. Stutterfest.
I love how people who aren’t sure go here then say “Wow - that is bad”…something this repeatable just should not occur.
The fact that is so repeatable means that the developers should be able to figure it out quickly because it is not intermittent nor only affecting a small subset of users/hardware.
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