I had the same issues. I went from a 3800x to a 5900x and my sim has been running smoothly ever since. I also play on High setting since that’s what works best with 60fps + in most areas.
Upgrade to the 5900x if you can it’s so worth the money. Just put a Aio on it if you do. I recommend the Arctic 2 240mm if you decide to do it.
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Most others are OK. I have Redcliffe (YRED) and Caboolture (YCAB) from them too, and they’re fine, but they’re smaller. Brisbane (YBBN) is close to impossible to land at. Great to know they’re aware.
I have Sunshine Coast from another designer, and it’s amazing. No slow down. AND you can walk inside the airport and see shops etc. Brisbane - is empty inside. So, strange.
@ Santas9iron Curious, who makes the Sunshine Coast airport you mentioned? I might get that one myself. Thanks
This sim can really be quite baffling at times. As mentioned, I have basically the same hardware you have. I drew up a quick comparison of our settings with blue cells indicating the same for the two of us, Red being the lower setting and Green the higher setting between the two of us:
From this it would appear that my settings are generally better than yours. On LOD it is quite a bit different for instance and I also have a few Ultra settings whwere you are on Medium or even Low. I wasn’t sure about anti-aliasing: in looking online afterwards it seems that TAA is harder on hardware and slower while not better: something I will have to change.
From this one would expect that my performance should be worse. For the first time in >year I turned on Dev Mode to take a look at my frame rates and GPU vs CPU utilisation. A few screenshots of challenging situations:
First off: on the ground at Vancouver CYVR. As mentioned I have FSimstudios’s mod, which used to be quite a challenge. Generally it stayed around 40FPS and it flickered between being CPU Main thread and GPU constrained. And of course the quality of the forum-constrained 1920x1080 images is poor compared to the real 4K screen captures. But at least you get an idea.
And then over the PG Vancouver area. Note that the FSimstudios CYVR mod also includes the floatplane terminal downtown, so that also has an effect.
Greater Vancouver dense building area: still around 40FPS
And then away from the downtown area
And then more towards open terrain:
I also recently did a video over Zanzibar island in 4K. It really is more of a sequence of brief clips while flying over different scenes but, because you can view it in 4K, you can probably get a better idea of the quality that I am getting.
EDIT: Oops, I forgot the video link! https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7-O1vdXaLOw
While I do not have the same scenery as you, I hope all of this gives you an idea of what someone with similar hardware gets in terms of quality, framerates and hardware utilisation. Good luck with your decision going forward!
That’s an amazing analysis! Thank you. I’m going to change my settings to reflect yours and see how I go. That’s really helpful. One thing I am thinking: All your framerate tests are on a small aircraft, with external views. I hardly ever step out of my aircraft. So wondering: Could the aircraft and cockpit have any effects on the framerate? When I see the frames drop to around 14 - it’s usually on finals on an ILS approach using the PMDG 737. I’ll load up a smaller aircraft and look at Brisbane from outside the aircraft and see if the rate picks up.
I think the group was called “Shunts”. Since I bought it outside of MSFS, they have been acquired (?) or now use ORBX as their download.
Here is the scenery I use:
YBSU Sunshine Coast Airport - Microsoft Flight Simulator - Orbx (orbxdirect.com)
Thank you.. I’ll look into that airport!
Most welcome: I actually learned from it as well.
I would be curious to hear how that goes as, on the face of it, my settings seem to be quite a bit harder than yours at present.
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The biggest aircraft I fly is the Citation CJ4. I must say I have not really noticed a drop in FPS on the inside compared to the outside. The only difference I recall is that, when I “look” at the instruments only, the frame rate picks up a bit.
Just out of curiosity I did a very rough and ready VFR approach to YVR to see what the frame rates look like: must say I really cannot see a difference. Some of the shots (and ignore the poor approach: I was not paying a lot of attention to flying! 
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If you look closely here you can see I was no. 2 on finals…
