Stutters still present for me as well by heavy airports like Seattle before you get to it, but weather, wind and the way lod is streaming now is different and on ultra preset it seems things go out farther at altitude of 500-3000 feet
I’m still seeing full usage of the GPU. This is what I’m seeing over San Diego (paused, in the drone)
Ultra everything, 200 LOD etc, 8x8 supersampling and 2048 shadows.
Here’s my CPU/GPU usage
Memory usage looks higher than I;m used to (21Gb here) and GPU usage looks higher at 7Gb
i9 10900K, 2080 Super, 32Gb RAM
Not sure I;ve ever seen it looking this good
Well if they are doing something I hope they keep doing it. This looks like the trailer videos to , never seen it running like it has today 
Nice system and screenshots, I’m going to go load San Diego and check the area out?
True, I also noticed that detail was pretty good at FL 390 or so, I still got large stutters coming into LA probably because of all the photogrammetry rendering. However live weather was working good as well as winds.
LOD seems to be a bit better than before at low altitudes (I noticed more trees) but between about 5000-10000 feet there’s still noticeable blurry textures and such for me. Idk though, I only did a flight around an hour ago and started maybe 2 hrs ago. So perhaps a restarted game will do the trick.
Also if game matters, I connect to best ping server which is west coast.. for me..
I haven’t flown for several days. On seeing this thread, I decide to see what these reports of improved performance were about. I am one of those who had zero problems since launch, so I don’t really know if I should see an “improvement” in any case. I’m pulling down circa 30fps on all Ultra @ 4k. Everything here is the same, so I can’t say I see any “improvement”, but I am certainly happy for those who are. Maybe a server-side upgrade that affected only certain hardware configs, I am thinking.
Well if anyone from the dev team are reading this, it would be nice to know if something is being changed?. If it is it’s working well for me.
Odd, doing my usual benchmark, from Chicago executive to downtown. I started at 150 LOD, increased it to 200 and gained average 4-5 fps increase.
I’m flying low n slow in a Cessna 172 it’s a vast improvement for me.
There’s not really any objective evidence that Asobo did anything at all. In fact, it being a Saturday in France suggests the exact opposite.
Variation in server-side performance could have just as easily come from a massive drop in the player count because the game has lots of issues and people are tired of waiting for a patch.
Of course, if Asobo would ever try communicating what they are doing and plan to do, we could stop trying to spin potentially random events as divine intervention.
Could make sense if they have enabled it to make better use of Ram as if it all fits into your available ram it wont have to keep loading it in so often .
Just a guess
Errr - adding LOD gains FPS? Nice!
Maybe it’s power of suggestion (hahaha) or some weird coincidence but I swear the background of NYC is actually being drawn now, even though I’m still a bit far off (which is MUCH better than what it looked like last week).
Maybe they have fixed some network stuff???
I also read a blog about port forwarding to MS FS’s TCP/UDPs and I did that too.
Nice pics. Do you get a big FPS increae with multiplayer off? I don’t use it at all. I also don’t think I;ve made any changes, and have never mucked about with xbox networking or anything - all vanilla for me
But I think you’re right about NY skyline - pretty sure I couldn’t really see it from JFK until I got a bit closer
Well I went from 100 to 200 today after I saw it was running smoother at 100. I’m capping my fps at 30 anyway as I find that much better for various reasons but it’s stayed really smooth and stutter free at 200 LOD and looks incredible