Hello Team,
I wanted to share something I suffer last week-end, and find the root-cause, and solve it, and i’m pretty sure it could help people to know what happened here.
TL;DR : If you encountered stuttering issue every two seconds using a “add-on” airplane, it could be cause because someone else using the same airplane in the area use custom livery. The way to fix it is, changing your server, or add the livery on your folder. This issue doesn’t seem to be there with “standard MFS airplane”.
The long story : I’m playing a lot with the P28-R from Just Flight, that’s my first add-on and i love it.
I’m playing with few friends and we use the same airplane.
This week-end we made a full flight crossing France, everything was working fine.
Then, we make a little pause, and go back to the game, and I was suffering for a huge stuttering (like, the screen freeze litteraly every 2 seconds) without any way to fix it… I let my friend move and just try to fix it myself and was thinking it was an issue with the airport (Nice airport) since world update. I disable few things and, everything was working well.
Then, arriving at my destination where my friend was, stuttering just coming back. So i remove all my add on, reinstall things, try to check a LOT of settings, nothing to fix the stuttering, even moving to LOW setting in 1080p instead of Ultra 4K, same issue.
The next day, i was preparing my plane, everything was working well.
Then, my friend join me, and stuttering coming back. For the joke we said it’s his fault everytime we share a server i suffer from stuttering… But somehow we fix it, i wasn’t able to see the plane of my friend but didn’t add any stuttering, so, we move forward and go to the air…
One hour later, stuterring coming back, in the same time, my friend told me “Hey ! I can see you”… I was like “Well, that’s awkward because now i suffer stuttering”.
After some checking, we found the issue : We both have the P28-R from Just-Flight, but my friend add custom livery on it. The custom Livery, for some reason, on a add-on Plane, create a large stuttering for everyone in the server using the same airplane (we were 3 having the same airplane and two of us was suffering about stuttering)
We did not encountered this issue with “standard” airplane from MFS, if someone use a custom livery for the SR22 or any airbus, we don’t have any stuttering, it seem to be only when the plane is an “add-on” and the livery is not include “by default” on his add-on.
I think the issue could solve a lot for people suffering from weird stuttering here.
Second thing is the fact that, while i suffer from stuttering, i’m not able to see the airplane with the custom livery at all. It look like my computer try to download it every two seconds without finding a way. The only way to fix it was to add the custom livery on my folder and stuttering goes away.
I wanted to share my experience, the root-cause involve and how to fix it in case Asobo is not aware about that, or anyone of you. Nobody was thinking that a custom livery for a add-on airplane will destroy the performance or all player using the same airplane on the area…
Take care and have a safe flight,
Elu.