Sudden laggy and low fps, even from the menu

User Support Hub Install, Performance & Graphics
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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: I’m having an fps issue since yesterday. the fps was good around 30-60 yesterday but suddenly when i stopped a flight then restarted msfs, it drops even from the menu. i cant even reach 60 fps anymore even with the lowest graphics and a small aircraft. i tried to clear up the community folder and it’s still laggy even in the world menu, the globe cant move smoothly.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? Yes.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? This only happened once, since yesterday

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
I’m not sure what’s causing this issue. I’m only using FSRealistic as a mod, the rest of them are sceneries and additional aircraft. It worked fine before, but yesterday the fps suddenly dropped

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No, I only changed some settings from the usercfg.opt

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
DX11

[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card. Please state your Graphics Card Driver Manufacturer (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) and Version: NVIDIA RTX 3060ti

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-12700 2.10 GHz
Installed RAM 32,0 GB (31,8 GB usable)
Device ID 33A4AD4E-FDFC-48BB-A23D-BC1538896642
Product ID 00331-10000-00001-AA512
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
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Hi @PetPot6 and welcome to the forum !,

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