Here is a little FS2024 performance comparison between the Default Bell 407, the Default Airbus H125, the default Airbus H225 and the Taog’s Hangar Bell UH-1. I didn’t include a frame counter, because the difference is obvious without one. Please ignore my flying. I wanted to make each run as short as possible and I use a twist grip for the anti torque pedals.
The Bell 407 and the H125 yield almost perfectly smooth performance. The H225 is harder on the performance, partly because of the complex glass cockpits, but is still pretty usable, despite the sound issues.
The Taog’s Hangar Bell UH-1, however, has severe performance issues, especially in the external view. The cockpit performance is better, but also way more stuttery than the other three helicopters in this lineup. Also, the test area (Pleiku, Vietnam) is not as performance hungry as other areas in the sim, which makes the UH-1 pretty much unusable in most locations, unless you have a high end system. This was not an issue in FS2020, by the way, where the Huey’s performance was really good. You may have seen my Huey Vietnam video.
My system is a i7-8700k with an RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB) and 48 GB RAM. Soon to be replaced with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and an RTX 4080 Super (16 GB) and 64 GB RAM which probably will run the UH-1 fine. Still, regardless of the available computing power, performance optimization is always necessary, if only to reduce power consumption and the stress on the system, as well as leaving more ressources for other tasks. There shouldn’t be any “We’ll fix it in post by throwing hardware at it”. And the Huey is in dire need for optimization in FS2024, in my humble opinion.
