Hi all, I’ve been getting terrible FPS in the final 1500ft of any approach I do. Departing an airport and enroute is fine, it’s only when I get close to the ground that I really slow down.
Is this perhaps a bandwidth issue? I would of thought that if it’s GPU related then all stages of flight would be bad.
Thanks
I’d say its more cpu/memory as there are a lot more objects to be rendered once you are closer to the ground.
But yes, if you are getting stutters, it could also be related to your connection with the server for photogrammetry.
Have you tried turning photogrammetry off? Have you tried turning down the graphic settings? Perhaps you can provide your PC specs and someone with a similar system can put forward the settings they are using?
For me it’s not so much FPS it’s stuttering. It’s worse in for more complex airplanes. The small default planes are ok so it must be my system rather than anything related to bandwidth. I have a three year old computer so will need to upgrade at some point.
A 3 year old PC handles the game just fine if you have enough memory and a decent GC. I play with a Intel 4770, 32 Gb, a GT1070 and I’m fine in HIGH quality, except with very complex airports (LFPG for instance), where it can momentarily drop down to 12 fps. I also have 200Mbps DL bandwidth though.
Thanks! I’m running a AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, AMD Radeon RX 580 and 16GB of RAM
I know it’s a fairly modest setup (but I am running most things on Medium or High)
Not expecting anything crazy out of this system but hoped for better than 19fps!
I have the same exact problem with a brand new high end machine. The C152 works beautifully. I get 60-70fps no problems. As soon as I switch to the C172, I get stuttering. I still get excellent frame rates, but the stuttering is terrible. I think it’s a problem with the aircraft, but I’m not sure.
Try adding a pagefile to the SSD. 20GB-25GB if you have 16GB RAM, 45GB-50GB if you have 32GB RAM. Make sure it’s on the SSD; a pagefile on the HDD won’t do much in terms of reducing stutters.
It handles the game fine but there’s still stuttering coming into land esp more complex airports and planes. I’m just saying I think it’s a system issue not bandwidth .
Yes good point. C 152 works a dream for me too, but something like the baron stutters on approach and when turning. Same with the Cerano Moody which I bought via marketplace. There are about four default planes that work well, other that’s stutter. May be some planes better optimised than others
Interesting. How do you add a page file?
There was a theory posted that the planes with EFIS seem to have the stutter. I tried turning off the avionics in the C172 and that didn’t seem to help much. It’s annoying because my CPU is only at 50% and my GPU is at 75%. There shouldn’t be stuttering.
You might want to change you graphics settings gauge update rate to MEDIUM and see whether this helps your fps.
Thanks, I tried this but it has no effect other than the instrument cluster runs slower. I don’t have a problem with the FPS, thanks to your guide I can get 60-70 fps, but it stutters despite this. We talked yesterday and I realize you’re not using VSync, while I am. Do you experience stuttering with the EFIS planes?
No stuttering at all except a few times when the simulator has to load or download a bunch of stuff all of a sudden, which is clearly audible thanks to using a HDD 
In my experience I always got stutters, and lower fps (nearly -20%) when enabling VSync.
Dang, you’re lucky. I’ve been working and working on this, can’t seem to figure it out. Others are in the same boat as me. I think if I could disable Vsync it would probably work, but with my setup I can’t do that, it makes the whole experience jitttery. I tried to disable Freesync on my monitor last night. This didn’t help either unfortunately. It’s so annoying on my machine, I can’t really fly unless I’m using the C152 or one of the Cubs.
Are you using the same Nvidia CPL settings I’ve published? It is the whole set at once otherwise it might not work, because some of these settings are inter-dependant.
You might want to also cross-check you do have Freesync working probably with this:
Nvidia G-SYNC PENDULUM DEMO (5th in the list)
Yes, exact same settings as in your post.
According to Tom’s Hardware review, my monitor is fully G-Sync compatible. I will check this link out, thank you.
I feel if somebody could get to the bottom of this it would help a bunch of people.
Control panel->system and security->view amount of RAM and processor speed->advanced system settings-> performance tab-> hit the “change” buttom-> go to your SSD and type in the values. Hit set, apply, change, etc. and then restart pc.
Set the ground traffic, vehicles and workers to zero and see if that helps.