I have had MSFS since release but always suffered from stutter on take off, approach and touch down. I’ve tried all the various ‘fixes’ out there with out any luck. This is even after a hardware upgrade to a 3080 and an i7 13700. I have the steam edition installed on a fast NVME drive with Win11 on a SATA SSD. I initially thought the stutter may be caused by access to the community folder in my C users folder on the average sata SSD so I moved it to an NVME with a symbolic link. This made no difference. My system has an old slow HDD although nothing associated with MSFS is on it. However, looking at hardware monitor noticed that every stutter coincided with a spike of disk activity on the slow HDD. I checked to see if I had a a pagefile set up on this drive but there wasn’t . Also the rolling cache is not on this disk.
The fix: I went to Disk Management, right clicked the slow HDD, select properties, select the polices tab and un tick ‘enable write caching on this device’. This completely stopped disk activity on this HDD and eliminates all my stutters.
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Let me clarify your instructions. This is on windows 11:
Search disk and click on create and format partitions
Right click your drive
Go to properties
Under hardware click on properties
Go to policies
Uncheck enable write caching
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Interesting. Have you checked the disk’s S.M.A.R.T.? I vaguely recall having a similar issue with stutters years ago. I did latency tests and it eventually led me to diagnosing a failing HDD.
Correct but only on a slow HDD when your MSFS install is on a different SSD/nvme
So this old HDD is not a system drive, correct? Why was Windows just randomly writing stuff to it? Seems strange