I’m flying on comparatively low-end hardware, but prior to the update I had decent stability as long as I kept my graphics to the preset “low-end” settings.
Not so anymore. Immediately after the update I started crashing to desktop with no error message after an hour of flying or even less.
I ended up getting a box fan to put under the machine, just in case it was an issue of an overheating CPU, but the fact that that did nothing makes me think that it’s a software problem.
Asobo really needs to take this kind of thing seriously, I may as well go back to FSX if this is how it’s going to be throughout the software’s life cycle.
Honestly, we should ALL get the Beta tester liveries if so much is going to remain broken and unfinished this long after initial release.
I’ve found that running at any resolution aside from what’s native to your display is no bueno. Changing to 1080p may have actually hurt you, and certainly hurt your visuals. Assuming of course you are running on a “2K” (aka 1440p) display to begin with.
I haven’t read the whole thread but I find after this update the sim is super stuttery. I will be cruising along and you can see micro stutters, just tiny little pauses every 2 seconds. Super annoying. Frame rates show 40ish… but it is laggy. Usually happens after an hour or so? I am on a mid level PC… but it has run it fine in the past on mostly high settings… Ryzen 5 3600, 5700XT, 32GBs ram… 100mbps internet.
Yesterday, I flew a savage cub which is just a mechanical aircraft with no digital guages and autopilot and the framerate was butter smooth. It looks like it’s a problem with glass cockpit airliners where it eats up frames even when you’re not focused on instruments, something that has been messed up in last update.
Hi
I have the same problem
I9 9900k -5Ghz, RTX3080 and 32GB ram
I have 18-20 fps on EPWA , but some guy with GTX1080Ti and I7 8700k have a more fps 24-27 - (Boeing 787)
I wonder if asobo will solve your problem? and where is the problem??
YES THIS! It is so brutal. Right now I am cruising along in the CJ4. 36-40FPS… YET it is stuttering along. Little pauses every second. Terrible. I have never used another sim other than FSX and this but I am tempted.
When I have insdie view tham my gpu is usage ca 50% but when I have outside view then is 90% and I have more fps,
Why gpu usage is not inside the same as in outside view?
That’s because when you are inside the cockpit, something other than GPU is holding back your frames and GPU has to render lesser frames per second which effectively means the utilization is lesser. In this example, it’s your CPU that’s stressing itself to render those glass cockpit instruments. When you are outside the aircraft, you’re not focused on those instrument panels so the CPU has lesser work to do and the target framerate falls on GPU leading to more utilization. Hope I could explain that well enough!
Lesser frame rates within the cockpit with glass panels has always been the case, not sure if it can/would be resolved. The problem that has cropped up in last update is that the FPS doesn’t improve when you are behind the cockpit in passenger view. Also, many people (myself included) are finding degradation in overall performance since last update, especially in airliners. Funny since the last update was actually supposed to optimize RAM consumption of ATC as per the release notes so effectively we should have seen better performance, not worse.
One FPS killer I have noticed is when you open any window, such as the map, in window mode. Currently, I have reverted my Nvidia driver to one installed beginning of November last year. Now I have my fps back. If you still have this issue try to install an old driver - perhaps MS doesn’t support the current Nvidia driver yet.
Couldn’t agree more. Found some screenshots from September, and the sim looked so much better then - both graphically and in terms of FPS. I went from running high-medium settings at 50fps, to low settings at 30fps. The graphics seem to get worse with every single update, as well as the fps. It’s not fair, we paid for a product we should expect updates to improve it, not make it worse and sometimes even unplayable.
