When dragging windows around, or adjusting windows in multi-screen setups, your GPU can get behind the task of updating a moving window.
Disable all eye candy, including updating the contents of dragging windows:
Should help avoid crashes and maybe give a few more fps.
FYI, in today’s era of powerful PCs, there is no need to change the visual effects settings. Incorrect settings may prevent you from joining or opting out of the MSFS beta version.
Agreed. Those settings have been around since Windows 95. At that time you could actually influence performance with animation settings. In today’s time, those settings have so little impact on a PC as to be insignificant. In addition those settings only have an effect when working with Windows windows (don’t know how to put it differently. They shouldn’t affect MSFS in any way and the windows in the background don’t do much. CLOSING any unneeded windows in the background will probably do more for your performance than those settings.
Absolutely false. Try running half a dozen windows in 4K - or stretching a display window across several 4k screens, and adjusting other windows to get a wrap-around view. Whoever marked your post as “solution” is simply wrong.
And this has nothing to do with any beta. It alters nothing in the sim itself.
There’s only one “root full-screen window” possible in MSFS. That’s why you see people complaining that they only get frame generation in the full-screen window without a title bar.
When using multiple windows, ALL the other windows have a title bar. As does your main window, it you require it to span multiple screens.
Ask anyone who’s got a multi-window setup how much of a pain it is to position windows properly. Updating both the window you’re moving AND any other underlying MSFS window at the same time definitely increases the load, and can cause crashes.
Instead of saying it doesn’t make a difference, why not give it a try and test your assuptions first? Resizing an 8k x 2.5k - 4k window across 4 screens is a problem even with 32gb of vram. Not forcing repaints while resizing avoids crashes.
It seems to me that you may not be fully aware of how MSFS works and how system settings can affect MSFS and Windows apps.
Below is a confirmation of what I mentioned earlier
Again, totally irrelevent. Never mentioned any beta, so a red herring and turning off superfluous graphics effects doesn’t prevent the sim from running. Why not try it and see for yourself (requires multi monitor 4k displays).
It’s definitely better.
I corrected the link because the previous one is only accessible to users who participated in closed beta tests (thx 4 info @SmotheryVase665 )
The issue was related to the Xbox Insider Hub app and MSFS.
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/cannot-install-wu5-minimum-game-version-required-is-1-16-2/410373/66?u=tenpatrol
Every change in settings can affects Windows, its applications and MSFS.
So guys everything you do is at your own risk.
That’s what you get for doing the beta program - software with known glitchiness.
Here’s the hierarchy of CPU/GPU performance “neediness”:
4k is pretty much the standard for new TVs, so better get used to it.
Look at the cockpit builders running multiple computers and screens - nowhere near the same class of hardware as an xbox or something running at 1920x1080.
You do you - but don’t claim that everyone “doesn’t need” tweaks that increase performance while lowering the risk of CTDs when moving windows around.
Or just look at the extremes people will go chasing a couple of FPS. I could overclock like them - but I like my CPU staying below body temperature. That’s why my setup is $20k and rising over the last 2-1/2 years. It REALLY pumps out the pixels.
As I mentioned earlier, the issue was related to the Xbox Insider Hub application and the changes to the “visual effect” settings that you suggested.
And that has NOTHING to do with my original post. It’s so completely off-topic it makes me wonder what you’re trying to prove. “Tech Knowledge?”
Seriously, back in the 90s I got my then employer (a network manufacturer) to pay $2,300 to enroll in a REAL beta program. And we were totally responsible for any issues it caused. That’s how beta programs work. The beta program for FS is just an “early release”. No tech knowledge required. No real “requirements” at all.
Anyway, it’s lunchtime, I’ve been working all morning on my next project, and after lunch I’m doing some hardware upgrades, so if you want to keep being off-topic, you’ll have to do it alone.
Setting you’re suggesting to disable has previously caused issues with the Xbox Insider Hub app.
It’s not off-topic because I’m referring to the setting you’re suggesting to disable (uncheck).
I’m not trying to prove anything – my posts are simply informational. I feel it’s my responsibility to let other users know that any changes to ‘visual effects’ settings can affect the proper functioning of other apps.
FYI, Xbox Insider Hub app was not in the beta version 
I hope I’ve clarified everything. Users have been warned, so I can now go help someone else on the forum.
So i must admit i have the same settings as the OP described, nothing new for me here
I have this for so many years now, never gave me a problem and i dont need fancy animated
Windows (10 i use ) but if it looked like win 95 it is fine with me, but it is good its there and this is not a topic about taste.
But simply a way to slim down windows as operating system to use less resource that benefit performance to the os rather than the programs or games you run.
But it is a personal computer that is what this is about imo and therefore a suggestion of OP
As far as i can tell, this topic is about save resources, from extra’s to make windows like that fancy looking pc or make it look less good which work beneficially to save some system resource like memory.
And this imo have not much to do with how programs handle for they have their own settings
The insider app if it is the windows insider program for beta there is a warning it is there on my screen in yellow maybe someone has it in red or blue dont know if this can be changed prefer able.
But this has nothing to do with insider xbox app program and also nothing in the terms and conditions other than reference to windows policy, so as always, use at your own risk.
I see no other to simrelated things here because i set up my personal computer the way i like it says personal (thought it was mend this way)
I use multiscreen and at the moment i used windowed screen 3840x 3184 resolution
To get all the screens to run the sim in only one window the 3184 height is to add 1024 to it to fit it right
And i think this works nice for my setup, using 1 beamer and 3 monitors connected thru matrox tripplehead2go so four screens seen as two screens on my graphicscard intell arc 770 phantom.
Monitors stacked like this photo
I noticed in experimental multiscreen setup that i had to run the tripplehead2go screens in res1920 x 1080 while beamer is doing 3840 x 2160 res to manage to resize equally.
But both screens could run borderless
Nevermind.
To others i would say not promote at all but if you do, do use at your own risk.
This topic caught my eye. Before I clicked on it I thought oh boy there will be a ton of disenting opinions. I was right. Lol. After reading all the posts I was none the wiser. Lol
Au contraire, it looks like this entire topic doesn’t reply to you, since you probably aren’t running more than 1 screen, and definitely not multiple 4k screens.
Post a pic of your setup to prove me wrong. Mine is easily visible at Low Vision PC
I have an idea, let’s have an argument about arguing.
i have always ran all my windows versions like that, all eye candy off, don’t need it
I have a better idea - getting back to different ways to optimize our hardware and software for better exprriences.
Though I wonder how much negativuty will be generated if/when I pkst about a workaround to use the Intel Deep Link tech to get two Intel Arc 770LE cards to work as master and slave, 32gb combined vram, 512 bit combined vram bus, that’s 33% better than an RTX4090, for way less $$$.
As an owner of an Arc 770, I would say that it would make for an interesting new topic! 
Well, im still waiting
