My goodness this game is enough to drive you bananas.
I’ve just had the worst experience I’ve ever had in the four years of flying this sim. I’m gonna wait and see what a fresh Windows and a new motherboard does because this is just crazy 
It’s been running really well since the latest Sim Update beta and the released SU1. Really smooth… until a group flight today. Flying in London and when I spawned in it was really stuttering with sound crackling and cutting out, the view in VR freezing and the whole game pausing for like 6 to 10 seconds. Throughout the whole flight, it was really bad. The worst I’ve ever seen including up to 20 SECOND pauses where it looked like it was going to CTD< but it actually didn’t. It came back and carries on like nothing happened.
Really strange that nobody else was having this except at one point we ALL did CTD, but that is a different issue (I assume, and one which I’ll probably make a separate post about because it’s 100% percent reproducible that in one particular spot near Kensington Palace in London, everyone crashed at the same exact point, LOL).
But man, oh man, what is going on here with these MASSIVE pauses? I just found it’s not even that it was BECAUSE of a group flight. I was flying yesterday had a great flight with about 30 people kicking dust up everywhere and it was running absolutelyfine, did not miss a beat. I was impressed, but this was away from photogrammetry.
Today after the group flight disaster in London, I’ve flown on my own and it’s doing the same thing. The sound keeps clipping (crackling) out and little pauses at the same time. Then some bigger pauses, and then it comes back to life. Just now as I approached some photography area I had an almighty 30 SECOND freeze, everything locked up even Task Managers Performance Graph display stopped scrolling – the whole computer is frozen. But it came back!
What could it be?
I’ve also been having USB disconnecting and reconnecting, like my keyboard or the headphones and also having issues with Discord where people can’t hear me but I can hear them (mic‘s not working). And when the computer freezes sometimes all Discord audio stopped as well, but sometimes I can still carry on talking and I can hear people whilst the freeze is happening.
Can anyone tell me the answers to my previous questions up above about why it is suddenly swapping one core for one of the cores on the other CCD for no apparent reason and why it’s not using the other cores when there is clearly a demand for more processing power?
You can see in this latest graph that it is spiking out at the top but even when it’s NOT hitting 100% on any individuial core/thread, I am still getting this same behaviour. I really don’t understand it.
London, when it was glitching REALLY bad (notice the Ethenet is also really spiky):
Alone, during the 30 second freeze (what the…):
My settings are not incredibly high for VR. I have most things on Medium, no air traffic, no fauna, no ships, 36fps target only, not the highest resolution, DLSS Performance.
Even in London when I was too scared to use VR after reloading the game after that CTD we all had, it was still cutting out in 2D (not quite as bad or as often). First time I have flown 2D in 15 months hahah
As for the upgrade to the 9800, in a way I think it’s a downgrade because it’s only got 96mb of L3 cache where my 7950 has 128mb. I’ve got no problem buying and using Process Lasso if I need it, but just not quite sure exactly what I need to set where, that was my problem. I think I had it right but I’m not sure if it really made any difference with the way I had it. I will look again but I was rather hoping using the latest tricks in the BIOS would be a good solution.
I think it ran better when I had NO things set anywhere lol.