Possible Lead on Stutter Issues.

My install of FS was rock-solid (other than the known bugs). I had no stutters, etc. I then remembered I own FaceTrackNoIR and decided to give it a shot with FS. I reinstalled it and ran FS. I suddenly had a myriad of issues. My Alpha yoke vanished from Controls. I also suddenly had a TrackIR entry there even though I didn't think FaceTrackNoIR installed anything (I actually couldn't get it to operate my webcam so I gave up on it). I noticed flying in FS was extremely sluggish. Terrain loaded slowly. The King Air panels would update slowly (planes would ZIP like rockets from point A to point B to catch up when I'd return to the cockpit view). The props spun in a jerky fashion and I had stutters. 

The interesting thing is that I also noticed something strange while troubleshooting the Alpha yoke issue. I noticed that the Game Controllers applet from Windows 10 (Devices and Printers, right click a stick or peripheral and choose "Game controller settings") was extremely slow to load and refresh. This is my go-to testing applet so I now how it normally loads and it's usually snappy and instant. Now it took 10-20 seconds to load and it would drag during a device refresh whenever I left one device to go back to the applet home screen. So, after some poking I decided to do a System Restore to the 24th. Presto. All issues GONE. 

Granted, this doesn't solve others problems, but I did notice in system restore that it noted between the 24th and now a few Microsoft runtime DLLs had been installed and whatever they did clearly did a number on my registry. Some apps that install these might be the culprit, but simply uninstalling those runtimes didn't fix the issue for me.

Edited August 26, 20205 yr by Agrajag