Yesterday i was playing around a bit to get a more smoother (read less stutter) experience. I noticed before that if i opened a window from the sim itself (within the main monitor), like the ATC window but then not the blue ingame window but changed it to a real white Windows window, the sims FPS would just drop, closing the window would bring FPS back up. This was a thing to avoid. But yesterday i had set RTSS open on my second monitor when i all of a sudden noticed that the sim directly ran a lot smoother if i moved the cursor over to the second screen and clicked within RTSS. The moment i clicked back into the sim, more stutter was my part. Found this a bit weird, tried again, same result. Opened another window (Notepadd++) on the second monitor which had the same effect, Notepad++ window active, sim ran smoother on the main monitor, focus back to sim, more stutter.  To be sure, i rebooted and did the same thing, found that just clicking inside the second monitor would give a lot smoother motion than when the main "sim" monitor was active.

Came here to see if i could find something similar, i could not find anything directly so i just DuckDuckGo'ed and then found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/idmdqq/update_msfs_2020_stuttering_when_window_focused/

So for those with stutter (and most of us have), there are some things to try out (i haven't tried everything yet).

Seems the overall problem from this issue is not updating windows to build 2004.  Generally the stutters are ok, unless simconnect is used, then its a different story. But they have acknowledged this with the upcoming patch. 

1 hour ago, HighTowers said:

Seems the overall problem from this issue is not updating windows to build 2004.

That's not the issue, i'm on 2004 since before MS FS2020 got installed. Also, i don't have SimConnect!!

Edited August 29, 20205 yr by Lange_666