wow setting windows for best performance of background services really works to stabilize game performance!  The sim runs much smoother since i changed the setting.  I know this has been discussed before but it really helps noticeably on my computer.

Details please!

Bill Clark

5 minutes ago, sbclark said:

Details please!

Bill Clark

Go to windows settings click on About then click system info then click advanced system settings then click performance settings then click advanced and you'll see it.  Real easy its in your control panel click on system.

On a clean Windows install, it does harm actually.

We should all agree on the fact the "background services trick" is a bug and it helps wherever the OS installation is messed up.

The same applies to Process Lasso.

Keep your system clean and updated guys, and FS will be smooth even on an old i7 with 16 GB.

30 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

The same applies to Process Lasso.

I'm not sure about that. I've found it a very useful tool that can help in certain circumstances, and that is on a well maintained, very clean system. A case of YMMV perhaps, and this maybe true of the background services setting, although that does seem counter intuitive.

I tried this trick last night and it definitely helped smooth out the stutters on my ageing i7 4790k....I saw some 100% spikes but not nearly the same amount.  Tested this from Newcastle to Gatwick in the A320 last night.

55 minutes ago, Novation said:

I'm not sure about that. I've found it a very useful tool that can help in certain circumstances, and that is on a well maintained, very clean system. A case of YMMV perhaps, and this maybe true of the background services setting, although that does seem counter intuitive.

 

The thing with FS is that there are hundreds of variables and even on the same system and settings, if you fly on an area twice you may have a different framerate and stuttering behavior. That's why from time to time someone comes out claiming to have found the Holy Grail of performance, as if a common user or a small software house knew CPUs and Windows better than Microsoft.

I have been reading about Process Lasso since long time and it could actually be a thing when old engines (FSX / P3D v3) could not make use of multicore CPUs properly. But even then, Windows Task manager could assign priorities and affinities without the need of an external software.

I also tested Lasso recently, in the most possible reproducible way (predefined CPU-limited course), and the only thing it did was hurting my 1% lows: 

 

 

On the other hand I didn't see any proof of Lasso improving things, and I mean a video proof of a test in a controlled environment.

Edited September 2, 20205 yr by MrFuzzy

Todd2,

In my case it didn’t help.

Bill Clark

11 hours ago, sbclark said:

Details please!

Bill Clark

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/582850-stutter-the-background-process-bug/?tab=comments#comment-4326789

 

For setting the sim as background process didn't help either but i "clearly" have a lot smoother game when the focus is not on the game window. Stutters reduce a lot if i click on an external windows/app/program outside of MSFS (like on my second monitor) and directly the stutters are back if i click in the sim again. 

9 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

On a clean Windows install, it does harm actually.

We should all agree on the fact the "background services trick" is a bug and it helps wherever the OS installation is messed up.

So I saw this trick completely eliminate long stutters and seriously limit CPU spikes on my system. I’m wondering what you’re basing your conclusions on.

From looking at who seems to benefit most from this trick, it looks like mainly older (and oldish) i5 and i7 processors. What makes you say that it helping or not depends on the OS installation being “messed up”? I’m not seeing any correlation at all. (My own OS installation is, at least as far as I know, very clean and kept up to date.)

James