I know this will be a very vague question, but what is the general cause for studders?  Is it a setting issue or a hardware?  I have them and wanted to see if I should look to decrease settings, or add memory or other hardware to beef up my system.  

Operating System: Windows 10 Home Edition (64-Bit)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Professional, Intel LGA 1151
Processor: Intel 6th Gen Core i7 6700K (4.6GHz Overclock) Quad Core
CPU Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H60 Liquid Cooling
System Memory: 16GB Kingston DDR4 SDRAM 2400MHz
Graphics Processor: RTX 2070 Super
System Power: 750 Watt Corsair RM Series Power Supply
Primary Solid State Drive: 500GB Samsung EVO 850 Solid State Drive (SSD)
Secondary Hard Drive: None Selected
Networking: 802.11n Wireless Desktop Network Card 
 

System memory could be increased up to 32 GB, however, in my opinion the actual cause of stutters is neither your system nor your settings, but the simulator ifself. Decrease of settings might always help, but stutters will also occur at high frame rates. At least that's what I am experiencing - let's see how much this thing can be optimized further in the future.

Edited November 11, 20205 yr by martinr8

19 minutes ago, martinr8 said:

System memory could be increased up to 32 GB, however, in my opinion the actual cause of stutters is neither your system nor your settings, but the simulator ifself. Decrease of settings might always help, but stutters will also occur at high frame rates. At least that's what I am experiencing - let's see how much this thing can be optimized further in the future.

Thanks.  If i were to tone down the settings a bit, what is the biggest one to start looking to reduce?

1 hour ago, Zimmerbz said:

Thanks.  If i were to tone down the settings a bit, what is the biggest one to start looking to reduce?

In Graphics, change Ultra to High and leave all the detailed settings alone for your first test.

I would also limit fps outside the sim, using RTSS or NCP.  In the sim, turn vsync off.

You do not state what monitor resolution you have set, but 4k is known to tax the system..

Edited November 11, 20205 yr by Bert Pieke

2 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

In Graphics, change Ultra to High and leave all the detailed settings alone for your first test.

I would also limit fps outside the sim, using RTSS or NCP.  In the sim, turn vsync off.

You do not state what monitor resolution you have set, but 4k is known to tax the system..

Thanks.  I'll give it a try.  I am not on a 4k yet.  What should I limit the fps to?

Edited November 12, 20205 yr by Zimmerbz

The photogrammetry is the worst offender in my case. I have stutter-free, smooth flights every time with it turned off. I've had it off for a while but just turned it back on to test again...

3 hours ago, Zimmerbz said:

Thanks.  I'll give it a try.  I am not on a 4k yet.  What should I limit the fps to?

Try 30.

Be careful, limiting FPS can also induce stutters. Limiting FPS to 30 or 60  is most effective when you are actually reaching those numbers and surpassing them regularly. I have never found that limiting FPS gave me a smoother ride, even in the older sims where it was suggested. It might help but you do lose some FPS in the process, so if you are already on low FPS, experiment - it is not a sure fire solution. 

Make sure you render scale is not over 100. On my system, with an older GPU (GTX980Ti), that slider is the single biggest killer of FPS. I leave it on 100, or the settings of 80/90. The other sliders for Terrain LOD and Object LOD have less effect and can be pushed well past 100 with little impact on performance (but also little impact on scenery improvement). I run those at 150.

For almost every sim setting, changing from Ultra to High is almost impossible to notice, yet gives back a few FPS. I’m currently only running clouds at Ultra but in honesty, setting those to high makes very little visual difference in sim either. The grainy appearance is there either way.

With the above settings I get a very smooth and stutter free ride, even in A320 and payware airports.  Smoother than I ever got in P3D, that’s for sure. I don’t even know what my FPS is and I don’t care. In fact I have this far never turned the Developer mode on. 60FPS with the odd stutter is far less desireable than 30 FPS and a consistently visually smooth experience.

Edited November 12, 20205 yr by RaptyrOne