December 16, 20205 yr I have used MSFS since release. Like everyone else who flys flight sims, frame rate was paramount in importance for me. Early on I settled on a frame rate lock of 30 FPS and vsync ON. This gave me a consistent and reliable frame rate of 30+, often reaching peaks of 35 - 40 in the MSFS frame rate indicator. All that changed with the last (US) update. After that my frame rates took a plunge from consistent 30’s to low twenties or worse yet teens. Also most of the bars in the indicator had now turned constantly yellow/red. It made the game unplayable for me so I ignored it for a couple weeks and focused again on P3d v5. Last night out of curiosity I fired up MSFS again, turned on the frame rate indicator and like before it was in the teens to low twenties. Just before turning it back off I thought I thought what would happen if I turned off vsync? Turning off vsync also sets frame rate to unlimited it seems. I did so and imagine my surprise when my frame rate firewalled at 60 FPS, all green with nary a yellow in sight and after flying for 15 minutes or so where it remained 60 plus all green I decided I liked my new configuration very much and will keep my setup at vsync off / unlimited frames. YMMV. For the record I run a i9700k, RTX 2070Super, 32 gigs of 3600 memory, all run at stock clock speeds (except the memory of course) If you too also experienced frame rate loss recently and have been running locked frame rate, give this a try. You, like me, might be in for a pleasant surprise. -Braun
December 16, 20205 yr Unless you know precisely why you are locking your frame rate, don’t do it. This is normal. GregH Intel Core i7 14700K / Palit RTX4070Ti Super OC / Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000 MHz / MSI Z790 M/board / Corsair NVMe 9500 read, 8500 write / Corsair PSU1200W / CH Products Yoke, Pedals & Quad; Airbus Side Stick, Airbus Quadrant / TrackIR, 32” 4K 144hz 1ms Monitor
December 16, 20205 yr I noticed this a few days after the last update. Like you i was limiting it to 30fps as that seemed the sweet spot before. Imagine my surprise when i reverted back and the fps shot up. i still get a lower 30-35fps say flying down the strip in Vegas, or landing at the airport at 1080p AMD Ryzen 7 5800x3d, MSI X570 Pro, 32 gb DDR4 3600 ram, Gigabyte 6800 16gb GPU, 1x 2tb Samsung NvMe , 1x 2tb Sabrent NvME, 1x Crucial 4tb Nvme M2 Drive
December 17, 20205 yr The internal framerate limiter is bugged, especially the 30 fps one. The 60 fps limiter seems to work fine. If you want to limit your framerate to 30, use Riva Tuner (RTSS). 7800X3D | 2x32 GB DDR5-6000 CL32 | RTX 5080 | Alienware OLED 34" | 1 Gbps fiber
December 17, 20205 yr Generally I only turn VSYC on if I am seeing visual tearing in a game that is distracting. Not all games/rendering engines seem to have tearing problems. MSFS doesn't have bad tearing for me. I recently tried X-Plane 11, and the tearing there is really really bad when changing camera views, so vsync on for that one. AMD 3950X | 64GB RAM | AMD 5700XT | CH Fighterstick / Pro Throttle / Pro Pedals
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