Just after MSFS was released, one of the first flights I tried was in the Cub in a storm, in a lightly populated area. At that time, I was amazed at the performance with Ultra settings. As you can see in the pictures and in the enclosed video, I was getting consistent frame rates from the 80’s to over 100.

 

 

 

Out of curiosity, I tried the exact same flight today and the frame rates are now 40’s to 50’s, or about half the frame rates that I got several months ago. Even with medium settings, I get nowhere near what I got several months ago with Ultra settings.

I have also replicated other early flights and the frame rates were much higher than what I am getting now.

This is totally baffling. Microsoft/Asobo must have done something which caused such a drastic lowering of the frame rates. I can never fly with Ultra settings now and yet I was able to in the very early days of MSFS. My MSFS installation is pretty much stock with no addons...free or payware. I would never have known or believed that, had I not made some videos early on. Has anybody experienced the same thing or does anyone have any idea about what is going on?

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Edited February 28, 20215 yr by MauBen
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My experience too...performance has slowly degraded with no add ons myself.....

I feel both performance and visuals degraded since initial launch build