Guys you gotta try this: if you disable all the optional windows in the custom overhead panel you get a significant performance improvement, especially in CPU / Main thread limited situations. 
I tested this in many scenarios in the last hour and it's reproducible.
I managed to obtain the following over EDDF with the A320 Neo:
* Limited by main thread: from 45.7 to 55.0 fps
* Limited by GPU (external view): from 63.6 to 69.4

Screenshots

This is clearly a bug because all those icons affect the already overloaded "main thread" even if they do absolutely nothing. If you want you can keep the ATC window only (which costs 2-3 fps) but the ATC can be managed by the AI and you don't need the window if you understand spoken English. The ATC works 100% without its window anyway, and even if you want to change the weather or other stuff while you fly, you can activate the corresponding icon just when you really need it.

I hope Asobo looks into this.

Cheers

 

Tested it (with the CRJ). The fps went higher for a short time after deactivating some menu items but went back to normal after a few seconds.

On my system (see sig) the difference is small, on Flatscreen I see a jump of 2-3fps when turning them all off, in VR there's barely any change if any. This was at Parking in the XCub (quick test) so not in flight, there's certainly something eating away at FPS with these icons/windows and I'll take a closer look when I next have a proper flight, thanks for the heads up 🙂

I gained a couple frame per seconds, which is enough to make me happy, thanks

"...disable all the optional windows in the custom overhead panel..."

how??

36 minutes ago, Mike S KPDX said:

"...disable all the optional windows in the custom overhead panel..."

how??

There is a cog icon to the far right, click on that and you can toggle each one on or off

1 hour ago, sidfadc said:

There is a cog icon to the far right, click on that and you can toggle each one on or off

well I feel like an word not allowed... I never pressed that as I thought it just took me into the overall sim settings (I use escape key), did not know it was for the menus only,  thanks

What is AI control?

14 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

What is AI control?

Try it 🙂

lets you toggle on/off the copilot taking over certain tasks/activities 

1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said:

What is AI control?

Basically a co-pilot doing the flying

8 hours ago, MarcG said:

On my system (see sig) the difference is small, on Flatscreen I see a jump of 2-3fps when turning them all off, in VR there's barely any change if any. This was at Parking in the XCub (quick test) so not in flight, there's certainly something eating away at FPS with these icons/windows and I'll take a closer look when I next have a proper flight, thanks for the heads up 🙂

 

8 hours ago, crimplene said:

Tested it (with the CRJ). The fps went higher for a short time after deactivating some menu items but went back to normal after a few seconds.

Don't test it on the runway, fly! 

The fps increase is high and consistent, much more flying 1) because the CPU is busy loading textures from the cloud and elaborating new terrain tiles and 2) because the ATC window fills with messages and creates additional load and stuttering.

With this trick, as a bonus you also get rid of ATC stuttering, a bug reported by the community since 2003 and never fixed!

Edited March 29, 20215 yr by MrFuzzy

Yep read my post i clearly said I'll take a closer look next time 😉

8 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

What is AI control?

In my experience it goes something like:

You: "Today's a perfect day for flying."

AI Pilot: "You mean crashing?"

13 minutes ago, WestAir said:

In my experience it goes something like:

You: "Today's a perfect day for flying."

AI Pilot: "You mean crashing?"

AI is useful for ATC but I never let it handle the aircraft. 

Also, in a real flight you don't have a window with the transcript of the ATC instructions. If you don't understand or don't remember something, you can always re-enable the ATC window on the fly, read it and close it again. 

Is there a key bind to pop up the ATC screen if you need it?

ps. Good find @MrFuzzy!  Kinda the opposite to my findings today... 

 

Edited March 29, 20215 yr by Virtual-Chris