17 hours ago, DylanM said:

As per this Dev Blog, also handy to submit info to the Windows team through the feedback hub:

Demystifying Fullscreen Optimizations - DirectX Developer Blog (microsoft.com)

 

This was a good read. Easy to understand what Fullscreen Optimization does. 

And now I'm convinced the best thing is to leave it on. 

One performance tip to add (and this is from the MSFS Zendesk) - is to set the display scaling on the exe as well:

Having your monitor's DPI set to a value other than 100% can cause issues with Microsoft Flight Simulator. As such, we would recommend disabling display scaling on high DPI settings for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Find FlightSimulator.exe.
2. Right-click on FlightSimulator.exe and select "Properties" from the pop-up menu.
3. Select the Compatibility tab.
4. Select Change high DPI settings and then select the Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: Application check box.

 

All versions - How to improve the performance – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com)

46 minutes ago, DylanM said:

One performance tip to add (and this is from the MSFS Zendesk) - is to set the display scaling on the exe as well:

Having your monitor's DPI set to a value other than 100% can cause issues with Microsoft Flight Simulator. As such, we would recommend disabling display scaling on high DPI settings for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Find FlightSimulator.exe.
2. Right-click on FlightSimulator.exe and select "Properties" from the pop-up menu.
3. Select the Compatibility tab.
4. Select Change high DPI settings and then select the Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: Application check box.

 

All versions - How to improve the performance – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com)

This is another example of the poorly thought out MSFS documentation IMHO.. These recommendations are a hodge podge of ideas, and the exe file is not accessible by most users.. which they happily ignore.

1 hour ago, DylanM said:

One performance tip to add (and this is from the MSFS Zendesk) - is to set the display scaling on the exe as well:

Having your monitor's DPI set to a value other than 100% can cause issues with Microsoft Flight Simulator. As such, we would recommend disabling display scaling on high DPI settings for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Find FlightSimulator.exe.
2. Right-click on FlightSimulator.exe and select "Properties" from the pop-up menu.
3. Select the Compatibility tab.
4. Select Change high DPI settings and then select the Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: Application check box.

 

All versions - How to improve the performance – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com)

FWIW Dylan, I made this change just prior to my current launch of MSFS from the desktop and for the first time in a long time I was getting intermittent stutters during taxi, after TO and during ascent in the 787-10 HD, so undid the change.  May be a red herring but as I say it was a first in a long time.

Sensitivity settings for the TBM930?

2 minutes ago, Noel said:

FWIW Dylan, I made this change just prior to my current launch of MSFS from the desktop and for the first time in a long time I was getting intermittent stutters during taxi, after TO and during ascent in the 787-10 HD, so undid the change.  May be a red herring but as I say it was a first in a long time.

Sensitivity settings for the TBM930?

It really is system dependent isn't it...I gained a few minimum fps on the bottom end at heavy areas (but do run with gsync and vsync). BTW I'm certainly no authority on the TBM - this is the guide I've followed in the past Sim Hanger. Hope it helps:

MSFS | Sensitivity Settings for Controllers | How To Guide | Get the control you need - YouTube

11 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

This is another example of the poorly thought out MSFS documentation IMHO.. These recommendations are a hodge podge of ideas, and the exe file is not accessible by most users.. which they happily ignore.

As far as I know there is no MSFS documentation.

1 hour ago, bofhlusr said:

As far as I know there is no MSFS documentation.

Umm...this is right from the official MSFS Zendesk

All versions - How to improve the performance – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com)

Troubleshooting & Support - Windows 10 PC – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com)

Edited November 21, 20214 yr by DylanM

Thanks.  Anything else? 

2 hours ago, DylanM said:

Umm...this is right from the official MSFS Zendesk

All versions - How to improve the performance – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com)

 

So we have to turn off our overclocks! LOL.

I think all but the most wet behind the ears have figured out how to do nearly everything required to make MSFS shine, despite the lack of documentation.  I would guess the vast majority of users would not be reading the documentation anyway, right? 

On 11/21/2021 at 11:42 AM, DylanM said:

It really is system dependent isn't it...I gained a few minimum fps on the bottom end at heavy areas (but do run with gsync and vsync). BTW I'm certainly no authority on the TBM - this is the guide I've followed in the past Sim Hanger. Hope it helps:

MSFS | Sensitivity Settings for Controllers | How To Guide | Get the control you need - YouTube

Well, I changed two things at once, the Disable FS Opt and the DPI override.  I reenabled DPI override after getting new stutters, but today despite this I had totally bizarre increases in CPU use in mid flight in Europe and the US today in areas that should have been absolute nothing to process, killing my solid 30 fps that I haven't seen since pre SU5.  I remembered I had done the Disable FS Opt so reenabled that, and voila next flight all is back to normal.  I did disable FS opt for P3D and that got rid of a recurrent stutter, but my sense is one or both of these suggested performance tips actually degrade in very big ways, quite possibly.

16 hours ago, Noel said:

Well, I changed two things at once, the Disable FS Opt and the DPI override.  I reenabled DPI override after getting new stutters, but today despite this I had totally bizarre increases in CPU use in mid flight in Europe and the US today in areas that should have been absolute nothing to process, killing my solid 30 fps that I haven't seen since pre SU5.  I remembered I had done the Disable FS Opt so reenabled that, and voila next flight all is back to normal.  I did disable FS opt for P3D and that got rid of a recurrent stutter, but my sense is one or both of these suggested performance tips actually degrade in very big ways, quite possibly.

I wonder if some of this is server related. A couple of weeks ago I was doing a trip from Toronto to Miami and the FPS seemed very erratic where as in the days prior things were very smooth. I checked the server I was connected too which was the East coast USA but the response time was really high, over 90ms I believe. A couple of days later things settled back down. I count myself lucky that SU7 doesn't seem to have affected performance on my system. I'm running VSYNC on in the Sim and the FPS @ 30 and it's been a pleasant experience thus far. I just checked out of interest and both disable full screen optimizations & override high DPI settings are both unchecked.

15 minutes ago, RJC68 said:

I wonder if some of this is server related.

I think you are right, my sim runs much better now than it did just after the update, servers are probably overloaded the first few days after each major update.

1 hour ago, RJC68 said:

I wonder if some of this is server related.

I know that is the usual explanation I migrate towards.  But in this case since I had just made two changes touted as performance tips and then the problem manifested; and then restored to the original state w/o the DPI and FS Opt changes.  And to make matters worse server access time was the usual ~44ma.   They happened at pretty much the exact same place in the flight over Europe and then over the US.  Both started up fine, then at altitude the CPU shoots to 88-100% right out of nowhere in open skies and stays that way forever so I terminated the flights without landing.  This never has happened to me since launch of MSFS.  I mean there were some rough spots pre-SU5 performance-wise but nothing this bad.

Anyway really hard to say w/o doing another test which is easy enough to do by reimplementing these two settings.  I'm afraid too I'm enjoying flying without troubles too much to stop now!

1 minute ago, Noel said:

I know that is the usual explanation I migrate towards.  But in this case since I had just made two changes touted as performance tips and then the problem manifested; and then restored to the original state w/o the DPI and FS Opt changes.  And to make matters worse server access time was the usual ~44ma.   They happened at pretty much the exact same place in the flight over Europe and then over the US.  Both started up fine, then at altitude the CPU shoots to 88-100% right out of nowhere in open skies and stays that way forever so I terminated the flights without landing.  This never has happened to me since launch of MSFS.  I mean there were some rough spots pre-SU5 performance-wise but nothing this bad.

Anyway really hard to say w/o doing another test which is easy enough to do by reimplementing these two settings.  I'm afraid too I'm enjoying flying without troubles too much to stop now!

What’s that old phrase … “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” 🙂