Got a new computer somewhere around october including an awesome G-Sync monitor. MSFS ran flawlessly on it. Smooth as butter all the time. SU7 changed all that. Apart from all the well known bugs I now have a huge stutter or mini-pause every 20 seconds or so. Can be 15 seconds or 30 but it's frequent. Doesn't sound like much but since performance is absolutely great in between those mega hickups, totally smooth, it's actually quite immersion breaking and utterly annoying.

Take note: I also have this stutter when not moving! Like when I'm on the ground and I'm simply looking around! So it can't be a loading problem due to too high settings or something like that.

I did read others have these kind of stutters too and I wonder if the beta solved these? I can live with the TrackIR bug and (for now) the low clouds but this huge stutter is killing the fun for me... MSFS is awesome in all aspects imho but these hickups...

I guess the X-seconds bug is something outside MSFS clogging up the CPU time briefly.
Updated anti-virus perhaps that now checks things more frequently or stuff like that?

I get that with ai live traffic on.

29 minutes ago, rka said:

I get that with ai live traffic on.

Same here and it's been that way with FS since its inception.

3 hours ago, tup61 said:

I did read others have these kind of stutters too and I wonder if the beta solved these? 

Install the beta and find out. 

3 hours ago, tup61 said:

I wonder if the beta solved

None here. But have to add I did not have any before the beta either

I had similar, but every 1 min & 1/2, but that disappeared after SU5. 

On my flight tonight I encountered the repeating stutter every 15-20 sec. that later turned into frame time increases that would last 4-6 sec. then drop to normal (33.3ms/30fps locked) for 1 sec. I turned on dev mode and sim went straight to 33.3ms frame time and stayed there except for a rare huge spike where frame time went over 700ms for about a sec. After turning on dev mode I was descending to the approach, landing and taxi to the gate at VMMC-Macau. During the period when I encountered of 4-6 seconds of 65-70ms FT's the little spinner in the lower right corner of the screen never went away - until I turned on dev mode then it never appeared again. The 700ms FT spikes coincided with GPU use dropping to almost zero, with no disc activity and no change in CPU activity which stayed mostly around 40% or so.

14 hours ago, DAD said:

None here. But have to add I did not have any before the beta either

Me neither... the closest thing this issue reminds me is the autosave feature on the bush trips, but it was many months ago and fixed since.

I'd check which component gets black bars on the developer's framerate counter, and also the task scheduler because it may depend on Windows, not MSFS.

Thanks for the tips so far. Traffic (and everything multiplayer related) is off already and so is photogrammetry (because imho it's ugly ;) ). So that can't be it. I also kill everything that's running in the background: I don't even use LNM anymore during flight.

15 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

I've brought this issue up with my MarketPlace rep and never got a response.  There are many threads related to this issue in the MS official forums but I haven't seen any formal response from MS/Asobo.

Glad I am not the only one. Odd that some don't seem to have it... and that no solution has been found yet... I will dig a bit deeper yet in my W11 settings and MSFS options to see of something is causing this on my side. If it is indeed server related there isn't much we can do about it. But server related seems odd because not everyone has this problem.

Perhaps it's driver related: I am on nVidia 496.98. Maybe I should try an older version...

 Never had this and I am not in the beta, just plain old SU7 on W10. Photogrammetry is on.  Experience of many over several sims over the years,  would say that the regularity of it seems to point to a local problem, like an antivirus /malware monitoring or an activated autosave.

Try shutting ipv6 off in your internet settings, I think this may be a problem with data coming from servers. I had weather problems and some stutters so I tried shutting this off and it fixes my weather and sim seems smoother. Just wanted to see if anyone else with more knowledge of these things might get a benefit or why IPV6 would be causing problems. 

 

Thank you

Anthony

 

2 hours ago, Anthony25368 said:

Try shutting ipv6 off in your internet settings, I think this may be a problem with data coming from servers. I had weather problems and some stutters so I tried shutting this off and it fixes my weather and sim seems smoother. Just wanted to see if anyone else with more knowledge of these things might get a benefit or why IPV6 would be causing problems. 

 

Thank you

Anthony

 

IPV6 is off and has been off in the adapter settings for several years on my system.

1 hour ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

I'd be very surprised if the issue is related to IPv6 being enabled ... IPv4 is archaic, not as secure, limited, and slower than IPv6.  The only reason IPv4 is still alive is probably due to NAT.

It was an interesting suggestion, so thought I'd disable IPv6 and see if it made any difference ... unfortunately not, but I appreciate the suggestion.

 Cheers, Rob.

Yep and recommending a downgrade in security features is not advised.

Regards

 bs

On 12/18/2021 at 9:30 AM, rka said:

I get that with ai live traffic on

Bingo, I had the same problem with AI on, turn it off and silky smooth everywhere.