Mine are locked at 36, I actually got worse performance when the FPS weren't locked. VSYNC on fps capped at 30 in sim and 36 set in Nvidia Control Panel. Threaded Optimization turned on and the sim is now as smooth as butter, no stutters what so ever.

Happy with low to mid 20's at medium settings on the laptop. I seem to remembed 15 being the holy grail way back.

Absolutely no idea what my frames are in MSFS and never cared to check since VR release.

For an objective frame rate comparison, check out this tool:

https://frames-per-second.appspot.com/
 
For example, look at the baseball with realistic in-flight sim motion settings. Can you count the stiches?  Now increase the movement velocity as seen in a first-person shooter game. Can you still count the stiches?

Remember not to push the tool beyond what your system can actually deliver.

I think we are “obsessed” with a fluid, smooth sim, which most people who have a favorite game chase the same thing. And I also don’t think that is much to ask for in 2022… I’m certainly not chasing 60fps (boy wouldn’t that be nice!), but I do want to have a sim that runs no lower than 35fps. Below that, I do start to notice. I only check my fps when I feel like it’s not smooth to confirm either my eyes are right, or I’m going crazy. 

Removing the shift z fuelled obsession with framerates was the best decision Microsoft and Asobo ever made. 

2 hours ago, cobalt said:

As smooth, maybe; far smoother, no way. Since the last update I am seeing FPS in excess of 50, sometimes 60(!), and the feeling of immersion and responsiveness is beyond anything I have seen before. 

Alienware Aurora R11, 32 GB ram, Intel i7-10700F, GeForce RTX 2080 Super, Ultra graphics settings

Way!😁

I’ve found out long ago that Track Ir wants 40+ fps to feel “smooth” to me so I have focused on keeping the sim above 45fps. Which means I didn’t just sit down and click all ultra with 600 lod sliders etc. No I adjusted my settings to keep my target fps above that limit at pretty much all times. I used the fps counter for this (same with my vr settings. Maximized frame rate. Way more irritating to have a low frame rate with the headset) and once set turn it off. No need to tweak every couple of days etc. 

Ah the good old FPS question.

As a base line I try to set my settings in any sim so that I get 25 to 30 FPS with 1920×1080 in densely built Manhattan in heavy weather conditions with a complex (like many displays and systems) aircraft. This ensures that in my actual, more rural flying regions I get usually 30 to 40.

Edited May 14, 20224 yr by MarioDonick

In some sims frame rate has an impact in flight dynamics - X-Plane is a good example, at least until it's last version, where bellow 20 fps the "number of FDM cycles per unit of time is affected.

I reallky doon't know how it affects the flight dynamics in MFS. For me this sim runs usually very smoothly.

Don't know if the stuff in a couple of other threads (re the  problems some of us are seeing post SU9) has kicked this debate off, but I'll stick my head up in here as I've been active in those threeads.

I also don't give a hoot for FPS per se, a nice steady 30 will do me fine, but right now I'm seeing between 5 and 20 in a load of locations in the sim and that's with a brand new 3090ti, and I know I'm not the only one. I can't even guarantee getting anything decent with my LODs turned right back down to 100.

Smooth is the key. I want my system to behave like David Niven, but at the moment it's more like Homer Simpson (but it's a lot less amusing)

I have a 120 Hz OLED. And playing a title with a good engine in 4K with 120 FPS is just awesome. 
 

yeah. It’s not as good as locked 30 FPS. I know….

8 hours ago, Roy Warren said:

FPS is more a macho thing than a measuring thing.  As long as your computer meets the minimum requirements to run the sim, FPS means nothing.  Most movies are recorded at 24 FPS.

Although technically correct 24FPS in a movie only looks smooth because it is a constant and equally distributed 24 frames over each second while making use of motion blur (try pausing during an action scene of the movie)

Gaming at 24FPS or 60FPS is clearly another experience due to these differences compared to how movies are recorded…

7 hours ago, FBW737 said:

I'd be willing to wager that my solution is even better than Gsync even though I've never seen Gsync.

You’d be loosing your wager then. You shouldn’t bet blind 😉 

Also, I have a 120hz oled display. Try 30fps on a display like that, it’s awful. 40 is the bare minimum. 60 is ideal.