July 27, 20223 yr This is for anyone who was using FRAPS to display frame rate, and experienced a sudden loss of the FRAPS screen display after a recent update of the game software. Turns out that one of these patches installs DX12 as the default graphics driver, and FRAPS isn't compatible with it. You can restore FRAPS functionality by setting the game to use DX11 instead. Doing this not only cleared up the FRAPS problem, it fixed a couple of other glitches too: specifically, with the flight planning map, which was covered with solid yellow and green color blocks at some zoom scales. I was also having trouble with frame skipping, loss of frame rate, and jitter. After downgrading the graphics setting to DX11. the weird color blocks on the flight planning map are gone, and I get a nice solid 30 fps, even at low altitude in high scenery density areas (this is with the NxCub, I haven't flown a jet aircraft yet, to test the fix at higher airspeeds). My GPU is an AMD RX-6800-XT, so I should not have been having a problem with maintaining 30 fps at 1920x1080, I am left to conclude that DX12 isn't ready for Prime Time yet.
July 27, 20223 yr Probably a better idea to move on from that dinosaur software, especially when it starts dictating your settings. [MSI MPG X870E Carbon | 9800X3D (PBO +200Mhz / -20 Offset) | Corsair 64GB DDR5 (Custom Timings) | RTX 4090 Founders Edition (Undervolted) | WD SNX 850X 4TB + 4TB | Antec Flux Pro]
July 27, 20223 yr FRAPS? Oh my... The 90s called - they want their frame rate counter back... No but seriously - FRAPS hasn't been updated in nearly a decade. You really should get rid of it. There are several free alternatives if you need an fps counter that works with DirectX12.
July 27, 20223 yr FRAPS... May I suggest Rivatuner Statistics Server for monitoring framerate and other system vitals instead? https://www.rivatuner.org/ Benjamin Nash AMD Ryzen 9800X3D, 64GB DDR5 RAM CL30, Asus ROG Strix 4090, Asus ROG x870E Hero Motherboard, Samsung 9100 Pro 2TB PCIE5 NVME SSD, LG OLED C1 48"
July 28, 20223 yr Author 10 hours ago, Sethos said: Probably a better idea to move on from that dinosaur software, especially when it starts dictating your settings. FRAPS was the only FPS counter I found that was working on MSFS, at least until the DX12 update. For some reason that I haven't been able to figure out, the frame rate counter that is part of the AMD Adrenalin software that came with my GPU doesn't work on MSFS. I tried downloading Rivatuner, but when I unpacked the ZIP file, then unpacked the CAB file that was embedded within the ZIP, it appeared to be software for a RAM disk system, and my virus scanner immediately quarantined it. Edited July 28, 20223 yr by lgcharlot
July 28, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, lgcharlot said: I tried downloading Rivatuner, but when I unpacked the ZIP file, then unpacked the CAB file that was embedded within the ZIP, it appeared to be software for a RAM disk system, and my virus scanner immediately quarantined it. Why would you unpack the cab file? Just run the installer in the archive. Or download MSI afterburner and go from there. During installation, it will ask you if you want RTSS as well. Say yes and it will do everything else for you. Laminar Research customer -- Asobo/MS customer -- not an X-Aviation customer - or am I? 😉
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