Long pauses

[MDFlier]

Had that happen to me yesterday landing in Boston.. I chalked it up to AIG being set to 100% so I dialed it back to 65%. Haven't landed since so I'll know shortly if the problem persists.

I am in the AAU beta. Makes me wonder if the ILS is having an issue during the last 200'. Would explain why the problem clears up after you pass by it.

Edit: Landed at LatinVFR KBWI. Complete stutterfest. Cleared up on roll out. Taxi to the gate was fine. Something caused Couatl to crash as I was being guided into the gate by the VGDS. Grrr....

Edited January 22, 2023 by MDFlier

[Ron279]

Mine are repeatable at the same location with or without AI traffic and before an ILS capture. For me, there are randomly distributed spots where I fly to and I know I am going to see 1 FPS there for some duration of time, up to a minute or two depending on the spot, as I fly through them.

Edited January 22, 2023 by Ron279

[rickjake]

If you have FSUIPC and autosave turned on, that causes pauses for me every time it auto saves. 3 or 4 seconds.

I also get very long pauses, randomly during all phases of flight, and can last up to 15 seconds. Started happening after a recent computer upgrade. I have narrowed it down to my network card (built in the motherboard). If I disable it, and use the wifi connection, it works fine.  I have high speed internet, and doing a speed test, its fine. Using the latest motherboard firmware and drivers. Very strange. 

[Roy Warren]

I get them on about every flight. I agree with some that it is an Asobo server problem.  It also takes another form when it says, Lost Connection, the a few seconds later it says. Connected Successful. That's a pause or hesitation while you're not flying.

I think Asobo grossly underestimated the amount of traffic their servers would encounter. 

Roy

[SierraDelta]

12 minutes ago, rickjake said:

Using the latest motherboard firmware and drivers. Very strange. 

Rick,

I have the same motherboard as you and although I seem to have the issue described here:

it has never resulted in any MSFS disconnects. There was a new bios update on the 18th, but I haven’t installed it yet.

[rickjake]

7 minutes ago, SierraDelta said:

Rick,

I have the same motherboard as you and although I seem to have the issue described here:

it has never resulted in any MSFS disconnects. There was a new bios update on the 18th, but I haven’t installed it yet.

Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of this issue with the Series 7 MB. That's very unfortunate for a very expensive MB. I also was getting random Internet connections at times. I would notice the network icon in the lower right, switch to no-internet connection, then back on. Thought it was just my internet.  This is starting to make sense now. 

I did update the MB firmware yesterday, but I haven't tried MSFS yet to see if it changed anything.  

[gb09f]

I occasionally see pauses but these things help:

I ditched 3rd party anti-virus programmes (McAffe, Norton) and use Windows Defender.

Add exceptions to Defender - any sim related folders and processes.

Disable non sim software from starting in the background.

Switch off desktop slideshow.

 

 

 

[AUA425]

19 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

I think so too. Funny it only happens on very short final, maybe 200 feet AGL or below.

 

same here, otherwise no problems at all with the performance !

[sidfadc]

+1

Seen this a lot lately and been fiddling with my settings but reading this thread might be a server side issue?  Any noise from Asobo on this?

[asanosho]

22 hours ago, Ron279 said:

Thanks asanosho. If you fly the KGUR RW 32 approach again, will you get 0.5 FPS again? Mine are repeatable.

I suppose so. I have not tried it yet.

What I can confirm is that all the other cases were repeatable when and if I flew the respective approaches again.

[remilton]

I have been searching for months for a solution for long pauses for some time now and  I finally found a solution to most but not all of my long pauses.

I used a program called "full event log view, you can download it here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/full_event_log_view.html

So, when MSFS would freeze I would note the time and and run the above event logger and look for an error at or near that time.  If it reported and IP address I then searched the registry for that IP to find what was giving the error and then I blocked that device in Windows firewall.

I found I was getting long pauses when network devices had an event such as tv's turning on or off, Amazon Firesticks, Amazon Echo and some others I can't remember. There are some events local to my PC that occasionally cause pauses but I can't pin those down.

So I have been able to trap and block most of these issues but I believe it comes down to an issue with MSFS coding.

Edited January 23, 2023 by remilton

[rickjake]

On 1/22/2023 at 12:20 PM, SierraDelta said:

Rick,

I have the same motherboard as you and although I seem to have the issue described here:

it has never resulted in any MSFS disconnects. There was a new bios update on the 18th, but I haven’t installed it yet.

Update: 

Since disabling the on board Network and adding a PCIe TP-Link network card, that uses a different chip, I'm no longer getting those very annoying long pauses. Sim is very smooth now. 

Having to add a NIC card to a very expensive ($800 Canadian) Motherboard because of a defective intel chip is just crazy, but I'm now a happy simmer. 

Thanks again for the link on this Series 7 MB issue.

[psolk]

8 hours ago, rickjake said:

Update: 

Since disabling the on board Network and adding a PCIe TP-Link network card, that uses a different chip, I'm no longer getting those very annoying long pauses. Sim is very smooth now. 

Having to add a NIC card to a very expensive ($800 Canadian) Motherboard because of a defective intel chip is just crazy, but I'm now a happy simmer. 

Thanks again for the link on this Series 7 MB issue.

Glad that find is helping people!  I bought a $20 USB NIC for mine and similarly no issues at all yesterday...  I should update the original thread.  

Looks like me blaming Asobo/MS all this time was actually an issue with my hardware...  Hope it can help others as well and if you read there was an issue with their prior gen controller as well so this may not even be exclusive to series 7... Could be anything with a i225-V or i226-V chipset but the i225-V2 appears to be the only one without the issue.

 

[remilton]

Very interesting! I installed my ROG Strix Z690-F motherboard back in May, which is about the time I started experiencing the long pauses. I'll be testing a non-Intel NIC as soon as I get one.

[Ron279]

I realized today that it is only my instrument panel that repeatably drops to 1 FPS, for a minute or so, entirely dependent on my location in the sim. My outside view remains smooth. Very strange - anyone experiencing something similar?