1 hour ago, Funky D said:

I also suggested Fiverr pages ago, which has techs all over the world with reviews from other users they've helped. It seems Jack is interested in paying a substantial amount of money to someone only if we send someone to his doorstep.

And that is my issue with this thread... it's taking advantage of the free helpfulness and time of a lot of random people on the internet who feel obligated to help. I've already posted my 2 cents so I'll see the door after this comment, but I'm sure other people are getting the same energy from this thread, hence the negative posts.

While this thread may be entertaning it is also instructive showing that speculation has no place in solving technical issues especially from afar.

Jack seems to have valid intentions but needs to realize that while he may survive this battle he will have lost the war by not succumbing to the calls for a full reset. 

There is nothing wrong with a reset.   Everyone wishes that we could do one in our daily life.

The thing is you need to establish a baseline and take it from there.

Plug away Jack but don't say that we didn't give you the right answer.

sp

 

 

Edited February 15, 20233 yr by Sky_Pilot071

10 minutes ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

While this thread may be entertaning it is also instructive showing that speculation has no place in solving technical issues especially from afar.

Jack seems to have valid intentions but needs to realize that while he may survive this battle he will have lost the war by not succumbing to the calls for a full reset.

Plug away Jack but don't say that we didn't give you the right answer.

sp

 

And I am betting on the company where he purchased it tells him to reload windows and MSFS. 

Hi Jack,

just a thought - are you using Windows Game Mode On or Off,

you could try toggling it,

it is meant to minimise background processes whilst gaming when On…

25 minutes ago, craigeaglefire said:

Hi Jack,

just a thought - are you using Windows Game Mode On or Off,

you could try toggling it,

it is meant to minimise background processes whilst gaming when On…

Hi Craig, thanks. I just checked, it's off.

11 hours ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Hi Craig, thanks. I just checked, it's off.

Turn it on. It’s better to leave it on when gaming, stops other processes interfering with things. 

1 hour ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Turn it on. It’s better to leave it on when gaming, stops other processes interfering with things. 

I’m sorry Ian, I was in a rush last night, it was and is on.  I must have mis-typed.

For those that were interested I finally figured it out.  Using ProcMon I was able to catch the SteamWebHelper.exe running exactly at the same time as the pauses.  Unfortunately there's no way to disable it. 

 

21 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

For those that were interested I finally figured it out.  Using ProcMon I was able to catch the SteamWebHelper.exe running exactly at the same time as the pauses.  Unfortunately there's no way to disable it. 

Well, maybe the MS Store version would have been the better choice then, no? Cant you shut down STEAM once MSFS is up and running?

Glad you found the culprit!  Hope that moving to MS Store version of MSFS fixes the issue, Jack.

Just now, AnkH said:

Well, maybe the MS Store version would have been the better choice then, no? Cant you shut down STEAM once MSFS is up and running?

If Steam is shut down then you no longer have live weather and other things like that.

1 minute ago, Chunk said:

Glad you found the culprit!  Hope that moving to MS Store version of MSFS fixes the issue, Jack.

Thanks Chunk, appreciate it man.

33 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

For those that were interested I finally figured it out.  Using ProcMon I was able to catch the SteamWebHelper.exe running exactly at the same time as the pauses.  Unfortunately there's no way to disable it. 

 

Here you go Jack - From Google.

Can I disable Steamwebhelper?

 

On Windows, right-click your Steam shortcut, open Properties, then edit the Target line after \Steam.exe" with the line "-no-browser" (Note, you may need -console too).

 

Also, a useful thread...

Edited February 16, 20233 yr by bobcat999

37 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

For those that were interested I finally figured it out.  Using ProcMon I was able to catch the SteamWebHelper.exe running exactly at the same time as the pauses.  Unfortunately there's no way to disable it. 

 

https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/steam-client-webhelper-high-cpu.html

1 hour ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

For those that were interested I finally figured it out.  Using ProcMon I was able to catch the SteamWebHelper.exe running exactly at the same time as the pauses.  Unfortunately there's no way to disable it. 

 

I thought you ruled out Steam earlier in this thread?

Well, anyway, I'm glad you found the cause.  I told you ProcMon was the tool to use!  It may be daunting at first but most of its features you do not need to know about, to solve many issues like this.

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

Here you go Jack - From Google.

Hi Bobcat.  Yes sir, that's the first thing I tried.  It didn't work, sadly.

So what I did was uninstalled Steam and MSFS and scoured all my drives for anything even remotely related to MSFS and Steam and ran CC Cleaner and rebooted and now I'm installing the Store version as I type this, it'll take several hours.  It's also going in one central location on one internal SSD too.

Thanks.