On 6/21/2023 at 10:39 PM, Cavemanhead said:

Looking for any folks out there who've tried the Win 10 debloat successfully.

I haven't tried that app but did look for which processes could be safely disabled in general for "gaming" operations, and did those things as part of a major optimization that yielded best ever performance--characterized by sterlingly low frame time variance, not frame rate.  In addition I installed Process Lasso to offload all non MSFS process off the main thread.   I dare anyone to run CapFrameX and see if you can match this for FTV at modest frame rates, no matter what hardware you're running:

Oh, and ultra low FTV equates very well to ultra-smooth animation.

Edited June 23, 20232 yr by Noel

Thanks so much to everyone who said their piece - even the person that suggested I wanted to brag about my system.  It reminded me how blessed I feel to have it!  I remember walking a few miles home every day in 7th grade so I could fly MS flight sim on a blazingly fast IBM PC Jr.  For years I had hopes of building my own rigs which I finally got start in my 20s but never did state of the art to save the $.  The last rig I built was almost 8 years ago and I decided to go all out this time with a 4090 etc...  Honestly, I wasn't trying to brag, just get good feedback on my baseline.

I was hoping to snag someone like Nuemanix and Noel for some technical inputs.  Thanks so much guys as this is very helpful and confirms what I've seen before (that even a very fast system can be smoothed on the low end) which is my goal.  AND...  Was looking for what can/should be disabled for gaming optimization (without causing an issue).  Noel, I sent you a PM.