2 hours ago, agent00729 said:

I notice that on the latest version, whenever I go into MSFS 2024 settings, AutoFPS resets settings to TLOD minimum. Also, even without auto settings reduce activated, autofps is reducing stuff in poor conditions. Is this normal? I don’t seem to remember that happening before. Shouldn’t dynamic settings be taking control of that (when activated)? Also this is anecdotal, but performance seems worse than in the earlier test versions with dynamic settings.

Sometimes when you go into MSFS settings, the app loses the session via Simconnect comms loss, so has to restart the session again and start from TLOD min as a result. If this is happening regularly, you should avoid going in to MSFS settings while in a flight session or if you do, do not be surprised it if restarts the flight session. 

Re settings reduction activating when not enabled, if you are in non-expert mode then settings reduction is actually enabled so if it activates it is just doing its thing. If you are in expert mode and it is activating (ie. you are seeing Reduce: Lvl1 or greater) when not enabled, then something is not right so message me a screenshot and/or the log file, located in %appdata%\MSFS_AutoFPS\log, contents and I will take a look.

FYI, when dynamic settings is used in conjunction with AutoFPS, the app uses dynamic settings to replace the LOD reduction component of auto settings reduction and handles the other settings reductions itself. As I discovered later in testing myself, in extreme low performance conditions, dynamic settings can reduce other settings too, resulting in a potential double up of some settings reductions.

To be fair, if MSFS performance is getting that bad then it doesn't matter what is reducing your settings as either dynamic settings or AutoFPS is simply reacting to what it is being presented with. If using dynamic settings continues to cause you issue, simply turn it off in MSFS settings and the app will go back to the way it has always managed settings reduction.

Thanks for the detailed reply. I’m actually not seeing “reduce”. I’m seeing the TLOD go up and down in autofps. Maybe I’m not understanding the proper function, and that is normal. Also, re performance, it’s possible I was getting ambitious with my settings. I tried the old test versions again and I prefer the latest release.

I am using DynamicLOD_ResetEdition and its good. Thank you.

 

14 hours ago, Reset XPDR said:

As I discovered later in testing myself, in extreme low performance conditions, dynamic settings can reduce other settings too, resulting in a potential double up of some settings reductions.

So the native sim dynamic settings reduces more than just TLOD / OLOD?  I never knew this.  What else does it reduce?  

To me it still seems like autofps is reducing the LODs when dynamic settings is on. Is that supposed to happen? To be clear, not seeing the “reduce”, but seeing the TLOD and OLOD going down in autofps when at altitude in poor performance conditions.

8 hours ago, FakeWayne said:

So the native sim dynamic settings reduces more than just TLOD / OLOD?  I never knew this.  What else does it reduce?  

This is only anecdotal, but when I was testing it with dynamic setting set much higher than my current FPS, the terrain resolution looked significantly worse than if I did not have dynamic settings enabled and just halved my TLOD and OLOD from their current values myself. I was flying in to PHNL at the time and with dynamic settings on it looked like I was flying in FSX!

3 hours ago, agent00729 said:

To me it still seems like autofps is reducing the LODs when dynamic settings is on. Is that supposed to happen? To be clear, not seeing the “reduce”, but seeing the TLOD and OLOD going down in autofps when at altitude in poor performance conditions.

I think you are confusing normal TLOD and OLOD changes, which have been the bread and butter of how AutoFPS has functioned since inception, with settings reduction TLOD and OLOD changes. Normal TLOD changes will drop down to, but never go below TLOD Min/Base, whereas settings reduction TLOD and OLOD changes can reduce these values up to 50% lower than that. Dynamic settings reductions has the same effect as the latter, but there is no visible change to current TLOD and OLOD values as the reductions are internal to MSFS, but you can see what they are doing in Dev Mode FPS view.

eg. Here, with dynamic settings enabled at 40 FPS, you can see it is not active when achieving 40 FPS because the Terrain LOD Factor is 1.00 (ie. 100%), and TLOD is set to my TLOD Base of 50.

If I then simulate a low FPS situation, the TLOD value does not change in AutoFPS, as it is reading the actual setting, but Terrain LOD Factor drops to 0.5 (ie. 50%), meaning that internally MSFS has reduced TLOD to 25.

If I now disable dynamic settings and enable AutoFPS settings reduction to LODs only instead, you can see that TLOD does reduce by 50% to 25 but this time Terrain LOD Factor stays at 1.00 as it is not active.

ie. screenshots 2 and 3 have the same resultant effect but by a different activation method, hence why when AutoFPS detects dynamic settings is enabled, it no longer reduces LODs as dynamic settings is now handling that.

Thank you for that explanation. And let’s say TLOD base was set to 25, in that case the normal TLOD reductions would occur before autofps settings reductions kick in (or, if dynamic settings is enabled, potentially at the same time as dynamic settings 50% factor)?

Edited September 25, 2025Sep 25 by agent00729

3 hours ago, agent00729 said:

Thank you for that explanation. And let’s say TLOD base was set to 25, in that case the normal TLOD reductions would occur before autofps settings reductions kick in (or, if dynamic settings is enabled, potentially at the same time as dynamic settings 50% factor)?

If TLOD base is 25, then normal TLOD reductions could reduce it to 25 below Alt TLOD Based, then auto settings reduction either without or without dynamic settings could reduce it to 12.5. The former still showing 25 as a value and the latter 12.5 with LODs 50% being indicated. Either way, same resultant TLOD.

1 hour ago, Reset XPDR said:

If TLOD base is 25, then normal TLOD reductions could reduce it to 25 below Alt TLOD Based, 

If auto settings reduction is disabled, TLOD should only be reduced to the TLOD base setting below the TLOD alt base, correct? I think the opposite is what I’m trying to highlight I’m seeing. Auto settings reduction is disabled, I’m at cruise altitude (~35k ft), far above the TLOD alt base (which I have set to 1000 ft), yet autofps is decreasing TLOD to the TLOD base in certain performance scenarios (when auto reduce settings is disabled) when at cruise altitude.

Edited September 25, 2025Sep 25 by agent00729

2 hours ago, agent00729 said:

If auto settings reduction is disabled, TLOD should only be reduced to the TLOD base setting below the TLOD alt base, correct? I think the opposite is what I’m trying to highlight I’m seeing. Auto settings reduction is disabled, I’m at cruise altitude (~35k ft), far above the TLOD alt base (which I have set to 1000 ft), yet autofps is decreasing TLOD to the TLOD base in certain performance scenarios (when auto reduce settings is disabled) when at cruise altitude.

You keep mentioning TLOD Base, which implies you are in FPS Cap mode, but from what you are experiencing I suspect you are in either FPS Sensitivity or Tolerance mode. If you are using FPS Sensitivity or Tolerance modes then yes, TLOD can reduce all the way to TLOD Min without settings reduction getting involved. If in FPS Cap mode then no, TLOD can only reduce as low as TLOD Top if you are above Alt TLOD Top. What Auto Method are you using?

 

9 hours ago, Reset XPDR said:

You keep mentioning TLOD Base, which implies you are in FPS Cap mode, but from what you are experiencing I suspect you are in either FPS Sensitivity or Tolerance mode. If you are using FPS Sensitivity or Tolerance modes then yes, TLOD can reduce all the way to TLOD Min without settings reduction getting involved. If in FPS Cap mode then no, TLOD can only reduce as low as TLOD Top if you are above Alt TLOD Top. What Auto Method are you using?

 

Yes, you are right, I was on sensitivity mode. I will switch to cap mode and test it out. Thanks for the help!

Please ignore me,

I guess it didnt fully update so did a removal then install and we good now

 

 

Edited September 30, 2025Sep 30 by Mclovin10

40 minutes ago, Mclovin10 said:

Please ignore me,

I guess it didnt fully update so did a removal then install and we good now

 

 

Are you the user who posted on github about the latest SU4 not working with the app? If so, I will close the issue.

Edit: I see from my email notifications that you were not the original user who posted this, so I will leave the github issue open until they respond or 3 days, whichever comes first.

Note to all - The latest MSFS 2024 beta, 1.6.11.0 does work with AutoFPS 0.4.5.6 release version and DynamicLOD_ResetEdition 0.5.1-RC.

Edited October 1, 2025Oct 1 by Reset XPDR

Just did a small benchmark running AutoFPS, Fenix, 3rd party demanding scenery in the UK and a departure up to FL250 where TLOD is at 400. VRAM had a healthy 1.3GB buffer at its minimum and these numbers should be an indication of how stable things run now. dlss-to-fsr mod in use and limiting FPS via RTSS front edge sync. The Reflex limiter hammers my mainthread so sometimes RTSS struggles to hook properly to my sim due to front edge in use combined with the mod and I have to restart to stabilize frametimes, but with a clean sim that starts in about a minute its well worth the wait. 

01-10-2025, 15:32:26 FlightSimulator.exe benchmark completed, 44326 frames rendered in 739.984 s
                     Average framerate  :   59.9 FPS
                     Minimum framerate  :   59.7 FPS
                     Maximum framerate  :   59.9 FPS
                     1% low framerate   :   59.5 FPS
                     0.1% low framerate :   59.2 FPS