Empty Community folder  DLSS/Performance/FG on - all Traffic set to 0 - all airport stuff set to 0 weather clear no wind

C-172 on S end of KTIW Rwy 35 cold and dark - sitting in cockpit wide view

FPS starts at about 25 works its way up to 40 for a while then jumps to 60 (capped in RTSS) and stays there for a while - then suddenly drops back down to 25 to 30 and wanders around sometimes back to 40.  Then suddenly 58 to 60 again ... and so forth.

Not touching the mouse nor yoke nor pedals

RTX 3060Ti (8 GB) stays at 98 to 99% the entire time   CPU is around 40% the entire time

BUT - frame time (RTSS or Dev Mode/FPS) varies from 50ms @25 FPS to 18ms at 58 FPS.  CPU load does not vary.

Using ProcMon64 I see that when the FPS is low and the frametime is High -  the sim is reading and writing all kinds of stuff to:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsMixedRealityRuntimeApp_113.2405.31001.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\S-1-5-21-2223558818-4289340607-3817220711-1001.pckgdep  

AND many other files associated with WMR.  There are many thousands of Create/Acquire/Release/Cleanup/Close FastIO sequences during the high frametimes. When the FPS jumps up to above 40 there is no sim read/write to WMR files.

NO WMR device is connected to the PC

This repetitive reading of WMR files sometimes occurs during the sim startup between clicking on FLY and having an active sim screen.  The repetitive reads can last for over three minutes and then suddenly stop and the sim finishes loading.   Normally that transition from FLY to active is about 85 seconds.  And, other times the repetitive reading occurs about 90 seconds after I takeoff the first time in a sim session and can last up to two minutes.  But, then never occurs again. 

I have uninstalled and reinstalled WMR.  

This problem is making the sim unusable much of the time.  How do I stop the sim from spending all my time trying to load or activate WMR?

 

Edited June 16, 20241 yr by TacomaSailor
correct typo 50ms not 500!

What is WMR?

 

Windows Mixed Reality.

And what is Windows Mixed Reality?

WMR is the Microsoft interface software (started and run as a process separate from MSFS and named Mixed Reality Portal) with VR devices such as my HP G2 Reverb - my understanding is that the sim does not try to load all that software and connect with a  WMR/VR device unless WMR is already loaded.

Edited June 16, 20241 yr by TacomaSailor

10 hours ago, TacomaSailor said:

NO WMR device is connected to the PC

This repetitive reading of WMR files sometimes occurs during the sim startup between clicking on FLY and having an active sim screen.  The repetitive reads can last for over three minutes and then suddenly stop and the sim finishes loading.   Normally that transition from FLY to active is about 85 seconds.  And, other times the repetitive reading occurs about 90 seconds after I takeoff the first time in a sim session and can last up to two minutes.  But, then never occurs again. 

I have uninstalled and reinstalled WMR.  

I take it you're not using VR, so why are you reinstalling WMR? Just uninstall it.

8 hours ago, TacomaSailor said:

WMR is the Microsoft interface software (started and run as a process separate from MSFS and named Mixed Reality Portal) with VR devices such as my HP G2 Reverb - my understanding is that the sim does not try to load all that software and connect with a  WMR/VR device unless WMR is already loaded.

Yet here you're using VR....Do you actually use this for flights? As your OP suggests you don't.

10 hours ago, MarcG said:

Yet here you're using VR....Do you actually use this for flights? As your OP suggests you don't.

I do use VR much of the time.  But, in order to eliminate it as a source of confusion I unplug my G2 Reverb from the PC.  

This is a fairly new problem.  I have been using WMR/VR for several years and never previously had these long delays while the sim tries to load WMR files.