I've made various New Year's Resolutions over the past few days that I'm trying to stick to in order to improve my quality of life or health or whatever.

Lose 25 pounds etc.

For XP12, it is simply to not do anything to endanger my Frame Time of 0.0333 - which represents my locked 30FPS/half refresh rate of my 60hz 4K TV set.

If either my CPU or GPU times exceed this number (usually because I've messed with settings or (more likely) installed a CPU-hogging add on plane), I lose the lovely smoothness.

So....I shall stick to default XP12 as much as possible and endeavor to NOT do anything to lose my 0.03333 frame time.

This takes willpower, I've found, just like NOT eating the treats at work or home or getting up at 4AM to exercise each day.

But seems to be worth it - if in doubt, try a flight from KLAX taking off on one of the 25L or 25R runways and landing at nearby KBUR Runway 8 - at night - whilst maintaining whatever it takes (even straight default) to give you a buttery smooth refresh with zero stutters.

It's amazing (good during the day, too, but XP12's night lighting is of course nothing less than incredible).

 

Interesting perspective 👍

I had seen a YouTube by Michael Moe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fSyk7f27jM

Edited January 3, 20251 yr by jcomm

After experimentation, I like my self-inflicted 0.0333 rule even more - just so smooth, always.

I've found I can't fly the LevelUp or Zibo 737 (they just consume too much frame time), but I can easily fly the default 737 or even my ERJ-175 payware (don't consume so much frame time that they cause stutters at LAX or other heavy FPS areas).

 

@Republic DC9👍