I am confused, aren't both of these products essentially doing the same thing? If not, what am I missing here. I have AutoFPS set up and I can't figure out whether I should be trying to use DynamicLOD as well.

Thanks ........ Rob

3 hours ago, Rob G said:

I am confused, aren't both of these products essentially doing the same thing? If not, what am I missing here. I have AutoFPS set up and I can't figure out whether I should be trying to use DynamicLOD as well.

Thanks ........ Rob

I would believe that to be true. One or the other but not both. I don’t know that for a fact. It is just my supposition as someone who uses neither!  Good luck in getting a real answer. I’m sure it’s out there LoL!

-B

I think Dynamic LOD is just a fork or expansion of the AutoFPS app with additional options including adjusting the LOD and the OLD based on altitude AGL in addition to when your FPS target is not being met. You would only want to use one or the other, not both.

I have had the best experience using DynamicLOD and lowering the LOD at lower altitudes. I find most stutters happen on the ground while taxing and while approaching to land or the initial climbout after departure. For this reason, I am quite aggressive, reducing the LOD all the way to 10 at ground level and increasing it in increments of 10 every 500 feet agl up to LOD 100 when flying airliners and LOD 150 for GA.

I do not use the app to change the LOD based on maintaininng FPS as I find this seems to cause more stutters than it helps and the LOD becomes inconsistent.

The low LODs are hardly noticeable at the lower altitudes, so this works well for me. I probably wouldn't need it at all if I was flying in 2D, but my system is pretty maxed flying in VR with some FSLTL traffic as well.

From the readme of DynamicLOD_ResetEdition:

Which app should I use? DynamicLOD_ResetEdition or MSFS_AutoFPS?:

• Essentially both apps are intended to give you better overall performance but with different priorities to achieve it that result in a slightly different experience. They both allow a lower TLOD down low and on the ground, when your viewing distance reduced anyway so the visual impact is minimal, and a higher TLOD when at higher altitude and not in close proximity to complex scenery or traffic. They also adjust OLOD and Cloud Quality but TLOD is usually the most important determiner of performance at these two extremes.
• Where they differ is that DynamicLOD provides user set tables for LOD changes at specific altitudes, giving the user precise control over when and where these changes take place such that they can optimise them to their particular flight activity they normally do, and can set a specific profile for each one. The price of such precise control is that the user must be intimately familiar with LODs to be able to tune a variety of settings in the app for the best outcome and this can be a bit daunting for more casual and non-technical users.
• Alternatively, AutoFPS seeks to automate these changes as much as possible based on a target FPS and a minimum and maximum LOD range within which to automatically adjust. This results in a much simpler and generally similarly acceptable user experience compared to DynamicLOD. Nonetheless, AutoFPS tends to make constant small changes to TLOD, much more than DynamicLOD does, and this can induce stuttering on older hardware as it struggles to manage even small scenery changes. In these cases, the user would be better off using DynamicLOD in a more manually tuned approach.

I don't know as I don't use or need any of these extras but it seems to me that if you have one up and running and still feel you need something else then that would suggest a bigger problem with your system maybe?