Question about frame generation and MSFS 2024. Are there any methods--whether native to the sim, or with addons--by which I can have FG active while MSFS is in a window (i.e. not full screen) and when MSFS doesn't have the focus?

Picture a scenario where MSFS is in a window that takes up 75% of the screen, and another app is elsewhere on the same screen. I want to go to the other app and use it, while FG remains active in MSFS. Is this possible? I'm under the impression that frame generation stops when MSFS 2024 loses the focus. Is that always true?

Thanks.

 

 

2 hours ago, prolixindec said:

I'm under the impression that frame generation stops when MSFS 2024 loses the focus. Is that always true?

That's been pretty much my experience, with MSFS at least. IMO it's not that big a deal because if you are interacting with another window you yourself are not really focused on the MSFS window so the reduction in FPS is not really noticeable (to me anyway).

An alternative is to use LSFG, which IMO gives a better result and works with vsync, which keeps FG running while MSFS is not the active window. However, LSFG also has it's own quirk that it holds the mouse to the screen upon which you activate LSFG unless you hit the windows key or alt tab away from it, which is not that difficult to do. Choose your poison!

Edited January 17, 20251 yr by Reset XPDR

9 hours ago, Reset XPDR said:

if you are interacting with another window you yourself are not really focused on the MSFS window

Well, not really. I fly using a different simulator, that is a better flight simulator but doesn’t have great visuals. MSFS provides the visuals. Since I’m interacting with the other simulator most of the time, MSFS almost never has the focus.

That’s why I’m haven’t been able to use FG yet.

Thanks for the suggestion about LSFG, I’ll take a look at it tonight.