Hi All, I'm hoping for some enlightenment. About 2 weeks ago I started experiencing very laggy graphics and sound stuttering. Also, loading times of the simulator became horrendously long just getting to the main menu and then just as long launching after hitting “Fly”.  My Fenix aircraft wouldn’t automatically sign in resulting in a dead aircraft at the gate.
I tried to think back over any recent updates that I had carried out. I had updated Fenix so after checking on the Fenix site I found an article recommending a complete re-install. This I did. The Fenix is ok now. I also remember updating my Nvidia graphics driver, so I rolled back to a safe November driver that I’d used without any problems.

I do have a lot of addon airports installed. I use the addon linker program, so I tried disabling 95% of them in case this was causing the problem, that made no difference. To be honest, having many installed airports has never given me any problems in the past. 
My system is not exactly cutting edge, I have a I7 9700K processor, 2080ti graphics card and 32gig of RAM. My broadband speed is 40-50mbs at the PC. I haven’t touched my graphics settings, in fact everything is as it’s always been. This set up has always given me a smooth experience.
My gut feeling is that this a Microsoft server issue. I’m sure that most of you are aware of the recent  publicised articles regarding long loading times for MS2020. Then of course there has been the disappointing launch of MS2024 which has it’s own streaming issues. My belief is that Microsoft are not pumping out a solid reliable data stream since MS2024. They need to upgrade their servers. I used task manager to check my broadband speed being received by the simulator and the graph goes up and down like a yo yo. I do not get erratic speeds with other applications.

I’d welcome any views/opinions or ideas as at the moment my simulator is not worth playing in this state. One of the reasons that I’ve stayed with MS2020 is because of its stability. This recent experience has made me less likely to change to MS2024 if poor streaming is the culprit.

Regards, Mike.

 

I am having no problems whatsoever in MSFS 2020 at the moment. I fly the PMDG 737-600 at lots of airports around Europe, although my flights are always very short.

Edited January 19, 20251 yr by Christopher Low

1 hour ago, mikelockwood said:

. About 2 weeks ago I started experiencing very laggy graphics and sound stuttering. Also, loading times of the simulator became horrendously long just getting to the main menu and then just as long launching after hitting “Fly”.  My Fenix aircraft wouldn’t automatically sign in resulting in a dead aircraft at the gate.

My instinct is leaning towards a GPU issue if this just started out of the blue. My sim has been performing impeccably for months on end at this point. Stutters disappeared, sharp textures, amazing weather. No complaints here.

1 hour ago, mikelockwood said:

Hi All, I'm hoping for some enlightenment. About 2 weeks ago I started experiencing very laggy graphics and sound stuttering. Also, loading times of the simulator became horrendously long just getting to the main menu and then just as long launching after hitting “Fly”.  My Fenix aircraft wouldn’t automatically sign in resulting in a dead aircraft at the gate.
I tried to think back over any recent updates that I had carried out. I had updated Fenix so after checking on the Fenix site I found an article recommending a complete re-install. This I did. The Fenix is ok now. I also remember updating my Nvidia graphics driver, so I rolled back to a safe November driver that I’d used without any problems.

I do have a lot of addon airports installed. I use the addon linker program, so I tried disabling 95% of them in case this was causing the problem, that made no difference. To be honest, having many installed airports has never given me any problems in the past. 
My system is not exactly cutting edge, I have a I7 9700K processor, 2080ti graphics card and 32gig of RAM. My broadband speed is 40-50mbs at the PC. I haven’t touched my graphics settings, in fact everything is as it’s always been. This set up has always given me a smooth experience.
My gut feeling is that this a Microsoft server issue. I’m sure that most of you are aware of the recent  publicised articles regarding long loading times for MS2020. Then of course there has been the disappointing launch of MS2024 which has it’s own streaming issues. My belief is that Microsoft are not pumping out a solid reliable data stream since MS2024. They need to upgrade their servers. I used task manager to check my broadband speed being received by the simulator and the graph goes up and down like a yo yo. I do not get erratic speeds with other applications.

I’d welcome any views/opinions or ideas as at the moment my simulator is not worth playing in this state. One of the reasons that I’ve stayed with MS2020 is because of its stability. This recent experience has made me less likely to change to MS2024 if poor streaming is the culprit.

Regards, Mike.

 

No Issues here...Actually all problems stopped about 2 months ago (at least for now) since I left old setting, no new NVIDIA (experimental Drivers for kids killing games)...no updates at all. Ever since then all smooth. Will see how long will last... Now, does it load little longer...? perhaps, but I go upstairs make espresso and by ten all up and running. No rush.... 

I've been having some long loading times, 10 minutes plus in 2020, but not always. Just since yesterday though some weird things have been going on, stutters, aircraft acting crazy, really low fps. Probably my computer though, but some really weird stuff I hadn't experienced in 2020 before. At least not the same weird stuff.

Can't say I have noticed any issues with 2020 - Been flying today and it's been smooth. 

2020 is working fine for me, doing about 3 APLV2 flights a day, zero issues. 

No issues here either.

Been flying the FBW A380 (known to be resource-heavy) and I'm getting a steady 50fps and a butter smooth experience.

Hi,

I've had to uninstall a corrupted Windows 11. I reinstalled it and then reinstalled msfs 2024.

I have two problems now:

1) fps have drop to 10! (I usually had 30-40 fps).

2) control bindings finally saving (after a desperate fighting!), but not loading as default.

So... now fs2024 it's worse than in the beginning!

Greetings

Edited January 20, 20251 yr by John Fields

I have found MSFS 2020 to be operating at its best yet. No stutters except for one issue; I updated Aerosoft's Frankfurt airport and it is now a stutter fest! All my settings are either at Ultra or high in 4k

From the last 2 or 3 weeks I’m having stutters and sound stuttering in MSFS 2020. I thought it was related to Windows 11 24H2 update. Never had this before.

Edited January 20, 20251 yr by luis70

Flew two flights yesterday and the son ran best it has in a while.  I did have a small update to my PC right before the flights and prior to that update I would have agreed that something was just not exactly right with 2020.  Now though- it’s been pretty perfect!

Thank all for your feedback. It’s interesting to see that two of you had problems after the Windows 11 update. I’d completely forgotten that I’d downloaded that update myself. I’d like to ask the members who are having smooth experiences whether they have or have not downloaded that update as well. It might be significant.

Many thanks

21 minutes ago, mikelockwood said:

Thank all for your feedback. It’s interesting to see that two of you had problems after the Windows 11 update. I’d completely forgotten that I’d downloaded that update myself. I’d like to ask the members who are having smooth experiences whether they have or have not downloaded that update as well. It might be significant.

Many thanks

I had a small simulator update a couple of weeks ago. I also have the latest Windows 11 update installed. I hope you get this sorted. Prior to these updates I was getting very smooth flights and still am.

I use Windows 10, so I have not installed any Windows 11 updates