My spec is medium end (low tier as in 2025). So I turned off the Fauna off and I got more stability in FPS, rural and dense areas. Probably the unoptimized fauna spawning is taking tolls on my end, and as a trade, I can increase plants and grass from medium to high. Probably a placebo but you could always try it. (I am using LSGG, AutoFps, DLSS4, and RTSS fps Cap).

Note: I haven't seen any fauna since I bought 2024 in early December after all.

 

 

Edited February 17, 20251 yr by History

Interesting. It can be imagined that those objects consume quite a few resources. I have fauna off anyway because the only animals that matter to aviation aren’t there. Probably because a bird strike is in fact a bird kill and we can’t have that in a computer game.

It's only there because Jorg wanted MSFS2024 to also be a zoo simulator.  It's a shame that the same level of focus was not given to launching the sim as an absolute bug fest and unless you are on the SU1 beta, it still is 3 months later.  I would be happy to forego the animals to have a working sim.

3 minutes ago, cianpars said:

It's only there because Jorg wanted MSFS2024 to also be a zoo simulator.  It's a shame that the same level of focus was not given to launching the sim as an absolute bug fest and unless you are on the SU1 beta, it still is 3 months later.  I would be happy to forego the animals to have a working sim.

Lol this myth again.. the animals stuff was already a 3rd party thing that got folded into the sim, as did various other aspects via 3rd party dev partnerships and MS's big wallet... Asobo themselves didn't obviously spend any dev effort on it.
 

Edited February 17, 20251 yr by lwt1971

That's part of my first round of 'improvements'. Fauna for God's sake! 

41 minutes ago, cianpars said:

It's only there because Jorg wanted MSFS2024 to also be a zoo simulator.  It's a shame that the same level of focus was not given to launching the sim as an absolute bug fest and unless you are on the SU1 beta, it still is 3 months later.  I would be happy to forego the animals to have a working sim.

Kinda agree, they're obviously a nice to have feature so to have someone add them is fine with me. But if they are decreasing performance (as I've read elsewhere as well) then that really needs looking into, so yes like much of the rest of the release it's an untested feature that may well need optimisation work, which should've been on their check list from the moment the fauna was added.

Ideally they shouldn't affect performance at all, or at best only very very marginally.

11 hours ago, History said:

Probably a placebo but you could always try it.

Most definately a placebo.

There have been extensive tests on each setting. Fauna's impact is completely negligble. The biggest impact by far are the trees.

Edited February 17, 20251 yr by Farlis

My ex airforce colleagues tell me when low flying if you can see the legs of cows you’re at the right height, if you can see the legs of sheep you’re too low.

Other than that, not much use for them.