here and there, lock in sim, lock outside with nvidia app to 120 (my hz is 144 monitor laptop) in sim lock at 30 (x4 on the framegen via nvidia app so 3x4 is 120)

 

now I know everyone will scream at me not to lock as I used to be in that camp myself but my GPU temps plummet on lock, from 76c to 68c If I run fans on super I drop gpu to 57c under load in fs2024... BUT THE SMOOTHNESS IS NOT IMAGINARY ...

 

 

Yep, I lock in at 30FPS and then 3X multiply.  If it misses a beat it's because of a poorly optimised airport or photogrammetry loading in.  Otherwise absolute butter.  

I also using 4x and it runs smooth long or short haul

I do something similar, but I use RTSS for framerate locking, and Lossless Scaling for frame gen. Same results, same smoothness. Which one is better? I don't know.

I agree I just moved to MSFS2024 from 2020 and could not figure out why my performance was so bad one flight would be fine the next a stutter fest. I decided to lock to 30 and 2x since I only have 4070ti. Using autofps my frames are always at 60 now and as smooth as can be. 

Edited January 29Jan 29 by DaveS

I've always locked as it gives the best results. I didn't know that was frowned upon? 

The best is locking your FPS on RTSS or Nvidia control panel to your refresh rate or achievable rate at 1% lows. After setting your multiplier to achieve your refresh rate. For me it’s 120HZ. With FGX2 I can sometimes achieve it, but the it goes way lower on complex scenarios. With X3 I always achieve 120+ FPS. I lock my FPS using RTSS to 117 and with this scenario I am always around 16-19 MS frame time. 
 

For me locking it at a low number like 30 or something of that nature to use FG to give me all those fake frames simply increases the frame time to almost double compared to the latter. Immediately when I do this it goes up to 30-33MS and there’s is a big difference in fluidity and latency. 

I lock in low in sim to 30 and the x4 from nvidia app makes it 120. I don't lock it anywhere else. Maybe latency is higher but I don't see it anywhere.... maybe my laptop is so powerful it doesn't.... I can hit 300 fps if I don't lock anything anywhere.. but then some choppy or screen tear maybe... dunno... hard to tell honestly. 

I'm so fine with my 60Hz good old monitor, FPS limited to 30 in the sim options, and TAA for antialiasing 😁

I currently am using sim locked at 40 and FG (from Lossless Scaling) on adaptive with a cap of 116FPS. My main monitor has different speeds so I chose 120 when simming, With that combo, I usually have rock solid FPS (real and generated) and the 116 number is there so I never stress the system to get up to the selected refresh rate of 120. I was in the 4x crowd but the artificing was a bit much for me.

I did quite some  testing lately and found that the lower I lock the frames in the sim (like 30), the more ghosting it produces. So now I just let my graphics card produce whatever fps it feels up to. That and 2X FG (DLSS) gives me fps varying from 80 to ... 120 depending on the situation. Smooth and no ghosting.