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Dan, I am not sure that a better graphics card will reduce stutters. To me it seems like stutters is caused by main thread limitations. My cpu is a Ryzen 9 5900, quite similar to yours and my gpu is an rx 6900. What I did to get the best out of my hardware was to, with developers mode on and fps displayed parked at EGLC airport facing London center, checking the main thread. There are some settings that are cpu intence, tlod, olod, buildings and raymarched reflections so I keep these at 150, 150, medium and off. I ended up with 20 ms for the main thread and then adjusted graphics settings until I reached 21 - 22 ms for the gpu so that the gpu is the limiter, not the cpu. Then I checked the framerate, it was 38 fps but since this was the worst case senario I locked my framerate at 40 fps. Now it's running smooth, no stutters and the graphics are really nice, everything at ultra or high exept for the above mentioned and trees, grass & bushes and ambient occlusion set to medium. By the way, my headset is a Reverb g2. You could try this and see where you end up and then decide whether you need a better gpu now or wait and upgrade everything.

Be sure the cable is plugged in well. For me I have to push quite hard to get the plug seated in the headset.

Just press keyboard button "n" Enjoy your VFR bush trip!

This may happen if the room is too dark.

The reverb g2 is excellent. However, it takes a lot of tuning in Windows and in sim. I set renderscale in Openxr tools to 200 and in msfs settings to 50. That equals 100 but increases fps a lot. Also, you would probably set world scale to 130 or the cockpits will appear small. My cpu is a Ryzen 9 5909X and gpu Asus 6900xt oc. Fps are 35 - 38 @ 2,000 ft above Manhattan with Tlod @ 170 and Olod @ 120. Other settings = ultra except ambient occlusion and volumetric clouds = high and bloom off. Also TAA and DX12.