MSFS performance tips and tricks + useful apps

[Sethos 4,733]

Just now, Eef said:

Yes, you mean to exclude those processes from ProBalance?

Yeah exactly, either exclude it or induce performance mode on the other applications, to avoid the ProBalance throttle.

Personally, I gave up on ProBalance, encountered one too many games and applications that was dependant on another service that got throttled in the background. Thus you had to sit and watch Process Lasso to make sure stuff didn't throttle. 

[Cpt_Piett 4,985]

Another advice from bitsum.com:

”Don’t set your important processes to ‘High’ or ‘Real-Time’. This can cause complications and is usually ineffective at improving application responsiveness. ProBalance works from the other direction (lowering priority classes) for a reason. You should let ProBalance do its job and skip the manual priority adjustments.”

Up until now I’ve given high CPU priority to MSFS and the Fenix apps. 

[VBHB 298]

So just done around an 8 hour flight (was paused at T/D for about 2 hours and 6 hour airtime) with the Fenix A320 with no FPS degradation.

I think how I fixed it is by changing my rolling cache to D drive inside my MSFS folder and I've set it at 64GB.  Also running that program Intelligant Standby List Cleaner.  Seems to be fine now?  No crashes with smooth locked 35fps.

Edited June 13, 2022 by VBHB

[Cpt_Piett 4,985]

2 hours ago, VBHB said:

So just done around an 8 hour flight (was paused at T/D for about 2 hours and 6 hour airtime) with the Fenix A320 with no FPS degradation.

I think how I fixed it is by changing my rolling cache to D drive inside my MSFS folder and I've set it at 64GB.  Also running that program Intelligant Standby List Cleaner.  Seems to be fine now?  No crashes with smooth locked 35fps.

That’s interesting. Where did you fly? I also use rolling cache 64gb on the same SSD as MSFS.

[VBHB 298]

1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

That’s interesting. Where did you fly? I also use rolling cache 64gb on the same SSD as MSFS.

YMML to WADD.

[AnkH 2,321]

Would be nice if someone could test if removing those eight photogrammetry files still provide extra FPS after todays update. At least I got some issues with redownloading them, now I have installed everything again...

[Cpt_Piett 4,985]

15 minutes ago, AnkH said:

Would be nice if someone could test if removing those eight photogrammetry files still provide extra FPS after todays update. At least I got some issues with redownloading them, now I have installed everything again...

I’m away from the sim this week. But judging from the release notes there’s no reason to think that the issue has been resolved as there doesn’t seem to be any core sim changes in the update. The easiest way is probably to test with/without.