Regarding the Graphics Settings of my two computers in the last Post, some friends asked what the specifications of my two PCs are and questioned if it is justified to compare them side by side since there aren’t much too difference in the comparison chart shown in the post.
Yes, interestingly, except a few items I set higher than the other, most of the settings between the two PCs are identical, even their looks under my desk.
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Perhaps you have encountered similar situations before: the performance of the simulator deterioriates as time goes by. In the end, you’ll have to tune it again. I just did about a week ago.
Followings are what I set at present:
| nVidia Drivers | Reinstalled – As Clean GeForce Experience – Removed |
| nVidia Settings | Power Management Mode – Prefer Maximum Performance Others – Default |
| Windows Settings | Game Mode – ON Xbox Game Bar & Captures – OFF Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling – OFF |
| CPU Priority | FlightSimulator.exe – High via Prio (Post 714) |
And the Graphics Settings in MSFS for my two computers: Continue reading
One thing that frustrated me for quite some time was the RealSimGear Device Interface wouldn’t load up with MSFS automatically.
After the Interface was installed, I moved the whole package out from the MSFS\Community folder to the \Addons\Utility\RealSimGear folder on the same drive in my system, so that it could be activated via MSFS Addon Linkers.
Then I edited the Path of the Device Interface Module accordingly in the exe.xml file as follows:
<Launch.Addon>
<Name>RealSimGear Add-on</Name>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Path>F:\Addons\Utility\RealSimGear\bin\RealSimGear.exe</Path>
</Launch.Addon>
The path was correctly pointing to the RealSimGear.exe but the Device Interface simply wouldn’t load with MSFS.
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I just updated to MSFS version 1.17.3.0 earlier this morning.
Actually, I didn’t realize it had been updated because MSFS ran thru the update check 
to the Main Menu on its first run. If there wasn’t a note about the World Update V in the MarketPlace, I would have missed it in the first place.
As usual, I cleared the Community Folder before proceeding to update. But no difference to what the simulator did in the past, the update process didn’t get thru in one shot. It stopped at 55%. I needed to quit and restart the game to finish the download. Continue reading
Just noticed that Lockheed Martin had released P3D v5.2 a few days ago. Descriptions sound good with more than 100 new features and fixes and improvements. https://www.prepar3d.com/news/announcements/2021/06/120786/
Hope this update solves the many issues reported before.
FPS hit isn’t uncommon when a pop-out screen is moved to a second monitor, despite how small and low resolution of the monitor it might be.
In a “conversation” I had with Michael Basler in Germany earlier last month, he said that his fps were literally cut by 50% when he shifted a pop-out screen to a touch monitor connected to the main computer.
My reaction was: since I don’t see any performance hit from my GNS430 and GNS530 connecting to the motherboard’s integrated graphics ports, I suggested him to give it a try if his computer supports the feature.
Later he came back to me saying that he still couldn’t believe it but it works. Continue reading
While I was cleaning up and finalizing my work PC with new components yesterday, I discovered an effective way to increase FPS and smoothness of MSFS instantly.
The trick simply involves the changing of a few options in the game.
I am so happy to report that the MSFS on both my machines have recovered from CTDs. One by reinstalling to a new folder. The other was by replacing the Community Folder with an empty one.
After I posted the CTDs on both my machines yesterday, Robert Temmerman suggested me to remove the Community folder to avoid any potential or tangible incompatibility among the addons in the folder with MSFS update. He said he ran into similar situations before and it took him a while to figure this out.
Jim Gerow also forwarded me an announcement from RealsimGear saying that their addons are temporarily incompatible with MSFS after France update and they are working onto fixing it.
Sadly, I didn’t receive any notice from RealsimGear nor I alerted enough to aware that the GNSs I recently added to my system would be the culprit causing the crash.
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MSFS is really a depressing game to me. It took me nearly two months to get it installed on my PC in the beginning. Then having this and that issue fixed and solved over the months, I finally had it set up right recently.
But after the latest France update yesterday, it crashes to desktop (CTD) on BOTH of my machines, meaning I am totally shut off from it.
I am currently reinstalling the game on one of my machines again. It’s going to take another 12 hours or so, l believe, for the 171.83GB contents.
The most painful part is, Continue reading
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