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Quest 2 & Microsoft Flight Simulator Stuttering Performance Problem

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Every time i would put on the Quest 2 VR headset in game and in the Oculus home screen would lag down to 8fps.

It would do this every time i put on the headset when it was linked up via a USB 3.0 cable.  The headset had no problems with any other game and the game ran fine when in non VR mode.  The PC was Windows 10 fully updated with drivers and updates.

So i tried everything i could think of to fix this problem and it was alot.

  • Latest BETA Oculus Software
  • Latest BETA Graphics Card Drivers
  • Uninstall & Reinstall of Graphics cards with clean install and DDU
  • Lowering graphics settings in game
  • Windows 11
  • Complete Reinstall of Windows 10
  • Oculus Tray Tool
  • Power Plan settings

The reinstall:
This was where most PC problems get resolved and at first when i booted the game up up with a brand new Windows 10 install the game ran fine in VR.

Then i thought the problem was fixed so as i began reinstalling software like Steam,Visual Studio,Visual Code,Bit defender.  The problem unexpectedly started happening again which was incredibly frustrating to say the least.

then i had an Eureka moment, the problem seemed to come back when i reinstalled Bit-defender.  So i thought it must be interfering  somehow with the game?

Exclusions:
I then fired up the Bit defender settings and added the folder where the game is installed to the Exclusion list of Bit defender.

MSFS main folder added as an exclusion in bitdefender.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After trying the game again with the new settings in Bit defender, the stuttering and loss of fps went away!

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020’s August update gives huge performance boost!

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The game which has been out for over a year has been a pain to get a decent performance out off.   With random stutters and freezes and inconsistent framerates its been well a huge disappointment personally.  So much so that I had given up on ever playing it again due to state of the Graphic’s Card market (With Sky-high prices) and the only way to get it running anywhere decent would be a graphics card upgrade.

The August update/Xbox release Patch :
Ever since the august patch/Xbox Release (world update 5) there were reports that this latest patch would give a huge performance increase.  Some outlets reported a 50% increase in performance which I doubted most of these outlets have access to newer Graphics cards.

The august update give the game at least a 50% increase in performance amazing! The game which would never let me fly over high-populated areas like NewYork and London would finally and my god my first trip over New York was stunning.  Looking down below at streets and cars moving along while seeing buildings for miles was incredible.

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World of Warcraft – Improving Peformance (fps rate) – Fixed

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World of warcraft at times really can perform very badly, its an old game engine and it doest seem to work very well at times. Ive huge problems getting it run smoothly despite having a dam good PC. In raids at times my fps rate just drops to 10 fps or less same in wintergrasp.  The game becomes unplayable and very frustating so i started searching for solutions to try and fix the problem. The main problem seems to be the game cant cope with many players on the screen at the same time and it doesnt seem to handle CPU Cores very well.

First ill list my PC’s Specs;

  • AMD Phenom Black Edition Quad Core 9850
  • ATI Radeon 4870
  • 4 gigs Ram
  • Windows 7 64 bit

I started by turning most of the graphics settings down, some them make a huge difference such as “draw distance”. But nothing thats really going do the job, in fact nothing i tried really helped.

Deleting and reseting all your addons:

After setting the video dettings in wow to low and deleting all my addons and addon settings, my fps in stormwind went up to 100 fps.  I also set the ATI control panel image quality to “High Perfomance”.

Before i did this the fps rate was about 30-40 fps. I did this at a bad time too when there was nobody in any of the major cities so that is probably a huge factor in the fps increase.

Adding back your addons:

I then started to add to my addons back and with the following addons enabled my framerate dropped a little to about 40 – 60 fps average.

  • Xperl Unit Frames
  • Bagnon
  • Titan Panel
  • Outfitter

When i added back Bartender4 i lost about 20 fps, so this addon is causing a huge drop in performance for some reason.

Fixed:

After reading the Wow forums i found this link;

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10971909544&sid=1

Which is all about trying to improve wow’s performance and its the only thing thats worked for me.  The problem i had seemed to be to do with AMD’s “Cool and Quiet” feature, as when i disabled it wow framerates went up and my PC was way more responsive.  Im able to be dalaran now with out framerates dropping to 4 or 5 fps and wintergrasp is playable. Um getting about 100 fps where before i was getting 30-50, so its a huge improvement.