Hi, I am noticing a severe performance degradation when I have more online traffic around me. For example, I have flown around Munich at FL350, which had 12 departures at that moment, and my FPS dropped from my typical 60 FPS to 9 FPS.
All that with a pretty much high end hardware (Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB RAM and RTX 3090), and neither of those being 100% loaded.
I have verified that vPilot is the culprit, since the FPS drop immediately stopped when I have disconnected the vPilot.
My performance settings are max 200 aircraft to display and display all aircraft within 30 miles. I am using the IVAO MTL as an AI traffic library (I heard that FSLTL is even worse in terms of performance.
Is there any effort to optimize vPilot in this regard? Performance drops like this are ridiculous…
Observing the FPS return to normal when you disconnect vPilot does not prove that vPilot is the cause. That only suggests that vPilot is somehow involved with or enables whatever is actually causing the FPS drop. Consider the fact that tens of thousands of people use vPilot regularly without this issue.
My best guess is that one or more of the models that you are using for model matching is causing the issue. You might try temporarily disabling the IVAO MTL so that only the stock models built into the sim are used for model matching, and see if the issue persists. My second best guess is that some other SimConnect add-on is interfering with vPilot’s communication with the sim. You could try temporarily disabling other SimConnect add-ons to see if you can narrow it down. (But please try my first suggestion, first.)
I am aware, unfortunately since it’s much superior to the FSLTL, because FSLTL is basically not being updated at all (last update was December 2023), I strongly prefer it.
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I wanna tag on this thread instead of create a new one as its vPilot and performance related. I only notice this today. Initialiazing vPilot (not connecting to server) drops my FPS by about 10. I just noticed that today as I was trying to find out a way to improve my FPS. I loaded at KJFK and since I have a low end rig I am running at about 25FPS. Immediately I initialized vPilot it dropped to around 14FPS which is unfliyable at that. Please help if you can
Suggestion: Check your performance settings. If you still have the 40nm (default) selected, try dropping that to 4-5 miles, which is about what many people’s naked eyes can see.
Thx for your quick response. Well appreciated. The problem is that I had not even connected to the servers to see any planes at all. So I was by myself at the airport. I just initialized vPilot and had the window up and frames dropped by about 10. I did not even bother to connect to the server as I was just testing things out.
Interesting. I’m afraid I’m not aware. I have always been under the impression that vPilot is truly negligible impact on performance/frames. How low end is your rig?
In 2016 it was on top of the world lol
And I believe the new PMDG update my have also added to my FPS woes. Today I attempted a flight and my FPS dropped all the way to 1. Practically frozen at a low end stock airport
Yeah, that may be on the lower end, especially if you’re using addon scenery at JFK, and especially depending on the number of airplanes being drawn. Try lowering the distance that vPilot draws aircraft, that may help, but JFK often really hurts my frame rates too.