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Just in case anyone is still looking at this info, I haven't done an exhaustive test, but the last few times I tried, the reduced FPS episodes I was seeing seems to have either gone away or been significantly reduced after the latest update (.11). I flew the same mission I had consistently seen it in (A-10A Push Back), and did not see it at all, except in one brief moment where it seemed to drop from 60 down to the 50s, but that may be unrelated.

Hi Limaro, I am seeing the same - I'll get pretty solid rates around 80-90, with bursts of over 100, then when flying over certain areas, it drops to the low 30s. With V-Sync I get a solid 60 and then it drops down to 30. I get tearing without V-Sync, and it generally seems a little smoother with V-Sync, I prefer to keep it on.

Just in case it helps to analyze performance settings, I changed a couple of things, setting the terrain shadows to flat and reducing the anisotropic filtering to 4x, and it did seem to improve performance, but I still can't figure out what would cause FPS drops in certain situations. Here's a video I recorded where simply zooming an external view slightly impacts FPS. I have V-SYNC on, so maybe that's why it drops to 30 and not somewhere in between, but it seems to be OK at in-between levels in other circumstances.

Thanks for the feedback, and I'm still not sure I understand the impact. In the A-10A Push Back mission, I can fly over a certain area - that has some buildings roads, inactive enemy vehicles and trees - early in the mission and it's fine, but later when that area is in view, the FPS drops to about 20. It is after the vehicles activate, so I thought it might be A! related, but even after I destroy them, the slow frame rate remains. The light, shadows, number of objects, etc., don't change, but yet the FPS mysteriously drops partway through the mission.

As mentioned, stuttering is difficult to track down, but on my new rig, I had stutters and found two ways to fix them. One was related to TrackIR, and disabling hot plug devices in the controller screen (in the lower right) helped out a lot: Another thing I found that seemed to smooth things out a bit was to set a maximum FPS in the Nvidia control panel. That setting was off, so I set it to a high FPS, and for some reason, it seemed to work a bit better after that (placebo effect, maybe?): But I still have weird FPS drops. Here is a video where you can see the FPS in the upper left corner. All I do is look around, and it goes from 60 to 20, and it happens while flying as well. I can't figure out what is in the view that is slow that bogs it down. And that's on a pretty beefy system, 12700K, 2 NVMe drives, 32GB RAM, RTX 3060Ti video card. The 60 FPS max is because I have V-SYNC on.

I'd like to add here that I recently picked up a new gaming PC with an i7 12700K running Windows 11 and had a major stuttering issue, and in researching it found this thread and used the disable hotplug button and it fixed it, so I appreciate the info here, and the addition of the button - thanks!

Yep, same thing here. I'm guessing we'll have to re-map them... I take it back, after a restart is seems to be working for me.

Very nice - thanks for the link!

Thanks everyone. Iguana, I had no idea about the history of that A-1. You get to work on an interesting selection of birds! I think the guy who owns it keeps it at Ramona, but I'm not sure. Ramona is a very small field about 40 miles NE of San Diego.

A local airfield in San Diego, CA, had a small air show this weekend, and had a few interesting aircraft show up. Not a big show, and a little slow moving, but it was still a nice day to see some fairly rare planes flying around.

As an owner of the eDimensional glasses, I'll just second everything that Ven said - I bought 'em years ago and stopped using them because they didn't work properly with a lot of stuff, and Nvidia stopped doing much to support them.

Could be they're just burned out, or maybe the top veteran teams are still deployed. Or maybe the Turks and Jordanians just work harder in training for that sort of thing and are consequently better at it. I guess without knowing more about the event it's hard to put any meaning to the conclusions, other than the Turks and Jordanians are definitely good at what they do.

Somewhere someone had a link to that in a downloadable format, and I pulled the highest quality version of it they had and burned it to a DVD, along with some Lock-On movies, to demonstrate to some friends the evolution of flight simulators. I thought it was pretty cool, but they mostly just thought I was a nerd after that :).

Very nice stuff there. Thank you!

Here's a few Thunderbird shots from their show at Nellis a few years ago to give you an idea of their show (a lot like most military demo teams, but maybe a bit faster):

Great shots - thanks for posting!

Nice shots! I've never seen the Red Arrows, but it looks like they put on a great show. I also like the Heritage/Legacy flight shot with the Typhoon and Spitfire.

I did a search over at fencecheck.com and found nothing. They're usually pretty good about getting that sort of thing posted, and the only references I can find online are from air show sites listing it, but none have a link to an official page. Searching the Buckley site turns up nothing as well, so I wonder if they canceled it this year. I know Elmendorf's Arctic Thunder show has not been scheduled for this year, and is only going to be held every other year.

Wow, amazing stuff - thanks for posting!

How long was your system functioning properly before that happened? I had a system that had similar issues and it was due to bad PromiseUltra controller drivers. I would reinstall about once a month, until I checked and found new drivers on their site and installed using that. It's been fine ever since, and that was in 2002 (I'm using that very system to type this message). Just a thought of something to look into.

A quick Google search turned up different pieces of info, but Wikipedia, even with their spotty record, seemed to have some good info on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchison_effect A few excerpts: According to Hutchison, while trying to duplicate experiments done by Nikola Tesla, he discovered a number of strange phenomena, including: levitation of heavy objects fusion of dissimilar materials such as metal and wood the anomalous heating of metals without burning adjacent material the spontaneous fracturing of metals changes in the crystalline structure and physical properties of metals. disappearing metal samplesAll these phenomena are jointly grouped under the name Hutchison Effect (HE). Supporters like Mark Solis, his former webmaster, maintain that none can be the result of known physical phenomena, such as electromagnetism.[1] Hutchison and his supporters surmise that these phenomena arise from zero-point energy or the Casimir effect. Hutchison also says that he invented over-unity batteries, which he calls Q Cells or Hiroshima cells and which, obtain energy from the vacuum using the Casimir effect. And: This "Hutchison Effect" has been claimed for years, without any independent verification - ever. In fact, its originator can't even replicate it on demand. This has been investigated more than once, been part of documentaries on the discovery channel, but still never seems to pass critical muster. This is in the category of folklore. In general, the "American Antigravity" web site caters to such folklore and its enthusiasts. —Marc G. Millis And: In 2005, Hutchison admitted that he hadn't actually reproduced his effect since approximately 1991. The earlier levitation footage from the 1980s is genuine, he says. But this footage has been characterized as looking like it was taken in a booth with an upside-down camera.[14] Hutchison continues to reject charges of fakery, and maintains that his "effect" has been demonstrated many times in the presence of scientists and, he says, members of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command. Hutchison states that he reproduced the effect in his Ash St., New Westminster apartment as recently as March 2006 for National Geographic, as well as for author Harold Berndt, whose film of the event can be found on the American Antigravity website, which covers Hutchison's assertions

Ah-ha! Cool - thanks Iguana!

Hmmm.... When I click on the Show button, I get a screen with a list of tracks, and I can choose a track and click Start or Cancel. The menu bar at the top just says Play Demo. If I choose start, the track plays, and if I press Esc I go back to the list of tracks, with the same options I had before. I only get a menu bar after I've just created or edited a track.

I'm kinda like that with movie lines - that's how I recognized them. Same with GG's post. Don't get me started on Star Wars quotes....

So Iguana, have you watched Top Gun recently, or do you just have it memorized? :)