For my 4070 laptop the process is different since the glcache and Dxcahe folders are not in the same folder. After going to the nvidia control panel and disabling the shader cache size, restart the PC. (If you do not restart you will not be able to delete the Dxcache folder files) Find the Glcache folder in the /Local/Nvidia folder and do the deleting procedure. Then go to the /Localnow/Nvidia folder where the Dxcache folder is located and do the deleting procedure. The rest of the process shown by Gavin is the same. Hope these help for the 4000 series card.

Tip: Before manually deleting the Nivida shader cache files, boot Windows into Safe Mode beforehand. This will allow access to all files in the cache directories whereas normal Windows mode might lock certain files that are in use at the time.

Had bad stuttering in VR, which is a worse experience than on screen, and after following these instructions now it's smooth. Thank you so much!!

Another excellent video by Easyjet! Every time I have a problem or a question about the sim I always come to you, thank you so much for the tips!

Thank you so much for this tutorial, all because I thought my PC was losing performance, and now it works perfect again

Thanks Gav, I've been suffering from these stutters for ages, particularly with the Fenix A320. Will give these a try!

I've been scratching my head for months trying to figure out what caused the stuttering (and it really was like a slide show on some landings) because I have a very good GPU and CPU. After following your tutorial I am now 100% stutter free! Thank you so much! You're a legend. :) :) :)

I use a AMD RX 6700 XT graphics card but some of the steps helped me a lot as I land often in Lisbon airport. Very smooth approach last night. Thank you very much.

Followed what you said in your video and can confirm mine finally no longer stutters and runs miles better .Thank you 😊😊

Thank you for making this video, I had the same problem, when approaching Lisbon airport, and I didn't know why. Thank you again.❤

Thank you for this guide. I have not been affected by this problem until today. Today these small micro-bounces suddenly appeared on two landing approaches. I have now followed all the steps and hope for a satisfactory solution.

Thanks Gav! As usual great video. Super helpful and eliminated all my stutters.

this is good to know, I experienced the stutters going into the same Portugal airport this weekend. ill test tonight and report back

Smooth as silk now into Seattle! Great tutorial, A++

Thank you very much, sir! I use this video every time I encounter this problem!

Thank you for this video. I only have stutters when I have the simbridge on to display the terrain, but if I disconnected it, I Have a smooth flight. Once again thank you, keep up the good working . Carlos.

This was so helpful! Thank you so much! Completely solved the issue

That’s always me on the busy airports!😩 Amazing tips! My shader cache size is set to unlimited and still works too!

Thank you! Thank you! I was almost at the point I was thinking that I had a virus or malware slowing down my pc. I will dive in it when I've got time.

Those weren't micro stutters before you cleared out your cache... they were full-blown stutters. The micro-stutters became apparent after you applied all of the fixes.

Thanks for making a video on this! I was having those exact issues. Barely any frame drops throughout the flight but as soon as I was about to touchdown, the framerate stuttered and made landing almost impossible. Gonna try these steps, cheers!

Thank you for this video! My flights around L.A. are smooth again.

Best video on the Internet. Worked wonders. Cheers.

Thanks for the video, I'm having these really bad at the moment.

This is incredible. I went from Medium Graphic Settings with stutters to ultra with vfx mod without any stutters or lags. Thank you so much!

Thanks brother. Still stutters a little but this helped tremendously.

Thank you, Gavin. Smooth as silk landing at KLAX with FSTL after applying your steps to remove the stutters.

Thank you so much! I will try this out later

I tried this today, my PC must be a bit different but I managed to search the DXCache and delete, there was an improvement in general but I still had some stutters on the first attempted landing, the next couple seemed smoother, I will keep monitoring how it goes. Always appreciate anything that improves anything causing stutters.

I've been getting something similar to this, only on a much far bigger scale, with very heavy stutters, glitching, even stalling, especially at the busier airports, in particular Heathrow; I'll be following this advice soon, see how that helps

Excellent Tips, thanks a lot :D

Hi Gavin Great video top man on following up and sharing this correction 👍

Excellent, I’ve been having this exact problem (with an RTX 3060Ti/5800X3D) tried various things, so fingers crossed…

Yep the stuttering is happening for me too on the 4070ti. Look forward to trying this fix as it was unplayable on approach.

It helped me! Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the video I’m going to give this a go on my weekend it’s just frustrating that we have to do this manually and it’s not taken care of by the sim

Hello, thanks for this info! I just actually heard about it on Overkills channel so I thought Id give a like and subscribe to say thank you!

Gav, Kudos to your efforts🎉 and support to the community. This is a real problem - mirco- stutters for me become macro stutters at times. Will definitely try the solution. 👍🏼 A quick update.... Tried but didn't work for me. 😢

Thank you Gavin !!!

I will make sure I will give this a try :)

I tried this, and it works well. My sim runs smooth as silk now.

really nice!! thank you! :D

I once asked, 'What should I do to fix stuttering?' and someone from Microsoft replied, 'Lower your settings.' I'm sorry, but if I consistently get 40-50fps, even in larger cities, why should I lower my settings? My CPU and GPU aren't even fully utilized, my RAM is only half full, and my VRAM too. Additionally, my SSD is plenty fast. It sounds like an optimization issue to me, not a hardware overload issue, and this proves my point.

2020fs'ers posted a video about this 10 days ago. Works like a charm!

Absolute lifesaver

I just had this issue for the first time. I usually fly short haul in Asia but now with the 777 I did a long haul from Tokyo to Zurich. On approach the stutters were really bad. For me clearing just the rolling cache was enough luckily as I could do that with the Sim still running.

Thanks for this, does it also work for frame freezing ?

Thanks Gavin, great tip! There is a more thorough way to delete/update Rolling Cache: Rolling Cache OFF> Apply&Save>Delete>Apply&Save>Rolling Cache ON. It will then fully rebuild. That rebuild takes around 20 sec. Again thanks for the tip, it''s an annoying issue.

Great video as always. Wondering if these steps work with vr. I don't have that bad stuttering but in vr every stutter feels worst than in the screen 😂

It worked thank you so much

Great video. I don't have stutter problem but the sim freese for a minute or two once in a while...

Thank you so much !!!

Never had these stutters, until I installed FSLTL. I eventually ended up with only haveing historic aircraft parked at the airports and the stutters were gone. So it is not the FSLTL planes' textures which caused the stutters but the injection of live traffic into the sim. Off course this is most noticable when you are approaching an airport with much live traffic action going on.

Very useful for me, it works well

First thanks a lot for your video, i appreciate your channel. Second, just have a question about the Cache folders. I only have the GLCache, dont have the DXCache, although have a folder named "NvBackend", should i delete something in that one? or where can i find the DXCache? many thanks, keep the good work!

SU14 totally killed performance on my computer. Don't know if that contributed to the stutters you were experiencing. Going to try out this fix later today, thanks for the video!

THE biggest roadblock in MSFS when it comes to performance is traffic. No matter how much you optimize the sim, you will experience stutters and abysmal 1% lows due to CPU bottlenecking when flying on VATSIM and there's more than 10 airplanes (unless you own a 5800x3d or better). Unfortunately, there's not many people who notice these stutters while on VATSIM.

Never had this kind of matter with my venerable old GTX 970... And I am very happy with my graphics (1920x1200) that are almost all at High. This card is really doing miracles 😊. However am using A32NX and not Fenix aircraft. But either VFR and IFR flights are pretty beautiful for me. Happy.

Thanks it help what you say in your video. Just a question, should rolling Cache activat, and when yes how big should the cache. I have up to 400 GB availible. Thanks

thanks so much

Great video. What about those using AMD?

Always good tips for graphically intense games like MSFS -- It's likely that doing this before or just after major game updates can eliminate lots of leftover data that the game keeps dragging along. Combine this with the Auto FPS mod and we'll have totally smooth sailing/flying!

Thank you delete and disable rolling cache was the solution for me

Another thing that can cause performance issues is virtualization. If you have it turned on (you should know if you have) try turning it off, it helped me alot.

Impeccable, but do I have to repeat this after a while??

I usually does this "cleanup". The thing that gave me the most FPS and smoothnes has been the frame generation "hack" on my 3070 card. After I applied this, I went from 30+ (sometimes lower) to 60+ fps, which does that I can now go into larger add on airports without getting below 30 fps anymore. This is in both Fenix and iniBuilds A300.

I have those stuttering with the last update and made it impossible to play. Im going to try your fix and let you know. EDIT: It works!! all back to normal, smooth flying again, thanks!! BTW I don´t have the dx folder, only the gl. My card is 1080ti, may have to do with that?

Thanks🌹🌹🌹

Dynamic LOD helps these issues immensely

what could be the reason of not being able to find the Dxcache on a 4090 card? i was not able to find this folder... update: i was now able to find it under: AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion

Does this still work if you have an AMD card? (6700xt)

How often do you have to do this? In my NVIDIA folder I onky had the GLCache folder. Thanks for your help!

I run FS2020 with a 3060ti with a 5900x. Even without those major stuttertings is it ideal to make this process or can it be risky o worse aomething thats corretly working?

I have the exact same issue and tried everything mentioned in this, but the problem remains annoyingly 😔 been an issue since SU14 beta that I can’t seem to resolve at all

thank you for your advice. I ve done that many times, but it seems to be only a temporary solution. You have to repeat the steps many times.My only usable solution is: Reducing TLOD and OLOD (there is a nice small program called "DynamicLOD" or do manually in MSFS Graphics Menu. Set all settings to medium.Swich off " Photogrammetry in "Data" menu. Switch off "motion Blur" in Graphics Menü. I have switched off Anisotrophic Filterin in MSFS but swiched it on to 8x8 in Nvidea settings. Also I set power management in Nvidea panel to MAX. There is no 100 % working solution but that is, whats improving it in my case.

Hi and thanks for this video!!! Question: If we should keep clearing rolling cache as part of this process, why bother having rolling cache enabled? Does that not defeat the purpose of the rolling cache?

Mine always stutters especially into EGLL and KJFK but tbf I have both iniBuilds sceneries for these.

The way I managed to stop stutters was to move the MSFS Cache location to a separate drive other than C. That worked really well.

Did you test it using the Fenix A320? I notice the aircraft in your video is not the Fenix A320...

Deleting the Rolling Cache in MSFS should be done After each Sim-Update - I personally found out that this particular stuttering always appears after applying a new Sim-Update

A thing i noticed was, that these micro stutters can also appear when your pc can not handle the setting: Terrain level of detail. This setting can be changed from 10 (i think) to 400. If you put it all the way to 400, and dont have a very strong pc, it will lag worse then you would play this flight sim on a Nintendo switch. But if you change the setting to something like 75 it will not lag, it wont annoye, and you will have a good flight sim session. (Btw terrain level of detail changes how good things are rendered in the distance. So if you put it to the max you will see detail of the terrain from very far, but if you put it to the minimum, your terrain will look like mashed potatoes

I accidentally deleted the dxcache folder which I thought was said it would come back after you restart playing the sim but the folder never came back and I can’t find it anywhere in the c drive. Any suggestions? Thanks

Nice video, I'll try this but what happens if you leave shader cache disabled in nVidia CP???

Do you use any Nvidia game filters? The colours in your sim look SO good, compared to mine, even though i'm pretty sure we have similar settings.

Thanks for making this videos. This issue is fixed, but I have an Internet Problem as well. Do someone know how to fix it, when the game says "it turn to offline mode"? I only have it in msfs2020 and I stream it at the same time and my stream is working fine.

In addition to the disc cleanup, I do the following: Win+R - Type temp - OK - Delete all - next: Win+R - type %temp% - OK - Delete all - next and last Win+R - type prefetch - OK - Delete all .That's it

I have stuttering on touchdown and if I look around with Frame Gen enabled..... I have a 4080 and a I9 13900KF and 32GB of DDR5. Drivers are all up to date.... pls help and dont know what else I can do

Dx cache is in a different location on the latest drivers just a heads up.

Went from 1 to ~25 fps on approach to Lisbon, while increasing my sliders from high/ultra to max! Fix worked, thank you so much!

Step 1: 2:41 clean up the cache in MSFS. Options>General Options>Data[scroll down]>Rolling Cache>Delete>Apply & Save. Step 2: 3:11 exit MSFS>Launch Nvidia Control>Manage 3D settings>[scroll down]Shader Cache site> Disable>Exit & Save Settings. Step 3: 3:45 open Appdata>Local>Nvidia>Keep Folders but Delete ALL files [or sub folders] within DX Cache and GL Cache folders. Step 4: 4:31 type in Disk Cleanup App>Open Disk Cleanup>Delete ALL in Direct Shader Cache Step 5: 5:04 Restart PC Step 6: Open back Nvidia>Manage 3D settings>set Shader Cache Site to Default. I hope this helps.

There are further steps which can be taken which not only get rid of stutters but also improve general fps performance, such as making sure your DLSS version is the latest possible which was a huge one for me, I went from between 30-60fps at La Guardia to 90 just doing that one thing alone. Turns out my DLSS3 capable system was using DLSS v2.4 even though I had DLSS3 enabled. FIgure that one out. Something very wrong there. Anyway, people should try that one if they haven't yet, it's straight up like getting a GPU upgrade for free. Then there's enabling reBAR, which is said to give you an extra 5-10%, but honestly I didn't notice that much difference personally, but then you wouldn't really, would you. The improvements don't end with just this video's suggestions! There's more than the ones I suggested too, but I'll leave you to find those ones on your own. The KZfaq search field is your friend on this one.

What is the best pre built gaming system I can get to run MFS really smoothly without any issues?

Thx

where could I possibly get the inibuilds A32NX??

I did the same,and indeed wunderfull landings,no stutters.

I fixed these by just deleting the Rolling Cache and turning it off altogether. I observed that this happened mostly on photogrammetry cities while landing. Disabling Rolling Cache permanently resolved it for me. Didn't do anything else.

For AMD users, I've found that deleting the rolling cache and setting the framerates on AMD Control to 30-31fps resolved the stutters as well. Switch off all the other options as well on AMD.

Hi, just found this video as im getting stuttering, the thing is I can’t find the path to delete what’s required, can anyone advise?

Do i have to do this regularly or just one time?

You could set a scheduled task to delete said files to save you having yo do it yourself.