Note: Nvidia has changed the location of the DXCache to AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\DXCache.

bro uses a 13th gen and a 4090 and says 'its buttery smooth'. But thanks for the help anyways. It improved the visual quality for me

This really helped. Same performance, FPS as before with my 2080ti but now completely stutter free! Love your channel and am so happy you're doing this! ❤️

Thank you for these tips Q8Pilot! I just set these settings and loaded up the sim and OMG!! What a huge difference. I was having pretty significant trouble with stutter and just wrote it off as MSFS short falls but now I have almost zero stutters.

Hi, I watch a lot of your videos and this latest one has really sorted things out for me. I do not use the nvidia filters but everything else has really improved things for me. I never really got bad performance but there was always something niggling in the background as I always fly in VR, in particular when turning the nosewheel the scenery always had that slight lag. These fixes have cured them so I would really like to thank you for posting this latest one up...Thanks Q8 pilot

This was extremely helpful! What a huge difference these settings made. Thank you!

Great video. But you also have a 4090 graphic card

you have no idea how much this has helped me. to the point I'd almost stopped using the sim due to 3 simultaneous pauses throughout flying, Especially takeoff and landing to the point where I was about to give up because tips from forums and the like although very much appreciated had no answer for me. This has fixed all my issues and I thank you greatly. If ever you decide to visit Australia I'd love to shout you a beer! Thanks again so much Daz

Thank you Q8! Just improved my msfs2020 performance, much thanks!

my sim is now a lot smoother with those new settings, even at very high taxing airports, I am now excited to go to way more airports without worrying about shuttering. Thank you!

i was skeptical because ive never had much luck with improving stutters, but hopeful since it was q8 supplying the knowledge. it really did help quite a bit. i'm running a 3090 and 10850k (my bottleneck) and my stutters have seriously drastically reduced. i can enoy the a310 stutter free finally!

Those settings are great. Same fps, but my sim runs way smoother now!I also had the glass cockpit refresh rate set to high, which caused a lot of stutters on my system. Setting it to medium improved it a lot.

Hi Q8Pilot. Great video. With all the updates, over time my sim had become a bit jittery. Thanks to your tips it runs like butter now! Looks great too. Thank you very much. 👍

Thank you Q8 pilot . You are the reason i purchased MSFS . I have a ASUS laptop( RTX 3050, 16 Gb ram. ) currently I get between 30 and 40 FPS the graphic settings in a high mode. I’m definitely gonna try this tomorrow. Thanks for your wonderful tutorial.❤❤

Thanks for sharing this Q8 and I'm also seeing the same performance increase on my own RTX3070 rig. After following your guide. I also recently found out MSFS2020 was running beyond my PC 16Gb ram, and now I upgraded to a 32GB ram. Plus, I ws running MSFS2020 on a partiitioned 2TB HDD. Now in Jan 23 , you can now get av1TB NVME and SATA SSD for less that £80, I about a SSD and moved MSFS2020 on to it, to also give me a increase in performance and no more micro-stutters. Again, I suggest installing 32GB DDR memory or more to your rig. As well as moving or reinstalling MSFS 2020 on to a SSD, also helps a lot.

Im on VR with a HP G2 and these tips definitely helped. Thank you.

These tips definitely helped me, thanks Q8Pilot! My system 4k, I9 cpu, 64g ram and RTX 4090..all running on SSD's Smooth as butter on ultra with your settings..cheers again.

Thank you Q8! I also set MFS to "priority" via Task menu and that helps as well.

Thanks for the tips. Hope you can also explain what each setting does as well as the pros and cons of changing those settings. Nevertheless, great tips.

Tried this on my old PC and it worked great. I'm getting 20-25 FPS stutter free with an I7-4790K processor with a GTX950 GPU. Flew from JFK to Newark Liberty smoothly, very happy I came across your Video. I was about to give up trying to fix the frame stutter. Thanks.

Wow! I tried this for X-plane 12 and did it improve my frame rate? No. Did it reduce my stutters? Not half!!!!! What a fantastic improvement. Thank you Q8Pilot for a brilliant bit of advice. Love your channel. Please never stop :-)

Thanks bud, this has made a massive difference on my 3080/G2 Ryzen cpu in VR, instant subscription!

Thank you! With same FPS as before, now no stutters with my 2080ti!

That intro is on another level!! Love it

I have an ATI card. Yet, some of the tips in this video was very helpful. So, thumbs up for that. Because I don't care what GPU you have, this game has been the most challenging with graphics I've ever experienced! I build my own pc's and thought I was fine. I've NEVER had to buy a GPU that was close to a 1k. This game basically requires a car note payment on a graphics card or something to run it smoothly. Heh And I've been gaming since the Atari days! Still, a video like this can alleviate a lot of issues with just simple setup. And I knew this but just couldn't find the right combo. I've never had to go a file to delete things to get the graphics to perform better. I mean, lot of crazy stuff just to play a sim! Regardless, yours has been the best I've seen (and I've watched a LOT) that gets rid of the jitters! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

Thank you so much for these tips, I fly in VR and these tips have certainly improved my fps and smoothness in VR.

Works 200%!!! Congratulations afor another great tip!! Smooth as never been before! Thanks!!

I tried this out tonight with my RTX2060 Super and used all your settings. I was amazed. All my settings are now on Ultra and the only setting I had to change was Texture Level of Detail from 400 to 300. Frame rate is 30 fps but no stutters. I have just completed an approach and landing in the Citation CJ4 with no slow down or memory issues and using Direct X 12.

Wow, it worked wonderfully. Thanks, subbed!

Great vid, Thx for great tips, works fine here!

As always, great tips and advice from a great flight simmer

I tried for years any settings and tutorials that was out there on internet and with no success, I own 3090 and was furious how I can’t fly it smoothly but after this I can confirm this one is the one, thank you very much

That 737 looks so real flying over L.A... There were some slight stutters happening up close under the left wing but the rest looked great! Someday, a few years from now, hopefully stutters will be a thing of the past and we can fly at 120 fps. We are so close! Maybe the 5 series cards and new CPUs will get there? It would be so great if Intel were to integrate the memory into their chips, like the Apple M1, M2 chips do.

The ALT F3 key was great my monitor was impossible to set the brightness even when i went into the Nivida settings. For some reason this worked very well.

Thank you Q8 improve a lot. Muchas Gracias esta funcionando super bien.

Qpilot, what zoom ( FOV) are you using? Also have you changed your Initial zoom in camera cfg. I remember the correct setting was 1.0 not the default 0.70. Have u changed any of it? Because we had to in fsx and p3d.

It works very fine ! also in an old and low performing pc it delete completely every stutters.... Many many thanks Sir ;)

Great video thank you Q8Pilot :) Recent changes to the NVidia installs have changed the location of the shader cache files which your channel viewers might like to know about.

This definitely worked for me! I had to remove SimFX for extra frames but deleting the cache itself gave me at least 15 frames plus reduced stutters at landing. Thanks for the tutorial! Note : I have a Ryzen 7 5800X, RTX 3070, and a 32GB RAM. Had 25fps with massive stutters in PMDG 737 before but now I have 40fps with little stutters.

This is PHENOMENAL! Thank youuuuuu!

Hi Q8. A remark about the anistropic filter setting - you set it 16x in the NCP, and then mention you could/should turn that setting to OFF in the in-game graphics options. But then when you show some demo performance footage, you also show us your ingame settings, and I couldn't help but notice you still had yours set to 16x. I'm assuming that's a mistake/omission?

Worked wonders for me mate. Thank you!

Awesome Information, as i have a medium computer and made big difference..Thanks Again !!

Never thought I'd see the day when MSFS runs better on my aging video card than X-Plane does... 😔 Thanks for the guide. Really does seem to help!

Thank you! Finaly something works for me!

Thanks for the video. You turned on anisotropic filtering in the Nvidia control panel, and kept it on in fs too?

Thank you for the tips. What software do you use to show the frames per second in the top left corner of the screen? Do you think that the Nvidia 4090 is a huge improvement over its predecessor? Best regards Medaht

Yep, it worked! Even on my (almost) potato pc. Thanks mate!

Q8 Pilot, First and foremost, thank you for helping us with your advice. Results) To answer your most basic question, yes I think the stuttering improved and was almost fluid-though not quite as fluid as yours-to start off at KLAX with the A310. As I landed at Palm Springs Intl., I saw a few more stutters, maybe some artifacts in my medium-grade computer, picked up along the way. However, with issue to other things like lighting, color, etc. the image seemed less sharp & defined, and the color more washed out. While I was trying to follow your instructions as you gave them, I’ll note a few issues I came across, and number them down below: 1) I noticed my FPS at LAX was in the high-20’s, whereas I believe beforehand I was hovering in the high-30’s to low-40’s. 2) DISREGARD... other people asked about files being left over, so I don't need to ask it again. 3) Game Filter Settings (Alt +F3) won’t work. It says “A Supported Game is Required to Use This Feature”. I don’t know. I thought you said that the game had to be turned off before following your steps-which is what I did. I wonder if it wanted me to open the game? Well, either way, I couldn’t do anything you said to do in this section because of this. Again, why do you think it was displaying this message? 4) My NVIDIA “dashboard” (I don’t know what else to call the control panel), only recognizes my MSFS “game”, as “Game of the Year”. It doesn’t say it’s the “40th Anniversary Edition”. Why and is this a problem? It almost seems as though NVIDIA doesn’t recognize the latest version of the game, and I find that to be troublesome. And I say this because I don’t know if it’s actually making the necessary adjustments, if it doesn’t even know if it’s the right game. What are your thoughts on this? 5) My Graphics Settings in the Simulator doesn’t show the line, “NVIDIA DLSS Frame Generation”, like yours did in your tutorial. I run an NVIDIA card, why do you think it won’t display this line on my Graphics Menu? 6) A lot of what you set to ULTRA in your GRAPHICS menu, I set to MEDIUM, only because I don’t think my 2019 mid-grade computer, is as good as yours. Even still though, some of my results were a little on the lack-luster side for me. In conclusion, I appreciate the hard work you did to help the community. I’m just possibly in that small percentage of people, who your suggestions didn’t quite help the way I was hoping they would. But it did help the stuttering for a little bit-at least leaving KLAX. However, as I said earlier, on the Palm Springs arrival, they seemed to increase, and the FPS was actually lower upon completion of your steps. Maybe I’ll reset the GRAPHICS values back to the way I had them and that may help. Thank you again. 😇

Love it. Another video claiming to get rid of stutters with very clear and obvious micro stutters and uneven frame timing all over the place. Its baked into msfs, folks. Sure you can get rid of hideous pauses and bad stuttering and poor fps using expensive hardware and some good settings. But the micro stutters when loading in scenery arent going anywhere. In VR they are VERY noticable, and to a trained eye they are all over this 2d video too.

I always find Sharpen+ to be a better filter. Regular Sharpen looks to be an old method of sharpening.

Does this make any difference in VR? I always enjoy your videos, so thank you!

Nice and informative video as always. What is your RIG? With my i9 11900 k, GTX 30380ti, 23 gb I have 24 FPS...

Great tips, please can I ask which programme are you using for the FPS counter with the CPU and GPU useage stats on show as well, I would love to have that on my PC to see where the bottlenecks are!

wooow this actually worked butter smooth thanks man i appreciate it im running rtx 4080 32 gb ram 4000hz ryzen 95900x samsung odyssey 49 inch 4k ultrawide and it actually made my game so smooth thanks !!!!

Do these settings apply for both DX11 and DX12 options in FS2020? And must you use the DLSS option too for this?

This really helped, thank you!

Your videos are great, and thank you for stating that some changes might not apply to all cases. If your computer with 13th gen intel 5.5Ghz and Nvidea 4090 and you have stutering, you are not qualified to fly a plane 😀 I have 4090, and I render in 6k all ultra and it is so smooth. Dlss frame generation is doubling your fps. I want to mention that I had some stuttering and moved from SATA Drive to m.2. Speed of SATA is 600Mbps and m.2 can go up to 7000. MSFS works heavily with much data, and fast storage access is a must while flying. I noticed, you do not use HDR. Any reason. With my LG Oled screen , HDR is next level. Thanks again.

my fps is usually more than fine when looking forward but it regularly drops by 50-60% when panning camera. i’ll try those suggestions. i’m desperately hoping they help!

If you find that some cache files are not deletable, disable shader cache in the Nvidia control panel, restart, and they will become deletable. Then set the shader cache to unlimited, and restart.

Thanks. You suggestions improved my framerate in XP12

Would be very interesting to see, how many FPS you get with the Fenix, FSLTL and without frame generation in the exact same situation.

Funny!! Im always late to the party on these fixes. Then when i do stumble on them, im not home to try out!! 😂

came from @twotonemurphy's stream! tips helped with the stutters for sure! Thanks much!!

Awesome video!! would u recommend keep xp12 still? i have tons of addons on it but msfs looks beatiful, whats your opinion? thanks.

My MSFS is installed via Steam. In the NVIDIA Control Panel "Program Settings" I have no listing for Microsoft Flight Simulator unless I uncheck the "Show only programs found on this computer" checkbox then there are a few listed. Do I need to add it or is it using the "Steam" settings?

Great video mate. Whats the app you are using to monitor temps, fps etc??

Hi Q8 Pilot, thanks for the tips. But out of curiosity before you did these steps, for somebody with a 13th gen and 4090, were you not experiencing "butter smooth" gamelay? Was the sim stuttery in this context before the tweak?

My CPU rates at 4.7mgz. And I'm running a GTX1070 video card. FPS= 25-30. Pretty smooth. Not sure if new settings would benefit me. You have a pretty beefy machine. Appreciate your videos.

Hi, thanks for the information. Do you set Anisotropic Filtering to 16x also in the sim after applying it in GPU driver? Regards.

Great Video!!!, One question, I have a NVIDIA3090, I have it on DX11, Do you recommend to change to DX12?

Hi Q8! Question though, what does selecting the "shader cache size" to unlimited do to the system? Will it eat up a lot of storage over time?

I have a 4090 paired with a 5800X3D and I am wondering how you can achieve a 400 TLOD, even with FG on, this setting hits hard on any CPU. When sitting at the gate of a major airport I still get annoying stutters when panning down from the overhead panel. This sim needs more cache optimisations in my opinion.

Hi Q8 Piltot!! One of the best piece of advice ever! It really changed how my sim performs…. Just a question regarding cache … both Nvidia shade cache and MSFS Rolling cache… which is your recommendation for deleting them? Every once in a while?? After every sim session? Thank you so much!!!

Thanks!! Will try these tweaks on my 13900K & 4090 today, where I have still been having a few stutters. Question; what version of KLAX were you using (if I missed it)? Thanks again!!

The first and only real Game Changer tweak that really works for both MSFS and X-Plane 11/12

Is it necessary to periodically go back and delete those NVIDIA caches again? Thanks for the video. I have an older machine with a 1080 card but it still helped.

Hey man thank you. That was the best anti stutter tips Thanks a lot

just a quick thank you. These Nvidia settings eliminated all the stuttering I was experiencing, both inside and exterior look around. subscribed and will check some of your other videos.

Can you explain why forcing anisotropic filtering in the control panel is better than just switching it on in MSFS?

Hi Q8Pilot. 2 months ago my MSFS was running like butter after I applied and followed your recommendations on the video. After the latest MSFS update my system became all jittery and stuttery again. I rewatched the video and flushed the NVIDIA cache, all the other settings are still active as per your recommendation. Do you have any additional tips that may be necessary to implement to get that buttery flight sim experience once again?

well i could not clean all files inside the 2 folders i get a message " the files could not be deleted because they are open on explorer". I m with w11

What a difference - you're awesome.

Oh blimy these are some new ones to try mostly :)

Thank you Q8Pilot. Your settings work for me also on VR I got a better performance with less stutters. I7 12900 3080TI

In the video u sed to set filtering to 16x in the nvidia settings and to set it off in msfs but u have it set to 16x in the sim.

What software are you using for measuring the FPS in MSFS?

Im gonna try this when i finish my flight in 6 hrs XD !! Thanks Q8

Maybe it could be interesting to do a script on the desktop who will automate the deletion process.

Looks great!!! But you have a hell of a computer that runs everything!! Can wait to try this on my much lower system!!

Thank you for the video. How often would you delete the shader caches? Also I haven't enabled HDR as every time I do it in windows the screen suddenly darkens. This makes me concerned and I revert back. I have a 4090 and a 120Hz Ultra Wide Samsung monitor..

nice and easy this how all Tips on youtube should be like thanks for this

Hi in your intro did you say MSFS Sim SHOULD NOT BE RUNNING when you make the changes you describe. Any help appreciated

Thank you so much my screen now is liquid smooth what should I do with these 2 current settings in my flight simulator NVIDIA REFLEX LOW LATENCY is on, and AMD FIDELITY FX SHARPENING IS 160 .... I have a RTX asus 3090 high end computer thank you so much again.

Thank you!!!!!!

Also many thanks for this video. I think that these settings mainly refer to the GPU performance, right? I am massively "limited by main thread" although I have upgraded to a 7800X3D and a RTX 4080. Even in 1440p I am experiencing these very low FPS and frame times between 20 and 30 ms for my CPU.

Great vid, just a question: For the Nvidia Game Filter, I can't get the pourcentages precisely as you have them in the vid, for example it would go from 0% to 11% instantly without the possibility of being under 11%. Any idea for why is that ?

What are your cockpit camera settings ? (zoom/horizontal/height)

top video , i just make your 5 suggestion and will try tomorrow Which performance software do you utilize inside the video , i dislike those of FS2020 developper, is it settable (can select control check) says thank again to you for your shared out job to simmers community

Thank you for sharing this knowledge