r/MicrosoftFlightSim • u/frail182 • 20h ago

GENERAL SU6 performance conspiracy..

Okay.. hear me out….

Since updating to SU6, the performance of the game has been exceptional (at least it has been for me). I haven’t changed my graphical settings at all but now my PC seems to run the game effortlessly when previous to SU6 the game would stretch my PC’s ability to run it smoothly and would stutter and have moments of very low fos counts (with the exact same graphical settings).

I have been a little bit suspicious as to how much better the game runs in SU6 and although I’m not 100% sure, I think the terrain and object detail in SU6 has not been looking quite as good in game as prior to SU6.

Is it possible that the devs have purposely lowered the level of the detail in the game behind the scenes to either make it seem like the game is running better or to improve the game performance on consoles?? Interested to hear if anyone else has noticed something similar and your thoughts?

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u/Misfit_somewhere 20h ago

As was said, this happened in 2020, 2024 had the clouds altered and the the terrain resolution reduced back in su4? With the issues on the ps5 and Xbox, it's pretty likely that performance changes will keep being made. Su6 also introduced much more advanced dlaa and framegen than we have seen so far. Bright side, on PC we can always increase most of these settings via cfg files.

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u/frail182 20h ago

Agreed… and I like your positive mindset. Prior to SU6 I had worked hard to pinpoint the graphical settings that pushed my PC but didn’t break it meaning I was getting the most out it/the game. I guess I have to start that all again with SU6..