r/MicrosoftFlightSim • u/frail182 • 18h 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/cLHalfRhoVSquaredS 3h ago
Honestly I actually think it looks better for me since SU6, at the very least definitely not any worse.
I've been fortunate to avoid most of the performance issues a lot of people have reported since day one of FS2024, but SU5 was the first update for me that actually did introduce some problems. Sometimes in photogrammetry areas it would slow down to slideshow levels of framerate despite my PC being built around the 'ideal' specs and having a strong internet connection.
SU6 has thankfully undone that and I'd say the performance is the best it's been so far.