Big Improvement Fix | How to Stop Micro Stuttering & Boost FPS Performance in MSFS 2020
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- One of the most exciting parts of flying, is the landing! However, recently my sim was encountering micro-stutters which really ruined the immersion and also made it difficult to land properly. In this video we take a look at a way to fix MSFS and remove the stutters so that it all works perfectly again.
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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.
That's great - thank you.
hi, I have a 3070 but I can't find the Dxcahe folder. I have never activated dx 12, is this the reason?
thanks!
@@DavidFernandez08 had the same issue as you but I have an RTX 3080 I found the folder in LocalLow folder
@ramonzavala1869 I think you have a typo - it should be "LocalLow" and not "LocalNow", but otherwise thanks 🙂
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. :) :) :)
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!!
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.
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.
Thank you so much for this tutorial, all because I thought my PC was losing performance, and now it works perfect again
I can tell you this works 100%. I used to get really bad stuttering on approach and landing and also on takeoff just as I am about to rotate. This fixed it and it almost brought tears to my eyes that I could land smoothly. Thank you so much.
Hi, today I just had micro stutter issues with my MSFS 2024 (Fenix A320) . I applied both "Shader Cache Disabled " and GLCache purge as shown in your video and it worked perfectly. Thank you ! I'll pin your video on my favorites. It will happen again I guess. Thanks again.
Oh gosh, you are my hero! Finally a procedure that actually works (amongst these wonderful videos that perhaps do not, although they claim they did!)
Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I was almost ready to give up when I stumbled in this priceless video of yours!! It actually really solved my annoying micro stuttering that started many months ago for an unknow (to me, at least) reason. Every airport was suffering from this horrid micro stuttering, and I must say, even at the beginning, as soon as I started taxiing the stuttering started as well! This is wonderful a fix, amazing a solution! I admit I never thought it would have worked for real... but then, after following your suggestions step by step and reloading the flight plan and more or less starting my flight again (but this time almost at the approach, which is quite complicated a thing to achieve withing MSFS, but I eventually did it, flying to Hammamet in Tunisia departing from Cagliari in south Sardinia, with 'my' ATR 42 and avoiding more or less 45 minutes of 'previous' flight!), I witnessed no more stuttering AT ALL! This is incredible!!
Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Cheers from Florence, Italy!!
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.
it is a hardware overload issue. just because you get a nice framerate most of the time, i dont know why you think that means there will never be any slowdowns. i play at low settings on an ancient laptop getting around 20 fps and i dont have stutters.
@@MattMajcanIf you don’t have stutters what are you doing floating around the comments section of a video to fix stutters?
@Incidental
Indeed it does!! I am using a quite decent PC, with a 13th gen i7 CPU and an RTX 4090 GPU, with a very fast couple of NVME SSDs (FS is on the second one, which is really fast, like 7.5 Gigs per second bandwidth or so) and 32 Gigs of SDRAM! And I agree, it's clearly not a matter of settings, while instead it is a matter of whatever cache and so on and so forth which I cannot fully understand, but I have just solved my problem watching and following this video as well!
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.
Wow, your video is a game-changer! I followed the instructions and now my MSFS 2020 is completely stutter-free. It worked like a charm! Thanks for the amazing tips! ✈
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.
Thank you for the summary!
But I only have the GL folder what should I do now
You are the goat 🐐
How to do it in Radeon?
Followed what you said in your video and can confirm mine finally no longer stutters and runs miles better .Thank you 😊😊
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.
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!
Fanboy!
Thank you for making this video, I had the same problem, when approaching Lisbon airport, and I didn't know why. Thank you again.❤
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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!
Hope it helps.
Hey, I want to know if this helped because I have the same issue?
@@magicplaysRBLX There's a definite improvement; only happens at the really demanding airports now.
I did not know "gonna" was a word. Maybe you should try going back to school?
@@Zakk900 What is your problem?
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.
Exactly!
correct but hes never going to say ms2020 is still the bugfest its always been some 3 years in.
Agree, those were full blown stutters...when it's stated "no stutters" anymore, that is when I see "micro" stutters; it's not "nice and smooth", sorry to say. Yes, it's an improvement, but it's not a fix/solution :( ...
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++
Dynamic LOD helps these issues immensely
Yep, I discovered that today. Great tool! Solves all my taxi, approach & landing issues with the Fenix on big airports and cities. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks Gav, I've been suffering from these stutters for ages, particularly with the Fenix A320. Will give these a try!
👍Amazing, it really helped. Flying around EHRD - freezes disappeared Thank you very much.
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.
Best video on the Internet. Worked wonders. Cheers.
Thanks for this fix. It worked like a charm.
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.
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!
What Are Your Specs?
@@WeiZhen15 3060 Ti, i5-8700k, 64gb ram, nvme ssd
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.
Thank you very much, sir! I use this video every time I encounter this problem!
Thanks Gav! As usual great video. Super helpful and eliminated all my stutters.
Thank you for this video! My flights around L.A. are smooth again.
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.
That’s always me on the busy airports!😩
Amazing tips! My shader cache size is set to unlimited and still works too!
I tried this, and it works well. My sim runs smooth as silk now.
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 a 3070 too. Could you please link to info about that hack. Thank you!
How about the VRAM usage? I think for frame generation you have to use DX12 in MSFS, right? I remember when I tried DX12 I had severe VRAM issues and therefore never used it. Thats whats holding me back from testing the mod right now.
Also dx12 has a long-standing issue where the bing maps textures come through the airport textures, even for payware airports
I have a 3070 too. I tired the frame hack you mentioned, works well but after about 10-15 mins I get major frame stutters whenever I move the cam. Do you get that?
@@leonw.8855DX12 uses double the amount of VRAM you use at time in the sim, I’ve tried the frame hack. Does work but seems to have limitations if you’re using a 8gb graphics card
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.
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!
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.
I just turned off the MSFS 'Rolling Cache' forever and the stutters disappeared and never came back. Over a month of stutter free flying so far and no drop in performance or visual quality.
Do you run off an SSD, nVme or old style hard disk... maybe your machine is heavily using the disk while MSFS is running (anti viruses are notorious for this).
SSD@@johnmacward
Thank you very much, I was confused as to why my game had been stuttering a lot recently, when I deleted the rolling cache, my game immediately became smooth without stuttering ( rtx2060 )
What confuses me with deleting rolling cache is that isn't it enabled so it kind of saves the areas you've been to so that it doesn't have to load them again when in the sim? So if we delete it, then the sim has to load all that up again next time you visit that part of the world?
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, I’ve been having this exact problem (with an RTX 3060Ti/5800X3D) tried various things, so fingers crossed…
Thanks for the video, I'm having these really bad at the moment.
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.
Hi, how did u do that ? Just cut en past it in an another drive ?
You can change it in MSFS settings under Data.
It helped me! Thanks a lot!
This was so helpful! Thank you so much! Completely solved the issue
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.
Interesting... which is your CPU?
Thank you, Gavin. Smooth as silk landing at KLAX with FSTL after applying your steps to remove the stutters.
Glad it helped!
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
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
Perfect. Helped solve my issue
Yep the stuttering is happening for me too on the 4070ti. Look forward to trying this fix as it was unplayable on approach.
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.
The rolling cache has to be empty and disabled for all kind aof CPUs. This is common knowledge since shortly after MSFS was released in 2020. I actually have no idea for what and for what kindy system the rolling cache should be good for.
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
Massive help!
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.
In all fairness, he did say you have to repeat the steps if stutters start to come back.
Thank you
delete and disable rolling cache was the solution for me
I have never experienced these stutters - and I have quite an ancient system.
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!
Only problem now is with the FBW a380 my whole pc becomes stuttery when it is loaded. Things get frozen for several seconds outside the sim too.
Thank you so much! I will try this out later
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!
Excellent Tips, thanks a lot :D
I havent done this yet but on my return flight just before my approach the fmc stopped working and all the guages had frozen however the sim was still running from outside the cockpit is this the dreaded run out of vr memory issue i have a 4090 card 32 gig of ram
Great video. What about those using AMD?
Hi Gavin
Great video top man on following up and sharing this correction
👍
Thanks 👍
Thanks for this, does it also work for frame freezing ?
Does this still work if you have an AMD card? (6700xt)
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!
I tried all this and still get stutters, light, but still there. I can see them on yours too when coming into land.
I find performance is never the same from one day to the next. Sometimes, it's flawless others a stuttering mess. I have a high end PC and graphics card (i9 13900k, 128GB and RTX4090)
Tbh, I found out about this fix like 5 months ago and when I first did it, I noticed a crazy difference. Slowly the stuttering came back but when I do it now, I notice zero difference :/
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 😂
Great video. I don't have stutter problem but the sim freese for a minute or two once in a while...
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.
That micro stuttering only happens to me when i use Fenix A320. FBW A32N went fine, even on PMDG 738.
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
really nice!! thank you! :D
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. 😢
Can you advise on AMD Radeon setting as well?
You could set a scheduled task to delete said files to save you having yo do it yourself.
Is this a one-off or should it be done regularly?
Absolute lifesaver
I will make sure I will give this a try :)
I took a break from the game and before the break it was okay but now it’s reset everything even my assistance options
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?
Rolling cache is great for people whose Internet isn't too good as it can store files on the users PC rather than having to stream them as they fly.
Mine always stutters especially into EGLL and KJFK but tbf I have both iniBuilds sceneries for these.
Have you had a look into the dynamic lod addon? That also might help with approaches, though, at a cost of temporarily reduced lod.
What’s this add on do?
@@bigderpenergy7106 It automatically adjusts the object LOD depending on your altitude AGL (you set all values in the config). It can also temporarily reduce object LOD if your framerate gets below a threshold value that you define.
I have been usung dynamica LOD for a white now and it is great. No more stuttering during taxi , take off and approach.. Maybey Gavin can pick that up as well
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
How often will this need to be redone? Thanks!
I had the same question, I suppose repeat this when it starts stuttering again. So who knows.
Very useful for me, it works well
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!
It worked thank you so much
How often do you have to do this? In my NVIDIA folder I onky had the GLCache folder. Thanks for your help!
Was having stutters recently after installing GSX, so began isolating the issue and sure enough it was GSX. Didnt make much sense to me since my stutters where on approach when gsx should not have been running. After uninstalling I have completed 4 flights with no issues. Really, mine were more than micro stutters….it was almost impossible to even land
Hmm...i have gsx as well.thanks
You can disable GSX pro within the settings menus after takeoff and at 10,000ft. Without complexity deleting GSX.
What works for me is the DLSS Frame Generation mod and the DynamicLod app, now using my rtx 2080 my frame rates have nearly doubled and it runs a smooth as butter. Was thinking about buying rtx 4***but not needed now, so saved me some money.
What's the dlss mod you mention? I have a 3060ti and the dlss option in msfs seems useless.
@@Termite5656 He's probably meaning this: ua-cam.com/video/u7hzokSp-k0/v-deo.html
I use it on a RXT3090 and it really works.
The only downside is some artifacts in the menu and especially on all popup panels (I don't use them anyway, so it's fine).
2020fs'ers posted a video about this 10 days ago. Works like a charm!