stephinder

I can't stop laughing!

I read your post last night, felt your pain. Although I fly in SoCal on Pilot Edge, I haven't flown around L.A., not in this sim anyway. So I took the JF PA-28 out of LAX, touch & go at Burbank and back again, as low as 1,500 over downtown. I had only occasional minor stutters as I would expect anywhere, nothing like you describe. It was fun. I'm no expert but you are right to crank down some of your high settings: Terrain Level of Detail 100, Texture Super Sampling 4x4 or off, 16 GB Rolling Cache is enough they say, I'm using 32. Overkill has a couple of good tutorials on performance and in particular stuttering. He shows how to override Full Screen Optimizations, a big frame killer in games, he says, and High DPI Scaling in Windows 10. He doesn't tell you how to unlock those files though. I used an app called "Take Ownership". It was easy from there. I also recommend the RD Presets Guide. They explain the settings and how to maximize performance. As a bonus they show how to tweak the look of the sim with GeForce Experience Freestyle in overlay, like using a photo editor. For me that alone was worth the price of admission. I hope this helps.

Close the sim. Go to Store / Gaming Click on the "..." field at the top right; select "Downloads and updates" From your game list: Select "MSFS 2020" by clicking on that field, highlighting it. Then click update. The download is about 1 GB. When you open the sim it will be ready to download and install the 7.52 GB patch. Ignore the "Connection lost" message that may pop up. Don't click OK.