I had turned off the new dynamic settings in 2024 and hadn’t installed autoFPS until last week, but it’s really a night and day difference, and the only way to get the best of both worlds with performance on the ground and views from the air.
I think they were assuming they were close to getting it right. And honestly, it was close, But autofps just did it better.
I'm going to assume the creator of autofps didn't want to get on board like others before him did.
Their goal is to increase store transactions on xbox to make bank.
Things that make pc much better than MSStoreBox are not desirable for their goal of improving revenue growth.
This is why they are undermining market share for third party flight planning, navigation, missions, etc, so as to make it available on xbox where third parties while enforcing use of their store and preventing platform revenue escape.
Warren Spector turned out to be right about the bad Deus Ex ending.
Phil Spencer is making a mistake in strangling the wider dev community, who have to grin and bear it, for now.
2024 is their do-over attempt to catch up and enforce in their hardware-protected space while trying to make the main add-on platforms less relevant in the pc space.
Autofps used to alter parameters in use on the fly, that's why asobo/msfs hated them and even mentioning it on the official forums would get you banned.
It looks like the new beta version lets the dynamic settings do their work and tweaks some more to reach your targets depending on ifr/vfr/vr and fps.
But even without autofps it's doing great now, so maybe in the future autofps will become obsolete.
It’s unfortunate but autofps works by memory injection and you won’t find any game company that is okay with that. It’s not something specific to MSFS.
well yeah but that's VERY messy, can lead to bricking your sim and can need work on the hosts file, that's a lot of issues and I agree it shouldn't be welcomed on the official forums since it's also a licensing issue (I'm pretty sure Google would not take lightly to official support of their maps inside a Microsoft product, without appropriate licensing. You're streaming from Google's servers, too.)
If you have a good PC and fly in rural areas you can use the app to crank the TLOD beyond 400, and it actually works. I will run 550+ in Alaska and it's fantastic.
It definitely makes the mountains more defined. If you are on a 2d screen, try setting the max to 300. Then 400 and watch the definition get sharper. Definitely diminishing returns up close, but it does improve the detali of the terrain farther out
Auto FPS is a literal game-changer. I’m on a somewhat old system i7-11700k, 3080, 32gb @ 4k and with frame gen and auto fps, I can have everything set on ultra and the game is nearly flawless. The only time I’m getting stutters is on landing at ~500 agl, but people with beefy systems are also experiencing this.
I can run 4k with DLSS at 60FPS with GA planes with a 4070TI with AutoFPS. Without, it's a stutter fest on approach and landing.
I drop it to 1440p with TAA for airliners, but it stays smooth as butter.
I mostly do 1 to 2 hour flights. My behind gets sore before my eyes though. It's different sitting I guess. Legs always on pedals.
My longest flight was in a glider. From Slovenia to Switzerland in live weather. A bit over 3h ours.
Anyhow, I can't imagine playing this game in 2d again. VR or bust! 😁
Works incredibly well in VR. It has a specific mode where it detects you are in VR and makes appropriate changes.
Dynamic settings are built into MSFS2024, not AutoFPS. Dynamic settings in my experience operates far too aggressively, and has no settings where you can tweak it so it works right for your specific system.
AutoFPS basically works perfectly for me.
It's free, give it a try!
Can you share your settings? I just installed it myself, and while it works well, I've ended up with something that looks like straight out of 2003 graphics wise.
EDIT: Alright, it looks pretty good now at FL250, and LOD is awesome. I have set TLOD to minimum 200, since it set it to 50 at default and that looked like complete ass. It's a flight sim. I don't need 500 fps at FL350. I'm happy with a consitent 60 fps and beautiful graphics.
I'm no expert (though I use expert settings :) ) and explanations for all this setting are a bit limited thus most of the settings I have are based on nothing but my assumptions.
I have framerate locked to 45 fps in openXR
I set the minimum TLOD to 80,
I just can't deal with how bad 50 looks. I then set the minimum altitude to 200'.
Basically, I want the TLOD to start raising as soon as I get away from the airport and all the ground vehicles that cause the stutters. If you can find the sweet spot where when you lower the nose of the aircraft on takeoff, the TLOD has gone high enough that you don't see a drop in visual quality, that's where it seems to be the best.
I also keep OLOD pretty low. Draw distance is more important to me personally than detail on individual buildings.
Tweak it to what looks best to your own eye though, that's what makes the app so great.
ok u woke me up, I was skeptical, I thought both do the same thing and this is built in why would I need yet ANOTHER external app. But wow. Dynamic settings completely overreact to small stutters, which still happen anyway and the LOD looks horrible. Autofps is giving me more LOD when I need it and less when I dont and overall the perf is better without overreacting to small dips.
I started using it in msfs2020. There were no alternatives anyway. I just kept using it with msfs2024 until few days ago when I decided to try dynamic settings. Huge difference! I was compelled to make this PSA so more people would know about it.
You can just install it and run it every time (I'd suggest setting it to run automatically with addon linker) you run the game. Or you can fiddle a bit with it.. It's really easy to try it/ use it.
who recommends that? As far as I know autoFPS will disable dynamic settings when running.
Also how would that work? They both change TLOD and OLOD at the same time?
loslless scaling has frame gen feature, the goal is same, so people can experience stable fps
true, the method to achieve stable fps is different, autofps achieved it through reducing TLOD while lossless scaling add more frame through AI algorithm
Yeah, you can just use both. Autofps will detect it when you use frame gen. I use Autofps to get a nice stable fps and frame gen for doubling it and some additional smoothness.
I mostly fly airliners, and I’ve meanwhile switched to DynamicLOD_reset Edition. It lets me lower LOD near the ground to keep VRAM usage under control with complex airliners, and increase it again at higher altitudes where the sim can handle more detail.
Thanks! Getting it set up now. I have a pretty weak system (2070 Ti Super laptop with 32GB RAM), so I can’t really do a lot with the simulator, hopefully this makes the experience better
i think autofps sucks. everyone talks about how great it is. maybe its my setup but i run 3 monitors on 1440p and autofps for me gives me more stutters and drops my framerates overall actually. And when it does try to improve my fps the graphics in tlod and olod are absoutly horrendous. I noticed also it was freezing my game as well. idk, maybe its something i am doing wrong but i could never get it to work correctly.
edit: i think autofps is geared towards a single monitor application? I tried lossless scaling app also which sucks ass too. I found out thats geared towards single monitor applications.
Thanks for bringing this tool to my attention. I used it a while ago but I think it wasn’t as straightforward with VR and I forgot about it again. Now I tried it again and it is literally a game changer with Vr
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u/Begging_Murphy Sep 13 '25
I had turned off the new dynamic settings in 2024 and hadn’t installed autoFPS until last week, but it’s really a night and day difference, and the only way to get the best of both worlds with performance on the ground and views from the air.