X plane 11 has massive frame freezes every minute

Question

Hi everyone, I have a major problem with my recently bought xplane11, after about 5-10 minutes from starting the game, the game has frame freezes about every minute. The freeze lasts from 2 to 15 seconds, and I don't know what causes this. I have a Nvidia driver and so I already tried to turn off Thread Optimisation but nothing changes. The framerate and these freezes don't change if I set the graphics settings to minimum or high so I really don't know what to do.
Here I give you my pc specs:

MSI PE60-6QD
Cpu: Intel i7-6700hq
Gpu: Integrated Intel 530
Gpu: Dedicated Nvidia 950m
Ram: 8gb
Samsung SSD 850 evo 500gb

Edit: I noticed that this happens just when I start the engine(s). It doesn't matter which aircraft it is.

Answer 1

Hi, have you tried to delete (or move for backup) the whole X-plane 11/Output/Preferences folder?

Also make sure you have disabled shadows in X-plane graphic settings

Comments

OK.

Maybe you can try and go through this, see if you find any help in one of the topics...

http://www.x-plane.com/kb/

Can you include your X-plane 11.log.txt ? It could help a lot, but I'm a bit stuck here. Maybe someone else (I am not from Laminar research) will understand what is happening.

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Here's the log :)

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I really thought about everything but not updating the gpu driver, so I updated it and it is still worse. Looks like x plane 11 runs on the integrated graphics now, it can't even reach 3 fps. Shouldn't the update bring more stability? It's the first time that I experience a better stability on an old driver.

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This has already happened to me. It's rare but possible, sometimes, to get better performance with an old driver. Usually the problem is solved with the next update.

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Thank you a lot!

Answer 2

Not sure if this applies to Xplane; but in other games this freezing can often be traced to page faults -  whereby there is usually insufficient GPU memory or system memory... or both. The page fault history can be monitored in the (Win 10) Resource Monitor.

Comments

Thanks for the tip, I encountered a 40-50% of CPU usage and drops every 50 seconds to 20%. Do you know how to resolve it?