My GPU utilisation was around 50-60% for the most part. Landing at JFK my fps only dropped at most to 35. I buzzed the JFK tower with my 747 and the frame rate at it’s worst only briefly dropped to 30 but was mostly in the mid 30s. Flying low over La Guardia my fps stayed at a steady 40fps. Away from the airports fps would climb to 40. the fps stayed in the high 30s-40 normally low 20s. I knew something was different as taking off the runway in a 747 from Newark Intl.

Yesterday over JFK in a 747 my fps would drop to the low 20s but actually the stuttering would make it feel even worse like the 10s. Those were the only changes and the driver update. Low latency mode was off, I set this to ULTRA as recommended.Threaded optimisation was set to auto but I changed this to ON as recommended.Yesterday when I ran MSFS 2020 in developer settings I could see I it was CPU thread limited but today someone in this thread suggested going into Nvidia Control Panel program settings for MSFS 2020 and changing the following two settings which I did after updating the driver. I did an express installation and had no issues with the driver update.

I just got the best performance from MSFS 2020 on my i5 10400 and RTX 3070 with this new Nvidia Driver 472.12 DCH and two driver settings changes.

Nvidia drivers 472.12