Volanta - Found the cause of my stutters
Hi All,
I found the cause of my atrocious, flight ruining, stutters.
I run something called Volanta, not sure if anyone else uses it? (https://volanta.app)
After running the console in full log mode I found that every 15 seconds the Volanta FG plugin was executing every 15 seconds and taking 46 seconds to finish it's run. Leading to a up to 10 second stutter several times a minute.
For some reason this also caused the weather to also do a full refresh every 8 seconds.
Although this didn't tax the PC enough to be picked up, it was obviously upsetting FG. I've tried it on all current and next versions.
Uninstalling the FG Plugin within Volanta has removed all my stuttering issues so if you have Volanta installed for any of your other simming purposes I'd suggest making sure the FG plugin is uninstalled for the moment.
I've raised it with the ORBX Volanta team via support and hopefully it'll be resolved as it's nice to see FG supported natively by a commercial developer.
Comments
I had the same issues but instead of removing the plugin I just added this command --prop:/sim/use-volanta=0 to the additional settings.
Thanks Cyber, I've been pointed at the Wiki which seems to have a couple of workarounds (including that)
https://wiki.flightgear.org/Volanta#FlightGear_Randomly_Freezes_For_A_Few_Seconds
No problem, glad to help.
Wow. Good work you guys...Alex, how long have you had Volanta installed?
VooDoo
I've had Volanta for a while, although never used it until I realised there was a FG plugin a few weeks ago.
I know loads of people that use it for other sims though. It seems it's quite popular in FG searching through the dreaded main forums.