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aljina

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Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« on: June 22, 2025, 03:35:27 am »
 Since the latest GSX update, I've noticed a consistent issue during landings—right at the moment of touchdown, the sim pauses or stutters for about 1–2 seconds. This wasn't present before the update and makes landings feel less smooth and sometimes harder to control. Version 3.5.7 – June 17th, 2025  States "GSX Pro Change: GSX will restart automatically after takeoff, to reduce the chance that operations performed on departure remaining in a stale state for any reason ,might affect functioning at arrival. "Everything else runs fine. The issue seems isolated to the touchdown moment, almost like a brief freeze.


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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2025, 10:41:38 am »
Since the latest GSX update, I've noticed a consistent issue during landings—right at the moment of touchdown, the sim pauses or stutters for about 1–2 seconds. This wasn't present before the update

See a thread from more than a year ago, where some people were also convinced GSX was the cause of the stuttering upon touch down:

https://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,30072.msg196719.html#msg196719

As I already replied there, back then, we tried to replicate this without success and:

- It can't be reproduced in any way when selecting a gate after landing, so we surely need way more detail about where this exactly happens and ALL your add-ons, including airplane, AI traffic, utilities, everything, with the precise, exact, specification of the scenery used and if you are using a custom GSX profile, and which one.

- When selecting a gate before landing, the current version doesn't generate objects immediately on touchdown, but it waits for your speed to be below 40 kts so, the stuttering that is normal to be happening when creating the objects at the gate, won't at least affect the actual touchdown.

I'll check again now but, the chance you were referring to, should have further reduced the change this could happen, because a restart after takeoff would prevent that *any* possible background task started by the departure services that for any reason didn't stop, would continue for the whole flight and having some effect on arrival.

That is, unless this change has fixed a case where before, on your system, GSX was ALWASY completely inoperative on arrival (because of an error), but I'm sure if this was the case, you would have noticed, with something like "before the update, GSX never worked on arrival, now it always works but I have stutter on landing", is this what really happened ?

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2025, 01:20:39 pm »
Hello! I confirm this problem. If I disable GSX, the freezes disappear.

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2025, 04:26:33 pm »
The issue that the original poster described is indeed new and was introduced with the latest GSX update.

In my case, running on a Ryzen 9800X3D, RTX 5090, 64GB CL30 RAM, and full NVMe setup, hardware limitations should be out of the question. I take precautions by creating full physical backups (classic disk clones) before applying major updates, especially knowing how some updates can unexpectedly affect performance.

Interestingly, when I roll back to the previous GSX version using my backup, the touchdown stutters completely disappear—so the link to the latest update seems pretty clear.

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2025, 12:12:07 am »
I just had this issue with the Fenix A320 at Jackson Hole (KJAC, Custom scenery from flightsim to). Did 3 flights in the PMDG 777 before and it did NOT happen there. Destinations were FSDT KIAH, ASOBO KORD & inibuilds KLAX.
All flights with GSX version 3.5.7, downloading 3.5.8 to see if there is any difference. Reporting back.

EDIT: GSX 3.5.8, Fenix A320, KJAC-KSLC (PACSIM) ; Once again short lag right as the wheels touched down. Deactivated GSX before take off at KJAC (so its not popping up with CTRL+SHIFT+F12) and only activated it when stopped at the gate at KSLC.

Can't really tell yet if the lag is coming from GSX or not tho, have to test with more aircrafts and of course without GSX. Any way to completely disable GSX without uninstalling?
« Last Edit: June 23, 2025, 01:25:26 am by D. Saster »

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2025, 02:55:24 pm »
Also can confirm this has been happening to me since updating my GSX. When I remove GSX the issue is resolved.
« Last Edit: June 23, 2025, 02:57:21 pm by Toy_Turnip »

aljina

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2025, 03:52:00 pm »
Okay, the issue seems to be with Couatl64. I had it enabled during takeoff with no issues. However, during landing, there was a 1–2 second pause upon touchdown. When I disable Couatl, there are no pauses and the landing proceeds normally. Update Version 3.5.7–June 17th, 2025  caused it, before this update there were no issues on touch down
« Last Edit: June 23, 2025, 04:03:07 pm by aljina »

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2025, 04:10:06 pm »
I am also having this problem since last update. Don't have it with gsx removed.

Thank you,
Anthony

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2025, 07:33:08 pm »
I also have this issue since version 3.5.7

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2025, 08:05:57 pm »
Seen cptCanada said he fixed it messing with GSX but he didn't really say what it was he changed but its for sure GSX.

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2025, 09:35:01 pm »
I always turned off GSX after takeoff to avoid problems during landing, especially in OMDB. But now it is announced that the application will deactivate itself... so what? I caught a stutter today. And also pink textures on the loaders, and when starting to push the IFly 737 MAX jumps with its nose. Definitely worse and worse with each update

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2025, 03:03:01 am »
What's surprising is how support immediately dismisses the possibility that the update might be the cause, insisting instead that it's an old issue from a year ago that was already fixed.

Meanwhile, several users are reporting the same problem, and no one from the team steps in to help. It makes me wonder—has this issue actually reached the right people DEV team?

Honestly, the lack of empathy and professionalism from support is quite disappointing.

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2025, 10:09:35 am »
Yeah I do hope it goes to the devs. When big streamers like cap Canada are saying the product is causing issues, and people in the fourms saying removing gsx fixed that is a sure sign they need to look into it.  :'(

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2025, 10:35:25 pm »
I confirm that (at least in my case) disabling GSX solves the problem. I have done several flights, always with the same aircraft and under the same conditions, and the only way to fix the pause at the moment of touchdown has been by disabling GSX.

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Re: Touch Down Shutters 1-2 sec apause
« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2025, 06:57:56 am »
Exactly the same every single flight since the update to 3.5.7.....super frustrating

Before this, no issues at all

Now just as I'm in the flare and about to touchdown I get huge stutters/pause

FYI I don't have a gate pre-selected as I'm on Vatsim so I don't gate a gate assignment until I've cleared the active runway