Frame rate drops momentarily every 6 seconds

[brucek 38]

I've been trying new settings in FSX.CFG, and have a test situation I load to measure fps (PMDG MD11 holding short at KORD, with FSDT KORD and Aerosoft Chicago). Without panning, I measure fps (Shift-Z) and have noted a momentary drop in fps of about 10 fps every 6 seconds, very repeatable. I even restored my old FSX.CFG and tried some various settings in FSX Options/. Basically, for every combination of settings in FSX and FSX.CFG tweaked both by Word Not Allowed's settings and Bjote's web service, although I get different fps for all these combinations, I always get the drop in fps every 6 seconds.

 

I have Ultimate Traffic (latest), EZCA views, OPUS weather (real weather), as well as UTX, FSUIPC, and some other add ons that most of us run. System is a i7- 2700K with a GTX 460 GPU (soon to be upgraded ). The repeatability of this fps drop appears to be something getting regularly polled by the CPU, but I can't figure out what that might be. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks, Bruce.

[Simmer2050 28]

Personally i dont use UT2 cause it causes just such pauses , complete freeze, you may want to disable UT2 just to confirm confirm.

 

A good way for tracking down issues that could be caused by lack of resource on yur PC, is to use task manager Resource Monitor, using this i noticed my system and FS drives were always too busy during sim, so added extra drive for FS addons. This helped with stutters related to texture load etc.

[flibinite 18]

Try disabling weather too, just to rule that out. Then I'm wondering about antivirus programs...or something the kids downloaded while you were out

[Rations 102]

Could it be the continuous refreshing of traffic labeling cycles in Ultimate Traffic 2? I use it, but do not experience such issues.

[McCrash 3]

Get Process Explorer from Microsoft to see what might be happening.

 

http://search.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?form=MSHOME&setlang=en-us&q=process%20explorer

[wanabflyer 53]

Just a guess. Do you have auto save enabled in FSUIPC?

[JaseMelbo 390]

I do see this when looking at FPS however it never seems to impact once taxiing or airborne.

 

For example I can run a similar test while flying and see that the FPS drop however it doesnt seem to visibly show while I'm flying.

 

I still think you can easily drive yourself insane by monitoring the red FPS counter.

 

Hope the above makes sense.

 

Jas

 

Personally i dont use UT2 cause it causes just such pauses , complete freeze, you may want to disable UT2 just to confirm confirm.

 

Simmer - what AI program are you using?

 

Jas

[brucek 38]

Thanks for the many posts, much appreciated.

 

No FSUIPC autosave, Rick.

Will disable OPUX weather and try again, flibinite (cool handle)

Have downloaded MS process explorer- I have never used this before, looks like a powerful tool on determining which handles are active.

Jas- I totally agree with you- the only reason I even questioned these 6-second "pauses" is that I have been experimenting with fax.cfg settings and testing using a fixed flight file and measuring fps. I usually never go near the fps monitor!

Wil look at UT2 as well.

 

Thanks again, will report back when anything shows up. Bruce.

[JaseMelbo 390]

Jas- I totally agree with you- the only reason I even questioned these 6-second "pauses" is that I have been experimenting with fax.cfg settings and testing using a fixed flight file and measuring fps. I usually never go near the fps monitor!

 

Hey there Bruce. No problem mate. Good luck with it all.

 

Jas