I called it turbo boost because some bios' say that instead of hyperthreading. Turn it off so you only have 4 real cores rather than 4 cores plus 4 virtual cores which is useless for FSX. Then use a setting of 14 for affinity mask. And no none of your other programs will show a real difference that you can see.

Hello Captaqin420, i run almost identical system as yourself but have linked my 680 up to 3 identical monitors

I run with frames locked to 30. In default scenery i obtain 29.9 -30 frames almost constantly . I have Orbx Uk and that also runs pretty much at 30. Only times it drops is when I come into one of my add on airports. For example Mallorca (palma) to around 18 on take off, but only for a few seconds and once off the tarmac soon climbs to 30. All along very smooth, I have vsync set to 1/2 in nvidia inpsector and aniostropic set to application controlled. Antialiasoing set to override and 8xSQ (combined) 2x2SS + 2x MS

 

Hyper threading turned off in BIOS you only need this on really if you do high demand video editing.

 

All in all a fairly god performance over 3 monitors.

It has taken be about 8 weeks to get to stage of being happy though using Word Not Allowed's guide and tips here on avsim

 

a few entries in my cfg are

 

 

[bufferPools]

UsePools=0

 

[JOBSCHEDULER]

AffinityMask=14

 

[Display]

TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=80

I recenlty upped this from 40)

 

{Graphics}

TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=4096

 

 

 

Hope you get it sorted

Regards

I called it turbo boost because some bios' say that instead of hyperthreading. Turn it off so you only have 4 real cores rather than 4 cores plus 4 virtual cores which is useless for FSX. Then use a setting of 14 for affinity mask. And no none of your other programs will show a real difference that you can see.

 

I've never seen it called never called turbo boost. Turbo boost is an entirely different thing.

Where exactly do I go to turn off hyper threading in my bios? I have an asus p8z77-v motherboard.

 

In BIOS, go to Advanced Mode. Hyperthreading is on the Advanced tab under CPU configuration - click on that and you'll get a submenu with several options. Hyperthreading is the second one.

 

As for the impact on other games, I can't answer that since I don't play any that would take advantage of it. If you need it, keep in mind that the ASUS BIOS lets you save different configurations - you could create one for FSX with hyperthreading off, and another with hyperthreading on for other games. You'd need to boot into BIOS and select the one you need.

 

Hope this helps.