Did you check the nvidia card settings ?

(right click on desktop - nvidia configuration)

Check in 3D config if you allow applications to set anti aliasing etc.

 

Or try creating a set of setting specific for x-plane

(3D config - program settings tab)

See if that makes a difference.

 

 

For your question - Try reducing your cloud puffs to minimum this should give you a performance boost!

 

This is a huge impact on performance and overlooked by a lot of people. Default is 40% and it will kill your FPS. As he said turn them down all the way to 10%

 

Also if you use Nvidia inspector: 

 

for non HDR mode only:

 

Turn off AA in the sim

force the AA to 8xS and AA transparency super sampling to  - 4x Sparse grid supers sampling. On my 680GTX and my TITAN it seems to boost FPS 10-15 on average.

 

It seems that the games implementaion of AA isn't that good. When I first used this setting I couldn't believe it...

Hi all,

 

just bought a new pc to replace my "old" laptop (MSI GT780DXR with i7 2670, 8GB Ram and GTX570M) with following config:

Intel i7-3770, 8 GB Ram, 256 GB SSD, Palit Geforce 680 GTX with 2GB VRam, Win7 64bit (Asrock Z77 Mainboard).

I thought that this system would rock X-Plane 10 (10.20) and there would be a great framerate...  -_-

Nothing! At all! It's even slower than my "old" laptop! High details, no HDR anitaliasing and ONLY 15-20fps at KSEA airport!!!  :unsure:

I installed the newest drivers for the graphiccard and everything is up-to-date.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Please help! I just love X-Plane 10!

 

Cheers,

 

Nasszelle

 

PS.: All other games are performing well, just X-Plane seems not to like my system.

 

Talking about Windows 7 64-bit.    

I think you have installed windows + antivirus + drivers + etc succesfully without any problems, and i imagine that  your Pallit Geforce GTX680 card is not kinda faulty. So i think; 

Case 1 - What is your PSU  and can it give enough power for the card? (i also think that you have connected  all required power cables on the board and graphic card correctly.)

Case 2 - There is something with your system so it cannot perform well enough. Check other games if any and check the FPS values menitoned in the sites like guru3d, anadtech etc. +- 5 fps is ok.

Case 3 - Any problem with ram?

Case 4 - Temperature.  GTX680 comes with automatic downlocking.  When your temperature increases  your graphic card downlocks automatically, if i am not mistaken  card tries to level  power value so adjust speed volt etc.  For example i used my graphic card 1.2k ghz over clocked for 1 month (as an OC test) but, because of the temperatures altough i am using water cooling with well ventilated fan  i had temps like 80-85 degrees which i did not like. So check your temperatures.  

 

If temperature values are good and fps is normal at full graphics in the games like Cyrsis 3, Battlefield 3  (which i play good at my system) or benchmarks like 3dMark, Unigine Heaven etc and if there is no stability issue about the hardware (after some stress tests)  i only think a software conflict or installation error.  If you problem is more deep and requires better software knowledge i cannot help sorry, but if it is about hardware you can easily find the problem  by stress tests and with a little research.  I hope you can solve your problem without reinstalling windows + eveything + xplane etc  i hate that kind of things

important:

 

update to the latest version and remove your preferences. This will help if you haven't updated in a while. I had a similar issue with one of the earlier run of x-plane10 and killing prefs fixed it.

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Check your default graphics settings on the Nvidia control panel. It could be that while experimenting you set something high as the default. Also, If you have Nhancer, check the settings on that as well.

Even if he had a traditional drive you could not categorically say that this is the reason for the graphics slowdown, I couldnt even think how this could be the case. The only time he could have issues are perhaps stutters when needing to load new scenery, certainly not right after the initial loading when being dropped in to the cockpit.

I have XPX demo, FSX (loaded to the nines) and FS9 all on one 1TB Velociraptor 10,000 rpm drive. I am getting great results with XPX, with everything at max, other than no ballons, or forestfires, no widelife, clouds at 75 percent, but other than that... the highest setting on each drop-down. I have a locked down FSX at 30 FPS. It only fluctuates from 29.7 to 30.0 no matter what I do.

So, you can have everything on one hard drive, but...it has to be a Velociraptor running at 10,000 RPM (many reviews concur) and don't go over 70 percent of the total available capacity...for W7 does need room to flex and read/write.

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Watch out for Vram creeping up. I went for the 4gb model as 2gb can be tight in XP10. Check the current Vram used in the rendering settings and turn options down if it starts getting near 2gb. When it does hit your video card limit you will know because XP will literally become a slideshow!

I have one pc with a 660 non-ti and it never drops below 30fps with all settings maxed with water "off" and shadows set to low.  Tweak your pc or reinstall Windows plus drivers.

I even have water at 'compelete' (love real looking water...) and get the 30 FPS you mention, Five, with my EVGA 680 Signature Plus. There must be something quite wrong with the O.P.'s configs, or a truly hardware-related problem. I'd re-seat everything, including memory. He might also want to bring any overclocked components back to full factory suggested parameters. Then he'd have a base to move upwards from in diagnostics. 

It IS a laptop and there may be intel onboard video. Make sure that your preferred Graphics Processor is set for the High-performance NVIDIA processor and that the Power Management mode is not on adaptive. Also, try using CPU-Z to determine you actual processor output and usage while XP10 is in use. It may be that your CPU is being held back due to some laptop power saving scheme or your max CPU usage is locked at 60-80% bottlenecking XP (a 3.6gHz processor would act like a 2.7gHz @ 80%).