.......

But I'll be lurking the forums and watching for new tweaks and patches from LM, and one day I'm gonna fly stutter-free into the sunset. I know stutter-free exists. I've seen it. And once you've had that you can never go back. 

Good luck!

Spirit

 

 

St-st-st-t-t-t-utters away like it's hardcoded to do so.
 
But I'll be lurking the forums and watching for new tweaks and patches from LM, and one day I'm gonna fly stutter-free into the sunset. I know stutter-free exists. I've seen it. And once you've had that you can never go back. 

 

I'm doing the same.

Just to let you all know...

 

My overclock settings within EVGA Precision X software of:  120,100,60 in running ORBX CYSE (Squamish) gives me an FPS boost of over 8 FPS, as in just the default of my GTX680 SuperClock as the 'baseline'  I thought to see just what not having any overclock on my card would give, since I have not been at the default settings for almost two years.  So...I clicked DEFAULT, and went back to my paused CYSE...in the air, upon the water...and again, on the average, I had a 30 percent boost in FPS across the board. So, does a mild overclock on the 680 produce a major gain of FPS? By going to Default settings, I lost 8 FPS! Going back to my overclock settings on the power and clocks, I regained those lost 8 FPS.

 

Well..in my books...8 FPS, or (30 FPS as a baseline) 30 percent is MAJOR, and goes a long way to become a stutter-killer, and smooth animation maker....

 

Your choice to keep your card as set at the factory...or with the whole intent of the Precision X software in the first place, EVGA allows you to open up the headroom that was built into your card...FROM THE FACTORY.  A mild overclock of let's say 20 percent more voltage, will NOT burn up your chips. It gives them more energy, so as not to starve under heavy load out.  

 

Finishing the overclock with increased offsets to the two clocks (100,60) gives them something to do with the greater voltage headroom....

 

Just thought to share..and now back to my 120,100,60 settings with a 30 FPS target....and back to CYSE (fully featured enabled) at 30 FPS!

 

Post Edit:  The approach by sea to the mouth of the Squamish River in the CYSE scenery is amazing at Dawn...I highly recommend you try the approach and to dock your boat.  Wow....

These threads always remind me of: 

 

 

Glad everyone is happy!

 

Cheers, Rob.

 

Its kinda of rare I actually burst out laughing with these threads...but that was funny....wow. lolllll

Please, what is meant with "120, 100, 60" settings?

 

Harry

Its kinda of rare I actually burst out laughing with these threads...but that was funny....wow. lolllll

You burst out laughing?  So productive...keep laughing...and we keep getting better dialed in results.  You net on this thread...no results..but a smile. I guess that might be just the result you need.

 

Cheers!

Please, what is meant with "120, 100, 60" settings?

 

Harry

Harry, if you have the EVGA Precisioin X software, open it up besides this window. My settings are as follows:

 

Power Target slide...increase to 120 percent

GPU Clock Offset slide: set it to +100 MHz

Mem Clock Offset slide: set to +60 MHz

 

Set the Frame Rate Target: to Enable and the FPS slider to 30.

 

Press APPLY just to the right and above the FRAME RATE TARGET.

 

You are done.  It is a mild overclock, but with my experimentation to arrive at those figures, is safe, and boots your temps slightly. Make sure you have the card's fan as set to AUTO in Precision X.  If you have a fan control on your system chassis, it is always a good idea to increase the fans prior to any usage of a flight simulator.  Just a good practice. On my Dell XPX 730x..I run up all my fans to 30 percent, from the default of 8 percent, prior to running a flight sim.   I hope this helps...

 

Crank that puppy..and get what performance you paid $$$'s for!

 

Have fun.

I guess it should mean 120 % power target, 100 MHz GPU clock offset and 60 MHz Mem clock offset.

Mitch should correct me if I'm wrong.

Spirit

I guess it should mean 120 % power target, 100 MHz GPU clock offset and 60 MHz Mem clock offset.

Mitch should correct me if I'm wrong.

Spirit

Correct, Spirit...

The overclock might well work but it does surprise me that, setting up my machine with, pretty much, the same settings as FSX, I don't get the same or better smoothness.  I know they've changed the way the graphics are rendered but, I would have thought moving so much to the graphics card would have actually made it smoother.  It's interesting.  I'm not bashing at all and I know they're working on it.  Patience is the key for me.  Yet, It's still remarkable to me that FSX on my rig is significantly smoother at this point.

 

Gregg

Yes getting stutters also - driving me crazy - only while panning outside view

The overclock might well work but it does surprise me that, setting up my machine with, pretty much, the same settings as FSX, I don't get the same or better smoothness.  I know they've changed the way the graphics are rendered but, I would have thought moving so much to the graphics card would have actually made it smoother.  It's interesting.  I'm not bashing at all and I know they're working on it.  Patience is the key for me.  Yet, It's still remarkable to me that FSX on my rig is significantly smoother at this point.

 

Gregg

 

My experience (similar system to yours) is that often FSX and P3D2 performs about the same. But I have also encountered situations in my test flights were P3D2 performs better. But since they have made such a big overhaul and optimization of the code compared to FSX I would expect the difference to be more pronounced.

 

 

My experience (similar system to yours) is that often FSX and P3D2 performs about the same. But I have also encountered situations in my test flights were P3D2 performs better. But since they have made such a big overhaul and optimization of the code compared to FSX I would expect the difference to be more pronounced.

 

My framerates are often close but, so far, FSX is much smoother.  I can maintain smoothness down to somewhere around 21-22 FPS in FSX.  To get smoothness in P3D I need at least double that right now.  Honestly, I am thinking I won't get smoothness until 2.3 comes out.

Hi Dean - having a bit of terrain blurry issues - does not happen with the lesser power hungry aircraft - any thoughts

 

Sorry Richard, can't help you there.  I thought you were referring to an aircraft specific issue.

 

I can say I don't see blurries.  Perhaps because my system isn't as powerful as yours and I'm not pushing it quite as hard.  I'm happy with my performance other than the micro stutters.

I have found the personal cure for stutters!!!

 

....don't fly within 30nm of downtown Seattle.

 

:-)

 

Seriously bums me out as I'm from Seattle and learned to fly there - but I am able to enjoy mostly smooth flying in OrbX PNW as long as it's not around the SEA metro area.

"Sorry Richard, can't help you there.  I thought you were referring to an aircraft specific issue."

 

No problems Dean - thanks Buddy  

 

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".don't fly within 30nm of downtown Seattle."

 

Yes even getting close to Boston you start to see a hit and with no AI - I would assume as they are adding great eye candy - these issues will probably get taken care of over time, still glad I have moved on as I enjoy the eye candy and hey if sli ever becomes a reality that might be great option to look forward too