I think you are correct, Hook. I have noticed the number of files in my shader folder increasing after every flight. It has gone from 375+ to over 1700 after several flights over the past week.

As for my sound card, it's a creative X-fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro series. Good card with lots of grunt.  ;o)  

 

Jazz

Just got it in my mind again and this "tweak" may help some of you guys and girls. It's about the PCI-E 3.0 connection to your GPU. Even if one has a motherboard and a GPU which are PCI-E 3.0 ready, they may not use it because it's not activated.

 

Read the description at this link and you may notice to be in need to activate this feature on your rig too and get some more speed.

http://forums.evga.com/How-to-enable-PCIE-30-in-Windows-8-and-81-Regular-and-Pro-m2063059.aspx

 

Unfortunately one has to do it after each nVidia driver update.

 

NOTE:  You will need to re-accomplish this entire process each time you update your graphics drivers.  Until Nvidia fixes this issue or provides a new patch for Windows 8 and 8.1, we are stuck with the manual registry edit solution :(

Spirit

Just got it in my mind again and this "tweak" may help some of you guys and girls. It's about the PCI-E 3.0 connection to your GPU. Even if one has a motherboard and a GPU which are PCI-E 3.0 ready, they may not use it because it's not activated.

 

Read the description at this link and you may notice to be in need to activate this feature on your rig too and get some more speed.

http://forums.evga.com/How-to-enable-PCIE-30-in-Windows-8-and-81-Regular-and-Pro-m2063059.aspx

 

Unfortunately one has to do it after each nVidia driver update.

Spirit

 

Thanks appreciated the tip but mine is running at Haswell and enabled by default 3.0 not needed only with sandy bridge...

Also in the bios gen3 is enabled ;-)...

GPU-Z shows in my case pci-e3.0

 

 

GPU-Z shows in my case pci-e3.0

That's fine.

Spirit

Just got it in my mind again and this "tweak" may help some of you guys and girls. It's about the PCI-E 3.0 connection to your GPU. Even if one has a motherboard and a GPU which are PCI-E 3.0 ready, they may not use it because it's not activated.

 

Read the description at this link and you may notice to be in need to activate this feature on your rig too and get some more speed.

http://forums.evga.com/How-to-enable-PCIE-30-in-Windows-8-and-81-Regular-and-Pro-m2063059.aspx

 

Unfortunately one has to do it after each nVidia driver update.

Spirit

 

This is a good tweak to do, even if there is not much gain. I have this problem with my SB-E system, which typically suffer from this PCI-E problem. I haven't however found much impact and benchmarks through the internet show usually negligible or at max few percent increase in FPS. PCIE 2.0 is still wide enough for today's GPU's, as long as you have 16 lanes in use. But this never hurts, that's for sure!

 

 

PCIE 2.0 is still wide enough for today's GPU's, as long as you have 16 lanes in use. But this never hurts, that's for sure!

That's what I think too.

Spirit

I was having a very smooth 2.2, then with 2.3 sttuters. dropped my fps limiter to 27, very smooth, better than 2.2 and with higher settings. ASN, clouds on full, ORBX

well I have to say that I am excited.

I have been fighting with low FPS and stuttering too the point I was about to give up and that was before I would even turn on REX4 w/essentials clouds.

Once I added real time weather I could use an "etch a sketch" and have a better experience, but that has changed.

I came home from work and spent 3 hours testing, making changes, tweak's, and testing again and I say that I can now fly with everything turned on including weather, thunderstorms and night flying and I only saw a few micro stutters.

Mind you this is with a 39" 4k monitor at 3840x2160 resolution, I didn't have this problem at this extreme when using a 32" at 1920 resolution.

I am extremely happy, I shut the system down for the evening and I will take another test flight again today and see if I need to pull the "etch a sketch" out or continue.

well I have to say that I am excited.

I have been fighting with low FPS and stuttering too the point I was about to give up and that was before I would even turn on REX4 w/essentials clouds.

Once I added real time weather I could use an "etch a sketch" and have a better experience, but that has changed.

I came home from work and spent 3 hours testing, making changes, tweak's, and testing again and I say that I can now fly with everything turned on including weather, thunderstorms and night flying and I only saw a few micro stutters.

Mind you this is with a 39" 4k monitor at 3840x2160 resolution, I didn't have this problem at this extreme when using a 32" at 1920 resolution.

I am extremely happy, I shut the system down for the evening and I will take another test flight again today and see if I need to pull the "etch a sketch" out or continue.

 

That's cool and all but could you share what made the biggest difference/improvement?

That's cool and all but could you share what made the biggest difference/improvement?

I did a few things that began to make it better for me.

 

//#define VOLUMIZE, this gave me a small increase

 

Turn off FOG, this was a big killer on my system.

 

The last change and the biggest killer was unplugging my second monitor from the card and only using 1 monitor.

i just did few test im almost sure stutter is part with the weather. try clear sky and no stutter at all . at minute i put just a bite of cloud get stutter. someone can confirm it

FPS limited to 21 does the trick with Tessellation on and mostly high settings on. Those with overclocked CPU's MIGHT find they can up that number. Also when the view is circling the aircraft, stutters are noticeably reduced further.

i just did few test im almost sure stutter is part with the weather. try clear sky and no stutter at all . at minute i put just a bite of cloud get stutter. someone can confirm it

 

Have you tried the cloud.fx "fix"? This cured the cloud problems for me. 

when the software is based on the same base code.

That would be a 'was'... not an 'is'.

 

They are no longer running the same rendering code at all, which makes a direct comparison impossible and unrealistic.

Gemelli, on 02 Sept 2014 - 9:33 PM, said:

i just did few test im almost sure stutter is part with the weather. try clear sky and no stutter at all . at minute i put just a bite of cloud get stutter. someone can confirm it

 

Have you tried the cloud.fx "fix"? This cured the cloud problems for me. 

 

 

yes i did no result! still got the problem,