New install on win10, terrible performance

[markturner 0]

Hi, I had to re install P3d after I (to my eternal shame....!) inadvertantly deleted some p3d registry files when uninstalling something. I am and have been for several months a windows insider user of win10 and had P3d running very well, 50-60FPs and great visuals.

 

I also auto upgraded to the latest rollout of win10, build 10162, so the machine is clean and only has windows and p3d clean install on it. I have 2 GTX 970's in Sli, which were also working great with p3d. Current win10 NVidia drivers are 353.30, auto installed by windows.

 

Imagine my consternation when I found that on running the sim, I was only getting 10 FPS...I turned off SLi and it rose to around 15, but it's still running real slow......I have unlinked the .exe from NVidia inspector, but don't really know what else to try.....I can't believe I am running at 20% of what I was before......

 

Any ideas as to what could possibly be the issue? Thanks, Mark

[Sbacchini 15]

Ok, first of all, try updating to the latest build, which is 10166. And try uninstalling the nvidia drivers installed by windows and download the latest ones from nvidia website. I'm using win10 too and my performance is great.. Let me know if anything changes

 

Cheers!

[markturner 0]

Ok, after some fiddling around, I am up to about 22- 28 FPS average, whereas before, I could pretty much guarantee double that.........My nvidia drivers are the latest, how do you manually get the system to update to a newer build?  cheers, Mark

[Jim Young 2,356]

how do you manually get the system to update to a newer build?

Windows Update should install the latest build.

 

Best regards,

[ceno 0]

Today Build 10240 was released.

This is RTM, Final Version.

 

It is available for both, fast and slow, insider settings.

 

I have upgraded through the last 4 preview builds and prepar3d always performed flawless.

 

Maybe it have something to do with your SLI configuration?

GTX970 single GPU here.

[markturner 0]

Hi OK< been a bit busy with work etc, but finally got time to upgrade. I have P3d running at around 30 FPS in non SLi and between 23 & 30 with SLi enabled.......

 

Can someone who has win10 and is running SLi, please post up their settings for NVCP, Nvidia inspector and in game, as this is very frustrating, after I had it working so good......Thanks, your help appreciated, Mark

[Bobsk8 12,735]

That is why I will never put Windows 10 on my PC. Having Windows able to install drivers to my system whenever they want is a disaster waiting to happen. 

[Haggis 3]

Windows 10 should be fine, but don't be the beta tester that installs it first. Wait a couple months, common sense, geesh.

[markturner 0]

Myself and many others here have had it working very very well.......it's not a question of the OS or platform being no good, rather a matter of finding\ the right combination of settings for your PC, which I obviously did before. Just hoping someone can save me some time, as I have definitely spent way more time tweaking than flying since I got my new PC....... 

[Bobsk8 12,735]

Just got a blurb from Cnet on Facebook that says the latest version of windows 10 is causing crashes when people try to uninstall a program using Control Panel.  Hey they got a couple of days to straighten that out 

[dgraham1284 92]

SLI and win10. No go as of right now. I can tell you from experience. As long as nvidia drivers continue to be forced through windows update I will not be using it. 

[peppy197 165]

Windows 10 should be fine, but don't be the beta tester that installs it first. Wait a couple months, common sense, geesh.

 

Is there not a roll-back?

[Haggis 3]

Is there not a roll-back?

Unfortunately i've read no.  Once you upgrade there's no going back to your previous OS version.  I have it installed on my secondary pc, but no way am i putting it on my main one yet, i'll wait.  I'm running perfectly fine, the only reason i'm excited about win 10 is future games supporting dx12.

[Jimm 437]

So basically, by what the vox populi states, the rest of us should hold out as long as we can from upgrading?  Works for me.  I have everything working the way I want it and don't care to do it all over again, only to be fighting an uphill battle with MS and nVidia.

 

-Jim

[yvesamuel 17]

Hello,

 

If you upgrade from Windows 7 or  Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, you wille have 1 month to downgrade.

I tried it this morning, and it works.

 

Good flights

Yves