Assigning 1 core for ASN

[Brian_A_Neuman 198]

Good afternoon,

 

I am one of the people who are suffering from the hesitation issues with P3D 3.2. I really think at after following all the instructions regarding locked frame rates, affinity mask, FFTF (.01), I do believe that ASN is the culprit and I cant fly without it

 

How do I assign cores for a single program? This seems to be a solution that people use but I cant figure out how to do it. I am running a i5 (3.30 unable to overclock) with a 980 GTI. Thank you.

[pmb 5,137]

There are several tools for doing this. One of the most popular ones is Process Lasso https://bitsum.com/

 

Another possibility is running ASN networked on a client, if you have a 2nd machine around. That's what I do.

 

Kind regards, Michael

[Brian_A_Neuman 198]

I wish I had an extra machine around, but I don't at the moment. I'll check into that program. Thanks for your help.

[pmb 5,137]

If you want a freebee you can try Easytoolz

 

http://www.easytoolz.net/index.html?titleFrame=programme/programme.html&mainFrame=programme/easytoolz.html

 

(Not sure if there's an English language version, though)

 

I own and used both of them for a time, both work. Process Lasso is very powerful indeed and can do much more.

 

Kind regards, Michael

[charleslee201 19]

with your     3.3 hz cpu    your asking for stutters ...

[Brian_A_Neuman 198]

Well for th most part it runs well, I just get that goofy drop in FPS every 5-7 seconds that is very brief. Yes, I would like a new CPU, but I need to ensure I don't have to replace my motherboard to do it.

[spesimen 135]

you can always do it manually also, by going into the task manager, right click and pick affinity settings..you may have to hit 'show processes from all users' button at the bottom first to have admin permission to change.

 

did you test without using ASN to verify that it was the cause? it seems unusual, i do not use any special settings with it and never have troubles such as you describe on my 3.6ghz machine. it is just not doing anything every 5-7 seconds, other than the initial injection it should really only mess with your sim every 15 minutes or so when it updates weather.. might want to post at their forums too if you are sure that is the cause maybe the log file would show some related problem.

 

EDIT: i just realized this is the p3d forum, my experience is with fsx only.

all bets are off there!! haha! but you may want to check their site, i know there was a patch released for ASN just in the last few days that was for p3d users.

 

cheers

-andy crosby

[Brian_A_Neuman 198]

I have tested. When I load up with no weather it pans smoothly. With ASN, I get the hesitation. Before I left for work today I brought my locked frames down to 30, adjusted my affinity mask to 85 as well. I will do further testing. I will tell you the hesitation does not make it unflyable, it's just annoying.

[jjjallen 37]

Assign FSX all the cores but 1 (usually the first) and don't try to micro-manage ASN.  I wrote FSXAssist for that.   Clouds have always been a big FPS / smoothness hit except on my current build with 2 970s in SLI.  As a matter of fact, since I went SLI a few years ago, clouds no longer cause stutters.  Also I use REX soft clouds.

 

Regards

 

jja

[jimcarrel 688]

If you are running FSUIPC look in the .ini file and see of auto save is on, if it is turn it off. (just another possibility)

[Brian_A_Neuman 198]

If you are running FSUIPC look in the .ini file and see of auto save is on, if it is turn it off. (just another possibility)

Autosave is not turned on, so that is not the culprit. Good idea though.

 

I appreciate all the ideas and I will look into trying all of them tomorrow (I have a horridly busy day today, no time for P3D unfortunately). 

[BamaKevin 8]

If your running win7 try changing your desktop theme to Aero. I did this and it made a huge difference!

[Brian_A_Neuman 198]

Alright, assigning core 0 to ASN/VPILOT with P3D assigned to 1,2,3 seems to have smoothed it out. Will I need to do this manually in the Task Manager every time I do this? Or will windows remember? Thank you for all your help.

[pmb 5,137]

Windows (Task Manager) does not remember the settings. The tools I cited above (and some others) will do.

 

Kind regards, Michael

[b00ts 7]

I use Project Lasso and it remembers where I assign things and the priorities assigned.