performance drop in XP11 beta 3

[FlyIce 354]

I had such a blast with pb2 but all changed when I upgraded to pb3. The performance drop was around 30% across the board. I tried everything I can, even reinstalled ("updated") pb3 several times. No difference. 

 

This is really frustrating. Frankly, if pb3 is my first XP11 beta, I probably gave up on XP11 already.

 

The performance was particularly bad when flying my own Ortho4XP scenery with overlay. In pb2 I got over 20fps with GTX980, flying the same scenery in pb3 with Titan X Pascal I got 10-15fps. Though with Titan X I can set all graphics to max or min, there is virtually no difference in fps: it stays around 10-15. 

 

Using MSI Afterburner I can see while flying Ortho4XP scenery the GPU was running around 60%. Surprisingly, all four cores of my i2500k were only loaded on 50% average, not core is even close to 70%. Yet I got only 10-15fps, so where is the bottleneck? There must be sth wrong either in pb3 or its installation on my system. 

 

I know XP11 is in beta and the performance is not optimized it, but pb2 so impressive performance wise. I'm running the latest version of Nvidia driver, maybe a different version can do better?

 

 

 

 

[Colonel X 1,434]

Try without orthos. Also, that's a weak cpu, dial back on world detail.

 

PB3 performance is stellar if you have realistic expectations.

[FlyIce 354]

It's the same performance drop on default scenery too. My 2500k is running at 4.92GHz overclocked and it runs pb2 at max world details very well , fantastic performance.

 

I guess I'm the unlucky few who suffered a performance hit by updating to pb3. I'm just curious to figure out why.

[rdtv91 73]

I'd try a re-install and see if that fixes it and then maybe a fresh driver install with threaded optimisations turned to off in Nvidia CP.

Remember when changing settings within the graphics tab of the UI within XP11 it can sometimes take a restart of the sim to get a true reflection of the performance difference ~ I've noticed this myself when playing around with reflections slider where change in performance is after I start a new 'flight' after restarting the sim.

[FlyIce 354]

I did reinstallation a couple times already, by deleting everything in XP11 folder except Global Scenery and Custom Scenery folders and then running the installer. I also completely uninstalled Nividia driver and reinstalled only the core graphics driver. 

 

I turned of thread optimization in both Gobal and XP11 profile settings in control panel. If I turned TO on my fps got further halved to like 5-6 fps. 

 

By the way, pb3 demo apparently runs ok on my Clevo laptop 6700HQ@3.5GHz+ GTX1060 + Win10. Same settings as World Objects, Visual and Texture to max and Reflection to Low, it's the same 20fps as my desktop 2500k@4.9GHz + TitanXP+Win7. Only difference is that on desktop I can max out AA with no loss of fps. 

 

I guess sth in my desktop is limiting the pb3.  I may try to install an older Nvidia driver to see what happens. I forced couple "easy" settings in XP11 Nividia profile, like texture filtering to 16x etc. Maybe I should keep those as clean as possible.