Performance hit with one of the tweaks

[Mephic 129]

HI 

 

Not sure which tweak causes it, but I get significant performance drop (FPS) when using PTA in overcast conditions when it's sunrise or sunset. (must be something related to cloud shadows). It causes even 50% FPS hit, not sure why. Which tweak might it be? 

[KNOSSOS 122]

It causes even 50% FPS hit, not sure why. Which tweak might it be?

Hi Tomasz

I've tested the overcast conditions and found that FPS drops caused by "Clouds shadows Extended size" tweak. I'll add a notice to the tweak description.

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

 

Here some screenshots (4K resolution monitor, i6700K@4.5GHz, DDR4 3200 16GB, GTX1080 OC, P3D on Samsung 850 Pro SSD):

 

my PTA preset is active (with "Clouds shadows Extended size" tweak is ON) :

 

 

 

 

 

my PTA preset is active (WITHOUT "Clouds shadows Extended size" tweak) :

 

 

 

 

 

Please note also that removing this adjustment from your preset does not mean that you get the same FPS at noon and twilight (when the shadows become huge due to low sun altitude).

The significant FPS drop in overcast conditions when it's sunrise or sunset and "Enable terrain receive shadows" setting is ON is a P3D feature by design.

 

Here is the default P3D (no PTA or another tweaks):

 

 

 

 

 

regards,

[Mephic 129]

I forgot about it as I rebuilt my cfg. It's easy to be fixed. All that needs to be modified is ground shadow texture size in p3d cfg (I think default is 512 or 1024, after changing it to 256 performance goes up! )

[KNOSSOS 122]

Great!

After altering CLOUD_SHADOW_TEXTURE_SIZE to 256 instead of 512 I got FPS boost from 23 to 37 at the same conditions (overcast + twilight) with tweak "Clouds shadows Extended size" is ON.

Degradation in the shadows rendering with 256 is not noticed so far.

Thanks for the tip!

[Mephic 129]

Yes, I remember I found this fix on HiFi (AS16) forum. They were really helpful back then, glad it helped you too! 

[nealmac 260]

Great!

After altering CLOUD_SHADOW_TEXTURE_SIZE to 256 instead of 512 I got FPS boost from 23 to 37 at the same conditions (overcast + twilight) with tweak "Clouds shadows Extended size" is ON.

Degradation in the shadows rendering with 256 is not noticed so far.

Thanks for the tip!

Hi Yuri,

 

is this found in the P3D.cfg file? I'm having similar problems with overcast conditions and this could be the answer to my problems lol. 

[Mephic 129]

Yes