HI guys,

I'm considering doing a complete clean reinstall of 4.1 to try and troubleshoot some texture and CPU usage (first core 100% no matter what scenery settings used) issues I am having.

I've spent innumerable hours adding payware airports and add ons (ie active sky, Chaspelane, add on sceneries and traditional sceneries, ENVTEX, Flyinside, tons of AI traffic and flightplans from AIG etc)

What is  the least painful way to do this?  Are there specific essential things I should back up to make reinstall more smooth?

Really dreading doing this

Any suggestions from the experts would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks, Jason

Not an expert. Just a guy who re-installed 4.1 3 times in the past 2 weeks. I had stutters problems which appeared out of the blue...

Just one advice: Install slowly but surely i.e. first your base simulators, check your settings and set a default flight which will represent your best test flight (as an example: R22 in KSEA. Flight from the airport to the city and back). Also apply your graphic settings accordingly for the test and save the settings as "Test flight". Install your add-ons one at a time and do a test flight, check the results. If everything is good, proceed to the next step. At this stage, it would be a good idea to log everything you do. Something like today I installed FSUIPC and AS16, check the data-time and log the results.

I am at a stage where I've got most of my add-ons, a/c and sceneries and still no stutter. But I am not through yet. I know there some add-on that causes the stutter. I have some idea on which causes it, but I work slowly and surely by adding one at a time.

Very slow process if you ask me, but worth the trouble versus re-installing.

Just my 2 cents.

Good luck,

Cheers

Pierre

ppo,

I am not at the point of a whole re-install but your idea of a log struck me today since I have been considering the same thing.  I was wondering if the "events log" in windows tracked every date and time of add on.   Having a log of everything you add plus updates may help in eliminating them as issues start or a reference to return to when things sneak up and multiply.  

Ken

There is a valid argument against presuming that Core 0 running at 100% is a bad thing, and I subscribe to that idea.  Reinstalling software is a great way to mindlessly spend a few days, or in my case about four, but it rarely solves anything.... especially if you hope to solve a problem that is not a problem.

Post back after your are done and let us know how it went.

3 hours ago, jasonstory44 said:

first core 100% no matter what scenery settings used

I'm showing Prepar3d v4.1 spreads across more cores. w7 cpu4.7 o/c 4 gpu 1080Ti

Mine will do that too Bob...but my understanding is that all cores after the first are for texture loading.  It was suggested that in fine tuning the settings one should start with a baseline of less than 100% utilization on the first core (the one running Prepar3d).  I don't know, maybe I am nitpicking this too much.  But I am having a texture problem and even if I turn all settings off my first core runs at 100% no matter what.  I have a fairly decent system so something seems off

i5 5930k overclocked to 4.4 mhz

64 gb ram, separate M2 drive for prepar3d and a Titan Xp graphics card

I get decent frames usually but problem where many ground textures are left blank or even fuzzy.  Just seems to me that If I dialed back all settings to low or even off, My machine should be able to run that without 100% on first core.

I am certainly open to alternative thoughts and suggestions though

 

Ugh, the never ending pursuit of perfection in flightsim

4 hours ago, jasonstory44 said:

What is  the least painful way to do this?  Are there specific essential things I should back up to make reinstall more smooth?

If you still want to go through a clean reinstall, there are procedures shown in our Tips and Tricks Forum for P3D -

We also have one for installing the product too.

thank you Jim...I hadn't seen that before.  This community is the best

17 hours ago, jasonstory44 said:

This community is the best

Yes it is.  You might want to wait a little before doing a clean install of V4.x.

Cheers, Rob.

13 hours ago, Rob Ainscough said:

Yes it is.  You might want to want a little before doing a clean install of V4.x.

Cheers, Rob.

yay 4.2 is around the corner ;)

Wait not want not😉

14 hours ago, Rob Ainscough said:

Yes it is.  You might want to want a little before doing a clean install of V4.x.

Cheers, Rob.

How long? Weeks, Months? 

It’s my phones fault ;)

1 hour ago, Rob Ainscough said:

It’s my phones fault ;)

not even a pretence of a denial :p  bring it on :)

Wait. Is Pete Dowson on holiday?