May 2, 20188 yr Genuinely curious question for those who are locking their frames (whether to 59, 29 or something else) -- are you not seeing the behavior I'm seeing with an apparent dead-weight loss of performance if you lock frames, compared to leaving them unlimited? What I mean: if I load up the FSL A320 at FlyTampa Athens, with frames set to unlimited, Vsync and triple buffer on, I get around 28 fps in the cockpit. If I switch to locked at 59 fps, everything else exactly the same, I get around 22 fps. That's a 20% loss of performance! Is this somehow not what you're all seeing, or do you have such powerful rigs that you're willing to sacrifice that much performance for smoothness (I experience locked as much less smooth, but to each their own), lower CPU temps, or something else.? I'm always looking for ways to refine my setup and I'd love to have the lower CPU temperatures that come with locked frames. But 20% is just too high a price to pay for me. Maybe I'm missing something? James
May 2, 20188 yr To get some more fps with a little sacrifice of display quality in case using glass cockpits, try disabling high cockpit lod as well as vc mip maps in p3d cfg. It will reduce panels quality a little but not that noticeable. IMO is worth the performance gain. Also try reducing panel refresh rate in your addon aircraft if it has a setting for one, is not that bad even at 10 unless flying an acrobatic.
May 2, 20188 yr On 4/22/2018 at 12:38 PM, downscc said: I played with frame rate lock and decided that although it help specific issues with my 980Ti, it has little effect with 1080Ti SLI so I leave it unlimited. My assumption is that I let P3D manage the frame rate. Of course I should add that I am not one that pays much attention to frame rate unless I have an animation issue such as stutters or long frames. I have had the same experience. No frame lock works best for my setup. I did have the long frame issue at a couple of complex airports / addon aircraft / wx -- my solution seems to be to reduce texture res from "Ultra 4096 x 4096" down to the next lower level. This seems to have really smoothed things out for my setup at those high-density locations. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
May 2, 20188 yr 12 hours ago, honanhal said: Genuinely curious question for those who are locking their frames (whether to 59, 29 or something else) -- are you not seeing the behavior I'm seeing with an apparent dead-weight loss of performance if you lock frames, compared to leaving them unlimited? What I mean: if I load up the FSL A320 at FlyTampa Athens, with frames set to unlimited, Vsync and triple buffer on, I get around 28 fps in the cockpit. If I switch to locked at 59 fps, everything else exactly the same, I get around 22 fps. That's a 20% loss of performance! Is this somehow not what you're all seeing, or do you have such powerful rigs that you're willing to sacrifice that much performance for smoothness (I experience locked as much less smooth, but to each their own), lower CPU temps, or something else.? I'm always looking for ways to refine my setup and I'd love to have the lower CPU temperatures that come with locked frames. But 20% is just too high a price to pay for me. Maybe I'm missing something? James After a default install, you'll see frame rate defaults to unlimited. That might be your answer right here.
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