November 6, 20187 yr Hi. Which purchase will give me the most improvement in FPS? I am running P3Dv4 on a two-screen i5-4690K (default 3.5GHz) with a GTX 760. I average around 20 FPS with the F1 Cessna Mustang (a bit higher with other aircraft) and Orbx regional scenery. Thanks - Dave
November 7, 20187 yr FPS is usually CPU bound, especially at 3.5 GHz. Your video card will matter most in heavy weather and possibly also your two screen situation.. that one I do not know.. 2 GB VRAM... What is the memory utilization like on your current video card?? Bert
November 7, 20187 yr I'm not much of hardware guru. But I'm not sure one alone is going to net you with the kinda increase you want. Even if it's temporary. But I think your best bet would be to get a really good CPU heatsink of some kind and overclock that CPU. You're gonna want a good cooler for the 8700K anyways. Runs a tad warm. Then get your new video card. I had a 4700K and a 1080ti for a few months and worked pretty decent. Was some definite improvement. I'd probably also wait for the 9th gen processors. I think they are coming out default with a better thermal compound. Brian Thibodeaux | B747-400/8, C-130 Flight Engineer, CFI, Type Rated: BE190, DC-9 (MD-80), B747-400 My Liveries
November 7, 20187 yr You'll need to see if your GPU or CPU is at 100%. Try userbenchmark.com as a start. My guess is that your 4690k, particularly if you're willing to try some overclocking, would support a better GPU, and that would get you some significant FPS increase. [email protected] | 32gb RAM | EVGA GTX1080 8gb | Mostly P3Dv5 (also IL2:BoX, DCS, XP11)
November 7, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, Trumpet1 said: There you have me. I don’t know how to tell. Get a copy of (free) GPU-Z. Bert
November 7, 20187 yr Overclock the i5 and get a new graphics card, 1060 6gb or 1070 P3D v4.5 MSFS2020 Hisense 50" 4K TV Ryzen 9600x 64gb DDR5 6000mhz, Asrock B650m HDV/M.2 Gigabyte 16gb 9070XT, Thermalright Aqua Elite 240mm 2TB NVMe Boot/FS2020 Drive, 2TB NVMe P3D Drive. Saitek Yoke, Pedals, Radio Panel, Switch Panel, 2 x FiPs
November 7, 20187 yr With a GTX760, a 1070 would be my bet. Your CPU can handle the simulator nicely. Keep in mind that the Mustang is a framerate hog, even with my hardware it's noticeably the worst addon i have performance-wise. CASE: Fractal Terra Silver CPU: AMD R5 7800X3D 5.0Ghz RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 GPU: nVidia RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · SSDs: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 PCIe · PNY XLR8 CS3040 2TB M.2 PCIe · VIDEO: LG-32GK650F QHD 32" 144Hz FREE/G-SYNC · MISC: Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Joystick + Throttle Quadrant · MSFS2024 · Windows 11
November 7, 20187 yr Author Thanks for all the advice. To recap, benchmark, overclock, upgrade the video card. And fly a different jet.
November 8, 20187 yr I have an i7-8700K running at 5GHz. I also run two GTX 970 cards pushing a 1080p projector a 1920 x 1080 touch screen monitor with the instruments run in VC only mode. I have a USN Elo 10" touch screen that runs Garmin 750 & 650 and a VGA FMC screen that only shows the Win 10 Logo. Using GPU-Z, I have never seen the two cards go over 60% or use more than 3GB of memory each. Note: I fly with fair skies and puffy clouds. I have never tested them in IMC. I fly everything from GA to Bus jets and military jets. No airliners. For scenery, I either use MegaScenery V3 or Orbx. Now what this means to you, I haven't the foggiest. 🙂 I guess I think for most people the super GPU cards are overkill, unless they are running 4K. JohnMy first SIM was a Link Trainer. My last was a T-6 IIAMD Ryzen 7 7800 X3D@ 5.1 GHz, 32 GB DDR5 RAM - 3 M2 Drives. 1 TB Boot, 2 TB Sim drive, 2 TB Add-on Drive, 6TB Backup data hard driveRTX 3080 10GB VRAM, Meta Quest 3 VR Headset
November 8, 20187 yr 58 minutes ago, jmig said: I have an i7-8700K running at 5GHz. I also run two GTX 970 cards pushing a 1080p projector a 1920 x 1080 touch screen monitor with the instruments run in VC only mode. I have a USN Elo 10" touch screen that runs Garmin 750 & 650 and a VGA FMC screen that only shows the Win 10 Logo. Using GPU-Z, I have never seen the two cards go over 60% or use more than 3GB of memory each. Note: I fly with fair skies and puffy clouds. I have never tested them in IMC. I fly everything from GA to Bus jets and military jets. No airliners. For scenery, I either use MegaScenery V3 or Orbx. Now what this means to you, I haven't the foggiest. 🙂 I guess I think for most people the super GPU cards are overkill, unless they are running 4K. The 760 only has 2 GB of VRAM... Bert
November 9, 20187 yr Depends on what new GPU you have in mind... If you are looking for a 1070, go with the GPU first. Increased amount of VRAM will help in P3Dv4. If you are looking at the new RTX2080, go with the CPU first because your old CPU will not be able to feed 100% of the 2080. Mike Mike Lab WIN10 / I7-6700K HT ON / GTX980 / 16 GB RAM / 3 x SAMSUNG EVO 1TB SSD / 1 X WD BLACK 2TB HDD / 32" 60hz Monitor @ 2560x1440 / P3Dv4.4 No AM, Locked to 59 FPS, VSync ON, Triple buffering enabled Process Lasso used to unload all other applications than P3D running on core 0
November 10, 20187 yr Author On 11/6/2018 at 7:56 PM, Bert Pieke said: Get a copy of (free) GPU-Z. Did. And GPU max is 100% but average is around 55%.
November 10, 20187 yr 2 minutes ago, Trumpet1 said: Did. And GPU max is 100% but average is around 55%. Is that GPU utilization, or memory usage..which is typically measured in MB. Bert
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