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Hi

I have a question about Hyper-Threading ON or OFF in P3DV4.4?

Here are my specs:

I7 6700K on Asus Maximus VIII Motherboard

Geforce 2080 

LG 43 Zoll 4k Monitor via Displayport

P3D V4.4

PMGD 737 / 777 / 747

Here is my Question: 

When I switched last week to the 4k Monitor I locked  the frame rate to 30 fps (1/2 refresh rate)  in the Nvidia Inspector 

and tried some tweaking in the cfg file:

[DISPLAY]
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=160

[SCENERY]
MaxRegionsPurgePerFrame=1

[JOBSCHEDULER]
AffinityMask=85

[TERRAIN]
UseGlobalTerrainView=True
TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=9

The Settings in OPTIONS/GRAPHICS all mainly all 1 Step under Maximum.

The AffinityMask=85 is meant to be used with HT on.

 But then I turned off the Hyper-Threading in the BIOS and changed it to AffinityMask=15.

The Prozessor is now running with 70% and the GPU with 30% and average 1515 MHz (sometimes 1800-1900 MHz) 

in 4K single Monitor 30 fps locked.

How are your experiences with HT ON or OFF?

Do you have any advices for the tweaks & settings?

Greetings Erik

 

 

 

 

 

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22 minutes ago, enrico10999 said:

Hi

I have a question about Hyper-Threading ON or OFF in P3DV4.4?

Here are my specs:

I7 6700K on Asus Maximus VIII Motherboard

Geforce 2080 

LG 43 Zoll 4k Monitor via Displayport

P3D V4.4

PMGD 737 / 777 / 747

Here is my Question: 

When I switched last week to the 4k Monitor I locked  the frame rate to 30 fps (1/2 refresh rate)  in the Nvidia Inspector 

and tried some tweaking in the cfg file:

[DISPLAY]
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=160

[SCENERY]
MaxRegionsPurgePerFrame=1

[JOBSCHEDULER]
AffinityMask=85

[TERRAIN]
UseGlobalTerrainView=True
TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=9

The Settings in OPTIONS/GRAPHICS all mainly all 1 Step under Maximum.

The AffinityMask=85 is meant to be used with HT on.

 But then I turned off the Hyper-Threading in the BIOS and changed it to AffinityMask=15.

The Prozessor is now running with 70% and the GPU with 30% and average 1515 MHz (sometimes 1800-1900 MHz) 

in 4K single Monitor 30 fps locked.

How are your experiences with HT ON or OFF?

Do you have any advices for the tweaks & settings?

Greetings Erik

 

 

 

 

 

This is very system dependent.  My recommendation with that CPU is to run with HT enabled.  Try a few different affinity mask values and see what works best.  I would also start with a fresh config file.  Do not change anything in it except affinity mask till you have a smooth sim.  Lock your frames to 30-33 FPS.  


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My last quad-core was a 7700K, and I found that HT on with an affinity mask of 245 worked well.  That keeps core 0 and 1 confined to a single virtual CPU, and allows texture loading etc on both virtual CPUs on cores 2-3.

But yes, system and configuration dependent.  YMMV

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I keep HT off. And since P3Dv4 no tweaking of Prepar3D.cfg. Sim is smooth running. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

 

Edited by BillS511

 

 

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Off - reason is can now run stable at 5ghz instead of 4.5ghz with less heat on 7700k

No FSX like tweaks are required on P3D 4.4 including AM.

Cheers
bs

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HT off for quads 

HT on for 6+cores with Using affinitymask to assign physical cores

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For me...

No HT
No Invidia Inspector
No cfg tweaks but one - added maximum trees and agn buildings

Ben very happy with my mid-end (as opposed to a high-end), PC system.


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It depends on how many cores your CPU has.

For a quad core, HT ON.

Hexacore, octacore,  HT OFF.

V4.4 is actually pretty good at distributing CPU workload, out of the box.

(and I know that some will argue that Windows takes care of that.. etc)

Also, affinity masks are of less value since V4.4 came out.. LM is doing a pretty good job :wink:  No real need for tweaks any more, in my experience.

 

Edited by Bert Pieke

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All the above answers are why it's PC dependent. Every PC runs diffrently. Sadly you have to try different setting from HT ON or OFF and what AM works for your system. It's a mind field and time costly.

No point in saying what works on my 4 core as I have spent hours getting P3D working as it does. It also well might not work on yours. Sorry, it's all about trial and sees what works for you. 


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Mine ran the same either on or off FPS wise and didn't notice any difference with AutoGen loading.  Slightly warmer with HT on, but only a 2*C difference.

Because I use my system for other tasks and games that use HT effectively, I keep mine on.


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Hi, thanks for your answers! 

With HT OFF I did a flight from EDDT to EDDF (ORBX Germany North & South) and got some blurry textures in the scenery on approach, not the airport. 

So I went back to HT ON, and deleted some of my custom made entries in the cfg. 

The only one is custom made entry actually :

TERRAIN]
UseGlobalTerrainView=True
TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=9

In the moment the system runs stable at 30 fps, HT ON, CPU 60-90%, GPU 30% 1515 MHz.

Thanks for help!

Erik

 

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4 minutes ago, enrico10999 said:

Hi, thanks for your answers! 

With HT OFF I did a flight from EDDT to EDDF (ORBX Germany North & South) and got some blurry textures in the scenery on approach, not the airport. 

So I went back to HT ON, and deleted some of my custom made entries in the cfg. 

The only one is custom made entry actually :

TERRAIN]
UseGlobalTerrainView=True
TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=9

In the moment the system runs stable at 30 fps, HT ON, CPU 60-90%, GPU 30% 1515 MHz.

Thanks for help!

Erik

 

TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=9 is redundant if you have High Res Terrain Textures set to ON in the main P3D graphics panel.  Happy you have it running well!  :smile:

ps.. you can leave it in, does not hurt..

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I just figured I'd share that we've had numerous conversations (threads) here on AVSIM on this topic each year since around 2009, and I've contributed to those threads.  They contain some terrific information, and of course that information isn't going to change so it's still valid.

Best wishes!

 

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21 minutes ago, DaveCT2003 said:

I just figured I'd share that we've had numerous conversations (threads) here on AVSIM on this topic each year since around 2009, and I've contributed to those threads.  They contain some terrific information, and of course that information isn't going to change so it's still valid.

Best wishes!

 

Dave, that is certainly true, but LM is continuing to develop/change P3D, with each release behaving differently from the previous.. so I would caution folks against taking the "old wisdom" and applying it to V4.4.  :wink:


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