P3d Display Resolution

[Zimmerbz 168]

8 hours ago, w6kd said:

The 2080Ti is the cutting edge right now, and priced accordingly at a significant premium.  The rest of your system is three generations old now.  So if you're contemplating upgrading the CPU/mobo/RAM in the near future, lead-turning that with a 2080Ti now may make sense.  If not, the 2080Ti is a real overmatch to the rest of the system.  It'll work just fine, but your 6700K will not push it hard enough to exploit its capabilities, especially at a resolution below 4K.

 

What cpu/mobo/ram would you suggest to pair with the 2080?  I’ve never done anything like that so I’m not sure how I would even install it, ha! I suppose I’d need a bigger hard drive too while I’m at it! 

[Zimmerbz 168]

Messing around with a few things I found that with the attached settings, I got smooth frames but awful graphics.  The streets and rivers were very jagged.  I checked the performance and the cpu and gpu were between 80-90 and occasionally spiked to 100.  I was using 3440 resolution so I can keep messing around and scale back but from what I am seeing I think I would need a new card.

 

 

 

 

 

Any thoughts?

[ha5mvo 253]

What happens if you bump up AA one step at a time? At what point does it peg up the gpu?

[Zimmerbz 168]

So i had another flight this afternoon.  Same settings as above but I tried 2xSSAA.  Everything felt very smooth and the FPS were in the 20's the enter flight.  However, getting closer to the airport (KSFO), I was getting very weird textures.  See below.  I have never had this before.  However, it was a very smooth, studder free flight.  The streets were "thick and blocky" and black textures were showing.  I use Orbx, but not Vector

 

[Zimmerbz 168]

So i had another flight this afternoon.  Same settings as above but I tried 2xSSAA.  Everything felt very smooth and the FPS were in the 20's the enter flight.  However, getting closer to the airport (KSFO), I was getting very weird textures.  See below.  I have never had this before.  However, it was a very smooth, studder free flight.  The streets were "thick and blocky" and black textures were showing.  I use Orbx, but not Vector

 

[Zimmerbz 168]

18 hours ago, Zimmerbz said:

So i had another flight this afternoon.  Same settings as above but I tried 2xSSAA.  Everything felt very smooth and the FPS were in the 20's the enter flight.  However, getting closer to the airport (KSFO), I was getting very weird textures.  See below.  I have never had this before.  However, it was a very smooth, studder free flight.  The streets were "thick and blocky" and black textures were showing.  I use Orbx, but not Vector

 

Do you think I have a bad setting somewhere or are those pics the results of a poor GPU?  The settings I have seem pretty conservative so I’m not sure why it looks so poor.  I also did a night flight last night into KORD and didn’t notice any odd textures.  However, since it was night it just might have been hard to see

[Zimmerbz 168]

Anyone know what these textures could be from ?  Thanks

[Bob Scott 7,720]

Looks more like lack of textures to me.  Are you monitoring your VRAM usage when this happens?  Do you have a (low) FFTF setting in your config?

 

[Zimmerbz 168]

38 minutes ago, w6kd said:

Looks more like lack of textures to me.  Are you monitoring your VRAM usage when this happens?  Do you have a (low) FFTF setting in your config?

 

Pardon my ignorance but what is FFTF? 

[Bob Scott 7,720]

Just now, Zimmerbz said:

Pardon my ignorance but what is FFTF? 

FFTF=FiberFrameTimeFraction

If you didn't explicitly set it in your Prepar3D.cfg, then the setting won't appear in the config file and it internally defaults to 0.33.

[Zimmerbz 168]

16 minutes ago, w6kd said:

FFTF=FiberFrameTimeFraction

If you didn't explicitly set it in your Prepar3D.cfg, then the setting won't appear in the config file and it internally defaults to 0.33.

Then no, I don't think I have that.  I messed around with the .cfg at one point but didn't notice any differences so I just went back to my original .cfg.

[B1900 17]

On 1/30/2020 at 6:43 PM, Zimmerbz said:

Also, would a 2080 TI be recommended for my system?   I know I have some testing to do to see where my bottle necks are but not being technical, I was not sure if something in my set up would prohibit me from using the 2080ti

I run a GTX 970 - settings maxed out, Traffic at 90% and rarely see less than 35FPS, normally 50-60.

You may have other setting issues, or too much junk on the sim

[SledDriver 39]

On 2/10/2020 at 6:11 PM, Zimmerbz said:

Pardon my ignorance but what is FFTF? 

FFTF is definitely worth having and only costs about £15.

I fly Photoreal Scenery all over Europe and the West USA states, and sometimes in very fast military jets.

I have FFTF set as follows:

AGL Range Feet = 0 to 4000

FFTF Range = 0.15 to 0.33

I never get the blurries or missing textures, or texture popping, not at any speed or altitude.

Once last week I forgot to load FFTF and immediately had blurries all over the place.

Oh and everything here is on multiple SSD drives. No spinners in the system. This definitely helps.