Hi all,

I recently invested in an overhauled rig for P3D and was super excited to be running full tilt graphics. However, I am a few months in and my performance has felt like it has dropped significantly. I've looked everywhere at threads to try and rectify this situation but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I am getting about 20 FPS running ORBX LOWI, Global, FsLabs A320, and ActiveSky. I feel like this should be a piece of cake for my PC but for some reason it isn't. Can anyone please offer some advice?

 

Thatcher Burns

i7-9700k Coffee Lake OC to 5Ghz

EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER BLACK GAMING

ASUS ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming LGA 1151 Z390

G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB DDR4 3600

Edited March 2, 20206 yr by gamers22

For start you should at least tell us about your PC specs.

Sorry, didn't know I have to press the button.

Edited March 2, 20206 yr by Tomaz Drnovsek

Your specs are great, way better than mine and I probably get the same fps.

What are your P3D settings?

6 hours ago, flightskyc said:

Your specs are great, way better than mine and I probably get the same fps.

What are your P3D settings?

I did a few minor tweaks this morning and my fps was slightly better between 25-30 but I still feel as though something is causing a bottleneck. Here are my current settings for P3D:

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7 hours ago, TBurns22 said:

I did a few minor tweaks this morning and my fps was slightly better between 25-30 but I still feel as though something is causing a bottleneck. Here are my current settings for P3D:

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All of those image links require logging into a Flickr account.

19 hours ago, w6kd said:

All of those image links require logging into a Flickr account.

My apologies, I'm still a little green on this forum. Here's another attempt:

I would reduce the shadows and cloud draw distance.  

5 minutes ago, micstatic said:

I would reduce the shadows and cloud draw distance.  

I shouldn't have to though. People who have lower end rigs are running higher settings and seeing better FPS than I am. The whole reason I want to fix this is because I was reading through threads on here where people are running P3D's photoreal scenery and running it very well with lower end systems. I'm trying to figure out my bottleneck

I will say I am running P3D on an older HDD, not my newer M.2 PCIe SSD. Could this contribute to low frames? I installed the PCIe SSD after P3D was installed and did not want to go through the process of reinstalling. Is it time I do that?

Edited March 3, 20206 yr by TBurns22

I could be wrong.  But I thought that the SSD speed increases are mostly from loading times not FPS.  

Running a test with FsLabs A320 at ORBX LOWI I am running 33-35% CPU and 37-40% GPU with internal FPS limited to 30 in P3D. However, I am running between 23-27 FPS so the limiter isn't really even doing anything. Something is definitely bottlenecking my P3D and I cannot figure out what for the life of me. I will say that AURA Synce on my MOBO was using 15-20% of my CPU resources!!!! I changed a few settings and now its .5%. Note I am running AIG Ai traffic at 30% but turning it off didn't really do much for me.

Edited March 3, 20206 yr by TBurns22

50 minutes ago, TBurns22 said:

FPS limited to 30 in P3D. However, I am running between 23-27 FPS so the limiter isn't really even doing anything.

Actually, it is. Disable the limier and see FPS go above 30. When internal limiter is applied then 33% of CPU time goes to terrain loading. This is necessary when you go high and fast, so's to avoid blurries. But when you are lower and slower, then you can have another graphic profile that you can switch to so it wouldn't have limiter enabled. This will give you those precious frames around terminal area.

Are you experiencing low performance on other places as well. Did you previously had better performance at Innsbruck, or is it a new airport for you and you are only seeing this kind of behavior over there?

Edited March 3, 20206 yr by Evros
well why not?

Road & boat traffic?  Weather (number of layers, conditions)?

1 hour ago, Evros said:

Actually, it is. Disable the limier and see FPS go above 30. When internal limiter is applied then 33% of CPU time goes to terrain loading. This is necessary when you go high and fast, so's to avoid blurries. But when you are lower and slower, then you can have another graphic profile that you can switch to so it wouldn't have limiter enabled. This will give you those precious frames around terminal area.

Are you experiencing low performance on other places as well. Did you previously had better performance at Innsbruck, or is it a new airport for you and you are only seeing this kind of behavior over there?

I have previously had better performance at Innsbruck, or at least it really appeared that way. I tried LSZH (Aerosoft Zurich) and got around 30 frames on unlimited frame setting. This is good but when looking at my task manager my cpu is at 35% and GPU is around 25%. I kept inching sliders to the right and the frames stayed basically steady but CPU usage didn't budge. Something isn't adding up. 

 

33 minutes ago, w6kd said:

Road & boat traffic?  Weather (number of layers, conditions)?

No road or boat traffic. Usually for weather I'm using ActiveSky weather engine with REX cloud textures. Have used once during the tests and no noteworthy impact on performance.

Edited March 4, 20206 yr by TBurns22

Everyone say that is is not more taken in account with P3D but, you can increase a little bit your fps by adding this in the Prepar3D.cfg.

[BUFFERPOOLS]
UsePools=0

It is not the source of your problem but believe me, it works!