How to get best P3D fps

[GSalden 4,706]

Here I “tuned” my system for TE UK by setting bad weather manually in P3D, wind coming from 070,  taking of from EGGL 07L and flying over the intercity of London, making left and right turns at 2500 ft / 220 knots...

PSXT + RT also active.

As mentioned many times : start in your most demanding scenery, add bad weather and set you sliders to the left.

If you see a smooth sim start adding more detail : one slider at the time..

[brennanjed 0]

Ok, thanks all again for your replies. I am now booing to try these and I will revert back. If I was going to get a new CPU, what would you guys recommend?

[Ray Proudfoot 9,050]

49 minutes ago, brennanjed said:

Ok, thanks all again for your replies. I am now booing to try these and I will revert back. If I was going to get a new CPU, what would you guys recommend?

It's not a straight-forward job just to replace the CPU with something significantly quicker. The motherboard and its CPU socket change frequently making a simple upgrade impossible. A new mobo is usually required and with it new memory. Your GPU is fine of course.

But don't give up without at least trying more realistic settings. Plenty of people have slower CPUs and manage okay. You have the benefit of a great graphics card so providing you're realistic you should get a few more years out of the system.

PS. I tried to decypher booing but couldn't. Not sure what you meant there.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,050]

Gerard, with respect he's a newbie so using terms like PSXT and RT without spelling them out in full and perhaps explaining what they do isn't much help. I don't know either myself.

[brennanjed 0]

Yes thanks Ray, to be honest I haven’t a clue what those words mean!!!

[Chock 17,769]

If you are not great on computers and stuff (and even if you are), one thing worth getting hold of is CPU-Z.

Link here: https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.91-en.exe

Running that will give you a good overview of your system's components and their performance, and that can be useful for a number of things, including some necessary information if you are considering upgrading stuff. CPU-Z will identify your mainboard and main components and from that you can look up exactly what that board will and will not support in terms of memory and processor upgrades. It will also identify the socket your processor utilises, so that's handy.

[IanHarrison 527]

5 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Yes it is but with winds predominantly from the west in the UK 27 runways are more likely to be used than 09. Moot point I grant you.

For my own testing I slew up to 1500ft at EGLC and head westwards towards EGLL at 160kts. After passing T5 I close P3D and read the average fps over several minutes in the fsuipc.log. I find that gives a better overall reflection of performance.

Testing by pointing east might drag down performance when in reality you wouldn't normally take off in that direction. I suspect once brennanjed reduces Autogen from Very Dense performance will improve dramatically.

Hi Ray,

We are all forever learning.

I knew there is a logging section in FSUIUPC but how do you get FPS shown in the fsuipc5.log?

[IanHarrison 527]

Duplicated sorry.

Edited March 21, 2020 by IanHarrison
Duplicated.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,050]

3 minutes ago, IanHarrison said:

Hi Ray,

We are all forever learning.

I knew there is a logging section in FSUIUPC but how do you get FPS shown in the fsuipc5.log?

I think it's there by default. This is my most revent log. It's right at the end...

3534782 System time = 21/03/2020 13:14:37, Simulator time = 13:14:06 (13:14Z)
  3534782 *** FSUIPC log file being closed
Minimum frame rate was 20.9 fps, Maximum was 30.8 fps
Average frame rate for running time of 3256 secs = 29.5 fps
Maximum AI traffic for session was 101 aircraft
Traffic deletions 150 aircraft
Memory managed: 3768 Allocs, 3767 Freed
********* FSUIPC Log file closed ***********

[Mace 1,964]

6 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

PS. I tried to decypher booing but couldn't. Not sure what you meant there.

Booing is what you do when you see the Chicago Cubs playing baseball.

@GSalden I too am not sure what PSXT and RT are.   I know RTSS but not "RT".

[Ray Proudfoot 9,050]

37 minutes ago, Mace said:

Booing is what you do when you see the Chicago Cubs playing baseball.

@GSalden I too am not sure what PSXT and RT are.   I know RTSS but not "RT".

I know what booing is but it makes no sense in his reply. What’s baseball? 😁 

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

2 hours ago, Mace said:

Booing is what you do when you see the St Louis Cardinals playing baseball.

There, I fixed that for you.

[brennanjed 0]

Hi all,

After hours of testing and re testing with multiple different aircrafts and sceneries, I seem to have found a solution that I am happy with, and I can still run pretty high settings and get reasonable FPS. However, when flying at night my aircraft is very dark. ANy suggestions?

 

Thanks

[Christopher Low 5,400]

I guess it is the lights that are framerate killers in the NGXu?

Edited March 23, 2020 by Christopher Low