Undocking windows causing FPS crash

[Ian S 214]

Hello 

Up until two days ago I had a stable version of v4.5, HF2 running with a GTX1060 card. Without warning I suddenly started getting a Device Hung Error when undocking the default ATC and moving it on to my secondary monitor, which has a GTX760 attached (no SLI). I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and this seems to have fixed the problem. However, now whenever I undock a window and move it on to the secondary monitor, my FPS tanks to 1FPS. Steps taken so far, include - deleting P3D.cfg, deleting shaders, revering back to the old drivers,tinkering with various Graphics settings, including VSync. I also found on another thread some NCP settings to try, all to no avail. As I say, this is not something creating extra load to halve my FPS, it is breaking something that writes them off altogether.

Any suggestions please?

Edited June 24, 2020 by Ian S

[Caveney737 66]

17 minutes ago, Ian S said:

Hello 

Up until two days ago I had a stable version of v4.5, HF2 running with a GTX1060 card. Without warning I suddenly started getting a Device Hung Error when undocking the default ATC and moving it on to my secondary monitor, which has a GTX760 attached (no SLI). I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and this seems to have fixed the problem. However, now whenever I undock a window and move it on to the secondary monitor, my FPS tanks to 1FPS. Steps taken so far, include - deleting P3D.cfg, deleting shaders, revering back to the old drivers,tinkering with various Graphics settings, including VSync. I also found on another thread some NCP settings to try, all to no avail. As I say, this is not something creating extra load to halve my FPS, it is breaking something that writes them off altogether.

Any suggestions please?

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Edited June 24, 2020 by Caveney737
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[Ian S 214]

19 minutes ago, Caveney737 said:

I wrote a thread on this when v5 came out, but no one replied so I assumed no one cared.

Any way, the way I cured it was by turning on triple buffering in P3D menu. It also only

happened for me when using v-sync in the P3D menu. If v-sync was off, the frames remained

fine. Hope this helps.

Thanks, just trying that but how do I having triple buffering on whilst VSync is off? In my UI, have to have VSync on in order to enable Triple Buffering?

[Caveney737 66]

Just now, Ian S said:

Thanks, just trying that but how do I having triple buffering on whilst VSync is off? In my UI, have to have VSync on in order to enable Triple Buffering?

Sorry, I tried removing my reply because it only related to v5 and I re-read your post and saw you were using v4.5.

Just to clarify, in v5 if you have v-sync off the problem isn't there, If v-sync is on then I found you need to turn Triple Buffering

on as well to avoid halving the frame rate when you have an un-docked panel. Sorry for the confusion.

[Ian S 214]

1 minute ago, Caveney737 said:

Sorry, I tried removing my reply because it only related to v5 and I re-read your post and saw you were using v4.5.

Just to clarify, in v5 if you have v-sync off the problem isn't there, If v-sync is on then I found you need to turn Triple Buffering

on as well to avoid halving the frame rate when you have an un-docked panel. Sorry for the confusion.

No worries, thanks anyway

[gb09f 298]

If you are using GSX, this thread may be helpful:

http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,23780.0.html

 

[Ian S 214]

8 minutes ago, gb09f said:

If you are using GSX, this thread may be helpful:

http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,23780.0.html

 

Bingo!

Thanks mate, much appreciated. Just for the benefit of the thread, incase anyone else encounters this. Go to the FSDT Addon Manager and click "disable RTT" - Render to Texture.

I've no idea how that cropped up, but you live and learn....

thanks again