1 minute ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Water cool it) and people are limiting their video cards to 50% usage.

It is a bit counter-intuitive isn't it? 

8 minutes ago, n4gix said:

It is a bit counter-intuitive isn't it? 

It’s absolute insane if you ask me. You’re supposed to let the thing run at 100%, let it use it’s full potential. We’ve cried out for this for years! 
Imagine purchasing a car and only using 1st and second gears. Cause 3rd gear is noisy. And 4th you, well, you want to preserve the car and don’t want to go that fast....... 

 

Any GPU not being limited by a CPU will hit 99-100% on any game that uses the hardware. This is what we want! It means your GPU is limiting your FPS, this is what you want to see!
 

 This would tell me your CPU is able to effectively pass on enough for your GPU to work at 100%. If your CPU was at 70%+ and your GPU was at like 50-60 or so and you were still getting bad performance, would tell me your CPU was bottlenecking. 

Edited August 25, 20205 yr by Ianrivaldosmith

31 minutes ago, Heli said:

My 2080ti constantly kicks the fans in high gear because it tries rendering the most fps as possible, and is audibly annoying.  I will change to 30fps cap and see if it helps. 

It’s supposed to do that..... they’re loud cards, they’re powerful cards that’s why. You can keep it cooler by creating a custom fan profile with msi afterburner. Why would you want to stop it from working? 

14 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

It’s absolute insane if you ask me. You’re supposed to let the thing run at 100%, let it use it’s full potential. We’ve cried out for this for years! 
Imagine purchasing a car and only using 1st and second gears. Cause 3rd gear is noisy. And 4th you, well, you want to preserve the car and don’t want to go that fast....... 

 

Any GPU not being limited by a CPU will hit 99-100% on any game that uses the hardware. This is what we want! It means your GPU is limiting your FPS, this is what you want to see!
 

 This would tell me your CPU is able to effectively pass on enough for your GPU to work at 100%. If your CPU was at 70%+ and your GPU was at like 50-60 or so and you were still getting bad performance, would tell me your CPU was bottlenecking. 

Although if it's lower technically you can crank settings to get more out of it

Just now, Jetman67 said:

Although if it's lower technically you can crank settings to get more out of it

Which means pushing it back to 100%........ which is where you want it to be.....

Just now, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Which means pushing it back to 100%........ which is where you want it to be.....

Agreed Mines constantly at 100 percent and it wasn't I'd crank up more settings until it was, I want every bit of performance I can get

3 minutes ago, Jetman67 said:

Agreed Mines constantly at 100 percent and it wasn't I'd crank up more settings until it was, I want every bit of performance I can get

Precisely. Imagine buying a hoover and then turning it down to 50% suction.....

4 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Precisely. Imagine buying a hoover and then turning it down to 50% suction.....

Ha ha I glanced at that and thought you said hooker

4 minutes ago, Jetman67 said:

Ha ha I glanced at that and thought you said hooker

Hahaha kinda the same thing though.... 🤣

I will probably leave the fps unlocked.  I was always under the impression 30fps is good for flight sims, unlike first-person shooters.  I was also thinking a constant 30fps would be more pleasing on the eyes than jumping up and down from 60fps to 40fps to 30fps.

My 1080ti runs around 90-100% with temps max around 70 with fans only at 52%.  It seems happy.  CPU is usually around 40-45%.  Runs smooth on ultra.  Airliners might make it take a hit at dense area airports, but i don't flight the airliners so no biggie to me.  Even still, i sit around 30fps at jfk in the A320.  100 scaling. 

8 hours ago, SirDan said:

Navigate to the flightsimulator.exe executable, right click, Properties, click the compatibility tab. In the lower half of the window under “Settings” put a check mark in the box next to “Disable fullscreen optimizations”. I went from 40 FPS in downtown Chicago on Ultra to between 50-53 FPS in the same location with the same settings. Obviously it’s dependent on hardware, but this one change improved my performance a significant amount 

 

edit :this from another user

 

I run windowed mode not sure if this helps others

whats the exact location, is that c:\program files\winapps and the flight sim folder

8 hours ago, SirDan said:

Navigate to the flightsimulator.exe executable, right click, Properties, click the compatibility tab. In the lower half of the window under “Settings” put a check mark in the box next to “Disable fullscreen optimizations”. I went from 40 FPS in downtown Chicago on Ultra to between 50-53 FPS in the same location with the same settings. Obviously it’s dependent on hardware, but this one change improved my performance a significant amount 

 

edit :this from another user

 

I run windowed mode not sure if this helps others

just not sure if im looking at the right on, its about 300 meg and you cant run directly from that location just comes up with an error

9 hours ago, flavik77 said:

I have the same card. Two things that really helped me get decent performance:

1. Limit FPS to 30 using RTSS
2. Setting rendering scale to 80% (highly recommended for 4K monitors)

Apart from that, I’m using a blend of medium and high settings. Getting stable and fluid 30 FPS with decent visuals.

Here are some in-depth guides on MSFS graphics settings:

https://respawnfirst.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-pc-tweaks/

https://www.game-debate.com/news/29393/microsoft-flight-simulator-most-important-graphics-options-every-video-setting-benchmarked

Thanks matey, appreciated

Hmm, I can't wait to see the kind of performance we'll get with the PMDG NGX!