Thanks for all the advice. I found that my display port was not connected to the graphics card. 
However I have tried plugging the display port cable into the graphics card ports but I do not get a signal to the monitor. 
what should I do now?

Paul

4 minutes ago, Paul-g said:

Thanks for all the advice. I found that my display port was not connected to the graphics card. 
However I have tried plugging the display port cable into the graphics card ports but I do not get a signal to the monitor. 
what should I do now?

Paul

What specs is your monitor? Are the nvidia drivers intalled?

1 hour ago, Nakicam said:

Yeah this for sure. Also, I have had a bizzare issue where I have plugged directly into my GPU yet for what ever reason, the Gforce control panel was utlilising the onboard card info－I have no idea why or how thats possible. So, check that too. I personaly ended up disabling the onboard display via the BIOS

I would be unhappy about disabling the onboard display until I was getting a signal to my monitor from the 3080 card. So far I get no picture from the card. I can find no connection info on the 3080 and the computer builder Scan Computers gave me all the handbooks except for the GeForce. I have looked online without success so far. 
Paul

19 minutes ago, leprechaunlive said:

What specs is your monitor? Are the nvidia drivers intalled?

I presume Scan Computers would have installed the drivers but I could go online tomorrow and download them. My monitor is only 18 months old from Samsung C27F591FDU

Paul

6 hours ago, dolbinau said:

I admit my computer is 4 years old (i.e. if I was purchasing now maybe I'd want more) but my current experience with MSFS 2020 dev tools is that I never get anywhere close to using my 16GB of RAM...are people finding otherwise? 

I have 32 GB and have been as high as 19 GB in MSFS. But the sim only uses more if it's there to use. I never had any problem when I had 16 GB.

Paul, go to START and type in dxdiag, that will tell you a lot. Such as if Windows is seeing the video card.

Download dxdiag if it is not already on your system (it should be installed with windows).

In my case display 1 and display 2 are the same because I have no onboard video, only  a 2060Super vid card.

If dxdiag sees your 3080 card then it is working and something is wrong with the output connection. If dxdiag doesn't see the card, then the card is not seated or is faulty or possibly the drivers not installed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul your display 1 and display 2 should be the motherboard onboard video, and the video card video.

7 hours ago, dolbinau said:

I admit my computer is 4 years old (i.e. if I was purchasing now maybe I'd want more) but my current experience with MSFS 2020 dev tools is that I never get anywhere close to using my 16GB of RAM...are people finding otherwise? 

With 32GB I regularly see mid to high 20s in ram usage. 20 to 25GB is common. I am not sure I have ever seen it hit 32GB but it has come close.

Two comments:

1. ram usage varies with settings and what and where you fly, if your flying a Cessna out of a small town airport with the clear skies preset and no traffic you will be lucky to use 8GB. You only use more than 16GB if you are in dense scenery areas or more complex aircraft, and busy AI traffic and complex weather seem to also bump up the ram usage
2. even though my game uses more than 16GB I have not actually tested whether that extra ram makes a significant difference to game performance -  but with 32GB RAM being typically just over $US100 (and half that if you can keep your existing 16Gb and upgrade) it was a case of "why not" .

Edited November 7, 20205 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

1 hour ago, Paul-g said:

I would be unhappy about disabling the onboard display until I was getting a signal to my monitor from the 3080 card. So far I get no picture from the card. I can find no connection info on the 3080 and the computer builder Scan Computers gave me all the handbooks except for the GeForce. I have looked online without success so far. 
Paul

Double check the 3080 is getting power. Sometimes the PCIe power from the PSU is not connected properly or only partially plugged. Without external power  these cards will appear to be dead.

Also try doing a RESTART of the Win10. Note that a shutdown in win10 is not really a shutdown, by default it hibernates (to trick people into thinking Win10 starts faster than it really does) and can remember stuff like where the screens were connected.

Edited November 7, 20205 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

Thank you, the first win 10 I have owned was purchased after MSFS was released (old desktop was Win7).  And so I did not know this (it would have saved me trouble trying to close down temporarily to get windows to stabilize the order of flight controllers and USB ports). I was doing it backwards (using shut down which is not the way to do it now I see).

Edited November 7, 20205 yr by Fielder

Check the power connectors to your card, be sure you use two separate PCIe connectors from your PSU, one split cable may not be enough for these power hungry cards.

Edited November 7, 20205 yr by Ixoye

@Paul-g, check Device Manager. Right-click Start and select it. Look at Display Adaptor and Monitor to check your graphics card and monitor are correctly identified.

I've bought from Scan in the past and they're usually very good in setting up their PCs.

If it`s a pre-built PC from Scan i would phone them for support.

I am beginning to think that my PC is not seeing the RXT 3080. The hardware tab shows Intel Graphics which I assume is on the motherboard.

I have an nVidia Control panel icon but when I click on it it says no nVidia device installed.

Paul

 

How do you guys paste the DXDIAG page into this forum? I have sniped it as an image but cant paste it!

---------------
Display Devices
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           Card name: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630
        Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
           Chip type: Intel(R) UHD Graphics Family
            DAC type: Internal
         Device Type: Full Device (POST)
          Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_9BC5&SUBSYS_86941043&REV_05
       Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
 Device Problem Code: No Problem
 Driver Problem Code: Unknown
      Display Memory: 8233 MB
    Dedicated Memory: 128 MB
       Shared Memory: 8105 MB
        Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (59Hz)
         HDR Support: Not Supported
    Display Topology: Internal
 Display Color Space: DXGI_COLOR_SPACE_RGB_FULL_G22_NONE_P709
     Color Primaries: Red(0.645508,0.336914), Green(0.328125,0.615234), Blue(0.146484,0.055664), White Point(0.313477,0.329102)
   Display Luminance: Min Luminance = 0.500000, Max Luminance = 270.000000, MaxFullFrameLuminance = 270.000000
        Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
       Monitor Model: C27F591
          Monitor Id: SAM0D36
         Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
         Output Type: Displayport External
Monitor Capabilities: HDR Not Supported