I'm looking at the Process Lasso data for this flight. I am using the FENIX A320 and the Simbrief Downloader is showing approx. 8% CPU usage (avg.), and almost 1G of memory. Does that look about right?

Regards

No.. I'm in the middle of a PMDG flight, but Simbrief is showing 0% CPU utilization and 12Mb in use.

You do not use the Simbrief downloader with the Fenix.  It imports directly from the website.  You can completely close this app when flying the Fenix.  PMDG has not incorporated this feature into the 737 yet, so you need to use it with the 737 to save the flight plan to the correct folder.

I think he was talking about the usage of the apps themselves.  Yes, the FNX app uses quite a bit.  I think they plan on changing that soon.  I thought I remembered seeing something to that effect in their Discord.  I could be wrong.  Not sure how much the downloader uses.  Haven't had to use that in quite a while.

2 hours ago, Jeff Nielsen said:

I think he was talking about the usage of the apps themselves.  Yes, the FNX app uses quite a bit.  I think they plan on changing that soon.  I thought I remembered seeing something to that effect in their Discord.  I could be wrong.  Not sure how much the downloader uses.  Haven't had to use that in quite a while.

Thanks Jeff. That is exactly what I was getting at. I do not run the Simbrief Downloader app at all when running MSFS, but it does appear to be running in the background. I assume the FENIX is using the app for it's own purpose though.

Regards,

Tom

Edited October 25, 20223 yr by TomCYYZ

We do not use simbrief downloader for anything.

12 hours ago, TomCYYZ said:

Thanks Jeff. That is exactly what I was getting at. I do not run the Simbrief Downloader app at all when running MSFS, but it does appear to be running in the background. I assume the FENIX is using the app for it's own purpose though.

Regards,

Tom

Hey Tom,

I am just reaching TOD on a 3 hour flight in the Fenix and I am showing around 1.6GB RAM usage for the Fenix Apps and around 4% CPU. Total RAM usage in the Sim is around 13GB.

What I did do over the weekend was enable the IGPU on my 12700K as a test and render the Fenix displays on that rather than use the CPU option and I found it has taken sufficient load off the CPU to consistently maintain 50 fps even in heavy weather.

I reached out to FENIX Support and this was their explanation:

“Hi Tom
Ignore task manager, it reports cache as CPU usage in percent - so even if Fenix is only using 0.001% of your processing power, it'll report like 50% usage. But yes, the aircraft is more complex than others so does require slightly more processing power from your PC. 80-85c temps are totally safe and normal.”.

I only have an 8700K, I will give that a go though.

Thanks for the reply!