1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Just a quick update re: today's testing: Fenix A320 Turin LIMF to Innsbruck LOWI. Settings (MSFS not started, FPS target 60):

Very smooth for most of the flight. Although, for a while I was getting higher TLOD Max Extra + (new Mtn logic) than my hardware could handle. This was at TLOD higher than 900 though. Since I haven't seen any other people reporting such high TLODs (or even commenting on the new mountain logic), I consider it to be a fringe case. I had the same issue at high TLODs before the new Mtn logic was implemented. 

The issue seems to be that AutoFPS occasionally increases TLOD higher than what my headroom allows for. Hence my FPS falls below my target FPS. Again, I want to point out that this is probably a huge exception to the normal usage of the application. @Reset XPDR I'm happy to send you a copy of the log file.

Overall, I'm very happy that there's further development of AutoFPS 😄 As long as more test versions are out, I'll continue testing. 

Thanks for the feedback. Why don't you try a more moderate TLOD Max Extra, like 100 or 200 and see if that's any better. I would be interested to see the log file when your TLOD is increasing beyond what your headroom allows for at very high TLODs as it shouldn't being doing that unless you do actually have headroom at the time it does it.

Ok. Did a test flight with Vision Jet from KLAS to KCOS. I "trim" the TLOD max down to like 50 during take off and descent as it eats my CPU/FPS terribly no matter what I do. However, I trim "up" to 120 TLOD max when I am going towards cruise. When going over the mountain ranges, my FPS tanks a bit here/there adjusting to the terrain/alt changes.

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Edited August 28, 20241 yr by Sonosusto

@Reset XPDR Feature Request;

The Expert Options are getting a bit too fiddly but it's the only way to untick 'Decrease Cloud Quality', for those of us using the Basic Options could you perhaps add that check box? As I want to leave my Clouds on High all the time regardless of what else is happening, thanks 🙂

3 hours ago, Sonosusto said:

Ok. Did a test flight with Vision Jet from KLAS to KCOS. I "trim" the TLOD max down to like 50 during take off and descent as it eats my CPU/FPS terribly no matter what I do. However, I trim "up" to 120 TLOD max when I am going towards cruise. When going over the mountain ranges, my FPS tanks a bit here/there adjusting to the terrain/alt changes.

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Is this using the new TLOD Max Extra for mountainous areas feature? In any case, if your FPS are tanking with any particular TLOD setting then that setting is likely too high for your system to handle.

5 hours ago, MarcG said:

@Reset XPDR Feature Request;

The Expert Options are getting a bit too fiddly but it's the only way to untick 'Decrease Cloud Quality', for those of us using the Basic Options could you perhaps add that check box? As I want to leave my Clouds on High all the time regardless of what else is happening, thanks 🙂

I don't want to add any more options to the non-expert section as I want to keep it as simple as possible. I can put a setting where you can disable it in the config file, which you'd have to manually edit, if you'd like but that in itself requires a level of expertise to find the file and edit it. Let me know if that's what you want.

7 hours ago, Reset XPDR said:

I don't want to add any more options to the non-expert section as I want to keep it as simple as possible. I can put a setting where you can disable it in the config file, which you'd have to manually edit, if you'd like but that in itself requires a level of expertise to find the file and edit it. Let me know if that's what you want.

Understand and yes that would be perfectly fine if you could that, thank you.

On 8/28/2024 at 3:23 AM, Reset XPDR said:

Thanks for the feedback. Why don't you try a more moderate TLOD Max Extra, like 100 or 200 and see if that's any better. I would be interested to see the log file when your TLOD is increasing beyond what your headroom allows for at very high TLODs as it shouldn't being doing that unless you do actually have headroom at the time it does it.

I’ll do more tests today and report back.

EDIT: Log file from a couple of days ago https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dWyrS0ImxRUSTGs7d5ybALFi3txKDY8p/view?usp=sharing

Expert: True Mode: FG ATgtFPS: False FltType: IFR TgtFPS: 60 TLODAMtd: 0 Tol: 3 TMin: 300 TMax: 600 OLODB: 1000 OLODT: 10 OLODBAlt: 2000 TMinEx: true CloudQ: False CRecovT: 500 Pause: True TLODBAlt: 1000 MaxDesRate 2000 CustomOLOD: True OLODTAlt: 5000

I've locked FPS to 63 using RTSS and my target FPS is 60. At some stage FPS falls below my target FPS.   

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2024-08-27 22:43:52.044 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 65 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 831 OLOD: 10 AGL: 23492 FPM: 24 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:44:02.188 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 62 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 854 OLOD: 10 AGL: 26023 FPM: 8 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:44:12.324 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 60 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 856 OLOD: 10 AGL: 23572 FPM: 17 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:44:22.453 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 64 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 870 OLOD: 10 AGL: 23371 FPM: 16 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:44:32.606 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 60 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 879 OLOD: 10 AGL: 23501 FPM: 7 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:44:34.808 [INF] [ MainWindow:LoadSettings          ] Expert: True Mode: FG ATgtFPS: False FltType: IFR TgtFPS: 60 TLODAMtd: 0 Tol: 3 TMin: 300 TMax: 600 OLODB: 1000 OLODT: 10 OLODBAlt: 2000 TMinEx: true CloudQ: False CRecovT: 500 Pause: True TLODBAlt: 1000 MaxDesRate 2000 CustomOLOD: True OLODTAlt: 5000 
2024-08-27 22:44:46.793 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 58 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 879 OLOD: 10 AGL: 20965 FPM: 9 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:45:08.076 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 60 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 878 OLOD: 10 AGL: 23302 FPM: -7 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:45:40.555 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 58 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 878 OLOD: 10 AGL: 26730 FPM: -42 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:45:50.697 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 876 OLOD: 10 AGL: 23281 FPM: 24 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:46:00.824 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 62 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 876 OLOD: 10 AGL: 21874 FPM: -0 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:46:10.961 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 887 OLOD: 10 AGL: 20390 FPM: -12 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:46:21.078 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 58 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 887 OLOD: 10 AGL: 20359 FPM: 25 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:46:31.200 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 60 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 872 OLOD: 10 AGL: 21829 FPM: 26 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:46:41.347 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 872 OLOD: 10 AGL: 19604 FPM: 13 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:46:51.492 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 872 OLOD: 10 AGL: 21447 FPM: 9 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:47:01.645 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 869 OLOD: 10 AGL: 19679 FPM: 34 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:47:25.018 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 60 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 869 OLOD: 10 AGL: 21036 FPM: 7 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:47:35.163 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 58 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 869 OLOD: 10 AGL: 22903 FPM: -11 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:47:45.309 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 861 OLOD: 10 AGL: 20738 FPM: -19 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:47:55.467 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 62 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 864 OLOD: 10 AGL: 19591 FPM: -16 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:48:05.631 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 62 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 874 OLOD: 10 AGL: 19061 FPM: -24 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:48:15.800 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 882 OLOD: 10 AGL: 20577 FPM: -14 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:48:25.962 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 60 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 882 OLOD: 10 AGL: 19477 FPM: 8 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:48:36.108 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 882 OLOD: 10 AGL: 19888 FPM: -11 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:48:46.268 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 889 OLOD: 10 AGL: 20665 FPM: -3 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:48:56.418 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 890 OLOD: 10 AGL: 21254 FPM: 15 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:49:06.597 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 890 OLOD: 10 AGL: 20891 FPM: 26 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:49:16.763 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 890 OLOD: 10 AGL: 21304 FPM: -781 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:49:26.926 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 58 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 890 OLOD: 10 AGL: 20804 FPM: -1707 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:49:37.069 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 884 OLOD: 10 AGL: 19668 FPM: -2229 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:49:47.220 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 68 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 920 OLOD: 10 AGL: 19166 FPM: -2230 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:50:54.177 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 63 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 943 OLOD: 10 AGL: 18891 FPM: -2199 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:51:04.327 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 62 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 963 OLOD: 10 AGL: 15662 FPM: -2203 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:51:14.492 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 966 OLOD: 10 AGL: 15551 FPM: -2194 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:51:24.667 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 964 OLOD: 10 AGL: 15508 FPM: -2159 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:51:34.843 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 62 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 977 OLOD: 10 AGL: 17675 FPM: -1991 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:51:45.015 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 985 OLOD: 10 AGL: 18758 FPM: -2063 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:51:55.178 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 60 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 987 OLOD: 10 AGL: 18357 FPM: -2043 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:52:05.325 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 987 OLOD: 10 AGL: 17194 FPM: -1966 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:52:15.474 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 60 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 988 OLOD: 10 AGL: 14751 FPM: -1978 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:52:25.633 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 988 OLOD: 10 AGL: 14153 FPM: -1937 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:52:35.782 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 988 OLOD: 10 AGL: 13225 FPM: -2009 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:52:45.974 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 56 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 975 OLOD: 10 AGL: 12842 FPM: -1983 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:52:56.117 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 962 OLOD: 10 AGL: 12941 FPM: -2033 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:53:06.707 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 58 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 959 OLOD: 10 AGL: 12898 FPM: -1999 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:53:16.848 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 61 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 952 OLOD: 10 AGL: 12965 FPM: -1985 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:53:40.160 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 62 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 959 OLOD: 10 AGL: 11243 FPM: -1954 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:55:03.237 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 60 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 961 OLOD: 10 AGL: 9824 FPM: -1768 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:55:13.370 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 63 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 969 OLOD: 10 AGL: 11918 FPM: -1856 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:55:23.507 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 62 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 986 OLOD: 10 AGL: 10972 FPM: -1737 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:55:52.932 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 987 OLOD: 10 AGL: 10771 FPM: -1906 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:56:03.070 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 58 FGAct: True Pri: FPS TLOD: 980 OLOD: 10 AGL: 9470 FPM: -1743 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:56:49.679 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 54 FGAct: True Pri: TLOD TLOD: 979 OLOD: 10 AGL: 8694 FPM: 85 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:57:09.037 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 59 FGAct: True Pri: TLOD TLOD: 962 OLOD: 10 AGL: 6698 FPM: 3 Clouds: Ultra 
2024-08-27 22:57:19.176 [INF] [ LODController:UpdateVariables    ] FPS: 67 FGAct: True Pri: TLOD TLOD: 863 OLOD: 10 AGL: 7538 FPM: 18 Clouds: Ultra 

 

Edited August 29, 20241 yr by Cpt_Piett

New flight today from LOWK Klagenfurt to LOWI Innsbruck. Screenshot below was taken overflying mountains of 10,000-11,000ft. The Mtns logic is active as I've set Mtn Alt Min to 3000ft. I got a total TLOD of 800 as I had headroom for it (not by much though). 

After using TLOD Extra for Mountains a bit more, I appreciate the usefulness more and more. High TLOD is not as useful overflying flat terrain (TLOD of 400 is probably more than enough). Entering a mountaineous area though, the benefit of high TLOD increases with AGL (as more terrain comes into view). 

Overall this was a very good flight. Only some intermittent stutters (which is usual, whether I use AutoFPS or not). Final approach over Innsbruck was smooth. FPS did not fall below the target FPS. I'll post a new log file if it happens. 

@Reset XPDR I'd like to thank you once more for implementing TLOD Extra for Mountains. Hopefully other people will find it usefull as well!

Edited August 29, 20241 yr by Cpt_Piett

After a touch and go at Innsbruck, I proceeded to LSGS Sion. No issues at all. I did a performance test of the whole RNAV approach into rwy 25. This starts at 17,000ft and ends at the rwy at 1582ft. I used the same settings as in the above post.

I think it's a great result. Avg FPS is the same as my FPS lock at 63. There are some frame time spikes but IMO this is inevitable. Frame time variation (which is very consistent with how smooth the sim runs) is excellent. Test duration was almost 30 minutes. 

1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

New flight today from LOWK Klagenfurt to LOWI Innsbruck. Screenshot below was taken overflying mountains of 10,000-11,000ft. The Mtns logic is active as I've set Mtn Alt Min to 3000ft. I got a total TLOD of 800 as I had headroom for it (not by much though). 

After using TLOD Extra for Mountains a bit more, I appreciate the usefulness more and more. High TLOD is not as useful overflying flat terrain (TLOD of 400 is probably more than enough). Entering a mountaineous area though, the benefit of high TLOD increases with AGL (as more terrain comes into view). 

Overall this was a very good flight. Only some intermittent stutters (which is usual, whether I use AutoFPS or not). Final approach over Innsbruck was smooth. FPS did not fall below the target FPS. I'll post a new log file if it happens. 

@Reset XPDR I'd like to thank you once more for implementing TLOD Extra for Mountains. Hopefully other people will find it usefull as well!

Thanks for reporting this .

4 hours ago, GSalden said:

Thanks for reporting this .

Did you get a chance to try the new Mtn logic?

Edited August 29, 20241 yr by Cpt_Piett

Just made a video going through the TLOD Extra for Mountains feature (as well as Win11 24H2 AMD performance improvements):

 

Edited August 29, 20241 yr by Cpt_Piett

how do i download win 11 24h2 update? as it is not shown through my updates.

thanks

7 minutes ago, mikeymike said:

how do i download win 11 24h2 update?

It's available if you join the Win11 Insider program. However - it's now also available as an optional Win update. Go to Settings>Windows Update > Advanced options > Optional updates and download  KB5041587. The AMD improvements should then be active. 

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-backports-branch-prediction-improvements-to-windows-11-23h2-more-users-will-see-ryzen-performance-improvements

Edited August 29, 20241 yr by Cpt_Piett

Currently having a disappointing flight with the mountain add on.  I have frames fixed at 30, with FGS, with a tolerance of 5%.  I have TLOD at 120 for flat lands and +200 for any mountains over 200 feet.

Although frames are happily locked at 30, I'm getting a lot of terrain "pop in", even on the flat lands.  Like the scenery keeps updating in tiny squares as I fly.  This goes for everywhere, not just mountains.  My internet is fine.

My last flight was in the same area, southern Spain, with the scenery enhancement mod.  I'm wondering if that is a conflict, even though I'm not using it now.  I have all the cache turned off. 
Any ideas?

Edited August 29, 20241 yr by Langeveldt