When I am in the cruise phase of a long haul flight in 2020 or 2024 I use voice attack to command my system using hotkeys to a low power mode where the CPU turbo gets disabled, and FPS gets capped to 20. This drops system power consumption to around 150W total and my computer fan speeds reduce to idle, making for silent operation. If I really want to pan the outside view for a little bit and not see stuttering, I just toggle the FPS cap off, do my thing then toggle it back on. Otherwise 20 FPS is plenty for just staring at the cockpit view, perhaps twiddling a few AP buttons/knobs and the FMC. Doing other stuff on my other monitor also works fine. This has worked well for me for a couple of years now.

5 hours ago, Reset XPDR said:

When I am in the cruise phase of a long haul flight in 2020 or 2024 I use voice attack to command my system using hotkeys to a low power mode where the CPU turbo gets disabled, and FPS gets capped to 20. This drops system power consumption to around 150W total and my computer fan speeds reduce to idle, making for silent operation. If I really want to pan the outside view for a little bit and not see stuttering, I just toggle the FPS cap off, do my thing then toggle it back on. Otherwise 20 FPS is plenty for just staring at the cockpit view, perhaps twiddling a few AP buttons/knobs and the FMC. Doing other stuff on my other monitor also works fine. This has worked well for me for a couple of years now.

Interested how to put a keyboard shortcut to remove turbo boost from CPU? And block the FPS you use your application? Or do you also have a keyboard shortcut to directly block FPS at 20? It’s true that on long haul it can save money!

25 minutes ago, Axis3600 said:

Interested how to put a keyboard shortcut to remove turbo boost from CPU? And block the FPS you use your application? Or do you also have a keyboard shortcut to directly block FPS at 20? It’s true that on long haul it can save money!

For the CPU turbo boost switching, I use two shortcuts, for Power Saver and Performance respectively, to change the windows power scheme at will using the powercfg.exe /setactive command. While this one only drops my CPU power in half, which is not much on an X3D chip anyway, it allows my CPU cooler to go to idle for silent ops.

For FPS limiting on the fly, I use RTSS with Riva Tuner and set up hotkeys in Riva Tuner to toggle the FPS limiter, set to 20, on and off. This one drops GPU power for a 4090 down from 350-450W down to around 120W, a significant power saving.

It's not just the power saving, it's the lower noise and lower wear and tear on these components that would otherwise be running near flat out for hours and hours when they don't really have to be.

 

 

I'm far from being a tweaker and never look at FPS or any other parameters when playing and just sort of judge by what it looks like to me.

But Is there actually a problem with high GPU usage when playing?, I've heard some criticism of GPU under usage in the past, doesnt it make sense to that all your hardware's power is leveraged?

I'm probably not grasping all the factors and being over simplistic, but curious

1 hour ago, Rusty Spanner said:

I'm far from being a tweaker and never look at FPS or any other parameters when playing and just sort of judge by what it looks like to me.

But Is there actually a problem with high GPU usage when playing?, I've heard some criticism of GPU under usage in the past, doesnt it make sense to that all your hardware's power is leveraged?

I'm probably not grasping all the factors and being over simplistic, but curious

It's not an issue... a game is supposed to use 100% of your GPU to provide a (virtually) stutter free experience, because when you are under CPU bottleneck you get stutters and bigger frametime variations.

The thing is that FS2024 causes 100% occupation even in the menus and when you are flying over the ocean, and the framerate is much lower than MSFS overall. I run at 60 fps locked with frame generation (Optiscaler) - 3440x1440 / Ultra / DLAA and my RTX 3090 is almost always maxed out. CPU usage is always around 30-35% with the load very well spread among threads, which is good.

I posted a screenshot before where I was in drone view at LOWI, with my aircraft off and nothing was happening... 52 fps; without FG it would have been less than 30. Definitely heavy.