emshomar

Started FlightSimming when I was 14. Now I'm 19 (and broke. damn you atpl training!!!)

Very nice topic! I did exactly what was suggested on this thread: I added the AffinityMask tweak to 85, set the Frame Time Buffer thing to 0.01, had HyperThreatting on, set the Upper Frame Limit to 30 (although 33 seemed better) and applied the settings to the screenshots on the first post. I have an i7-4790k @4.8GHz and a GTX960 with 4GB. I usually fly birds like AS A320 or PMDG B777. The difference is significantly better now, however I'm still experiencing stutters espacially during and after landing the fps goes nuts, jumping from 10 to 30.

What FPS are you getting without overclocking? Also I don't even think something like a Noctua NH-D15 would even fit in my chassis, plus it lacks of a descent airflow.

4,60GHz would be a dream. But with 4,40GHz I am already archiving my goal. P3D with all the addons (REX SC - ORBX FTX Global - ASN - AS A320 - almost all addon airports I own) run now at butter smooth 30fps. Sometimes higher sometimes lower but 30fps is now average. So I'm fine if I can get 4,40GHz running. I've followed this guide here too: http://lifehacker.com/a-beginners-introduction-to-overclocking-your-intel-pr-5580998 I cannot go more than 4,40GHz though. 4,50GHz requires me to have higher voltage to even boot into Windows without immediate crashing. One step higher and the temps rise over 90°C so that's a no go to me. 1.120V is running quite stable on my mashine at 4,40GHz. I did at least 5 stress tests on it spread through the whole day and not yet encountered any crashes, bsods or errors from LinX. From what I've read so far, the lower the Vcore voltage the better. Please let me know if I still missed out something. I just recently built up this mashine and I really don't want to dammage my system here.

Thank you all for your tips! So I experimented a little more and found out that P3D runs actually much smoother if I disable TurboBoost. With TurboBoost on my CPU ran at first core at 4.4GHz. Second one went to 4.3GHz and third and forth went to 4.2GHz. Appearnetly P3D didn't like that the cores ran a different clock speeds Then I put the multiplier to 4,40GHz so all cores run at 4,40GHz at the same time without playing with voltage settings, I kept it to auto. I ran a stresstest using LinX and watched how the temps reached almost over 100°C in RealTemp. I immediatly stopped the stresstest and started reducing the voltage until I reached 1.12V. I ran multiple stresstests and couldn't really find any errors at that voltage, also the temps are much better now going to 86°C at max. Now I finally see something worthy for the price I've spent!

I have CoolerMaster 212 Evo installed...

GSX Activation Services detected a new hardware config after doing the overclock which was weird even with 4,4GHz set. The only thing I did was sliding the CPU Clock Ratio from auto to 46 which gave me 4,6GHz. Like stated before I have slided it to 44 which runs now at 4,4GHz and even with that I am getting two times as much FPS as if I left it in Default. Don't get me wrong. TurboBoost did work, but for somereason when "overclocking" to 4,4GHz on BIOS it gives much better perfomance. But it runs a little hotter (around 70°C max) now and I fear I still might dammage my system here.

So I recently built a whole new Computer with i7-4790k and GTX960 and installed my copy of P3D plus several addons on it when then I noticed it framewise just didn't run as fast as I've seen on several YouTubers with almost the same specs. I figured that might be because they have overclocked to something like 4,6GHz to even 4,80GHz. I am really not liking the idea of overclocking my CPU mainly because my super cheap chassis wasn't made for that purpose yet I tried overclocking to 4,6GHz and to my surprise I got 2x more fps than before. I reduced the frequency to 4,5GHz and saw maybe 1-2 frames less but still very solid. Now I have it to 4,4GHz set and I see practically the same performance as before with 4,5GHz. I understand that with TurboBoost when all 4 cores are active it will go to only 4,2GHz (i think-not sure) but still that shouldn't have like half of the performance. Is it maybe something with P3D that fails with Intel TurboBoost?

First, I admire your passion in developping this A350. Big thumbs up! I've got a few questions if you allow me: 1- Are you doing this work all by yourself? 2- Are you aiming for PMDG-like system depth, or rather something similar to the Just Flight F-Light series?