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REX Clouds with overcast seem to kill my FPS when I look at them, is ENVTEX or ASCA any better?

Also to add on, at the airports where it's happening, CPU core 0 is at maximum usage to 95% usage with or without clouds, but when clouds are introduced stutters are happening frequently and the framerate as mentioned before drops dramatically.

2048 texture qual in p3d and 1024 in REX

I use 4xMSAA, the clouds still impact my FPS. For example flying out of ORD looking away from the clouds (which was towards the city too!) gave me around 45fps while turning around to look at the overcast layer gave me about 30. in V4 or V5.1 REX clouds never impacted my fps this much.

To add on as well, when I think I should have more GPU usage during heavy overcast, it remains around the same (as well as my CPU) as it would be with light clouds or no clouds at all, but the FPS is significantly worse. Is this just the game's engine being bad, or is my installation borked? I've tried reinstalling to no avail many times.

Yeah this is really weird, I can spawn in at KLAS facing the strip (RW26R) and get 45ish FPS at an already taxing scenery, but put in overcast clouds and my fps dips to 25-30. I don't think clouds should be having this big of an impact.

Tried to reduce from HD to 1024 to 512 and there was no major difference in performance, overcast still killed my fps.

1024x1024 i changed it manually to this resolution and it overcast still destroys my FPS

Min 60/Max 90. It seems that when i just have cirrus clouds my FPS is fine but all of a sudden when i have overcast, my fps dips a lot and stutters are highly noticeable.

Hello All, recently in my sim (P3dv5.2,) I have been getting major performance hits when rendering clouds with an RTX2070 and a ryzen 7 2700x at 4.3GHz. I'm using REX clouds with an EA sky, and the draw distance is at 90 with maximum coverage, 3 cloud layers in ASP3D, and auto resolution in REX. My FPS w/o clouds is around 45-55 but when clouds come in the FPS drops to 20-25. I have tried deleting shaders, ShadersHLSL, reinstalling client/content, using DDU to revert to old drivers, and changing REX settings to no avail. In V4 or 5.1 this was never an issue, clouds had little to no impact on my fps. Shadows are on but rendering distance is only at medium. Any help is appreciated

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Anything else that could be causing it? What could I show you that could let you help me figure it out better?

I have 213 GB Free, I don't have assistants or accelerators. But why do my GENXs sound like RR's?

So How do I fix it

I am, it's still happening

I'm disabling my windows defender and have no other anti virus programs running, and it asks for admin perms when it launches. Now what?

Ok, I tried updating from OC from 9008 to 9019 and I got this error: 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] ===== PMDG updater commencing 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Setting up for 744 / P3D 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] PMDG Updater: Version A18 - Build timestamp Jul 1 2017, 15:58:41 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Finding installed PMDG product version 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Installed PMDG product version: 3009008 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Fetching available product information for P3D... 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Retrieved data about PMDG product 22: PMDG 747-400 QOTSII for P3Dv3 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Retrieved data about PMDG product 27: PMDG 747-400 QOTSII for P3Dv4 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] >>> Product: PMDG 747-400 QOTSII for P3Dv3 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Finding install-directory this product's simulator... 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] If a registry key error appears, disregard - it simply means you do not have that simulator installed. 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 2] Registry key was located but could not be read! 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] I found no sim install corresponding to product ID 22; skipping. 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] >>> Product: PMDG 747-400 QOTSII for P3Dv4 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Finding install-directory this product's simulator... 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] If a registry key error appears, disregard - it simply means you do not have that simulator installed. 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Sim install directory in registry is C:\Program Files\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\ 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] PMDG 747-400 QOTSII path should be C:\Program Files\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\\PMDG\PMDG 747 QOTS II\ 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Updating you to version 3009019 2018/10/03 17:56:27 [PMDG 1] Product directory C:\Program Files\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\\PMDG\PMDG 747 QOTS II\ exists 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Upstream says 7 new file(s) totaling 279483KB 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Your files are being updated. Depending on file size, this may take some time. 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Need to update 7 file(s). 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Total download size is 279483KB. 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] *** Downloading file 1 of 7 *** 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Existing file integrity OK: Effects\fx_PMDG_747_beacont.fx 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] *** Downloading file 2 of 7 *** 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Gauges\PMDG_747QOTSII.dll downloading. 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Progress: 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 2] Error in file download - I was unable to create the file on the disk 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 2] Update terminated abnormally for PMDG 747-400 QOTSII for P3Dv4: Aborting file download; see error above. 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Installed products that failed to update: 1 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Installed products successfully updated: 0 2018/10/03 17:56:28 [PMDG 1] Done.

the engines don't sound like 747-8 engines, they sound like the old 744 ones.

@Captain KevinExactly what I'm saying. My 744 is out of date, and that might be affecting it. But my 748 is up to date. Maybe the 744 has files that exclude the engine sounds of the 744 from the 748.

Exactly what the Title Says, I was flying with the 748 as polar air with the GE's, and the aircraft had the same toga sound as the 744 in the cockpit, but when I would change view to the outside, it would sound like a totally different airplane. What is wrong? Andrew Jones

@charliearonYeah it is

They are sound packs for switches, and engines. Many people use them.

I looked in my CAWS sounds, all the normal ones are still there. EGPWS for sinkrate, etc. however, when I have my plane just on a normal ILS, it calls out random fsx alarms like the fsx default sinkrate (Im in p3d!!!!)

I had the cfm and sp3 service packs installed for switches and engines, but nothing happened after I installed those. The most recent thing was a Heart one 737-800 livery. But I don't think that could cause it?

Hello. I recently started getting weird callouts that are the default crj-700 alarms in the pmdg 737NGX. This just started happening and I've been using it in p3d for like 3 years. How do I fix or stop this? Andrew Jones