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  1. So okay, I'm all ready to start my engines, normal start, good spoolup, N1 starts decreasing and stabilizes at 22.1 instead of 22.4. EGT immediately moves from 560 down to 476 and stays there. When I throttle up, none of the engines throttle up, they remain in the same old boring 22.1. Previously, in the original release, changing the affinity mask fixed this problem, but now, even with the last working affinity mask 254 it doesn't work. I have tried 255 and 84 too. Help?
  2. Hello, I have been tweaking FSX for quite a while now (or at least trying hah) and I've gotten some pretty good results (with various addons such as Orbx FTX Global, Vector, OpenLC, addon airports and also with the PMDG 777, Active Sky, ect) and it performes very satisfactory, but I have stumbled uppon an issue recently. I have a Intel Core I7 3930k @ 4.5 (used to be at 4.6, but went back to 4.5 so it stays cooler), stable. But I've been doing some testing and it seems that FSX never reaches my OC speed of 4.5 Ghz, but will instead only go up to 4.2Ghz. I measured this with CPU-Z. And yes, my cpu will run at 4.5, when playing other games, or running CPU intensive software and of course when running synthetic benchmarks like prime95. I would really like to take advantage of all of my horsepower, so getting FSX to run at my processor's OC speed is a priority! Some background info: - 3930k @ 4.5 (liquid cooled), 16GB Corsair Vengance @ 2133Mhz, ASUS GTX 680 DirectCU II, ASUS Rampage IV Formula, 240 GB Crucial SSD (for windows only, sadly :/), 2TB WD Caviar Black HDD, 1000W PSU. - I do have HT enabled as I found it makes no difference disabling it for FSX and I do have the correct affinity mask setting for a 6 core, 12 thread CPU (so with HT enabled), which is 1364, and also my FSX CFG is properly tweaked. All help would be greatly appreciated )
  3. Good Morning (Or afternoon depending on where you are in the world), Recently I made the switch from 3.2 to 3.3.5 and did a full clean install of everything (Planes, Scenery you name it) to include a full and clean install of the actual program when I made the change to Windows 10. Now, I was using a copy of the previous Prepar3d.cfg file that had tweaks such as the fiber frame time fraction: .01 and the Affinity Mask set to 14. I read somewhere, and I cant remember where, that these tweaks are no longer needed and provide no real benefit in P3D. Can anyone confirm or Deny it? I just had P3D rebuild a new .cfg file to address some performance issues with the Aerosoft Airbus series, but I need to know if these lines should be added again. Thanks in advance for your help.
  4. Greetings, regarding affinity mask I noticed divergences of opinion on the forum (most use 84 or no AF, someone particular values like 243 ie). I'm so wondering what AF should i set for my I7 4790K with ati R9 270x (don't know if GPU matters on this), HT ON I noticed that using AF=84 ruins the perfomance: insufficient CPU load (20-30%) and blurries (with FFTF 0.01-0.05). Also i can't understand why i sholud leave many cores unused... With no AF instead it goes pretty well using all phisical and logical cores. Tryed also AF=243 with similar results to AF=84 Finally i tryed to set an AF that leaves just Core 0 (phisical) unused (for OS): AF=254 (11111110), i think it slight more FPS than no AF but i feel the flight beeing more smooth... don't know if it is just a feeling! So i'm simply asking what AF do you think i should set? And, moreover, WHY? I7 4790K @4.7GHZ ATI R9 270x Corsair 8GB P3d V2.4 Settings more or less like Rob's one and the following cfg. entries: FFTF=0.01 OptimizeParts=1 TBM=160 TextureMaxLoad=9 SWAP_TIMEOUT=3 ORBX Sceneries REX 4 A2A aircrafts. fine FPS (imho): 30 stable in orbx sceneries pretty everywhere except complex cities where i get 22-27. Just a few (rare) blurries, specially in mountain areas. I have another question here: is it normal to get blurries most with mountain rocks? Don't have many problems in cities but in mountains i have more issues... can't understand why... tks in advance regards
  5. ONE TWEAK TO RULE THEM ALL :lol: Like so many of you, I spent more time tweaking and staring at the start-up screen in FSX than actually flying. When I first installed Prepar3D a few weeks ago, I tried so many different ’tweaks’, each proclaiming to be the ‘silver bullet’, the ‘one true setting’, the ‘holy grail’ for perfect visual fidelity and smooth flight. The truth was that none of them worked. They all resulted in blurred ground textures, caused stuttering or made the simulator crash. The problem with all of these ‘holy grails’ is that what works for one person won’t necessarily work for another because we all have a unique combination of hardware and software. Q. If all that you need to make Prepar3D shine is the correct Affinity Mask setting, how are you supposed to figure that out? STEP ONE - USE TASK MANAGER Before you start, remove any [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=xxx entry that you might have made in your Prepar3d.cfg file. Using Task Manager with Prepar3D running in window mode, I can see the computer activity on the eight cores of my cpu, from the left 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. I have a quad core cpu with Hyperthreading enabled, so I see eight visible cores in the CPU Usage History. Looking at the image above, I see a lot of activity on core 3 and a bit of activity on cores 5 and 7. This means that Prepar3D has a preference for those cores on my set-up. Your Task Manager will probably look completely different, it all depends on your unique set-up. I also see minimal activity on cores 1 and 2, which indicates system activity, so I will reserve these two cores, as well as core 4, for the system and other programmes and assign cores 3,5,6,7 and 8 to Prepar3D. 5 cores is plenty for Prepar3D and 3 is fine for the system and other programmes. STEP TWO - CALCULATING THE AFFINITY MASK VALUE I won't try to explain the Affinity Mask setting in detail but you assign the cores backwards using binary code to generate a decimal value. In this case I want to assign cores 3,5,6,7 and 8 to Prepar3D. From the above, you can see that this equals 11110100 in binary. CALCULATING THE AFFINITY MASK VALUE 1. Open the Windows Calculator 2. Click the radio button 'Bin' 3. Click the radio button 'Word' 4. Enter the value which describes the cores you want to use, in my case 11110100 5. Click the radio button 'Dec' and note the decimal number that appears, in my case 244. 6. Open C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\Prepar3D.cfg and enter the following at the top. [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=244 244 is my unique value and your value might be the same but if it is different, it does not matter as long as you used the Task Manager to figure out which cores to assign to Prepar3D. 7. Save the Prepar3D.cfg file. 8. If you have an Nvidia Graphics Card, go to Step Three, if you don't, you're ready to fly! STEP THREE - ADAPTIVE VSYNC FOR NVIDIA USERS If you have an Nvidia Graphics Card, enable Adaptive VSync. Selecting Adaptive in Nvidia Inspector will not have the same effect as using the Nvidia Control Panel to set it. 1. Right click on the desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel 2. Under Manage 3D Settings, select the Program Settings Tab 3. Select Prepar3d (prepar3d.exe) from the drop down menu 4. Scroll down and set Vertical sync to Adaptive 3. Save and close the Control Panel 4. Open Prepar3D, start a flight and under Options>Settings>Display>Frame Rate Controls, check that VSync is Off and that Triple Buffer is unchecked. 5. Enjoy your flight Read more here: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/adaptive-vsync/technology ———————————————————————————————————— ———————————————————————————————————— Disclaimer If I fly in bad weather with AI, road traffic and cloud shadows over detailed scenery in a complicated aircraft, I am asking for trouble and my performance will suffer as a direct result. There is no magical setting but there is a computational limit to what our hardware can process in realtime. In five years, maybe the hardware will have caught up with the software. I hope so. I cannot be held responsible for any adverse effects that might arise out of the use of the information presented above. It is presented as is. This document is dedicated to Mike Greenblatt who taught me the importance of unification and gave me the tools I needed to get started. YMMV. Toby. ———————————————————————————————————— ———————————————————————————————————— My Hardware i7 4700k at stock speed 3.5ghz EVGA GTX 780 Ti SC ACX 8 GB DDR3 1600mhz Ram Windows 7 64 Bit on 256 GB SSD Prepar3D and all add-ons on 1TB WD Blue HD 7000rpm Corsair RM 650w PSU Dell HP ZR30W monitor at 2560x1060 TM Warthog HOTAS Saitek Combat Pedals and Throttle Quadrant Track-IR Buttkicker My Settings Prepar3D v2.2
  6. Hello I have a question about affinity mask settings. I have a 4ghz quad core system and it appears the system has 8 logical cores so which affinity mask setting should I use, I tried a 84 setting and I kept getting freezes due to one of the cores getting overloaded, so my question. What setting should I use to make sure that core #0 is not being used. Thanks for the help. Signed Jon.
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