So I abandoned FSX because I got tired of having to wrestle with it EVERY SINGLE FLIGHT. With the ability to transfer my addons over with the migration tool I made the leap and I was happy for the most part. I am currently just trying to find the sweet spot. In some locations I get 30+ FPS with most everything maxed and World of AI traffic armed with 40% and 10% car traffic. In other locations not so much. This is a screen cap sitting at KDFW in Dallas (FSDreamTeam version) with performance graphics overlaid.
Can someone explain to me WHY for the love of all that is Holy I am getting 18 FPS when the GPU and CPU are twiddling their thumbs according to the performance graphs? According to the graphs I have so much overhead left over I should be running @ 40 FPS with even more stuff turned on! @_@ FSX did this too me as well only WORSE. There is no excuse for this miserable performance (well I am sure there is an excuse somewhere). I have watched videos from Froogle and others on YouTube and their Prepar3D is running like a bat out of hell with a lot of the sliders maxed, INCLUDING shadows. Any insight into what is making my system go on strike would be appreciated.
Specs:
i7 3930k 6 core @ 3.8ghz HT On (12 cores total)
Asus GTX 770 OC II with 2 gigs of DDR5
32gigs G.Skill 1866mhz RAM 9-9-9-24
ASUS X79 Sabertooth OC Motherboard
10k RPM Velociraptor is my simulation drive
Win 7 Pro 64-bit
Corsair Liquid Cooler