Not sure if this has already been mentioned as i haven’t read the entire thread, but I did see a comment somewhere in here stating that you MUST run the monitor and sim both at the native res of your monitor for it to work.
So I’m just confirming that, at least on my system (which is more a strange mix of a 14900k cpu with a 9070xt gpu… as my 4090 fried itself to death last week)… you absolutely do not need to do this.
My monitor is native 7680x2160, which even the 4090 could struggle with sometimes… with the 9070xt I’ve set it in windows to 5120x1440, and set the same in the sim. Frame gen is working and shows double the fps compared to the developer mode.
Have to say, I’m very impressed with how smooth it makes the sim.
I’m now running the monitor at 240hz, as at 120hz adrenaline only recognised the monitor as “freesync compatible”, whereas at 240hz it shows “freesync premium pro”.
I can see the green tick and the frame rate in the overlay is double the dev mode counter.
Haven’t noticed any artifacts to be honest and the sim has never been smoother.
What confused me to begin with was everyone mentioning the green tick… so, just incase people don’t realise(as i didn’t)… you won’t ever see the green tick by opening the adrenalin software… you NEED to press alt+r and view it in the overlay that pops up.
This is not the performance overlay in the top right (which can be enabled/ disabled separately within the main overlay), but basically the adrenalin software in overlay form… it looks the same as opening the adrenalin software, except you can now see the green tick with the message that frame gen is active.
One other thing is that if you have multiple monitors, but only using ONE for the main sim (and other for maps or pop outs etc), I’d highly recommend that you connect these to a different gpu or adapter. I have 2 other monitors connected, which are g1000 units for pfd and mfd. When i had them connected directly to the gpu, freesync became very erratic, causing a lot of weird hitching and stutters. Confirmed it’s a freesync issue, as pressing the windows key on the keyboard, with the sim still visable behind, stops the monitor from syncing, as the osd shows full 240hz, and the stutters stop completely… putting the sim back in focus, freesync comes back into play but so do the stutters.
I now have the other two monitors connected to a usb-hdmi adapter again, and freesync works great again.
With this setup now, I can easily run 5120x1440 res at 240hz, freesync premium pro active, 10 bit, hdr enabled (which is another thing I saw mentioned in this thread, that frame gen won’t work with hdr… well it seems to for me, hdr on in windows and in the sim). Everything seems to finally be working great, very smooth.
Not sure if any of the things I’ve mentioned have already been addressed earlier in the thread, but in case it helps anyone, thought I’d post.
As someone totally new to team red, the software is a bit daunting and confusing… but think I have it working well now.