That is odd. You have one thread maxed out, with the others at low utilization.
I don’t have the 10700K, but I do have the 10700 non-K and what I usually see is three threads very close to 100%, three threads at about 75%, and ten threads around 10%. This is on high settings, GTX 1080, 32GB RAM, NVMe install.
Maybe there is a BIOS or system setting limiting your core or thread assignments?
Mainthread means your CPU is at its limit. And you can see it is clearly the case, your last core is absolutely maxed out. This is always the case with MSFS, it utilises one core more than the others.
You can not do anything about it.
Also, it seems you are using Experimental version of the FBW. The latest updates had quite a bit of a performance impact and will cause more load on the CPU. They are working on improving this, i already asked yesterday.
What you can do right now, is limiting your frames to 30FPS. It will smooth things out and reducing the stress on your CPU.
Second screenshot is in the green on the mainthread so don’t think that is an issue there, was another reflection option added in the setting have you played around with that?
Also in nvidia control panel is the threaded optimisation set to auto or on.
Also check the power management is set to max performance.
I see virtualisation is enabled have you tried disabling it in bios.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong here at all. And getting >80 fps in the FBW is pretty incredible regardless of settings, to be honest.
Prior to SU5 I could be CPU limited to about 60 fps in the stock A320, less demanding than the FBW, at literally the lowest possible settings and at 720p.
If i remember rightly its the hyper-v setting in the bios. Is said to increase cpu load but can’t say i have bothered to see if it makes any difference or not. But might be worth trying it to see.
Good to hear that this normal. Its more the increase in stuttering since SU6 that is getting my attention, wasn’t sure if this MainThread being maxed out was the cause as I keep reading different things
I see the same. in SU5 I never worried about it, was butter smooth at all times.
In SU6 my mainthread is hammered, even in lower settings. Not bad enough to cause stutters constantly, but definitely more sensitive than before. With terrain LOD set to the usual 200 it gets a little better, I can usually maintain 60fps with some drops, but at 400 I’m hovering around 45-55 with some stutters.
@atledreier Have you increased terrain caching to Ultra? If so, that’s most likely the cause of the increased CPU usage. SU5 used “medium” as a locked setting, which will reduce CPU usage by not loading full-quality scenery all along the plane.
Going down to medium will probably improve your average framerate, but increase stutters while panning. Sadly there’s no way to get it perfect at both times; for me, the closest thing to perfect is caching Ultra and LOD 200.
Hi there are a couple of other threads regarding stuttering whilst on the ground, both inside and outside the cockpit (all aircraft). This is since SU6. I have had to lower terrain level of detail from 200 to 125 in order to smooth things out for now.
