Downloads max out the GPU?!

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I don’t think this is a problem per se, but it is curious and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. . .

Note that I have a RX 6800 GPU with 16 gigs of VRAM and I’m stupid enough to have the frame rate dialog open while I’m doing various things.

I am downloading a couple of aircraft via the “Content Manager” and the darnedest thing - the Frame Rate goes solid red and shows “Limited by GPU”. :astonished: :exploding_head:

GPU bound during download

OK, I give up beat. Will someone please explain how a download via the content manager can possibly hope to slam the GPU???

CPU, 'eh? - but maybe.
Network? Possibly.
I/O? Could happen.
The GRAPHICS processor? Are you KIDDING?!! :man_facepalming:

I’m stumped.
:wink:

P.S.
While the download is running, if I switch to any other screen, the frame rate dialog settles down. It’s only the Content Manager that pegs it. I don’t know if it ALWAYS pegs it, or just during downloads, but it’s screwy IMHO. . .

P.P.S.
Maybe, just maybe, the way they have the progress-bar coded it’s sitting in “getAnimationFrame()” and looping a zillion times a second? Dunno.

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Interesting, have you tried the gpu limiter in Experimental options? This limits FPS to 20fps while in the menus.

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No.

Didn’t even know that existed. Actually, I did see that but I figured that would limit the frame rate in the sim itself.

P.S.
I notice the graphics card fans spin up and I can “smell heat” when I do this. I’m not getting any temp alerts, (which I have programmed to happen above 70-or-so degrees Celsius), but it is weird.

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I’ve noticed mine go the same way when browsing the marketplace for say a world update but once I’m in content manager it goes away. Do you have unlocked fps in general when running the sim?

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Probably. I’m looking for that setting now. . . Haven’t found it yet but I know its there somewhere.