Graphics card works harder on menu screens than when flying 1.37.9 (regression)

Have you disabled/removed all your mods and add-ons?

no

Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?

no

Are you using DX11 or DX12?

12

Are you using DLSS?

no

Brief description of the issue:

When I get into the opening screen then the menu screens “controls”, “accessibility, etc.” the fans on the graphics cards are at 100 pct. When I’m flying, sometimes they kick in some, but at a pretty low level. This was true in earlier versions, went away, and came back with a vengeance in 1.37.9. There should be no reason a graphics card needs to work that hard looking at a still picture

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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Go to opening screen, then let it get to the welcoming screen (Right now, scenes from Dune, “as real as it gets,” right?) and then the menu screens. The fans on my graphics card are just howling. Select the aircraft and flight path and get to the actual airport scene and things calm down quickly.

PC specs and peripheral set up:

Ryzen 5800x (Water cooled), xfx 7900xt (air cooled), 32 GB ram The rest is not applicable in this case.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

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my hardware is Ryzen 7700x and RX 7800XT

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Card temp is 46C, Fan speed is zero. The readings when on the other option pages or welcome screen are similar.
Partial Specs & settings:
Build: SU15B v1.37.9.0
3rd-Party Addons: None, Community Addons: None
i7-12700K (No overclocking), 32 GB 5200 MHz DDR5 CL40, Arc 770 (16GB, v31.0.101.5333).
Graphics Tab: TAA, Render resolution 1700x960 @ 125, AMD Fidelity - 150, VSync - On, FRL - 100% MRR (60 Hz), HDR10 - Off, DX12B, TLOD @ 250, OLD @ 200, Motion Blur - Off, Other settings - all Ultra
Data Tab: Data Connection: All six options - On, Data Limit - Off, Bandwidth - Unlimited, Rolling Cache - Off
Developers Tab: Developer Mode - Off (screenshot 1), On (for screenshot 2)
MSFS Version: MS-Store, Standard, plus All WUs and most MS free aircraft.
Edit: Low Power Mode in General Options / Experimental is turned ON, see my post below for results when turned OFF.

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Repro - Graphics Card work Harder on Menu Screens 2

Just double checking that you still have low power mode selected in the sim settings? I forget which menu, but maybe that got unintentionally reset?

@BigCow74
Good point! Its under General Options / Experimental and was indeed turned ON when the previous screenshots were taken. This is what I see when I turn it off. Note that I’ve just ended a flight into KDFW, so the GPU may still be shedding some residual heat from that flight. Card temp is now 56C, Fan speed is now 778 rpm.


Repro - Graphics Card work Harder on Menu Screens 4 (Low Power OFF)

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

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i9 13900K, RTX 4090, ULTRA 2K, vsync -on, frl 50%, dx11, TLOD 270, OLOD 200, shadow maps - 8192.

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The only place where it doesn’t use 100% is the Content Manager page.

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5800X3D 7900XTX DX11

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Yes

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Ryzen 7700x and rx 7900xt,fans at 100 % all time.And world map spinning all time,when i click on plane it stops for a while and continues spinning,bit difficult to choose flight

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Menus have a hard time loading, getting worse and worse :confused:

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Workaround for this issue at the moment is as follows:

  • Go to Options → General Options → Experimental
  • Turn “LOW POWER MODE” to ON

This will remove the moving background and should cut GPU usage to half when on the menus.

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