Thanks for your time! I started to have a major FPS performance issue after the most recent X update and wanted to see if anyone else is having issues or may know of a solution.
Running :
i9 12900k
Evga 3090Ti
32gb ram on a ROg strix z690
2TB SSD
AIO liquid cooled running between 25 - 35c temps on all hardware.
1080p Resolution
1.2gb hardwired Ethernet
Fresh windows 10 install with updates and only MSFS installed outside of basic hardware monitoring software.
Full 100% maxed graphic settings. (Vsync off)
I was running great at 40FPS on the ground at Seattle, 60 FPS in the sky, and over 200FPS in the menu before the update. Now I am sitting at 8-10 FPS on the ground, 20 FPS in the sky and 18FPS in menu.
Dev mode reports no errors in log and fps counter limited by GPU at a usage of only 4 GB and around 60ms. Before the update, I was around 6GB usage and 20ms.
I have tried a game reinstall, file verification’s, Driver rollbacks, DX12 - DX11 swaps, Roaming cache resets, community folder wipes, with no luck on raising the frames.
Of course I could lower graphic settings and test (which I have not done), but I am trying to avoid that as I was getting great results before the update.
Is anyone experiencing this same issue or may have other suggestions to try?
The only time I get near 100% GPU usage and such low GPU temps is if I have set an artificial GPU power cap in MSI Afterburner of 40%, which I do intentially sometimes during cruise phase of long flights to drop system power and temperatures when I don’t need max performance. eg.
The one thing I over looked!!! My power limit was set to 25 percent. Somehow precision X jumped out of my custom profile. lol Set the power limit to default 100% and I am back at my normal FPS. Wow I feel so silly right about now!
Now sitting at 63c at 100% power limit.
Thank you so much ResetXPDR and everyone else for the help!
I didn’t fly for some months now, but with my machine, I could keep 60fps nearly everywhere. I think Render Scale to 200 is kind of overkill as you render like if you had a 4K Monitor.
My computer is far below your:
CPU 10700K Oc 4,9Ghz all core
GPU RTX 3070 OC +125 / +1000
RAM 32GB 3200Mhz
TV 42" LCD 1080p
I have nearly all at max, with Vsync 60 fps (I wan’t to be GPU limited to avoid stutter)
I suggest to lower Render Scale step by step to see if you can handle the graphical difference (mainly on aliasing). If yes, it could save some power and set your CPU and GPU to get some rest and fresh air
That’s an excellent idea. Never thought about that, but I’ve been thinking on a way to save the hardware on cruise phase. Thank you i will try this
No worries. I had thought of putting up a post about this, but didn’t think there would be that much interest.
FYI, I have two GPU power saving presets for cruise phase triggered by hotkeys. The first is set for 50% power and still gives me reasonable enough FPS to interact with the aircraft while I am doing other things on my computer, like watching streams or youtube clips. The second is 40%, which drops my FPS to about 15, which makes it quite jerky to interact with, and is when I am going to be away from the computer for 30+ mins with a flight still running in cruise and am not looking at or interacting with it anyway.
Normal GPU power is 320-350W under full load. At 50% setting, it drops to 180W and at 40% it drops to 130W. CPU power also drops correspondingly, although the power savings aren’t as much, maybe 20-30W saved. System temps drop to 40-50C for GPU (fan stops around 40 and back on around 50C) and 50C for CPU (locked at 4.8GHz 10 cores + HT), so nice and cool for cruise phase!
