I hope you’re all doing well. I find myself in a bit of a bind at the moment and could really use some expert advice. After sifting through a multitude of forums and trying numerous tweaks, I remain stuck in a perplexing situation with my FS2020 performance.
To put things into perspective, I’ve dedicated a significant amount of time to this issue. I’ve meticulously followed guides and watched countless YouTube videos where users with nearly identical hardware configurations (same motherboard and all) effortlessly achieve a smooth 45/50fps with the same add-ons I use. It’s been both inspiring and perplexing to witness their success while I struggle to maintain a mere 15fps.
Here’s a snapshot of my system configuration for your reference:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Home
Processor: Intel(R) Core™ i9-9900KF CPU @ 3.60GHz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) OC at 5.1 and stable
Memory (RAM): 32.0 GB
BIOS Version/Date: American Megatrends Inc. 1.E0, 21/10/2022
BaseBoard Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Graphics Card: Nvidia GEFORCE RTX 3090
Storage: SSD
My primary concern seems to be the mainThread, which persistently lingers in the red zone. I’ve explored various troubleshooting avenues, but the elusive solution remains out of my grasp. This is where I’m reaching out to the community for some guidance and perhaps even a little reassurance.
So, my fellow flight sim aficionados, what am I overlooking? Your insights and wisdom would be immensely appreciated. Let’s solve this puzzle together and get my FS2020 experience soaring to new heights!
What did I do worng ?
Not really. Just wanted to try the AMD CPU since it was the most powerful on the market at the time.
A friend of mine just upgraded his CPU to an i9-14900k and has better results than I do.
What’s your Terrain LOD and Objects LOD?
I think with your system, a setting of 150 for each would be ideal, especially around big cities and busy 3rd party airports.
Also try reducing traffic settings for road/ship traffic and airport vehicles as they can also put a lot of load on the CPU.
What resolution are you playing?
On one of my systems, a 8700K processor with 3060ti GPU was hovering around 30FPS, at ultra settings, 1080P, at regional airports in Europe.
To precise witch settings I’m Using here the Nvidia control panel and FS 2020 settings screen cap and yes in a last resort I used a tech to cope with the dreadful FPS… Can’t believe I’m Saying this but… Star Citizen in Ultra and ray-tracing run at around 45 FPS (99%AVG).
One thing I’ve seen mentioned a lot is to enable Anisotropic Filtering @ 16X in the NvCP Program settings tab, but leave it disabled on the General settings tab in NvCP. Then, turn Anisotropic Filtering OFF in the sim.
It may not make a difference in terms of performance, but it may.
The i9-9900KF that OP has is an 8-core CPU running at 3.60GHz (5.10GHz overclocked.)
The AMD 5800X I used to have is an 8-core CPU running at 3.80GHz (4.70GHz overclocked.)
The Intel is PCIe 3.0
The AMD is PCIe 4.0
Does the PCI bus speed really make that big a difference?
I never had the poor performance OP seems to be having - not even close. I think something else is to blame here.
What makes his “6 year-old CPU” such a hindrance? The specs of his Intel are very similar to the specs of my AMD. Unless of course I’m missing a spec that really separates the two. Hence my question about bus speed (which also affects CPU ↔ RAM I/O.)
To be sure, my 5800X was the limiter with my 3090 Ti. But I could see > 100FPS and 15ms latency @ 2K running mostly Ultra/High settings (certainly much worse in a complex aircraft at low altitude over complex terrain. But nothing like what OP reported.)
Could he benefit from a CPU/motherboard/RAM upgrade? Of course. So could I.
Do we need to in order to get reasonable performance? No.
