Hello all! I need some assistance. I get mediocre performance in MSFS with a pretty beefy PC setup. Maybe I get the expected FPS but wanted you guys opinion on it as well. I typically get in the mid 20’s low 30’s FPS wise in most every major airport. Even at small airports with not much scenery around I get mid 40’s FPS with stutters. These results are consistent with the Fenix A320, PMDG 737, and CRJ-900
I do run the sim on a 49 inch ultra wide monitor with a resolution of 3840x1080, however even if I change the resolution down to 1920x1080 performance is virtually the same.
My MSFS settings are below, most of which are medium settings. Traffic is totally off also. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Well, something’s majorly wrong with those framerates on those specs. I get plenty more with all settings maxed out on a Ryzen 5800X and RTX 3080, even in higher resolutions.
A few things I would check:
Check CPU and GPU usage. Best way would be to enable developer mode and enable “Display FPS” in the menu bar that shows up. A screenshot of that would be helpful. The main thing to look at is the CPU and GPU frametimes; if one is much bigger than the other, that one is the bottleneck.
It’s possible neither will be the obvious bottleneck, since with your specs, neither should limit you to such low framerates.
Check CPU and GPU temperatures, to check whether either is high enough to cause throttling. I prefer HWiNFO64 or MSI Afterburner for this purpose, but there are plenty of options.
If either is high enough to cause throttling (GPU >80-ish, CPU >90 in many cases) that is almost certainly your problem.
Regardless of the results in point 1 I’d probably do a clean install of the graphics drivers, preferably by using Display Driver Uninstaller in safe mode, then rebooting and installing the latest driver.
A bugged-out driver that causes awful performance isn’t as rare as it should be; I’ve had it solve similar issues for several different people.
I’m guessing rolling cache, even if you are standing still, it should still update. Rolling cache can be moved to a different drive although I’m still suspect of using HDD for MSFS.
You might be overestimating the HDD performance, MSFS does a LOT of reading and writing to its disk location. I try to keep my average disk response time less than 1 ms. One clue for troubleshooting is that nothing changes using different graphical settings. Which means the performance problem is not due to graphics but something else IMHO.
Hmmm…something’s going on locally. I have more or less the same spec 12900k/3080ti. The only difs are I only have 32gb ram and run the sim from an NVME.
I run the sim at full 5120x1440. Stock ULTRA settings from the sim. If I don’t limit the FR with vsync to 40, I get 50-70fps out and about and in the 30’s at large airports. I don’t have a lot of addons or the after-market tube liners.
I don’t dick around with stuff in the nVidea control panel etc. W11 2H22 and the latest game-ready driver.
I doubt running from the HDD is your problem, but maybe look at what other settings you may have changed in Windows and nVidea CP.
I agree, that’s why two of the very first things I’d check are CPU usage and temperatures. A CPU bottleneck is likely with these symptoms, but the CPU is too fast to be the bottleneck at <30 fps – unless something’s wrong.
Also worth checking background processes in Task Manager, in case something’s using up a ton of resources.
I enabled developer mode. This was taken at JFK in the PMDG 737-800. See the below screenshot. I also used HWMonitor for temps check those out too. I have no idea how it is that hot (the CPU). I have a pretty beefy water cooler on it and there is no overclock at the moment.
Your CPU looks like it’s running hot…at least compared to mine. Mine will occasionally boost into the 90’s but runs in the 60’s with the sim running. GPU temps are about the same as mine.
Interesting. What could be causing the CPU to go crazy like that? I have always had high temps on the CPU but like I said I have a large water cooler on it with all fans blowing the correct way. I am wondering if I did a terrible job on the thermal paste?
Might be worth checking the paste. What do you see when you put all the cores up in task manager? Is there a process visible in Task Manager that might be going berserk?
I only have single 120mm fan on the AIO (Alienware’s idea).
Nothin’ much going on there. I’m truly no expert, but I think you should check out your cooling solution…is the pump running? Did you forget to take the plastic off the cooling plate when you installed it?
Not running the sim right now but three tabs open and running a Youtube vid. 5% usage, 3.49Ghz and 40C temp.
