What Could Be My Problem

[dtakeshi]

Hey guys,

I was wondering, instead of posting up on Facebook and getting flamed by a bunch of randoms from all over the world I thought I'd ask here.

So I have the following HW setup at the moment.

• AMD FX-8350 @ 4.5Ghz
• Coolermaster Sedion Watercooler
• 32GB DDR3 RAM
• Gigabyte GTX660OC 2GB
• 128GB SSD (OS)
• 1TB 7200 WD HDD (FSX/P3D)
• Win 7 Pro

The problem I'm having, is that I'm struggling to reach a mere 20-25 FPS in FSX. And I'm not too darn sure where the heck the problem is. I use procexp to find out what's using all of my resources, and I find that FSX or P3D is barely using my GPU, and that my CPU usage reaches about 70%, 60% is FSX/P3D. I mention both because I get similar performance on both.

I have the following addons all enabled. So I don't know if that's it.

• ASN
• REX4+Soft Clouds
• PMDG 737(FSX)/747(FSX)/777(FSX/P3D)
• Orbx - Global, NZ-NI, NZ-SI, AU, AU-YMML, AU-YBCS, ENG, SCO, IRE, NIR
• Uk2000 EGLL, EGPH
• Aerosoft Airbus 3XX X
• Aerosoft Amsterdam X
• FlyTampa St Maarten
• AUScene Sydney/Adelaide
• TropicalSim SBGR/SBGL/SAEZ
• LatinVFR SCEL/MDSD
• AES
• GSX

And I'm pretty sure that's it.. But what I'm finding is that I'm hitting a max of around 15FPS but mostly around 10FPS and below. Is it my hardware setup?

[Ian Warren]

Hi Dorien, this is very much a standard issue when running FSX in a very hi density scenery environment, your hardware is well above what I have got , there are tweaks but generally it is a case of moving the sliders back, road traffic has a large hit on frames, maybe bring the Autogen sliders down a bit.

[dtakeshi]

I thought about that, but my sliders are pretty much either all to the left with the exception of AI Airlines, that's 20% and GA Traffic is 10%, all other sliders, Road Traffic/Sea/Leisure Boats are 0. And airport density is Low.

Auto Gen Scenery/Vegetation/Buildings are all on Normal. Will drop that to sparse and see what happens...

[Ian Warren]

To me that dose seem the PC is under performing , 'I was guessing all your sliders were all the way to the right' , maybe have to wait till later tonight for others to compare, the sparse look you wont like but it would interesting to see how your frame rates pickup.

[toprob]

Yes, it does look like there's a problem somewhere. I have a very similar system, except it's an Intel i5, and I only have a GTX 650ti. Although I don't use any flash addon airports, I get 30 -- 50 frames with most settings all the way up.

One simple thing you can try -- since sometimes the cfg can get 'stuck' pointing to older drivers when you update, you could try just deleting your fsx.cfg and let it rebuild.

[omitchell]

You're using an AMD kill it, kill it!!. Just kidding, not gonna start that war up again.

It could however be part of the problem. I say that because you have it coupled with an NVidia graphics card. Whilst you have a good APU and a good GPU FSX relies more on APU/CPU than it does on your graphics card so coupling an AMD APU with an AMD GPU that works in symbiot with that APU would p[possibly yield better performance results because they would both boost each others performance in certain areas. This is why I stay away from AMD and just go with the Intel/NVidia combo personally because they run by themselves without looking for a boost from something.

2 other things of note is Aerosoft Amsterdam and the PMDG 777, couple those 2 together and you are not going to get a great frame rate at that airport regardless of how your sliders are set. It is a complex aircraft and a hugely complex scenery and some of the ORBX ones will clunk your frames a little too. The thing to remember is the more you have running, the more you will drop your frames.

Here's an example, I fly into Heathrow and I have the following for the area.... Aerosoft London VFR & Heathrow Extended, UK2000 Gatwick/Luton/London City/Stansted, ORBX England/Vector/Global, Rex 4 and soft clouds and full AI traffic and I get between 5-8fps or an OOM and I have between 10-15fps for the other airports mentioned there.

try this page and see if its of any use

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/402239-amd-fx8350-8-core-processor-my-fsx-review-performance/

[dbcunnz]

Have you tried Bojote's Tweak
http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html
you will find it may help with your fps

[Agent X20]

I'm curious about your stated CPU loads. When you say 70% how is that load spread across your cores?

You might have one core pegged 100% and the others mostly idle - which is what you'd expect from FSX being largely single threaded - and it could well report a *total* CPU loading of say "60%".