Gradl Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 Hi Skymaxx-Team, I'm a Skymaxx user since version 2 for X-Plane 10 and was always quite happy with the program. I upgraded to X-Plane 11 and version 4.6 this year and getting troubles with my fps in stormy conditions. I have constant 25-35 fps in all weather conditions exept storm systems. If im entering a stormy aera my fps drop sigificantly and I can only achieve 10-15 fps and my simrate drops (IVAO ATC starts yelling at me :-D) Is suspect the storm rendering of SMP 4.6 causing this drop, is there a way to disable, tweak in that area. It is the only big problem I have with SMP 4.6. Can you investigate, patch this ? Hardware: Intel i5 2500k @ 3.2 Ghz (old but working fine) GPU: Nvidia 1060 6GB RAM: 16 GB Weather: NOAA Plugin (default weather seems currently broken) Regards Florian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundog Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 Storms involve rendering a very large number of clouds, including some very large cumulonimbus and towering cumulus clouds. Accurately depicting these sorts of conditions will consume extra resources on your system; there's just no avoiding it. All I can suggest is reducing your "cloud area covered" setting further if you plan on flying into stormy areas, and making sure your X-Plane graphics options are tuned properly for your system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Russell Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 While your i5 might be "working fine" it's also working at almost half the speed of a modern i7. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-2500K+%40+3.30GHz&id=804 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundog Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Yes, when there are lots of clouds present SkyMaxx Pro will demand a lot from the CPU and not just the GPU. So that would definitely be a factor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradl Posted June 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 I know the 2500k is and old cpu and the bottleneck on my system (fps counter shows that). I'm quite happy with the performance in overcast or broken situation, only storms/turbulence cause fps drops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundog Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 Storms require us to draw many more clouds and larger clouds, and this taxes your CPU more, impacting performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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