dgall Posted March 24, 2017 Report Posted March 24, 2017 (edited) Good evening all, I'm having some difficulty getting decent framerate with SMP while using overcast/stormy presets (or similar edited versions of those two) in XPlane 10. It seems any setting above the bare minimum cloud area covered results in crawl. I've disabled God Rays any any other feature that could be turned "on", as well as reducing resolution and texture sets to low. Which of these settings are the "heavy hitters" performance wise? My machine is running a mildly overclocked 4930K paired with a GTX 1080ti, and performs beautifully when disabling SMP with XPlane settings maxed. In "normal" weather conditions, everything is beautiful and fine... but when I crank down visibility things really get sluggish. Please let me know what other information I can provide to help diagnose. Edit: I apologize, thought I had posted this in the support subforum for SMP- not General. Would an admin please move this thread to the correct location? Edited March 24, 2017 by dgall Quote
dgall Posted March 24, 2017 Author Report Posted March 24, 2017 Does the XPlane cloud detail setting in the rendering options have any effect on SMP generated clouds? Quote
dgall Posted March 24, 2017 Author Report Posted March 24, 2017 I cleared out my plugins folder, reinstalled SMP, and all is well. No idea what it was, but it's working as expected now. Can this thread be nominated as the most useless thread of 2017? Quote
sundog Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 If you're seeing a "cloud detail" setting, that suggests you're using a rather old version of SMP. Updating to the latest (4.0.1) will allow you to pick up a lot of performance improvements we've implemented since then! Quote
dgall Posted March 25, 2017 Author Report Posted March 25, 2017 5 hours ago, sundog said: If you're seeing a "cloud detail" setting, that suggests you're using a rather old version of SMP. Updating to the latest (4.0.1) will allow you to pick up a lot of performance improvements we've implemented since then! I was using 4.0.1 and referring to the cloud detail setting in the XPlane rendering options, not skymaxx settings. Quote
sundog Posted March 26, 2017 Report Posted March 26, 2017 17 hours ago, dgall said: I was using 4.0.1 and referring to the cloud detail setting in the XPlane rendering options, not skymaxx settings. Oh, got it. That setting should have no effect when SMP is active. At any rate, I'm glad you got it sorted out! Quote
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