sundog Posted January 22, 2021 Report Posted January 22, 2021 10 minutes ago, niftyguy239 said: After having both V4 and V5. I am getting much better frame rates (after disabling XPR2) and the clouds look soooooo much better. Thank you. Only downfall is XPR2 is a must for my airliners. I hope it gets solved. Thank you again. We have a good idea of what is causing the problem with XPRealistic. (Warning: technical developer stuff follows!) Internally we check the following datarefs from X-Plane to identify different monitors you might have in a multi-monitor setup (oddly there is no dataref that tells us which monitor is being drawn, so we have to guess): sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_vertical_deg sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_horizontal_deg sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_roll_deg sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_horizontal_ratio sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_vertical_ratio XPRealistic appears to be changing one or more of these values every frame, to simulate motion and shaking. As a result, we think we're being thrown a new monitor to render to every frame, causing us to allocate resources for that new monitor, which quickly causes memory use to go through the roof. For now, disabling features in XPRealistic that may affect these datarefs (such as natural motion and ground shaking) should work around the issue. You'll need to restart X-Plane after disabling them for it to help. I would expect other "head shake" plugins might have similar issues. I'm not sure how to resolve this without giving up multi-monitor compatibility in SkyMaxx Pro, but we're working with the XPRealistic developer to come up with something. Quote
captkittyhawk Posted January 22, 2021 Report Posted January 22, 2021 1 hour ago, captkittyhawk said: I don't have XPR2 and I still had RAM maxing out. I removed ASXP and it seemed to fix it. Nevermind, I think it was the headshake plugin... Quote
niftyguy239 Posted January 22, 2021 Report Posted January 22, 2021 That rain cell with the clouds. I have missed this. Aside from the XP bug. This is something else. Thank you. 3 Quote
Motosuwa Posted January 22, 2021 Author Report Posted January 22, 2021 1 hour ago, sundog said: We have a good idea of what is causing the problem with XPRealistic. (Warning: technical developer stuff follows!) Internally we check the following datarefs from X-Plane to identify different monitors you might have in a multi-monitor setup (oddly there is no dataref that tells us which monitor is being drawn, so we have to guess): sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_vertical_deg sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_horizontal_deg sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_roll_deg sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_horizontal_ratio sim/graphics/view/field_of_view_vertical_ratio XPRealistic appears to be changing one or more of these values every frame, to simulate motion and shaking. As a result, we think we're being thrown a new monitor to render to every frame, causing us to allocate resources for that new monitor, which quickly causes memory use to go through the roof. For now, disabling features in XPRealistic that may affect these datarefs (such as natural motion and ground shaking) should work around the issue. You'll need to restart X-Plane after disabling them for it to help. I would expect other "head shake" plugins might have similar issues. I'm not sure how to resolve this without giving up multi-monitor compatibility in SkyMaxx Pro, but we're working with the XPRealistic developer to come up with something. I'm glad you guys are able to pin this down! I know you'll think of something and can't wait for a patch. Just take your time and look forward to it. Small request, please ping an email out when a patch has been made Quote
RobH Posted January 22, 2021 Report Posted January 22, 2021 I installed SkyMaxx 5 to a vanilla install of X-Plane and sad to say it's not exactly what I was expecting. Massive FPS loss as in 50% loss. At one point I flew into a bunch of volumetric clouds at 6 FPS yes that's 6. I had issues with SkyMaxx 5 in my X-Plane install that has lots of extra scenery etc that seemed to clear up only to return within minutes. For myself at least SkyMaxx 5 is unusable at the moment. Even if I turn off the volumetric clouds performance is an issue, it's basically the same as V4 in respect of having to turn down the cloud coverage in order to get decent FPS, for a VR flyer FPS is king. XPRealistic appears to not be an issue for me personally as with that installed or not it makes no difference to the FPS. My PC is no under powered machine either, i9 10900K @ 5.1Ghz and an RTX 3080. I will keep an eye on any progress that is made with SkyMaxx for sure though. Quote
simnut Posted January 22, 2021 Report Posted January 22, 2021 3 minutes ago, RobH said: I installed SkyMaxx 5 to a vanilla install of X-Plane and sad to say it's not exactly what I was expecting. Massive FPS loss as in 50% loss. At one point I flew into a bunch of volumetric clouds at 6 FPS yes that's 6. I had issues with SkyMaxx 5 in my X-Plane install that has lots of extra scenery etc that seemed to clear up only to return within minutes. For myself at least SkyMaxx 5 is unusable at the moment. Even if I turn off the volumetric clouds performance is an issue, it's basically the same as V4 in respect of having to turn down the cloud coverage in order to get decent FPS, for a VR flyer FPS is king. XPRealistic appears to not be an issue for me personally as with that installed or not it makes no difference to the FPS. My PC is no under powered machine either, i9 10900K @ 5.1Ghz and an RTX 3080. I will keep an eye on any progress that is made with SkyMaxx for sure though. Welcome to my trench 1 Quote
Cameron Posted January 22, 2021 Report Posted January 22, 2021 4 minutes ago, simnut said: Welcome to my trench That made me laugh. LOL! 1 Quote
RobH Posted January 22, 2021 Report Posted January 22, 2021 13 minutes ago, simnut said: Welcome to my trench Just be sure to social distance huh ! 1 Quote
RobH Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 It may well be worth checking the AA settings in X-Plane, what I found is that just turning the AA down one notch resulted in a happy face on this old head. Quote
Kai Uwe Pel Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 Just installed the update/patch v5.0.1, and all seems ok now. Thanks for your quick action to solve this issue! Now I am enjoying the new features ! 1 Quote
Cameron Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 4 minutes ago, Kai Uwe Pel said: Just installed the update/patch v5.0.1, and all seems ok now. Thanks for your quick action to solve this issue! Now I am enjoying the new features ! Great to hear! Thanks for your patience today! 1 Quote
simnut Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 Well now....I've got my 40+ FPS back with SMP5. Still struggle with the dark clouds but I'll figure that one out. Thanks for the quick update !! 3 Quote
Fabrose94 Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 The same problem for me. 2FPS in all plane cockpit and crash xplane. With bug bitmaps now. Its a disaster . using RTX 2080 Super and 32GB ram Quote
RobH Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 The update helped a lot for sure. 1 Quote
RH1972 Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 Updated mine to Skymaxx Pro5 but got some strange mirroring effect: Mirroring.docx Any idea? Quote
Cameron Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 6 minutes ago, RH1972 said: Updated mine to Skymaxx Pro5 but got some strange mirroring effect: Mirroring.docx 4.58 MB · 0 downloads Any idea? My first guess is some kind of artifact to cloud shadows. Are these turned on in your SkyMaxx Pro config window? Can you turn them off and see what happens? Quote
sundog Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 7 minutes ago, Cameron said: My first guess is some kind of artifact to cloud shadows. Are these turned on in your SkyMaxx Pro config window? Can you turn them off and see what happens? This looks like a known issue in 5.0.1 that will happen after resizing your window. Running X-Plane in full screen mode should work around it, but we do have a fix built and ready to go. Quote
RH1972 Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 Restarted X-plane and now they are gone..... Also loaded a script in X-vision, restarted X-plane without X-vision but somehow can't reproduce the mirroring effect anymore. Btw is Skymaxx Pro compatible with X-vision (latest 2.00)? Quote
Cameron Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 Just now, RH1972 said: Btw is Skymaxx Pro compatible with X-vision (latest 2.00)? I honestly don't know! I'm a Mac user, but I'd be happy to hear anyone else who uses it and has tried. Quote
RH1972 Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 At least I do not get any errors in Windows... Quote
akatham Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 23 minutes ago, RH1972 said: Btw is Skymaxx Pro compatible with X-vision (latest 2.00)? I am using it, so far no problems. I use the Impressive preset, just didn't install the skycolour/cloud replacement textures, and disabled the cloud related shaders. Quote
Holger Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 Hello, I use skymaxx for the first time and it gives me a frame drop from 50 to 20 once I switch to the outside view. Inside the cockpit it is far better. The drop comes from the clouds. If I switch the view to the clouds the framedrop happens. With the default clouds or similary clouds I have no issues. PC: I7700K, GF1080ti, 32GB ram, 4K Solution Any idea what could be wrong? Thanks, Holger Quote
Cameron Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 @Holger, My GUESS is a 1080ti with a 4k monitor. This video card isn't the best for this resolution, as you're already pushing things pretty hard without add-ons. That said, let's take a look at things. Can you post: 1. A screenshot of your FPS bar from X-Plane when the FPS are lowered. 2. A screenshot of you X-Plane rendering settings. Quote
Holger Posted January 23, 2021 Report Posted January 23, 2021 Thanks for your fast reply! So far my card worked very well in 4K Settings (use it for a few years alreday) also in P3D an MSFS with 3D Clouds. XP11 is running very smooth with it, also on complexe airports. Will post the screens later on when I´m back on my gaming pc. Best regards, Holger 1 Quote
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