Massive FPS drops with SkyMaxx Pro v5.0.6

[andrey458]

Hi Everyone,

Any help would be hugely appreciated. Just got SkyMaxx Pro v5.0.6 with Real Weather Connector and Active Sky. After installing SkyMaxx Pro got huge frame drops, from 50-60 to 10-15. When I disable SkyMaxx Pro in the plugin admin, FPS goes back to 50-60. Log attached.

My rig:

i9-10850K CPU

GeForce RTX 3070

32 RAM (4x8)

Can't figure out what's happening. 

 

Thanks a lot!

Log.txt

[Cameron]

Post your X-Plane rendering settings in a screenshot.

[andrey458]

15 hours ago, Cameron said:

Post your X-Plane rendering settings in a screenshot.

Most of my X-plane settings are on max, but I figured it out. The culprit was volumetric clouds in Skymaxx pro. I switched the cloud settings to one of the other options and the FPS went back to 50-60

[Cameron]

1 hour ago, andrey458 said:

Most of my X-plane settings are on max, but I figured it out. The culprit was volumetric clouds in Skymaxx pro. I switched the cloud settings to one of the other options and the FPS went back to 50-60

You were stretching things way too think running volumetric clouds with maxed settings.

If you want to use them, adjust things like your X-Plane AA settings 2-3 notches down, and watch the performance increase. Even for todays GPU's, you were just asking way too much.