Am I doing something wrong

[ianrivaldosmith]

Hi, I have a question/support query....

 

I have X-Plane 10 running butter smooth.

 

My system is

I5 4670K Clocked at 4GHZ.

16GB ram.

Geforce GTX 770 4GB. Win 7 64bit.

 

My settings are:-

 

 

 

This easily gets me 30 FPS locked using 1/2 vsync mode, and maintains it.

 

I throw in a few clouds using skymaxx pro 1.3  with these settings:-

 

 

This brings my FPS down to 10-15 and introduces stuttering! 

 

Is there anything I can tweak?

 

Iv'e tried bringing down other settings, doesn't seem to do anything. Doesn't look like my full VRAM is being used either? 

 

What do each of the settings actually mean in sky max pro?

 

Thanks for the help, Ian.

 

 

[Cameron]

You're almost assuredly running into some GPU fill issues here.

 

Your object settings are crazy high, your airport detail is unnecessarily high, your shadow level doesn't help it, and your water reflection selection is a killer too. Topping this with more to load on your GPU is causing a choke.

 

As for what each setting does...the manual in the plug-in folder will explain it all.

[ianrivaldosmith]

Thanks....

What would you recommend based on my system for each setting?

[Cameron]

My recommendations to start things out (you can increase or decrease as you please after seeing what this yields):

 

1. Number of objects = Two levels lower

 

2. World detail distance = Medium

 

3. Water = Low or medium setting...there's is NOT much noticeable difference in these settings, but complete really is heavy on resources for little gain (if any).

 

4. Change shadows to Overlay and then work your way up from there.

[ianrivaldosmith]

Thank you, and what about sky maxx settings?

[Cameron]

Those settings look pretty okay to me. Let's just start with X-Plane's options and see what happens.

[ianrivaldosmith]

Ok thank you! I'll try it out and get back to you!

[ianrivaldosmith]

I tried it all, and I am now satisfied. I was able to increase my AA to the 4XFSAA and also leave my settings as they were. My bottleneck, was, I was using over 4000MB VRAM! I compressed the textures using the check box, and now I get 35FPS+ whilst maintaining my high settings.

 

Thank you for your help:)

[Cameron]

Thanks for reporting back, and I'm happy to hear you're satisfied!