Skymaxx 3.0 Loss of Frame rates

[kohara]

Hi Everyone,

 

I upgraded from Skymaxx Pro 2.1 to Skymaxx Pro 3.0. For some reason my frame rates dropped from 30-40 fps to 6-10fps with equivalent settings. I am running GeForce 960 4Gb ram video card with i7-3770 @3.4 GHz and 16Gb ram so I don't think it is my computer.

 

Anybody experiencing the same issue?

 

Kelvin

[JohnMAXX]

Try hitting the reset button in the UI.....The draw distance slider has different values to accommodate the higher draw distance. So similar values might also be higher in reality.

Basically v3 is a different beast under the hood so take some time to sort out a new setup...

[captainamerican]

Try bare minimum settings and gradually increase until a satisfactory setup and satisfactory performance. 

[Daikan]

I have exactly the same issue and I was able to track this down to Rendering settings -> Shadow detail -> global (low). If I set it to 3d on aircraft my FPS are back to normal.

 

SMP 2.0 does not suffer from this problem (just tested it using same setting and plugins). In this state SMP 3.0 is almost useless for me.

 

My system specs:

 

 

EDIT:

 

Funny enough, after setting the shadows to global (medium) my FPS increased almost back to normal! Even funnier: After I set it back to global (low) my FPS were back where they used to be... This makes no sense whatsoever - but it fixed the problem in my case. Could be that all it takes is to change the shadow setting once in order to fix the problem.

Edited November 30, 2015 by Daikan