joomie

Thank you! Which software do you use to record the uploaded video including the sound?

Give us details about your computer hardware and used resolution, please. Would be interesting to see the FPS. Especially when weather gets redrawn.

Great, will do. May you point me to the correct page, please? Will give SMP3.1 & RWC a second try. Can I do that using XP11? Are above settings (especially the ones for RWC) appropriate? Many thanks! joomie

Hi thanks for that info, will use that. But, I need to correct that: No, I did not end up with stable and smooth performance. As said, big FPS drops to single digit values, when weather got redrawn.

Alright, sorry for that. Regarding your question (Log.txt) find my thread here: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/108835-performance-question-stuttering-for-experts/#comment-1071153

The only performance problems I experienced where exactly at that moment when SMP redrawed the clouds. I made so many measurements and tunings at uninstalled SMP at the end. Since then I had no more FPS drops like described above. Hence, I really hope that the developers are aware of that bis performance issue. I mean my rig is quite well equipped, isn't it?

Hi! It's good to hear, that the area of clouds will be bigger. But much more of importance is, that the redrawing of the refreshed weather will not result into very strong FPS decreases anymore. I use the a high performance rig (see below) and used to have the settings listed below in XP10.51 which gave me an average of approx. 40-60 FPS. But always, when the METAR file has been changed by FS Global Real Weather the FPS dropped down to a single digit of 1-9 FPS for seconds. This is not acceptable and I uninstalled SMP 3.1 by now. There is a need, to solve that. Probably by redrawing the new weather step by step and not in one big run. My rig: Win 10 (64bit), Intel Core i7 6700K@4.6 GHz, Overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, 32GB RAM, 1.25 TB SSD, SAMSUNG SUHD 55'' TV@3840x2160 My settings I used in XP10.51:

resulting in a distance of 160km from the aircraft :-)

The developer of FSGRW replied this: http://fsgrw.freeforums.org/fs-global-real-weather-latest-doen-t-work-with-x-plane-11-t590.html

Well, one finds plenty descriptions on how to setup the stuff using NVidia's control panel having been written by quite experienced XP community members. To set threaded optimization to off is one of the very very important settings you have to make there! There is a big performance difference which can be seen, when you toggle that settings. This is also confirmed by many other users. What does extended dsf mean? This setting isn't available anymore when using XP11, is it?

By the way, is there anybody who got FS Global Real Weather working together with SMP and XP11?

As promised by settings. You find all information here: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/108835-performance-question-stuttering-for-experts/&do=findComment&comment=1071473

Well, most of the time with SMP the performance was the same. Just the regular refreshes which come with a redraw of the clouds resulted in 5-10 sec with single digit FPS. This isn't acceptable for me. I'll post all my settings later, when I'm back home.

I use an i7 6700K and a GTX1080, both overclocked. I purchased version 2 & 3 of SMP and got RWC too. I finetuned settings in X-Plane, used NVidia's control panel and made performance measurements. My sim runs with stable 60 FPS now without SMP since I could not get rid of high FPS drops when SMP refreshed the weather representation. I love the look of SMP clouds, but a fluent simulation has the highest priority. When SMP 3 was released the promise (highly improved performance) was the same as given today. But I'll be more patient now and wait until the community will confirm that the performance is acceptable.