G'day fellow members.

I've been away from flight simming for a while thinking I would return when I got a new graphics card which I just did. Upgraded from a 2060 Super to a 2080 Super. All is well except there is NO FPS increase at all.

I can only put this down to a bottleneck with the CPU or motherboard. 

The CPU is a 6700K with 24GB RAM and Gigabyte GA Z710 hd3 motherboard. FS running off of an NVME SSD.

The max I get on the ground is around 13-15FPS at a well detailed airports and only get up to about 29-30fps when high up looking at plain Oceans, as soon as I look at some dense trees or building it drop to 10-19fps and get stutters.

I THINK that it could be a faulty motherboard as I get audio dropouts very frequently in games and MSFS and when that happens I get stutters as well.

I was not able to resolve this issues ever, the BIOS and drivers are all the latest and also tried a brand new Windows install, same thing.

So I just wanted to see what you wise people think, I believe the CPU should still be OK for 4K for at least 30FPS with the 2080 Super.

Ohh forgot to mention that no matter the resolution even if I lower it to 1080p no real difference in FPS. Also not sue if it's to do with Render Scaling but even at 1080P resolution the display receives a 4K signal so perhaps something to do with that as well?

 

Many thanks.

24 minutes ago, Bandyka said:

So I just wanted to see what you wise people think, I believe the CPU should still be OK for 4K for at least 30FPS with the 2080 Super.

I used to have that CPU for years and no, it's not nearly enough for a steady 30fps at 4K ( surely not everywhere ), and I used to have it coupled with a 2080 Ti.

Also, it's always very difficult to give fps suggestions on any hardware, when you don't say anything about your settings.

13 minutes ago, virtuali said:

I used to have that CPU for years and no, it's not nearly enough for a steady 30fps at 4K ( surely not everywhere ), and I used to have it coupled with a 2080 Ti.

Also, it's always very difficult to give fps suggestions on any hardware, when you don't say anything about your settings.

Thanks. What settings are you looking for? As mentioned at any resolution. Its currently at medium settings. Just changed Windows power options to performance and now at medium settings it looks like I am getting around 30-34 but as soon as I move the camera it drops immediately to 10-16 so the problem seems to be with data transfer which is why  I mentioned the audio dropouts and stutters. I could be wrong though. If I could iron out these FPS drops when moving the camera I'd be happy.

The CPU looks to be at a comnfortable 50-56% on average where I get 24-30FPS, ocassionally it jumps to 65% and when I get a bad stutter it goes about 75% but it does not seem to go over that.

 

Something is definitely not right. Went back to 1080p for testing and even there on high end settings I get max 30fps, the kicker is switching to Low-end only gives me 3-5 more FPS at best. Changing between Medium and high makes no difference at all. The CPU and GPU utilisations remains at around 50-65% on average.

What I also noticed is that clouds show lots of banding and ground textures often look very blurry like FSX. I've seen this once after an update.

Wonder whats going on here.

You have vsync on so you are not going to get above 30 FPS unless you have an underlying +60 FPS, which might be hard if there is some cpu problem.

Try turning vsync off and see how the FPS scale.

 

Enable developer mode - and you will find that you are main thread limited, I can guarantuee you that.

I switched last weekend from 6700K to 5900X....

Swiesma, did you find a big difference after upgrading ?

 I've got a 6700K too that's getting a little old & slow these days

I think 2020 was the year where we started to see the older 4 core cpu's start to lose their place in the sim world. They were good for their time but are starting to show their age rapidly.