October 7, 20241 yr It clears your cache easily instead of multiple hard to remember steps! The video admits "results vary". 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
October 7, 20241 yr Author This is the kind of tool that might cause the Official forum monitors to reach for their flogging rod. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
October 7, 20241 yr My sense is that it's important to clear the DX caches in Safe Mode after uninstalling the current GPU driver, because the DX shaders are linked to particular driver versions. This is why when don't do that you will see lots of DXCache entries repopulate the folder when you delete them. That doesn't happen if you follow the above described sequence. This is my practice when updating/reinstall GPU drivers and that is the only time I would do this procedure. Now that I think about it may not need to use Safe Mode just can delete GPU driver, reboot and delete DXcache entries. Edited October 7, 20241 yr by Noel Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
October 7, 20241 yr I guess he meant the nVIDIA shader cache files rather than the DX shader cache files. Only for the nVIDIA cache you need to use safe mode to be able to delete them 100%. Which I never do, those around 14 files that can not be deleted when not using safe mode never did any harm in my case... Greetings, Chris AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 2x32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RAM, MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X, Windows 11 Home, MSFS2024
October 7, 20241 yr I normally just use windows disk cleaner as well as Ccleaner to remove any temporary files that might have left around. In fact as a habit - I run Ccleaner every time before I shut my PC down.
October 7, 20241 yr Author It did me a world of good. The lastest Pimax Play driver was crashing my sim. After clicking once to clear all the cache, MSFS now works perfectly with the that latest driver. Before, it only worked with an earlier driver, now it works with the latest version. A very stable 47 to 52 fps with my 4070 and 5800X3D when using my Crystal Light VR headset. (The latest version of Pimax Play has an upscaler which makes those high framerates possible). 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
October 7, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Fielder said: It did me a world of good. The lastest Pimax Play driver was crashing my sim. After clicking once to clear all the cache, MSFS now works perfectly with the that latest driver. Before, it only worked with an earlier driver, now it works with the latest version. A very stable 47 to 52 fps with my 4070 and 5800X3D when using my Crystal Light VR headset. (The latest version of Pimax Play has an upscaler which makes those high framerates possible). Which is that latest driver ?
October 7, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, Tuskin38 said: you can also use the built in windows disk clean-up tool to clear your DX Cache I second that Cheers, Ed MSFS2020 Steam // Rig: Corsair Graphite 760T Full Tower - ASUS MBoard Maximus XII Hero Z490 - CPU Intel i9-10900K - 64GB RAM - MSI RTX2080 Super 8GB - [1xNVMe M.2 1TB + 1xNVMe M.2 2TB (Samsung)] + [1xSSD 1TB + 1xSSD 2TB (Crucial)] + [1xSSD 1TB (Samsung)] + 1 HDD Seagate 2TB + 1 HDD Seagate External 4TB - Monitor LG 29UC97C UWHD Curved - PSU Corsair RM1000x // Thrustmaster FCS & MS XBOX Controllers
October 8, 20241 yr Author 1 hour ago, solito said: Which is that latest driver ? v1.33.01 is the latest. It used to cause CTD's before I cleared out the cache (takes one click with the handy app). Latest is always on the Manuals section of Pimax.com. Pimax Play itself will tell you that you have the latest when actually you do not. This is a known bug and Pimax says to get new drivers direct from the website, not from PP. https://flightsim.to/file/65064/fps-4-msfs-simple-fps-tweak-tool Edited October 8, 20241 yr by Fielder 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
October 8, 20241 yr Seems a cool Tool, one click does everything that realy needed, i will take a look on this one.. cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
October 8, 20241 yr I use DDU when I change driver, then all the cache files will be deleted as well. System: I ASRock X670E | AMD 7800X3D | 64Gb DDR5 6000 | RTX 4090 | 2TB NVMe | Seasonic Vertex 1000W I LG Ultra Gear 34 UW I
October 8, 20241 yr 13 hours ago, Tuskin38 said: you can also use the built in windows disk clean-up tool to clear your DX Cache Could someone please tell us how to do this? Thanks in advance. Config : AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D - MSI PRO B850-S WIFI6E - RAM G.Skill 2 x 32 Go DDR5 6000 MHz CL30 - MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G VENTUS 3X OC PLUS - 2 WQHD (2560x1440) screens and only one of which is for MSFS
October 8, 20241 yr 39 minutes ago, Area said: Could someone please tell us how to do this? Thanks in advance. Simply type disk cleanup into the Windows search, run the disk cleanup tool for your C:\ drive and select only DX Shader Cache Greetings, Chris AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 2x32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RAM, MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X, Windows 11 Home, MSFS2024
October 10, 20241 yr I now downloaded the tool and I am not really sure what else this tool deletes except the nVIDIA and DX shaders you can easily delete yourself. It supposedly also deletes the files inside the cache/0 folder on C:\, but what I do not get is that this exact same folder with the exact same content is present twice on my rig, once in C:\ AppData and once in the content folder where I have my sim installed on my D:\ drive. The content of both folders remain untouched after running the .bat file, although the file itself says it will delete shaders in this folder on C:\ So rather confusing. It seems that this tool only properly works if you use the absolute default installation path for MS Store version. Greetings, Chris AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 2x32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RAM, MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X, Windows 11 Home, MSFS2024
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