Gpu load very low P3D V5 HF2

[bryanhyper]

Hello All,

Recently I have noticed that my GPU load is very low when I am in a add-on aircraft, for example the captain sim 757 or fslabs a320. My gpu load is fine when in a default aircraft, about 60+ percent. But in a add-on, only around 30 max. I have a NVIDIA 2080 Super, I7-10900 @ 3.80 GHz. I have a few add ons from flightbeam, orbx, etc. Honestly, I didn’t really look at my gpu load before but I believe it was definitely higher than 30 percent. I am running the latest version of windows 10 pro and p3d v5, however I am running the latest studio driver from NVIDIA as the latest game ready driver crashes P3D as we all know. I have Reshade, active sky and Rex sky force. I didn’t touch my P3D cfg and I have hyper threading enabled. My cpu usage is going up and down around 35-80 percent. Core 0 is at or almost at 100%.

Any ideas?

Bryan

[JorgenSA]

I would say the primary reason why the GPU load is so low is because the CPU is not giving it anything to chew on.

Try to:

1. Overclock your CPU at least to the other side of 4.5 GHz, and

2. Add the AffinityMask statement to prepar3d.cfg.

Use this to calculate the AffinityMask value:

https://www.gfsg.co.uk/affinitymask.asp ... m=utilties

Jorgen

[Martyson]

Hello All,

Recently I have noticed that my GPU load is very low when I am in a add-on aircraft, for example the captain sim 757 or fslabs a320. My gpu load is fine when in a default aircraft, about 60+ percent. But in a add-on, only around 30 max. I have a NVIDIA 2080 Super, I7-10900 @ 3.80 GHz. I have a few add ons from flightbeam, orbx, etc. Honestly, I didn’t really look at my gpu load before but I believe it was definitely higher than 30 percent. I am running the latest version of windows 10 pro and p3d v5, however I am running the latest studio driver from NVIDIA as the latest game ready driver crashes P3D as we all know. I have Reshade, active sky and Rex sky force. I didn’t touch my P3D cfg and I have hyper threading enabled. My cpu usage is going up and down around 35-80 percent. Core 0 is at or almost at 100%.

Any ideas?

Bryan

@ bryanhyper ,

Why are you still on an older P3D version?

Overclocking?
Before Overclocking (voiding your warranty / burning up the CPU) read this:
http://gex.flight1.net/forumimages/Over ... Series.pdf

The overclocking information link was originally posted by Jim Harnes here:
viewtopic.php?f=6315&t=141613

Additional information:
My GPU usage typical with P3D v5x about 7% here (in this screenshot outside view test).
KSAN , Orbx
PMDG 747
WIN10 20H2 build 19042.928 (as of April 2021)
i9 9900K
32GB DDR4 memory
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB

[bryanhyper]

Thank you all for your reply,

I will try and overclock my CPU a little bit and add a affinity mask as mentioned later when I get home and I will post results.
As for the older P3D version, I'm running the latest one, I was thinking of HF2 for some reason and that's what I wrote down, sorry.

Also what I'm getting from Martyson is that it's normal to have low gpu usage in P3D V5?


One more question, I'm thinking about upgrading to a 2560x1440p monitor today. Would it be worth it coming from a 1920x1080p?


Bryan