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2 hours ago, wain71 said:
not sure what's going on, did a few flights recently in both the FENIX & PMDG 737, at cruise level around FL350 I found that all the head movement is very slow and like draggy, I tried with the default Bus and it was the same....however going from Live or REX weather to Sofly WPP weather and all is good, this has only happened in the last few days.....machine is not being over taxed looking at the numbers for CPU/GPU etc....
Just wondering if anyone else has seen any similar things?
I was wondering if it was to many clouds visible when you are that high as opposed to say FL 240....planes are still flyable and system is not crashing, just slow head movement around the cockpit....
I have to preface this Wayne with saying that I have no idea either what may be the cause of this.
On the other hand , what you are describing sounds very much like the beginning of oxygen deprivation
Maybe taking the MS brand to new heights with the Top Gun Addon with the hypersonic aircraft
has introduced a whole new meaning to "as real as it gets"
Cheers
Pete
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These are just superb Bernd
The ambience is fantastic. You have captured it so well!
Cheers
Pete
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Hi Dominik
Basically I had virtually the same system as you until I upgraded my GPU from a RTX2060 super to a RTX3070ti.
It sounds to me that your GPU is really pushed to its capabilities running at 3440 x 1440 . On my own system at 2560 x 1440 p
with fps locked at 30 fps (this is important for this card) I was running at about 80 - 90 % utilization with temps at 70-73C.
This was with all settings in MS2020 at ultra. Vram usage was around 7-7.3 total system allocated memory.
I can't comment on P3d as I never have owned it.
With the 3070ti, Vram usage is the same, GPU utilization is about 40% and temps are gpu 55-58C, Memory 64-68C and hot spot junction temperature
is about 70 - 72C. The card is very quiet.
I'm sure that many others will have opinions on this matter and hopefully they will also comment.
If I were in your shoes I would not buy a new gpu right now but do the following
1) If you haven't done this , lock your fps at 30 using either Nvidia Control panel or the vsync setting in MS2020
2) Go into MS2020 and set scaling to 75%. This will run your system at 2580 x 1080p and the built in upscaler in MS2020 will
upscale to your monitor resolution, If the image quality is not quite to your liking, then increase the scaling by 5% and try again .
You should be able to get a visual fidelity and balanced system load which is acceptable.
Your 2060 will work much better under these conditions until SU10 ....
3) With SU10 the Nvidia DLSS (Deep learning Super Sampling) system will be incorporated into MS2020 .
There are numerous articles by Nvidia and others about DLSS and the quality it gives, while significantly reducing the system load on both
the cpu and gpu.
Once you have had a chance to try this and to see how much better your system runs MS2020 with it, I think then you can make a much better informed decision
than you can at this point in time. It has the potential for such a significant improvement for most users that I personally think it is impossible to decide upon a
GPU purchase , until you have a chance to use DLSS for a while with your current system. System behaviour will be very different with DLSS compared with
what you are achieving with SU9 at the moment.
The following is my understanding of the background to your question
"what makes the ti "better" despite having less VRAM?
Cheers
Pete
In order to understand the answer to why the 3060 ti is a better card overall we need to delve into the
workings of a gpu a little bit.The following discussion is specific to Nvidia GPU's since Nvidia uses different memory bus specification (memmory bus width) on different cards.
It is my understanding that AMD uses a single memory bus width of 384 bits for all their cards.
The memory bus width on a GPU more or less defines the number of Vram memory chips that can be used on a graphics card.
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data per clock cycle that can be sent or received from the GPU.
So for example a card with a 100 bit memory bus width means that it can transfer 100 bits of data in a single clock cycle.Memory bandwidth is the rate that data can be stored or retrieved from memory by a processor.
Memory bandwidth is a combination of both the memory bus size and the actual speed that the memory runs at.
Memory bandwidth refers to the ability to move data such as textures in and out of the Vram as they are processed by
the GPU.The 3060 has a 192 bit memory bus which is slower than the 256 bit memory bus that the 3060ti has. In other words, the 3060 in a single clock
cycle can transfer 192 bits of data into or out of Vram, whereas the 3060ti in 1 clock cycle would be able to transfer 256 bits of data.
A Vram memory chip has a bandwidth of 32 bits. DDR6 memory chips usually come in multiples of 1 or 2 GB.
So a 3060 with a 192 bit memory bus would use 6 lanes of 32 bit bandwidth which is 6x32 = 192 bits.
In other words, due to the bus memory bandwidth, the 3060 has room for 6 memory chips.Nvidia basically designs for a minimum memory of 8 GB for its RTX series cards.
So this means that a 3060 could have six, 1 GB DDR6 memory chips which would be 6GB in total.However, since this is less than the 8 GB design spec, they used six 2GB DDR6 memory chips to adhere to
the memory design spec, which means the card ended up with a total of 12 GB. The 12 GB vram fills the 6 slots.The 3060ti has a memory bus width of 256 bits. This means that it would have 8 lanes (8 x 32 = 256 bits)
and therefore would have room for 8 memory chips. Using 1 GB memory chips then gives you a total of 8GB total
Vram which meets their RTX design specification.The 3060 has a higher memory speed (1875MHz) than the 3060 ti memory speed of 1750Mhz. This is based on non overclocked design specifications.
To calculate the memory bandwidth we multiply the memory speed x memory bus rate.
For the 3060 this would give a memory bandwidth of 1875Mhz x 192 bits = 360 GB/second
For the 3060ti this would give a memory bandwith of 1750Mhz x 256 bits = 448 GB/secondThis means that the 3060ti can process textures etc faster in its memory than the basic 3060, even though the 3060 comes with more memory
and the memory speed is actually slightly faster. In other words the 3060ti is still the faster card because with its higher memory bus speed it is able to move more information (448 GB/sec) in/out of memory than the 3060 (360 GB/sec).
Just for comparison ...
RTX 3070 Memory bus width = 256 bits (Supports 8 chips @32 bit/chip)
Vram = 8 GB @ 1GB DDR6 per chipRTX 3070ti Memory bus width = 256 bits (Supports 8 chips @32 bit/chip)
Vram = 8 GB @ 1GB DDR6X per chipRTX 3080 Memory bus width = 320 bits (Supports 10 chips @ 32 bit/chip)
Vram = 10 GB @ 1GB per chipRTX 3080ti Memory bus width = 384 bits (Supports 12 chips @ 32 bit/chip)
Vram = 12 GB @ 1GB chip
RTX 3090 Memory bus width = 384 bits (Supports 12 chips @ 32 bit/chip)
Vram = 24 GB @ 2GB per chip- 2
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On 5/21/2022 at 12:49 PM, BradB said:
Splendid set of shots Pete .
Thanks John
Cheers
Pete
On 5/21/2022 at 2:00 PM, Sniper31 said:Your images are always so deeply colored Pete. Really shows of the details nicely. Another great set!
Landon
Thanks Landon
It is appreciated very much sir!
Cheers
Pete
16 hours ago, John Mac said:Fabulous set Pete! Felt I was on me holidays there for a moment!
John.15 hours ago, bernd1151 said:Fantastic pics, Pete. Gives me the feeling of almost being there myself
Thanks to both of you
That was the feeling I was trying to convey
Cheers
Pete
12 hours ago, Stillwater said:Fantastic shots Pete, I can almost SMELL being there.
But you do not have the full picture of history:
That is not true, at least not for me. The most famous visitor there was my doctoral father, the writer of reference #2 in this article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grüner_Igelwurm . In the 1980s he was harvesting Bonellia viridis with some hired divers in the Marina di Campo, to extract Bonellin, the green pigment of Chrorophyll-like structure, before developing the first lab synthesis of it. We had original samples (mg) of natural Bonellin in our lab fridge, obviously a treasure.
My goodness Gerold , what a childhood you must of had.
To have a father who did that for a living, would have been a adventure every day for you.
I just did some reading on it. Bonellin is not something you would want to have around without precautions by the sounds of it . The
actual worm doesn't sound like the kind of creature you want to encounter either. I fully understand what you mean by the odor reference
And the male of the species .... My goodness, I don't think I will sleep well tonight
And I quite agree .... Napoleon .... not even close!!
Cheers and thanks so much for this.
I learned some fascinating things about something I knew absolutely nothing about
All the best
Pete
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On 5/19/2022 at 8:36 PM, flyingleaf said:
Holy smokes Pete these shots look like real life.
Thanks Landon
They did turn out kinda nice I thought
I especially enjoyed the level of detail that Orbx puts into their scenery that shows in the "coathanger"
Did you know that it is the largest steel arch bridge on the planet.
To me that is real hands on engineering. When it was built in 1923 engineering calculations were done by hand
and often with a slide rule. I affectionately still have mine which I got when I started university.
Slide rule (The Diary of Samuel Pepys) (pepysdiary.com)
It was made by Keuffel & Esser and came in a leather case that hung off your belt. Lots of aircraft were designed using this
technology as well. In fact one way to improve the accuracy of the calculation was to make them "longer". And they did that by making
a circular slide rule. If I have it correct, a lot of pilots had a specialized circular one that was used to calculate range, fuel use etc.
It was also very common for sailing .
Although it all worked, the science of optimization and strength of materials was in its infancy. As I result the use of "safety factors" was very
common and often resulted in a doubling or tripling of size and strength of materials. Not only has the science and our computational ability now progressed but the ability to more clearly understand how to optimize and minimize the materials used and to use stronger materials is something that was only dreamt of back then. But it certainly did the job and the structures still are functional and in use today.
Needless to say it wasn't a very efficient tool but it got the job done. About 4 yrs later I was able to get one of the first electronic calculators designed for the sciences (first a Texas Instruments and then a Hewlett Packard) and I put it into storage.
Makes me stop and think how far we have come in my lifetime
Cheers & thanks
Pete
On 5/19/2022 at 11:28 PM, Stillwater said:Fantastic shots Pete. And I have no doubt why the German ship in #2 (Gorch Fock) has to leave: Circulay Quay is occupied as usual (with a british towel), and it is not easy to sail under that bridge.
Thanks Gerold
But they always got the job done .... superb seamanship
Cheers
Pete
On 5/20/2022 at 12:32 AM, John Mac said:Stunners Pete, each and everyone of them!
John.
Thanks JM
See you
Pete
On 5/20/2022 at 5:14 AM, BradB said:Looking mighty fine Pete !! .
Thanks John
All the best!
Pete
On 5/20/2022 at 7:17 AM, lifejogger said:Wow Pete, these are amazing.
Why thanks John.
I am so very pleased that you enjoyed them
Cheers
Pete
On 5/20/2022 at 12:52 PM, carlosqr said:Hell yes!!! Love them
Nice work Pete
Hi Carlos
Thank you
See you
Pete
On 5/21/2022 at 3:13 AM, adambar said:Gorgeous set of shots Pete!
Wow thanks Adam!
I am really pleased you liked them
Cheers
Pete
On 5/21/2022 at 4:02 AM, boetie said:I can see a postcard or two Pete!
Cheers
Graeme
Now there's an idea Graeme
Love it!
Cheers
Pete
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On 5/19/2022 at 8:34 PM, flyingleaf said:
Great shot and color indeed Pete.
Thanks !
I am really pleased you liked it.
All the best
Pete
On 5/19/2022 at 11:33 PM, Stillwater said:The colour nerd can not be pleased by the livery here, it must be something else. They say raging bulls like moving red colors...
I think the lad in the checkered shirt has other things on his mind
Cheers & thanks Gerold
Pete
On 5/20/2022 at 12:30 AM, John Mac said:Nice shot Pete! Love the colour of it!
John.
Thanks JM
Nice to hear from you
I was pleased with how it came out.
All the best sir!
Pete
On 5/20/2022 at 5:13 AM, BradB said:Lady in Red 2.0 ………
Yes indeed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And she has a following as well ....
On 5/20/2022 at 7:15 AM, lifejogger said:Turned out very good Pete!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks John!
All the best
Pete
9 hours ago, adambar said:Looks great there Pete.
Thanks Adam
Cheers
Pete
9 hours ago, boetie said:Eyes up lad! That geyser in the lavender shirt???
Look a few comments back .... I'm on it !!!!!!
3 hours ago, Stillwater said:He is not focusing on that what a flight nerd would see.
You were young once too Gerold
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Marina di Campo airport is the airport for the Italian island of Elba. It is located in the village
of La Pila. Perhaps it's most famous resident in its long history was Napoleon Bonaparte, who was
exiled here in early 1814 after he was dethroned.
I've always wanted to visit Elba as I thought after reading a book about Napoleon , that he was on to a good thing.
Cheers
Kodiak 100, RexWeatherForce Live Weather, RexAccuseasons - "Summer - Peaceful Meadow setting"
Now this is where I really want to be ..... Poolside!
In fact that little table has my name all over it
The got me loaded and I thought that all I need are passengers and I can be off. But then they
all disappeared - lunch !
So instead, here I stay , out on the tarmac, in the heat , dreaming of better times
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What an absolutely beautiful set of images Bernd
Cheers
Pete
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Just one at KAVX. Just liked how it turned out
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Pete
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Just playing around a bit.
It seems to me that the latest WU9 update, included a few fixes in the 600 mb download
At least my sim is liking it
Cheers
Pete
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8 minutes ago, adambar said:
You just can't duplicate mother nature Pete.
Thank you.
You have that right !
Cheers
Pete
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Thanks Adam
Regardless, they are superb and really make this one of the best screenshots I have seen
If only MS2020 could get to this standard some day .... I can only dream I guess
Cheers & thanks
Pete
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Why is this a problem?
Obviously someone put two rocks on either side of a pint & took a picture.
Cheers
Pete
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5 hours ago, Sniper31 said:
Legos were my favorite when I was a kid. They would keep me busy for hours, upon hours.
Its great fun Landon. I even ended up making some little airplanes that I thought looked quite realistic.
Only problem was, when I tossed them into the air to see how well they would fly , invariably they crashed onto my desktop
Maybe its not MS2020 at all, but me who has the problem
Cheers Sir!
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Superb
Cheers
Pete
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Cheers everyone
Good luck to all
Renault
KAVX, Catalina
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Hi Craig
Thanks, I'm pleased that you found it of interest
Yes, you are completely correct . The "devil is in the details" with such technologies and implementation is everything.
It's interesting technology and certainly can bring benefits for many gamers.
My own experience is that any static image looks very good, but motion, especially with edge effects can be a very different story.
In that respect full native resolution still gives the best quality image for me.
Not to say that these technologies aren't very, very good but there are compromises.
It's one of my favourite expressions - "You can have things fast, you can have things good, or you can have things cheap.
Which 2 of the 3 do you want?"
So if you approach this tech with that in mind then I think most people will find settings for their particular hardware configurations
that they are happy with in terms of overall smoothness and image quality.
Cheers
Pete
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Yes Carlos it seems pretty much everywhere.
Alaska has some very interesting geological analogies as well.
However, in one respect this are all relatively benign - the real "train wreck" occurs if you turn on DX12
A lot of the masking overlays for etc for Orbx airports are just gone. Not all but just some in different areas of the airport.
However, it is not constant and you get different results each time you load the scenery.
For me it started in SU8, but based upon my experience(s) SU9 deserves its own award for taking it to the max
I guess we all just will have to wait until Asobo sorts out what is happening.
I think the challenge for any developer at the moment is whether this is caused by something fundamental that
was changed in SU9 and will be permanent or whether it is a "bug" that can/will be addressed by a hot fix.
Personally , I've been raiding my children's lego collection every since the SU9 hotfix came out.
I find it to be very therapeutic and calming.
Cheers
Pete
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Very cool Adam
Are those clouds from MS2020 as well?
They look particularly impressive, especially in screenshot 2
Cheers
Pete
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Hi
Recently I found that I was unable to log into websites that use reCAPTCHA (the pick pictures with traffic lights or tractors etc validation method )with Microsoft Edge .
What would happen after entering my ID/Password the screen would flash briefly and I would get a message that CAPTACHA failed.
I have tried everything I could think of (clear cache , history etc, update edge etc.etc.etc ....)
Nothing worked in Edge , although Google Chrome was fine and I could use that as an alternative.
As strange as it may seem , the following solution solved my problem completely
If you open Edge and click crtl + shift + N , you will go into an InPrivate window.
Now the reCAPTCHA validation works without any issues.
Just thought this might be of help to my fellow members
Cheers
R
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AMD recently released FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 which is their competitor product
to Nvidia's DLSS 2.3 (Deep Learning Super Sampling) technology.
This is an interesting comparison video from a group I consider to be a reputable source for digital technology
information.
I hope that you find it of interest.
Cheers
Renault
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Ever since SU7 I have been plagued with "random" CTD's .
In SU8 they became worse , and in SU9 I could almost guarantee that I couldn't complete a session without a CTD.I highlighted the word random, because in the last week or so, I came to realize that there there were two items one of which
seem to be connected with the event.
1) Not all the time, but perhaps 90% or so, a CTD was preceded by a drone toggle movement
2) Since late SU8 / SU9, my controller has been behaving "badly". By this I mean moving the joystick would often result in "jerky" camera movementsor sometimes nothing at all would happen and then the drone camera would jump to the desired position, rather than moving smoothly.
I was at the point where I had pretty much decided that it was just worn out , even though it was only about 2 yrs old. As a last step, I decided to do a
google search and found at a MS site that there are firmware updates for XBox controllers and that if one is experiencing problems this should be the first item
to check and apply if needed.
I don't know the model of my controller aside from it being both blue tooth and wireless. I have it connected by wire to a USB port because
I found that it just destroyed batteries which got to be expensive.
However to update the firmware , you need a app from the Microsoft store called XBox accessories.
Please note that for it to be able to properly update the firmware ,the controller must be connected to your computer through a USB cable.
It will not update through either wifi or bluetooth, but only through its usb connection.
The first time you use the App it will automatically check the controller firmware status and in my case detected that an update was necessary.
Clicking update and you find it does its thing, but it is incredibly slow taking about 3 minutes for the progress bar to complete.
Once it is updated , when ever you use the app you will get the following screen. As indicated in the screenshot below , click the 3 dots and you will be taken
to the second screen. You can also change other items on the controller , configure buttons etc. , but I didn't need any of this so it was not investigated
If you click the box with the 3 dots you will be taken to the second screen where you can check your firmware status , as well as update the
firmware if that proves to be necessary
If you see that no update is available it means your firmware is up to date.
The results...
I have had MS2020 running very stably now for about 2 1/2 hrs. with no issues . The drone movement is incredibly "silky smooth" and extremely controllable with even the smallest toggle movements.
It is very much improved compared with its behaviour before the firmware update.
I hope this may be of some help to my fellow members as before today, I wasn't even aware that Xbox controller firmware can/should be updated.
All I can say is that at the present time I am very pleased with the first results. Hopefully MS2020 will now behave itself, but time will tell.
Cheers
Pete
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Really useful video John
He has a very engaging presentation style and gets right to the "nitty gritty"
Thanks!
Cheers
Pete
MSFS cruise slowdown
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Hi Wayne
If this still is creating a problem for you, may I suggest you consider the following. What I discovered on my system is that having
XMP off* (its easy to do in bios & and you can just as easily turn it back on again) has had a major impact on the stability on my system running MS2020.
For several months now I have had a seemingly endless litany of 0xc0000005 errors . Conventional "wisdom" is that these are caused
by addons , but in my case I had the issue even with nothing in my community folder. This error is generically a memory access violation and
has dozens of different causes from driver/registry issues to particular applications ( it is true that an addon can cause the problem, but it is not
the only reason) to any kind of issue with ram stability.
The reason that I chose the words "having XMP off* " is that the other day, when I started my machine I got a message saying that there was
an issue with either the CPU or memory. I discovered that XMP had shut off and I was unable to get it to work again. I called the builder
of my machine and they mentioned that they have seen issues before where this has happened and it is often due to a
memory module that just "basically doesn't like being put into an overclocked state any longer".
So long story short I decided just to run my machine without XMP and see what would happen. All I can say is that I have had nada issues
of any kind with MS2020 and this is after about 65 hrs of use now, including leaving it running MS2020 for 6 hrs.
I have gone over the exact scenarios for multiple cases that I could guarantee would result in CTD's without any issues at all now.
My builder did also say that they have seen some instances where particular applications just didn't run well with XMP on, but with it off
the application was completely stable.
Microsoft does mention at their website that any overclocking (CPU or XMP) has been known to cause issues and their suggestion was
to disable it (without any explanation as to why it could be a problem).
Yes I know that there are many people who will say, why do this because this will slow MS2020 down. Well in my case I always have the
frame rate locked at 30 fps and I see absolutely no difference with XMP on or off in terms of how fast/slow MS2020 behaves in any
respect, but so far a world of difference in terms of stability.
The second issue is with regard to things appearing to slow down on long flights. In the past some addons , such as
the toolbar pushback helper app, would cause memory issues , especially a memory leak. So in terms of testing , if you use that addon, you
might want to temporally disable it.
So I hope that these suggestions may be of some interest and possible help to you. I appreciate that turning XMP off may be a
controversial subject and my posting this is from the perspective that for me it has made a very positive impact in terms
of eliminating 0xc0000005 errors.
I sincerely do not wish to imply that everyone should do it as a matter of course , especially if a) you are not having any issues
and b) you do not use MS2020 with a locked fps. Using MS2020 without a locked fps could certainly have the potential
to see a performance decrease with a lower ram speed.
Lastly I appreciate that I may well have an issue with a particular ram stick(s) , but since I have 64GB of ram, and it may be
difficult/impossible to get the exact replacement, replacing all of them to ensure they match is a costly proposition. Normally, I would not
mention this as it certainly seems like a potential hardware issue in my case, except for the MS Zen desk comment that XMP can cause issues
with MS2020 and they make the recommendation to disable it.
In my case I continue to test, but so far have seen no negative aspects on how MS2020 is working for me as a result of XMP being off.
If indeed, I do have a misbehaving memory stick(s) I will find out soon enough, but so far this has definitely improved my system stability and
in my case not affected the performance.
Cheers
Pete