kdfw Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 until i updated the NA regions PNW, NCA, SCA today, they ran smooth during day/night but after updating them, i'm seeing large dips in FPS (stutter) when the lights ahead in the flight path are rendered. i'd be going at mainly 30FPS (locked=30FPS) but as the street lights are loaded in the tiles ahead, FPS can dip as low as 2 FPS (about 0.5-1 sec freeze) and I can't get rid of this by playing with the visual settings. the FPS dips even appear during daytime as well, most prominently in the LA area. now, orbx UK regions Scottland and England both still run smooth and flying around the Chicago area (day or night) is stutter free. is there anything that can be done about this? please see video with clips where the stutter is observed, you'll see street lights pop on in area ahead at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macbrowndog Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 same issue here.... I wonder how you roll back the update? Regards, Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macbrowndog Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 I removed the !FTX_NA_SCA files from the scenery directory and all is fine... Very strange I have checked the other scenery files and the !FTX .... has been included... These appear to be the new lighting files Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdfw Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 you're absolutely correct, placing the !FTX*LM* files in a subfolder to 'deactivate' them reverts night lighting to the FTX global style lighting, thus night lighting performance is much better like before. i admit the new LM overlay looks gorgeous but it's a serious buzzkill with the FPS hickups. the killer is, when the new LM is active, it even affects daylight FPS stability--on my system, taking off from LAX on the east pointing RW, there's a 1 sec FPS stutter at about the mid-point of the RW at day and night. deactivating the LM files gets rid of this problem and SCA runs like before the update. Hope something can be done to improve the new LM performance... just tried london at night, LM enabled and performance impact wasn't bad, dip down to about 10FPS at worst. Not as bad as 0.5FPS in los angeles area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennH Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Did you disable the open lc lights for the region as per the control panel? Otherwise you get two sets of lights apparently which may well be the reason for the poor performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdfw Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 13 minutes ago, GlennH said: Did you disable the open lc lights for the region as per the control panel? Otherwise you get two sets of lights apparently which may well be the reason for the poor performance. not using openLC, just FTX global textures and the regions (SCA, PNW, ENG, SCOT, etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennH Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 I'm seeing the same. I think you can revert in the control panel by unticking 'use new lights' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdfw Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 2 hours ago, GlennH said: I'm seeing the same. I think you can revert in the control panel by unticking 'use new lights' unfortunately, if openLC isn't installed, that option is not available on the control panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdfw Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 anything from the support team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rafgath Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Try to disable supersampling or grid supersampling in Nvidia Inspector and use only 4x MSAA in p3d. It should helps.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikelab6 Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Look here : Perhaps it would help ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdfw Posted July 16, 2017 Author Share Posted July 16, 2017 thanks for the suggestions. i only use 2x msaa as i'm using 4k display and it's sufficient. as for the settings, pretty much the same, not too aggressive but night light loading for p3dv4 still causes pregnant pauses as the night light tiles are loaded way ahead. socal is the worst. as Andrew above said eliminating !FTX eliminates the pauses... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Hi all, I find the new NA "full fat" region config tool option relating to the "new FTX lights" extremely confusing. If you have the full fat region and OpenLC NA - must the box be ticket or not ? The wording is very poor for this config panel option. The manuals do not say anything about this option. Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennH Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 2 hours ago, Rhett said: Hi all, I find the new NA "full fat" region config tool option relating to the "new FTX lights" extremely confusing. If you have the full fat region and OpenLC NA - must the box be ticket or not ? The wording is very poor for this config panel option. The manuals do not say anything about this option. Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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