Performance advice needed

Hi Fellas,

First post :).

Could you guys please look into the attached specs (furmark & amd settings screenshots included) and let me know if things could be tweaked & performed?

I've had a try modifying the GPU clock settings on AMD overdrive however I'm not confident with this (keep getting the error message: "display driver stopped responding & recovered successfully").

It's worth mentioning that I play using a USB boot (Sandisk Extreme 64GB USB 3.0) with Win10 Pro on it (I'm using a work PC so can't install personal stuff on it hence the USB boot).

Cheers.

JL

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

Intel Core i7 4790 @ 3.60GHz

16.0GB Canal-Double DDR3 @ 798 MHz

Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. G1.Sniper B5-CF

2048 MoATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (Gigabyte)

58GB SanDisk Extreme USB Device (USB (SATA)

specs.txt

keep getting the error message: "display driver stopped responding & recovered successfully").

overclocking VGA didnt do much with my previous AMD card, but if you have problems with above message (even when not VGA overclocked) you might want to try change you MSAA setting to 'not Q', simply 16x might help stability.

Visib range, most people will set to 'Ultra' with your specs, water 'High' eats performance, I have 'low', it's only for reflecting the sun or moon in the water? clutter/grass, set lower, I use only '60' you hardly notice the difference, eats performance, I have trees distance halved and preload 100000

2cts

(my fps 45/65/120 town/avg/countryside)

I don't own AMD card so cannot comment on any settings outside the game.

I'd start with in-game ones though, as there are some glaring things here to adjust. High trees and preload figures eat frames like candy. Notice that even with default "high" gfx preset they're at 9k and 60k respectively. That's for a reason. Also, 16x AA might not be necessary for Your resolution, You wouldn't see all that much visual difference going down to 8, maybe even 4. Any depth of field except "off" murders performance in external views, so unless You make lots of fancy screenshots, think twice if You really need it. Resolution of pit displays, for these planes that actually have them obviously, might be lowered to 512. If You have mirrors on (set in another place), You might reconsider that too, 'cause as useful they are, they also cause serious performance drop in this sim. Visibility distance is hardware demanding parameter too, but with all above readjusted, You should be able to set in on "high" at least.

It also highly depends on what airframe you use, the Ka-50 and Mi-8 are the hardest to crunch and give me about HALF of the fps compared to the 21 or M2k in any scene, any weather.

If you just fly FC3 you may get lucky with the laptop setup you have and little HD space to spare ( swap file !?! have enuff GB left ?? )

But if you want to fly Kamov or Mi-8 you will not have good frame rates unless you lower most or all to medium etc... and that will be your CPU..not the GPU limiting frames there.

overclocking VGA didnt do much with my previous AMD card, but if you have problems with above message (even when not VGA overclocked) you might want to try change you MSAA setting to 'not Q', simply 16x might help stability.

edit: oops, I just saw I put my GTX 970 in 16xQ via NVIDIA tool, with just 'enhance' game settings and transprancy multisampling/supersampling OFF.

No tree shimmer, no 'delayed' refresh (which I noticed with hardly improveing transparancy sampling, and MSAA not working/shimmer).

I would advise the following:

Water => low

Heat Blur => Off

Res of ckpt display => 512

MSAA => 4x

DoF and Lens effects => Off

Clutter/Grass => 0

Tree Vis => half

Preload Radius => 80-100k

Anisotropic => 4x

Mirrors => Off

Begin with those settings and if it is smooth, try enhance the sliders step per step...

The fact is that running on USB drive is quite slow. Much slower than a normal HDD. Have patience...