OK, things are going well, now.For the past couple of weeks, things
WERE NOT going so well.
There was a very significant drop in my flight sim performance. I mean down from 60-70 FPS in dual screen,
down to 6-7FPS. Stutters everywhere, and the sim would actual stop for about 1 to 1.5 seconds every minute or so.Load time was also VERY slow, too.Everyone usually hits a slowdown at the 6% - 7% scenery mark, regardless of the drive type. Yes, an SSD will be faster than a standard HD, but it's still there.
Anyway, that slowdown at the 6% to 7% mark was taking an enormous amount of time. One, two minutes? Closer to two, I think.
It took me a couple of weeks to find the problem(s), and I can't say that I'm proud of finding the solutions.
To make this short, I'll just spell it out.
1) On an SSD
NEVER select "
Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties".
When I first set up the system, I had this un-checked on all three SSDs'. I'm thinking that one of the Windows 10 update decided to change that.
Anyway, with it checked, it seemed to be as slow as an old hard drive.
NOW, the "double click"/start to fly time on Prepar3d is back to 1 minute, 5 seconds.
I should probably post this elsewhere as a warning to check your drive properties.
2) This is the part that is embarrassing.
The smaller of the two power plugs had accidently pulled partially out of it's socket on the video card, making it
look liked it was plugged in when it wasn't.
At this point I'm calling this a success.My motherboard is over clocking the 4.00GHz Skylake CPU to 4.636GHz with fairly low temperatures (130F to 145F using the CPU water cooler). Yet it drops down to 400-600MHz when there's no real demand.
And I'm running Prepar3d on all three screens hitting 45 to 50 FPS.
I could probably chosen better parts here or there, but I'm quite happy as is.