Really struggling with IL-2 on new 2080 Ti FTW3 - SOLVED!

[dburne]

4 minutes ago, 216th_Retnek said:

 

Step by step - and this will be by far the most important one. Due to my small-scale SSD I'm sometimes forced to move some games in Steam from the SSD to the old HD . And next to the can't-stand-the-HD-loading-times-no-longer-frustration there IS a performance difference, too!

 

(btw: don't like Steam that much, but this one-click-option "move your game to a repository of your choice" is a real advantage. Hopefully other game- and sim-companies feel the need to copy that feature!)

 

Yeah Oculus has that too now (For Oculus installed games only), very easy to move the entire game directory to different drives/partitions as needed.

Pretty cool feature, as my gaming drive continues to tighten I find myself doing that more. I will move some that I have not played in months to my platter drive just for storage, then back to the SSD when I get ready to start playing it again.

[ZachariasX]

2 hours ago, dburne said:

Yes SSD will mostly just help loading times. With an m.2 maybe gain an fps or two.

If you run the games from an SSD just ONCE, you NEVER go back to a spinning disk. (Although you might do that. Once.) Spinning disks are only good for cold storage. Besides, SSD are dead cheap these days.

[Alonzo]

15 hours ago, TheSNAFU said:

I have been thinking about upgrading my setup and have done a fair amount of reads and reviews of new hardware. What I am still not clear on is whether the current crop of CPU's, motherboards, memory + drives makes much difference in IL2 vs. my current stuff. Opinions vary. My old I7 is running problem free at 4.6 at nice low temps (for several years), memory at 1600 (OC'd) and a 1080 sc2 at stock speeds. The drive in a 6 year old hdd at 7200 rpm. Win 7. Running at 1080p, Ultra settings with some concessions like lower distance high shadows, medium mirrors.

 

Yet at low/low settings in PWCG I sometimes get micro stutters, stuttering and a general chugging  particularly in Kuban even though the game counter reports a rock solid 60 fps (locked w/vsync) When there isnt much happening on the ground, the game mostly runs near perfectly. I want to eliminate the issue but I'm not sure if a full upgrade is needed. I thought about installing a fast M2 SSD for boot and IL2 but it seems most say it just boots and loads faster and doesnt help performance. I have no current plans to play at higher than 1080p resolution. Tried all the regular stuff, ht off, current drivers etc. 

 

The GTX 1080 is enough to get very good performance, so the micro-stutters are going to be caused by the rest of your rig not providing data to the GPU fast enough. As other people have said, it could be CPU, RAM or disk speed that is the problem (you didn't mention which generation of i7 you're on -- it does make a difference, IPC gains have been significant despite what some posters may believe).

 

The zero cost option is to switch down from Ultra to High graphics preset. This will give your CPU more headroom when you are near the ground or there are lots of effects happening. I find the Kuban map is a total pig and my rig performs worst on this map. If you still get stutters with lowered settings it implies to me something other than CPU grunt is required.

 

The next lowest cost option would be an SSD just big enough for IL2, and put it on there and see. Next most costly would be an SSD big enough for Windows + IL2 and then doing a fresh install of Windows. That would eliminate system disk and IL2 disk. Don't worry about m.2 or any of that stuff, a cheap SATA SSD is a massive upgrade over spinning rust and you will like it a lot. You can get this Kingston 240GB SSD for $48 (CAD) and although it's 'only' an entry-level SSD it's ridiculously faster than your old hard drive: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/btDzK8/kingston-a400-240gb-25-solid-state-drive-sa400s37240g

 

Unfortunately from there your costs go up quite a lot, because you will need new CPU, mobo and RAM, and you'll basically need to buy them all together. If you have no plans to play in VR then almost any modern CPU will do fine, for example an i5-8400 is pretty good. For RAM, make sure to get 3200 mhz RAM because IL2 really likes frequency/low-latency.

[ZachariasX]

28 minutes ago, Alonzo said:

-- it does make a difference, IPC gains have been significant despite what some posters may believe

How much qualifies for „significant“ to you?

[TheSNAFU]

Thanks for the thoughts all. As I Mentioned fps don't seem to be the problem when the micro and prolonged stuttering issues happen. They are nailed at 60 at all times limited only by vsync at the 60 hz refresh of my HDTV I play on. Because fps are good and don't fluctuate at all could an SSD make a difference with this type of problem? 

Edited November 2, 2018 by TheSNAFU

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

41 minutes ago, TheSNAFU said:

Thanks for the thoughts all. As I Mentioned fps don't seem to be the problem when the stuttering issues happen. They are nailed at 60 at all times limited only by vsync at the 60 hz refresh of my HDTV I play on. Could an SSD make a difference with this problem? 

It almost certainly is the framerate. The number displayed in the game doesn't mean much; it doesn't show instantaneous frametime spikes.

 

It's hard to say what would make a difference because there are very many hardware and software variables. The first thing to try is a clean Windows installation with only network and graphics drivers. That would eliminate any possible software problems.

 

The GTX 1080 should deliver a flawless experience at 1080p with maximum settings if it isn't being held back by the rest of your system. That is certain.

 

Without specific benchmark results that show exactly how bad the performance is, it's hard to say what's going on. The CPU, although somewhat dated, should still perform well thanks to the aggressive overclock. Although the RAM is rather slow at 1600 MHz, it shouldn't matter much. The hard drive only makes a difference when the game is reading/writing data. That's mostly before mission start, but it does happen continuously to some extent. If the storage is exceptionally slow, it may conceivably cause stutters.

[Alonzo]

1 hour ago, TheSNAFU said:

Thanks for the thoughts all. As I Mentioned fps don't seem to be the problem when the micro and prolonged stuttering issues happen. They are nailed at 60 at all times limited only by vsync at the 60 hz refresh of my HDTV I play on. Because fps are good and don't fluctuate at all could an SSD make a difference with this type of problem? 

 

If you're on spinning rust, in 2018, and you have $50 in your pocket to try a fix, you should 100% go get a 240GB SSD and do a fresh install of Windows + IL2 onto it. Even if it doesn't fix the IL2 stuttering you will get $50 worth of value out of having your PC running fantastically faster in general usage. Seriously, anyone who has gone SSD will never go back. It's a night and day difference.

 

Here's a US parts list sorted by price-per-gigabyte. I can't vouch for the specific performance of each of these drives but they will kick the snot out of a mechanical hard drive. You can get a 480GB SSD for $57.99, it's crazy how cheap this stuff is.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=0&sort=ppgb&page=1

 

If you want something that I 100% know is good, then something like a Samsung Evo drive will do you well (I have two, they rock). It's a bit more $/GB but you can still get 250GB for $55:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/sNc48d/samsung-860-evo-250gb-25-solid-state-drive-mz-76e250bam

Also, no offence, but I think the term "micro stutter" is often misused. I think it's most appropriately used in conjunction with things like an SLI effect where the interaction of the two GPUs causes frames to be rendered at unpredictable times. Here you probably mean "visually juddering graphics for very short periods" which frankly could either be IL2's main thread getting hung up on heavy processing (physics etc) or your PC doing something else and IL2 not getting enough resources or IL2 loading something from disk at an inopportune time and your hard drive taking a while to supply the data. Since you have a single GPU, and it's a nice beefy 1080, I would guess you're really seeing framerate drops.

 

You can use FRAPS to record a gaming session. If you choose the "record frame times" option you can then analyse your frame times using this:

 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/frafsbenchview/files/

 

I've been using this to visualize slowdowns in VR gameplay. You might be able to catch the stutters using this tool.

[TheSNAFU]

Thanks so much for the information, links and all. Very much appreciate it. I'll check fps with fraps. The game fps reads solid 60 but maybe fraps will show something different. Also I think I'm convinced to get an ssd. It can't hurt right! And it and a clean upgrade to win 10 may solve the issue. Not to concerned about cost so looking at the evo 860 500 gb. 

 

I agree my micro stutter reference may not have been the best choice of term. Visually it's like a hitch or hicup once in a while. Could happen a short time from takeoff or at some orhet random spot. This is in addition to the stuttering I noted. Anyway I'll do some testing and get that ssd. I can always use it in a new build if I have to go there. Thanks again gents!

 

dburne sorry about all the none 2080ti talk. I didn't intend to hijack your thread lol. 

[dburne]

4 hours ago, TheSNAFU said:

Thanks so much for the information, links and all. Very much appreciate it. I'll check fps with fraps. The game fps reads solid 60 but maybe fraps will show something different. Also I think I'm convinced to get an ssd. It can't hurt right! And it and a clean upgrade to win 10 may solve the issue. Not to concerned about cost so looking at the evo 860 500 gb. 

 

I agree my micro stutter reference may not have been the best choice of term. Visually it's like a hitch or hicup once in a while. Could happen a short time from takeoff or at some orhet random spot. This is in addition to the stuttering I noted. Anyway I'll do some testing and get that ssd. I can always use it in a new build if I have to go there. Thanks again gents!

 

dburne sorry about all the none 2080ti talk. I didn't intend to hijack your thread lol. 

 

No worries.

As far as my "perceived" issue, I am not concerned any longer. After getting much more time in with it , the card is performing quite well especially when it needs to.

 

The card does still run at a much lower clock when on runway and down very low in this particular game, but even still then I have very smooth performance now.

 

Edited November 2, 2018 by dburne

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 Even I use AMD card it runs at lower clocks than it could in IL-2. It does not boost itself to the maximum. Activity is 99% but clocks on GPU are on second highest level, memory is at maximum all the time.

[TheSNAFU]

I ran a bunch of fps tests using fraps. Looking at min/max and average FPS it didnt look much different than the game fps counter. Mostly right at 60. If it ever dropped below 60 it was a single drop to 55-57 fps then immediately back to 60 over a burning Stalingrad with 20 or so planes involved. During these test there were hitches and stuttering. I ordered an EVO 860 500gb ssd and will do a clean Win 7 install. Was going to put Win 10 on it but ASUS did not support it on my X79 deluxe board. Rather disappointing actually given ASUS position in the mb market. Even the X79 boards they claim support Win 10 they say the boards are "in testing". What!  ASUS, still testing a several year old OS? Guess you dont want to rush into anything lol!   

 

The SSD is unlikely to make much difference in game but it will make the pc run better overall and who knows maybe the combo of the ssd and clean windows will help. I can use the SSD in a new build if it comes to that. 

Edited November 4, 2018 by TheSNAFU

[DD_fruitbat]

Sorry to jump into this thread, but theres been lots of useful and interesting stuff in here.

 

I'm just about ready to pull the trigger on a new PC, which I'm buying primarily for VR in this game and DCS. I've been bidding my time a bit, as i was waiting for the new nvidia cards to arrive and also second gen VR headsets (leaning towards HTC vive pro although once i have the PC, thats when i'll really research and decide the headset), and have been squirrelling away money all summer!

 

Here is the specs i'm leaning towards, any observations and comments welcome, thanks, fb.

 

Quote

Case

COOLERMASTER MASTERCASE H500M GAMING CASE

Overclocked CPU

Overclocked Intel® Core™ i7-9700K Eight Core (3.60GHz @ up to 5.0GHz)

Motherboard

ASUS® ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready

Memory (RAM)

32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 8GB)

Graphics Card

11GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 Ti - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready! (Pre-Order Only)

1^st Hard Disk

NOT REQUIRED

1^st M.2 SSD Drive

1TB SAMSUNG 970 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 2700MB/W)

 

FREE Assassin's Creed: Odyssey with select SAMSUNG NVMe SSDs!

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive

NOT REQUIRED

Power Supply

CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Power Cable

1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Processor Cooling

Corsair H115i PRO Cooler w/ PCS Liquid Series Ultra Quiet Fans

Thermal Paste

COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND

 

Edited November 5, 2018 by DD_fruitbat

[dburne]

5 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

Sorry to jump into this thread, but theres been lots of useful and interesting stuff in here.

 

I'm just about ready to pull the trigger on a new PC, which I'm buying primarily for VR in this game and DCS. I've been bidding my time a bit, as i was waiting for the new nvidia cards to arrive and also second gen VR headsets (leaning towards HTC vive pro), and been squirrelling away money all summer!

 

Here is the specs i'm leaning towards, any observations and comments welcome, thanks, fb.

 

 

 

 

Looks pretty darn good to me!

I am currently gathering parts for my new build as well, which will be very similar.

 

Btw, be sure and make use of that new Virtual Link Port on that 2080 Ti. Makes VR setup a breeze having everything plugged into it.

All you will need is a USB-C adapter for it.

 

In my Rift I have both sensors, headset usb, and HDMI plugged into it - and it is rocking solid.

 

 

[IckyATLAS]

Thank you for sharing and experimenting the new RTX GPU boards. On various forums and You tube videos appear a lot of comments about bad boards, many breaking down after a few days or weeks of use, as well as driver issues. And finally after reading the whole thread, I decided to wait a little before investing in a RTX 2800 Ti board. Generally I buy Asus GPU boards, as I have always Asus Motherboards (top versions) with Intel CPUs in my rigs. I may be wrong but I always went by the idea that having two boards from the same manufacturer is always better in terms of compatibility. In twenty years of building my own PCs I have never had an issue with Asus (except once a DOA Motherboard that was immediately replaced by a new one). I tried some ATI boards of the Radeon series but from other manufacturers at a time when Nvidia boards were less performant. But always had driver issues, problems etc. So finally I stick exclusively with Asus MB and Asus Nvidia GPU.

Today I have an Asus GTX 1080 Ti and I play in 4K with all settings to the absolute maximum, plus a lot of mods including the ones with high grass and flowers everywhere (I use a rendering radius of 500 meters) , and detailed tree textures, and frankly it does very well. You get some light stuttering due to low framerate only when you are at  near ground level near a dense forest and high grass. But ok it is manageable as you are rarely in those conditions. Win 10 and Il2 (as well as other applications) stand on separate fast SSDs. This is to keep Il2 but also all other application separate from the Win 10 processing. When windows accesses its SSD it does not impact other applications accessing their own SSD. RAM is 64GB fast one and CPU is Intel i7 7820X at 4Ghz flat for all eight cores, and no Hyperthreading.

I do not play VR so I have less framerate issues probably.

All this to say that waiting at the moment is maybe the best option. Anyway the availability of the boards is pretty scarce, and with my vendors they all have at least a month of delay before they can deliver. So let's pass Christmas season and see beginning next year how things go. I hope that in the meantime the devs will also experiment with these new boards and improve the Il2 code in the next upgrades to better use them.

 

 

 

[Alonzo]

On 11/4/2018 at 4:00 PM, TheSNAFU said:

I ordered an EVO 860 500gb ssd and will do a clean Win 7 install. Was going to put Win 10 on it but ASUS did not support it on my X79 deluxe board. Rather disappointing actually given ASUS position in the mb market. Even the X79 boards they claim support Win 10 they say the boards are "in testing". What!  ASUS, still testing a several year old OS? Guess you dont want to rush into anything lol!   

 

You might try installing Win7 and then doing an upgrade to Win10. My 6-year old 3770k and associated motherboard worked fine upgraded to Windows 10. As far as I know Windows 10 is significantly better for gaming than the older OSes, but of course you might be fine and happy with Win7.

[TheSNAFU]

7 hours ago, Alonzo said:

You might try installing Win7 and then doing an upgrade to Win10. My 6-year old 3770k and associated motherboard worked fine upgraded to Windows 10. As far as I know Windows 10 is significantly better for gaming than the older OSes, but of course you might be fine and happy with Win7.

 

My original plan was to put Win 10 on much for the reason you noted but I learned my X79 Deluxe is not listed by ASUS  as supporting it. I looked around and didnt find much in terms of others with the board successfully using Win 10. As a result I decided to live with Win 7. 

[Warpig]

16 hours ago, TheSNAFU said:

 

My original plan was to put Win 10 on much for the reason you noted but I learned my X79 Deluxe is not listed by ASUS  as supporting it. I looked around and didnt find much in terms of others with the board successfully using Win 10. As a result I decided to live with Win 7. 

I wouldn't be too concerned about compatibility with Win 10. I had an Asus Maximus Z68 board that originally had Win 7 installed.  When I upgraded to Win 10, there wasn't any driver issues. You could always take a look at their website and see if they list Win 10 drivers for your MB.

 

[IckyATLAS]

On 11/5/2018 at 8:44 PM, DD_fruitbat said:

Sorry to jump into this thread, but theres been lots of useful and interesting stuff in here.

 

I'm just about ready to pull the trigger on a new PC, which I'm buying primarily for VR in this game and DCS. I've been bidding my time a bit, as i was waiting for the new nvidia cards to arrive and also second gen VR headsets (leaning towards HTC vive pro although once i have the PC, thats when i'll really research and decide the headset), and have been squirrelling away money all summer!

 

Here is the specs i'm leaning towards, any observations and comments welcome, thanks, fb.

 

 

Excellent. I would add an additional SSD and have Win10 and applications/games etc. on separate disks.

[icecream]

On 11/2/2018 at 9:43 AM, dburne said:

 

No worries.

As far as my "perceived" issue, I am not concerned any longer. After getting much more time in with it , the card is performing quite well especially when it needs to.

 

The card does still run at a much lower clock when on runway and down very low in this particular game, but even still then I have very smooth performance now.

 

 

 

Edited November 8, 2018 by icecream

[dburne]

Yeah that is a different issue, related to the EVGA RTX 2080 Ti XC card. Should be fixed soon with a firmware update.

https://forums.evga.com/RTX-2080-Ti-XC-Gaming-is-stuck-at-1350MHz-m2879476.aspx

 

Mine does not stay stuck at 1350 Mhz, only happens when on runway or down very low in IL-2, and does not happen at all in any other game.

 

Edited November 8, 2018 by dburne

[icecream]

38 minutes ago, dburne said:

Yeah that is a different issue, related to the EVGA RTX 2080 Ti XC card. Should be fixed soon with a firmware update.

https://forums.evga.com/RTX-2080-Ti-XC-Gaming-is-stuck-at-1350MHz-m2879476.aspx

 

Mine does not stay stuck at 1350 Mhz, only happens when on runway or down very low in IL-2, and does not happen at all in any other game.

 

My bad, you can however lock the core clock and mem with the EVGA software for now, it's called K-boost.

[dburne]

1 minute ago, icecream said:

My bad, you can however lock the core clock and mem with the EVGA software for now, it's called K-boost.

 

To my knowledge Precision X1 for the RTX cards does not have that, at least yet - it is still Beta and being developed.

I have done so though with Afterburner.

While it locks my GPU core clock, GPU usage numbers are still very low when down low or on runway, which is why the card was not boosting in those instances.

 

Hopefully here in a month or so I will get my new build together ( just waiting on the i9 9900k on pre-order and EVGA Z390 Dark MB).

Will be interesting to see if that makes any difference to this oddity with IL-2.

[dburne]

I saw a report on EVGA forum a fella got his new i9 9900k running at 5.2 GHz on all cores and stable with the EVGA Z390 FTW board.

I am still holding out for the Dark version.

Patience...

Edited November 8, 2018 by dburne

[Alonzo]

Did you see this @dburne ? It's a Gamers Nexus investigation into problems with RTX 2080ti cards. This one is 'locked' at 1350 Mhz:

 

Edit: someone already posted the video, sorry.

 

Edited November 9, 2018 by Alonzo
Duplicate.

[dburne]

11 minutes ago, Alonzo said:

Did you see this @dburne ? It's a Gamers Nexus investigation into problems with RTX 2080ti cards. This one is 'locked' at 1350 Mhz:

 

 

 

Yes,  that is not what is going on in my case. That is on a different card model - the 2080 Ti XC,  and it stays at 1350 Mhz, and sounds like EVGA is working on a fix they can push out in firmware.

 

Mine only does that in IL-2, no other games, and only when down low or on runway.  Still odd, when I get my new build done here in next few weeks 

will be interesting to see if that makes any difference.

[TheSNAFU]

1 hour ago, dburne said:

Mine only does that in IL-2, no other games, and only when down low or on runway.  Still odd, when I get my new build done here in next few weeks 

will be interesting to see if that makes any difference.

 

It seems backwards to me. Wouldn't the card want more juice when down low or on the runway? 

On 11/7/2018 at 2:52 PM, Warpig said:

I wouldn't be too concerned about compatibility with Win 10. I had an Asus Maximus Z68 board that originally had Win 7 installed.  When I upgraded to Win 10, there wasn't any driver issues. You could always take a look at their website and see if they list Win 10 drivers for your MB.

 

ASUS is not offering anything related to Win 10 on my board including Win 10 drivers.  Odd that they have supported at least one lesser board than mine. It is what it is I guess. Definetely a bit bummed about not feeling good about putting on the newer OS.  

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

On 11/8/2018 at 1:03 PM, icecream said:

considering the 1080 was faster than the 1080ti , I wouldn't hold my breath.( in this game that is, unless someone lied about their results in the benchmark thread.)

and this was a while ago itho, but it will be interesting nevertheless. 

 

 

If you mean the VR thread: FYI that was due to a clean system and better cpu as far as I remember. The game bottlenecks by the cpu first with the benchmark settings we used in that thread - the Gpu being largely irrelevant until you ramp up super sampling. 

[Herne]

I'm stepping up from a 4970k to i9 9900k and 2080ti, and hoping to fire up IL2 in VR tonight.

ASW would kick in quite frequently before, so I'm really hoping to see a significant difference.

[Warpig]

13 hours ago, TheSNAFU said:

 

It seems backwards to me. Wouldn't the card want more juice when down low or on the runway? 

 

ASUS is not offering anything related to Win 10 on my board including Win 10 drivers.  Odd that they have supported at least one lesser board than mine. It is what it is I guess. Definetely a bit bummed about not feeling good about putting on the newer OS.  

To be honest, I'm sure I didn't even check or think about driver compatibility when I upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10. I just took it for granted and it worked out. I understand though if you don't want to take that chance.

 

If it was a free upgrade you were doing, you do have the option of rolling back if it didn't work out.

[Retnek]

15 hours ago, TheSNAFU said:

ASUS is not offering anything related to Win 10 on my board including Win 10 drivers.  Odd that they have supported at least one lesser board than mine. It is what it is I guess. Definetely a bit bummed about not feeling good about putting on the newer OS.  

Don't worry, my board ASUS P8P67 is as old as yours. I switched quite early when Windows 10 had tons of problems with the update procedures etc. That's easy going today. I had my troubles with Wondows10, but there never-ever has been a problem originating from the motherboard. Even some strange malfunctions of the onboard ether-net card during intense browser-sessions made it from Windows7 to 10.

[dburne]

y Irregular 1 minute ago (permalink)

Update:
 

I found the culprit! And I am a little embarrassed.
So I was only having this issue in IL-2. The others I run were no problem.
 
Well, I use profiles in the Nvidia Control Panel for each of my games. I always have. And I leave the global settings at default. In my game profiles, all I would set in there now that I game in VR, was " Prefer Maximum Performance".
So today I just went into the global settings, where by default it was at Optimal, and changed it also to Prefer Maximum Performance.
 
 
Bingo! My card now gets full boost in this game! So apparently that setting in the Nvidia Control Panel was not taking for whatever reason with IL-2. The others did, but not this one.
Issue solved now, getting full boost consistently, so I am quite happy to know that was the cause. I will just leave the global at that setting now.

I am a little embarrassed it did not occur to me to check that earlier, but could have sworn my profile had always worked before. Well at least I am golden now!

 

 

 

[icecream]

Just now, dburne said:

y Irregular 1 minute ago (permalink)

Update:
 

I found the culprit! And I am a little embarrassed.
So I was only having this issue in IL-2. The others I run were no problem.
 
Well, I use profiles in the Nvidia Control Panel for each of my games. I always have. And I leave the global settings at default. In my game profiles, all I would set in there now that I game in VR, was " Prefer Maximum Performance".
So today I just went into the global settings, where by default it was at Optimal, and changed it also to Prefer Maximum Performance.
 
 
Bingo! My card now gets full boost in this game! So apparently that setting in the Nvidia Control Panel was not taking for whatever reason with IL-2. The others did, but not this one.
Issue solved now, getting full boost consistently, so I am quite happy to know that was the cause. I will just leave the global at that setting now.

I am a little embarrassed it did not occur to me to check that earlier, but could have sworn my profile had always worked before. Well at least I am golden now!

 

 

 

Didn't you say that you've checked that in the first post?

 

"And yes, all the usual suspects are checked off. Only drivers and PhysX. Prefer Maximum Performance selected. Changing in game graphics settings has no effect."

 

anyways, glad it's working now.

[dburne]

21 minutes ago, icecream said:

Didn't you say that you've checked that in the first post?

 

"And yes, all the usual suspects are checked off. Only drivers and PhysX. Prefer Maximum Performance selected. Changing in game graphics settings has no effect."

 

anyways, glad it's working now.

 

Yes I did check - my profile for IL-2 I did have set for " Prefer Maximum Performance" just like I always have.

For some reason now apparently that is not applying to IL-2 ( my other game profiles worked no problem).

Can't explain the why, but also changing the global setting cured it.

 

Getting really good performance now.

[Hanu]

1 hour ago, dburne said:

y Irregular 1 minute ago (permalink)

Update:
 

I found the culprit! And I am a little embarrassed.
So I was only having this issue in IL-2. The others I run were no problem.
 
Well, I use profiles in the Nvidia Control Panel for each of my games. I always have. And I leave the global settings at default. In my game profiles, all I would set in there now that I game in VR, was " Prefer Maximum Performance".
So today I just went into the global settings, where by default it was at Optimal, and changed it also to Prefer Maximum Performance.
 
 
Bingo! My card now gets full boost in this game! So apparently that setting in the Nvidia Control Panel was not taking for whatever reason with IL-2. The others did, but not this one.
Issue solved now, getting full boost consistently, so I am quite happy to know that was the cause. I will just leave the global at that setting now.

I am a little embarrassed it did not occur to me to check that earlier, but could have sworn my profile had always worked before. Well at least I am golden now!

 

 

 

Don't be embarrassed... thank you for bringing this up and explaining what you've found!. I learned a great deal of GPU settings in my rig thanks to your thread.

[dburne]

12 minutes ago, Hanu said:

Don't be embarrassed... thank you for bringing this up and explaining what you've found!. I learned a great deal of GPU settings in my rig thanks to your thread.

 

Thanks much Hanu!

[TheSNAFU]

Glad to hear you found it dburne. More times than not isn't it usually something silly! The compensation is it isn't driving ya crazy any longer trying to find the problem lol!

[JonRedcorn]

Care to say what kind of framerates you are actually getting? We have multiple people here with 2080tis and not one single post with actual numbers. Kind of important to get that kind of info for future buyers willing to spend 1300+ dollars on a gpu.

[dburne]

7 hours ago, 15th_JonRedcorn said:

Care to say what kind of framerates you are actually getting? We have multiple people here with 2080tis and not one single post with actual numbers. Kind of important to get that kind of info for future buyers willing to spend 1300+ dollars on a gpu.

 

As I discussed earlier, I would not suggest making such a large investment for anyone looking for a fps increase, especially if they are already running a 10x card.

Now it does have at least some nice benefits, I can run a higher SS setting and a higher Graphics setting than I could with my 1080 Ti. And the new Virtual LInk port is pretty neat for plugging my Rift's connections into.

But I certainly can not say, going from 1080 Ti to 2080 Ti, that it was worth the cost for what I gained. This would be very subjective to the individual.

If only for counting fps, certainly not.

 

I fly with ASW off, and my framerates will run anywhere from 45-90 fps depending of course on where I am in the environment. Take off and landing 45 fps. Climbing out will get into the 50's, and higher I go the higher the fps climbs until it hits the 90 fps cap. 

If I saw an improvement in fps department, it was small.

The overall  experience is very smooth and stutter free. I could however say the same with the 1080 Ti.

[JonRedcorn]

5 hours ago, dburne said:

 

As I discussed earlier, I would not suggest making such a large investment for anyone looking for a fps increase, especially if they are already running a 10x card.

Now it does have at least some nice benefits, I can run a higher SS setting and a higher Graphics setting than I could with my 1080 Ti. And the new Virtual LInk port is pretty neat for plugging my Rift's connections into.

But I certainly can not say, going from 1080 Ti to 2080 Ti, that it was worth the cost for what I gained. This would be very subjective to the individual.

If only for counting fps, certainly not.

 

I fly with ASW off, and my framerates will run anywhere from 45-90 fps depending of course on where I am in the environment. Take off and landing 45 fps. Climbing out will get into the 50's, and higher I go the higher the fps climbs until it hits the 90 fps cap. 

If I saw an improvement in fps department, it was small.

The overall  experience is very smooth and stutter free. I could however say the same with the 1080 Ti.

Thank you for this. I think you'd see a marked improvement with a better cpu, and I saw you fixed the boosting issue. When are you getting that new rig setup?

[dburne]

16 minutes ago, 15th_JonRedcorn said:

Thank you for this. I think you'd see a marked improvement with a better cpu, and I saw you fixed the boosting issue. When are you getting that new rig setup?

 

Currently getting parts in for it now.

Waiting on the CPU - i9 9900k I have on pre-order with Amazon ( latest update sounds like early Dec).

Waiting on the EVGA Z390 Dark to be released - hopefully by the same time.

 

One thing I can say, I  am able to crank some graphic settings up with this new GPU without any noticeable drop in performance.