Instant P3Dv5.4 reload

[sotiris]

After initial load of the sim, in the middle of a flight either on ground or in flight, I see all of a sudden the reload tab showing the progress.
This can be shown a couple of times or more during a situation (flight).
I wonder if that could be an "ominous" sign for the future.

[JorgenSA]

I have never seen this on my own v. 5.4 installation, even with a lot of add-on scenery, photoscenery and AI aircraft with their AI flight plans.

Is your 5.4 installed on a mechanical hard drive, and what are your system specifications?

Jorgen

[sotiris]

Hi Jorgen,

No, it is installed on SSD.

My specs :
Win 10 Pro 64
Intel Core i9 3.5 GHz
RAM 32 GB
Gigabyte Technology Z590 UD AC (U3E1)
LG ULTRAGEAR (1920x1080@144Hz) S2202W (1680x1050@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Gigabyte)
931GB Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB (Unknown (SSD))
931GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB (SATA (SSD)) 26 °C
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162 (SATA )

[JorgenSA]

If your CPU is indeed running at 3.5 GHz, you might consider overclocking it.

Also you could go here:

https://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv5/prepar3d ... ation.html

and here:

https://simmershome.de/prepare3d-v5-einstellungen/ (this site is in German, there is an English-language option)

And to calculate your AffinityMask, use this calculator:

http://izn-flightsim.s3-website-us-east ... inity.html

All this is to tailor P3D to your particular hardware configuration.

Jorgen

[sotiris]

Checked my P3D.cfg and found almost all suggested values in there. I only added SWAP_WAIT_TIMEOUT=30 and FIBER_FRAME_TIME _FRACTION=30. I wonder if I need to revert to texturemaxload=6 instead of 9.
As for affinity mask it is =65535 (physical cpu cores=8 and total logical processors=16). Do I have to change anything here ?
The issue doesn't occur in every flight, it appears rather randomly.