Huge playability improvement on my four-core i5 7400 - 16 gb ram and GTX 1070 in 1080. I don’t have any quantifiable FPS data because I previously fiddled with settings so often that I never felt I had a good benchmark. And of course spent hours scouring the forums for every trick and tip to improve performance to keep it from stuttering.
But, now, on stock Medium settings, which wasn’t consistently playable before, flying from MDW over downtown Chicago at about 2,300 feet in a 172 I saw CPU usage go from pegging all four cores and constantly bouncing off of 100 percent (and screeching the game to a halt) to a much happier 85-95 percent. I also heard the high-speed fan ramp up for the first time playing.
Playability for me is much more consistent. There are no major or frequent stutters like before unless I’m trying to follow the Chicago River through the buildings, which I accept as not doable because of my hardware and more of a frame rate issue versus what I suspect was a pegged CPU stutter before.
There’s still a small chop here or there but not like before. GPU seems to have stepped up to the plate, and previously was 50-60 percent and is now in the 85-95 percent range.
Overall, super happy what the latest patch did for my machine and how I play.
But, now, on stock Medium settings, which wasn’t consistently playable before, flying from MDW over downtown Chicago at about 2,300 feet in a 172 I saw CPU usage go from pegging all four cores and constantly bouncing off of 100 percent (and screeching the game to a halt) to a much happier 85-95 percent. I also heard the high-speed fan ramp up for the first time playing.
Playability for me is much more consistent. There are no major or frequent stutters like before unless I’m trying to follow the Chicago River through the buildings, which I accept as not doable because of my hardware and more of a frame rate issue versus what I suspect was a pegged CPU stutter before.
There’s still a small chop here or there but not like before. GPU seems to have stepped up to the plate, and previously was 50-60 percent and is now in the 85-95 percent range.
Overall, super happy what the latest patch did for my machine and how I play.