NVIDIA Control Panel settings
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What are the best settings on the NVIDIA Program control panel settings if i am using an I-5 11th gen 16gb RAM & a Gigabyte 1650 GPU.
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I have a GTX 980TI and the only setting I have changed is, I have made a custom profile for falconbms.exe and I have changed the power management option to “prefer maximum performance”. It keeps the gpu at its max settings while on the sim, and there are no fluctuations on frequency and voltage. But it will be interesting to see how others have setup nvidia cp.
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@LMR-74 What is your OS? And native monitor resolution / refresh-rate.
As of 4.36 the defaults are all pretty good… both in-game, NVidia console, and OS settings.
In borderless-window mode, BMS even seems to support the Windows 10 “fullscreen optimizations” well, as of 4.35.x and later.
Here are my more detailed notes…
OS settings:
For Win10 21H2, I keep Game Mode = On and I add ‘Falcon BMS.exe’ to the list of desktop apps to prefer high-performance mode, although I’m not sure the latter really does anything.
For NVidia 10-series and later, you can turn on HAGS (hardware-accel GPU scheduling) on the “Graphics Settings” page, which will reduce CPU load from DWM.exe but maybe add a little (?) GPU workload. So it’s a ymmv thing. For a 6-core system with GTX 1650, I’d probably recommend it – unless you’re maxing out your GPU (keep an eye on TaskMgr).
NVidia console settings:
These settings are somewhat confusing … if you run borderless mode (recommended, default) many of the selections on the NVidia console (and BMS graphics page) simply won’t apply.
I do like to set “perform scaling on GPU” (on the desktop-size-and-position page) which forces Image Scaling = On. This prevents the PC from ever trying to switch the monitor to different resolution / refresh-rates.
On the 3D settings page… in theory I like Low Latency Mode but in practice I haven’t measured it to have any effect with BMS.
I do recommend setting a Max Refresh Rate limit, if you run with triple-buffering enabled… which I recommend, for most. But this really depends on what frame-rate you’re trying to achieve, and g-sync and v-sync considerations.
For everything else, the defaults seem ok.
BMS in-game Graphics settings:
These settings are also confusing … because again, if you run borderless mode (recommended, default) some of the selections simply won’t apply. eg. the 3D view will always be the native resolution and refresh-rate, of the selected monitor on your Windows desktop.
I recommend cranking up the anti-aliasing to smooth the jaggies on the side of the HUD. (I like 4x for 4k displays… 8x for anything less than 4k. but individual taste may vary)
I also recommend turning on Triple-buffering on this screen, which keeps the rendering pipeline unblocked. But then you may wish to set a Max Refresh Rate limit on Nvidia console, per above.
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Here’s a snap of my nvidia settings, fwiw. (I have i7-9700F and 1660 Ti, so somewhat similar system specs)
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I’m running a 144Hz 1080p monitor driven by an Nvidia RTX 2070 Super (an OC version by ASUS ROG STRIX), with a 12-core AMD 3900 CPU & 32GB RAM.
Here’s an example of my base Nvidia Control Panel settings:
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@airtex2019 said in NVIDIA Control Panel settings:
On the 3D settings page… in theory I like Low Latency Mode but in practice I haven’t measured it to have any effect with BMS.
Yes I also have that setting ON, if I remember correctly it made a big difference to reducing the stuttering that I experience.
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@airtex2019 thx!!!