CPU Spikes
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 9:33 pm
Hey all. General question for the FSX folks here:
Any clues as to why I would be getting regular MASSIVE CPU usage spikes and the subsequent drops in FPS in FSX:SE? Crazy thing is that it just started last night. There have been no system changes and up until last night, my setup was solid. Steam did an update yesterday to me. That's the only thing that changed.
I thought it was FlyInside so I uninstalled the latest and deleted all relevant files and installed a prior version. No joy. Have even tugged about on the Affinity Mask setting to try to balance the load. It happens with or without FlyInside running, so FI isn't the culprit. Choice of aircraft doesn't matter either. Nor does location. I'm frame locked at 30 and about every 30 seconds, I go from 29-30 solid frames to 7 and sit there for 30-45 seconds. Returns to normal....30 seconds of relief and another spike. Core 3 runs up to 100% right away and stay there. That appears to be fairly normal for me. But Cores 5 and 7 are the spikey ones and I'm out of magic pixie dust to sprinkle on my rig. I guess the above core numbers aren't actually Cores 3,5,7 since core 1 is actually core 0. So cores 2,4,6 would technically be the correct ones.
Is there anything I can run to see WHAT is loading up the CPU like that? I'm assuming its FSX since it doesn't happen unless it running, but perhaps I am missing something. Really strange since it ran perfectly until last night.
I'm afraid the whole setup is porked and I'm going to have to completely reinstall/reconfig FSX again. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Any help would be awesome.
Rig is a i7-4770k OC 4.6
16GB RAM
980ti 6GB Card. (361.75)
Any clues as to why I would be getting regular MASSIVE CPU usage spikes and the subsequent drops in FPS in FSX:SE? Crazy thing is that it just started last night. There have been no system changes and up until last night, my setup was solid. Steam did an update yesterday to me. That's the only thing that changed.
I thought it was FlyInside so I uninstalled the latest and deleted all relevant files and installed a prior version. No joy. Have even tugged about on the Affinity Mask setting to try to balance the load. It happens with or without FlyInside running, so FI isn't the culprit. Choice of aircraft doesn't matter either. Nor does location. I'm frame locked at 30 and about every 30 seconds, I go from 29-30 solid frames to 7 and sit there for 30-45 seconds. Returns to normal....30 seconds of relief and another spike. Core 3 runs up to 100% right away and stay there. That appears to be fairly normal for me. But Cores 5 and 7 are the spikey ones and I'm out of magic pixie dust to sprinkle on my rig. I guess the above core numbers aren't actually Cores 3,5,7 since core 1 is actually core 0. So cores 2,4,6 would technically be the correct ones.
Is there anything I can run to see WHAT is loading up the CPU like that? I'm assuming its FSX since it doesn't happen unless it running, but perhaps I am missing something. Really strange since it ran perfectly until last night.
I'm afraid the whole setup is porked and I'm going to have to completely reinstall/reconfig FSX again. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Any help would be awesome.
Rig is a i7-4770k OC 4.6
16GB RAM
980ti 6GB Card. (361.75)