Waltan

Does warming up the engine have an effect on engine reliability over a single mission? Seems like its more a longterm wear and tear issue which doesn't really affect us ingame. I always run everything in auto and never had an overheat issue on takeoff, that been said I never warm the engine.

Ok. Thanks guys, very informative. So if I get this right, 2700ish rpm for max speed and engine management is a voodoo art. :thumbup:

Are all the limitations for the time you can run the engine at high power purely temperature based or is there another factor? I've noticed at times during a high speed chase at full power the temperature is still relatively low due to the airflow but im worried there is another limit. Another quick one. Is 3000 rpm gonna give me the highest speed in level flight? Cheers

Ok. I guess the CPU is the bottleneck . It never seems to hit 100% on any single core which is the bit i find strange. Runs about 85% on the busiest core. Maybe its an OC setting for individual cores.

Done now, thanks

Thanks. I think i have them optimised. Have max power at 125% Have a custom fan setting but it never gets hot anyway. When i do a stress test the GPU runs 100% Stressed the CPU also and it gets full MHZ.

Thanks. Yeah , the only time theres a problem is when all the bombers start dropping bombs and the fighters show up. I just cant understand why my system is dropping FPS when it appears no one component is showing as maxed out! CHeers anyway.. will get rid of a few bombers, its a shame cus they look awesome in formation.

Thank, Didn't know about the XMP profile. Have done that now. It seems that even at 10fps im only using 10GB of my available RAM and its not being used by anything else. :( . Ive allocated 16384 to the pagefile on my ssd.

Thanks, I should have mentioned , I am using a samsung 960 so no issue there.

I've been playing the P51 bluenose campaign an getting massive FPS drops down into single figure when it gets busy with the bombers. I checked my CPU , GPU and RAM usage during the drops and my CPU is at about 50%(1 thread at about 80%) capacity, my GPU at 60% and using 10GB of my 16 GB of RAM. Can anyone shed some light as to what the bottleneck in my system might be? Admittedly I am running on 1440 resolution but with the setting quite low but I cant understand why one of the 3 components isint at 100% before the frames drop. PS im pretty non tech savvy. I have an i5 8600k CPU OC to 4700mhz. A 1070 GPU slightly OC'd and 16GB of DDR4 RAm at 2133MHz. Any advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks mate. Doesn't seem to make a difference. Its mostly a problem in the spit and 109. P51 seems fine.

Hi Guys, I am having trouble with my rudder. When I centre my pedals and look down the pedals on the aircraft aren't always centred. Sometimes they are . I mostly fly the Spit so this is making a tough aircraft to taxi even harder. I'm pretty sure the Spit tailwheel is free moving so I dont think thats the problem. Any of you experienced a similar issue? Ive uninstalled the saitek software but doesn't seem to make a difference Cheers