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Can I force an exe to run on the GPU?

miller745

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Hello folks,

Bit of an odd question, but I have a problem with an external program for MS Flight Sim and Prepar3D. Simply put in 32bit FSX this external program that draws graphics for some gauges in the cockpit is fine, but in 64bit P3D the gauge update rate is in the frames per minute. The developer says they don't support AMD cards and seem to be blaming AMD for it. So is there any way I can force this exe to run on the GPU? From googling it looks like it was possible in some old cataylst versions, but I'm not sure if that was just for laptops.
 
The program is called WebSimConnect, it renders gauges to take the workload out of the simulator which has poor performance to start with! I'm not sure how he programmed it. All I can tell them is using process monitor, GPU usage is between 1-30 in Flight Sim X and between 1-8 in Prepar3d, so it's no wonder the update rate is so low.

Found that lowering all graphical details within P3D does increase the update rate, so I wondered if P3D is "stealing" the GPU and not giving WebSimConnect the chance to do its thing.
 
Orcvader said:
It might be just the way the software is coded. Having a look at WebSimConnect, 64-bit support was only added back in July. And even then, it shouldn't really matter if the sim software is 32 or 64-bit. It's more likely that there could be a possible issue of the software not polling the data fast enough or even something on P3D's side not properly sharing the data, but it's really hard to say. If anything, it looks like the developer coded it by himself so there's not really much systems he can test it on. Are you using a browser on the same PC to look at WebSimConnect? Tried Firefox, Chrome, etc? Or even another device on the same network?
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While it uses html to to render the gauges, I can't directly open the .html and view the data its drawing. It's a "void" file with one reference to the pixi.js.

Giving up for now, will keep having a play with it. The developers have given up as well :D
 
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