Checkmate

We checked all the temps and everything looked good. The stuttering happens right away even before the CPU and GPU heat up. The cooling system on this system is quite beefy and if you want to take a look at it you can go to Digital Storms website and look at the Aventum X. It looks part artwork part functionality. Very cool to watch no pun intended. Thanks for the advice. Feetwet

I don't how to check that. The technician from Digital Storm tried adding MSI burner last night to over clock the GPU by 100 Mhz, which had no affect so I took it off. Thanks for trying to help Bignewy. Regards, Feetwet

We tried Heaven Benchmark with all settings maxed out and it was smooth as silk. We also ran DCS in windows mode while looking at the Task Manager and Performance tab and we did not see anything abnormal that we could see. Even with the plane not moving paused in the air with the training mission still running the framerate was dropping out from 60 FPS down to 40 or sometimes 20 FPS and right back up. This is my first game so I have not loaded anything else. But the tech tried FurMark Benchmark, Heaven Benchmark and CPU Loading software and everything ran ultra smooth. Thanks for the feedback. Feetwet

Hi Guys, Looking for a little help. After watching all those cool videos on YouTube about DCS I went out and bought a high-end PC that I was hoping could run DCS smoothly. See a list of hardware build Info below. I download the standard build 2.5.6 and I have tried the Beta as well. I loaded a training missions with different setting all producing the same noticeable studders as I move my head around with Track IR. I have tried different video setting from high to low. Tried different missions and different terrain and aircraft. No different. I loaded a training mission and with the plane paused while the instructor is talking I see the framerate dropping out every second from 70 FPS down to 20 FPS and then back up. I notice the B sweep on the radar is not smooth and my head movement with Track IR is jerky. As I roll the aircraft 360 degrees around (Aileron roll) I can see it pausing during the maneuver ever second or so briefly in the roll making the maneuverer look jerky. I've tried the lowest video settings and even lowered my resolutions. I tried turning G-sync off and even turned off all applications I could running in the background off. I checked the Nvidia drivers are up-to-date. Deleted DCS and reinstalled. Nothing gets rid of these studders. Not sure what else to try. I spoke with Digital Storm the company that built the PC and they tested it with their software and they say everything is running fine on the PC. They tried loading the CPU and Graphics card and all looks good. They suggested I reach out to the DCS community for help. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks, Feetwet :helpsmilie: PC Hardware CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Motherboard: ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha System Memory: 128GB DDR4 3200MHz Graphics Card: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB Storage Drive: 3x SSD M.2 (2TB Seagate FireCuba) (MVM Express) (Gen 4 PCIe) Cooling: Liquid Cooled Monitor: LG UltraGear 38GL950G (3840x1600 native)