Hello everyone,
I am posting to see if I can get some insight on how to improve my frame rate in DCS. My current pc specs are as follows.
Intel i7 8700K @ 5GHz
EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW3
32GB of RAM
DCS World exclusively installed on NVMe SSD
3x 32 in 60hz 1080p monitors for a combined resolution of 5760x1080
I currently have these settings set in game
Textures-High
Terrain Textures-High
Civilian Traffic-low
Water-High
Visible Range-High
Heat Blur-High
Shadows-High
Resolution-5760x1080
Aspect Ratio-5.333333333333
Monitors- 3 Screen
Res of Cockpit Displays-512
MSAA-off
Depth of Field-off
Lens Effects-Dirt+Flare
Motion Blur- off
SSAA-off
SSLR-off
Clutter/Grass-1000
Trees Visibility-80%
Preload Radius-50000
Chimney Smoke Density-1
Gamma-1.5
Ansiotropic Filtering-16x
Terrain Object Shadows-Flat
Cockpit Global Illumination-off
Rain droplets-on
V-sync-off
Full Screen-on
Nvidia settings are on FXAA, Adaptive V-sync and Maximum Performance.
My problem goes like this as soon as I fly parallel over a city or trees on the new Syria map my frame rate takes a plunge to 37-40fps. With constant stutters through out the flight even at high altitude. If I fly the plane perpendicular to the terrain even in a big city or trees my frame rate stays constant at the locked 60fps. If I straighten out to 0 degrees the frame rate drops again.
I have tried many things to alleviate the problem from running the game on LOW settings to deleting FXO and Metashaders folders, adding the autoexec file for no device hotplug and the Windows setting for Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling. Also tried Process Lasso to no avail. I have combed the forums for these fixes but still the problem persists. Please someone help.