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    Nice!
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    For DCS in-game settings I found it to work the best by just turning everything down and one by one check what each setting does for your performance and your personal visual experience when you play around with it. Imho some things are just too taxing for very limited gain and some I can even hardly spot. When I am in the middle of the action I also don't really look at how nice reflections are etc. It is still immersive when everything is at low because I get used to it. But I do get irritated by trees popping up, unclear instruments, lags or microstutters and things like that, those things for me break the immersion. Some settings can be played with while in the game. For example the sliders for trees etc. I turn them down when I know we will fly low in green fjords. Best to try each change for yourself. Just run a test before/after and also see what your experience is within the headset. I sometimes had good numbers but strange things happening visually. I sometimes tried a couple of settings at the same time, trying to save some time, but to be honest it does happen that I still have to go back and check them one by one because the effect was counterproductive and I was not sure which one was the cause. So I would recommend to just take them one at a time. The current experience is pretty stable and I still have quite a backlog of things to check and further work on. But I am not in a hurry and sometimes just like to fly as well
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    Yes I think our objectives have quite some overlap. I aim at getting the best performance out of my own hardware, which to me translates in a stable/stutter-free experience, which for me began when I first got my G2 and was fighting to get a decent picture in my headset. So I try to get as close as possible to 90fps without microstutters (1% lows), which I try to realize by stripping and silencing Windows (which is a pretty big chunk of it) and optimizing all the hardware, DCS and the additional software my rig is running. Your checklist is fine; it points to items for people to look at. Some of the things that work differently for me (and are sometimes contrary to popular belief or recommendations that are given here and there); game mode, full screen, HAGS, HPET, overclock on my CPU and GPU, limiting FPS. So my main point would be to check the recommendations, but not blindly follow everything and test things for yourself (if you have the time and interest to do so). Look at the numbers and the experience in the headset (sometimes for me they did not match). Write down the changes and their impact in a log to track and compare and use various tools to do so.
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    Nice helpful list! Some of the items work the other way around for me though. Recommend running baseline tests before and after each change and keep a log of all the changes with their impact on your performance. I have also spend months aiming to get the best out of my system. Did you take a look at my list of changes? There might be some items in there you might like to add.
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    Nice! Have you considered/looked into CapFrameX? I used to perform the Excel calculations before as well using various tools to record, export and analyze. I found that https://www.capframex.com/ is way easier to quickly get to useable visual data and to quickly compare settings. No more exporting, importing, manual stuff, no more Excel wizardry needed. Just run the game and use hotkeys to start/end the log recordings, add titles/descriptions to the recording tracks and voila. I think it will save you a lot of time going forward and I assume it will have most of what you are looking for. I have used it 500+ times in my quest to silence Windows, stabilize my rig and get the most performance out of the hardware, testing all setttings and scenario's I could imagine and stuff I found online, I still use it to test the effects of updates or setting changes. You can find some decent examples of this tool in the postings of my thread (don't want to self plug). I also use XRFrameTools, but mostly to get realtime visualization of stability and get direct feedback of things I change on the fly. I now only use Excel to keep track of all the changes I make (either by for example DCS updates, driver updates or me tweaking something); with each change I create a log entry and log the frametimes etc. This ends up in one chart to show historically how my frametimes are improving or degrading with changes. It also is great to lookup stuff I have tested. Hope it is of any help!
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    Thanks for sharing!
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    Walk back the update? I frequently also have updates messing things up. If it works don't touch it if you don't have to
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    Hi I try to keep the first posting in this thread updated, I also added graphs where you can see the items that gave my system the biggest improvements. Of course your miles may vary. I did not use Atlas or any other preconfigured/debloated install because I wanted to decide for myself which functionality I disable and I wanted to stay in control. The end-result may be similar, I am not sure. I have seen some videos on comparing installs like Atlas and tbh was not regretting I went the long route. Whenever there are new thoughts or things to try I will add them to this thread and once in a while I will update the original posting with a list of my most recent changes.
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    Thanks I will check it out. Maybe it will be the solution to a weird issue I see in latencymon.
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    Nice one! Looking forward to the pilot body for a long time! Would be great to get additional visual improvements from within the helmet like moveable visor, the overlay of the visor and maybe some additional symbology.
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    I killed the process and the speed stayed the same, but haven't restarted yet. Not sure yet how it behaves.
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    Mouse Polling Rate Checked the polling rate of my mouse and thought it was still set to the lowest when I configured it last December. But somehow it was restored to its original 1.000Hz. Readjusted it to the lowest value. Logitech G Hub needs to be removed again, but will have to see what that does to the polling rate. https://www.clickspeedtester.com/mouse-polling-rate-checker/ Thanks @GPatricks for sharing the link!
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    Good it helped! With regards to what should be realistic; I once saw/heard a comment somewhere that IRL you look on top of the dash/UFC and should be able to see some screws/bolts or something like that. Can look it up but would take a bit of digging. I did not bother since I just move the chair to where I like it. I don't like bending forward and look up to peek into the hud, I much rather just have it lined up when I am sitting straight. Call me lazy
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    Set a Hotas binding to your seat elevator. I lift the seat up at startup and before take off just high enough so I can see the compass bar above the metal frame of the front dash. During flight I sometimes just adjust it if needed, but rarely have to adjust. This way I have the best possible view of the HUD. I VR recenter when needed.
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    Hi all is well Busy with some work stuff. Moving to a 9800X3D is a good move, you can never have enough cpu power in the current period. If you have to update your system board as well make sure you have good compatibility so you can do some little overclocking to get the most out of your system.
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    I don't see my rig getting the same improvements as in this video, will hold out for more data.
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    This is how I did it with (with W10). It really took me a long time to get the new install fully working again with all the various apps and configurations to my liking. If needed I could step back into the old install, which I did a bunch of times. With the dual boot you can take your time.
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    I have installed a fresh W10 on another SSD and copied my DCS also to another SSD. The new setup is working fine and if needed I can still change back to the old setup by booting into it. All still works. One I am absolutley certain I have everything I need in my new install I will scrap the old, or maybe I will just keep it around in case of emergency.
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    OBS Adjustments Changed a bunch of OBS settings to further calm down its CPU/GPU consumption. Not sure if all of them have any effect, but the combined results are positive. Updated OBS to latest version Added OBS to Windows Graphics Settings | High Performance Excluded OBS from Windows Defender Changed OBS settings in Nvidia Control Panel Anti-Aliasing: Off Low Latency Mode: Ultra Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance Changed some settings for OBS in Process Lasso CPU Affinity: Core 0,1,2 (away from DCS) I/O Priority: Normal (might change it to High in the future) CPU Priority: Normal (might increase it in the future) OBS Encoding (have to check the visual quality after a couple of recordings) Video Encoder: changed from NVENC HEVC(H.265) > NVENC H.264 (less CPU consumption) Rate Control: Changed Bitrate from Variable > Constant Preset: P5 Slow (Good Quality) Tuning: Low Latency Multipass Mode: Single Pass Profile: High Look-Ahead: Disabled Adaptive Quantization: Enabled B-Frames: 2 Bitrate: reduced to 25.000Kbps (for 2k, in accordance with Youtube Guidelines) Preview when flying: Disabled Replay Buffer: Disabled Aligned Audio Bitrate of all audio tracks (320) Improved Microphone audio quality and volume by adding and adjusting some filters Gain Noise suppression 3-Band Equalizer Expander Compressor Limiter Improved Microphone quality Added a couple more VB-Audio Cables and added one as Monitoring Device from within OBS. This way all the Filters that have been applied to my microphone in OBS also apply to SRS and Discord, hopefully improving quality and volume of the mic. Winhance (new tool to Keep Windows debloated and optimized) Thanks @Reed for sharing. There are quite some interesting things in there. I am too scared to let this tool do all the registry editing for my W10 since it is mostly made for W11 and I don't know what it is doing exactly. The creator mentions that in W10 it has some issues. I like the idea of adding the scheduler to keep things out. It seems to be a great app, but is a bit rough still when you can only switch on a long list of settings or switch them all off. Would be great if inside the categories you can just select the ones you want, so you can test their impact in a more controlled manner. Now you have to enable all or none, which worries me a bit. So I put some of the things on my list to check out.
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    Thanks for pointing it out and explaining. Changing authorizations for the handful of DCS VR related things seem to have improved my performance. I don't yet know exactly what caused the improvement and I check and reduce the rights that have no effect. I was not aware of running risks when joining MP servers. I normally disable Defender when playing and enable it again after disconnecting. But if I understand correctly this could expose my pc to additional risk. Will look into it further.
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    For me it seems to work the opposite from you. If I let it loose, I see big FPS dips (to 60-70) sometimes. When I cap fps, the dips mostly stay gone. I am considering reducing the max FPS to 85, to keep some headroom when I play on our busy server. Will tinker with it next time we have a flight night. Another strange and possibly related thing I saw last December was when I adjusted the DCS graphics options to stay just below 90, like 87-88: the fps seemed to be more stable than when I reduced settings to get my fps up at 90. Somehow it seems that a limit is hit somewhere and this limit causes overloads/delays and dips. Unclear what is the cause of this. I have reinstalled W10 since and not tested this again. Will do so soon.
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    Run all DCS + VR apps as administrator I changed all the DCS related apps I use (Varjo, OBS, DCS, OpenKneeboard) to 'run as administrator' by creating shortcuts and editing it in there. This way I assure that all parts get whatever they need. I think it slightly improved the stability and performance of DCS and OBS, especially the .02% seems to have improved. Set Graphics Performance Preference to High Performance I added OBS, VarjoBase, Varjo Process Server and Varjo Compositor and set them to 'High Performance'. Not sure if it makes any difference, but just to be sure. Yes you are right. I checked. It can only be 90Hz. Thanks
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    The Aero's Refresh Rate is 90Hz
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    Set DCS's max FPS to Headset Refresh Rate When I set DCS's Max FPS above refresh rate my 1% and .02% are reduced. Setting Max FPS to 90 (Aero=90Hz) is the best setting for me.
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    Ah okay. Will test and post my results. Nice video!
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