peterwinship

Bra. Tack.

Bought the Viggen and read somewhere that the Nevada Campaign that you could buy was included with it, but it isn't, and it's no longer for sale. Anyone know why, or where I can get it? Thanks.

Many thanks for replying. I'll try the sound disable. You wouldn't have any idea with 99% certainty what the problem is, then, would you? UPDATE: You were right (of course). Not the sound.

OK. Switched to OB, in case the suggested fix didn't work in stable, and applied the fix, thanks, using the provided Autoexec file. Many thanks, but it doesn't do anything for my issue. My issue is that the the framerate starts dipping in three circumstances, playing the first scenario in the Charnwood campaign (as a test scenario), flying the P51. The first time I notice it is when there's lots of flak around, which starts occurring around 10 mins in. If I'm at altitude this is so minor as to be negligible. Down on the ground it's a game-killer. The second time is when scripts or sound files load, I believe. There's an immediate hit. Happens mostly with a sound file happening, but not always - some sounds load without this issue, I mean - sometimes same kind of dip (which can be as bad as the graphics card actually stopping for a split second) with no apparent reason at all (I assume a script is loading, because shortly afterwards there will appear lots of flak, for example, or a message about an event happening elsewhere on the map). Thirdly, in the Normandy map flying low I cannot get my system to render a stutter free scene with all those trees when other things are happening. By which I mean I can fly the P51, or any other plane, on a free flight in Normandy and it's beautiful, smooth, stutter-free. But try it in a scenario with stuff going on and it's a mess. Unplayable. I have spent around nine days at it, reading everything I could find in here, trying everything. I notice it's all very much worse with the P51 than with the F/A 18. No idea what's going on. Sick of it. Sick of trying to fix it. My system is far from top notch. Ryzen 5 (can be easily oc from 3.4 to 41mhz but makes no diff), RTX 2070 8GB Vram (can be overclocked to from 1410 to around 2020mhz, but makes no diff), 32GB DDR4 RAM, DCS installed on an SSD. One thing I tried was setting everything as low as possible (low textures, no shadows, no aa etc - nothing..). Made no difference to these stutters. Various things have made a difference. It used to be much worse. The script to disable the windows game mode thing was great, for example. So. Is there a way to entirely disable sound - so I can test that too - a way that stops the sound files loading? Anyone know? Thanks.

Thanks. But I'm playing in the stable release, not the beta. So I guess that doesn't work for me? Maybe I'll try the OB.

Anyone know how to disable sound, so that I can test if loading sound files are the cause of stutters? I assume muting the sound (Lctrl-S?) or turning down the volume doesn't actually stop the sound files loading. Is there a way to switch off all sound that actually stops the files loading? Thanks.

Ok. Thanks.

Thanks Harker. But I've never switched between two versions of stable, or anything. When I click on the download link I get from the open beta section of the download page it starts to download 176GB of files! As if I would need to do a complete separate install of open beta. Where is it I get the version of open beta where it doesn't need to re-install everything? Sorry if this is a stupid question. Thanks.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I have the release version installed on an SSD and it takes up nearly 176GB (including all my modules etc). I would like to try the open beta. Can someone tell me if the open beta install will also be another 176GB - is it a completely separate install? In which case, I don't have room for both on the ssd.... Thanks.

Wow! Just wow, Mustang. I have just come back to DCS after many years away and having got a new system. I play only in 2D, only SP, so far. Needless to say, I've just spent almost seven whole days trying to get rid of various kinds of stutter (a common experience, it seems...). My system is decent, and I finally managed to get rid of the common or garden stutter, the kind caused by constant minor fluctuation in FPS (basically, by limiting FPS to 30 via the Nvidia adaptive half-refresh, by setting latency to ultra, by disabling multi-threading on the Nvidia card) so that I have a very smooth flight experience with all options maxed out. It's beautiful. And it's actually amazing how smooth 30fps is if it really is a stable and constant 30fps. I can get higher than that, on an RTX 2070 (but no reason to) if I turn down some features. This was the result of seven days reading in here and trying again and again the Charnwood P51 first scenario. A lot of work. BUT - a huge BUT - no matter what I tried, I could not get rid of another kind of worse stutter which just seemed to occur randomly in flight (if anything linked to sound files loading, I thought), alongside the otherwise smooth frames, a slightly larger kind of stutter - at times the graphics card would actually freeze for a split second, and then gradually, as the scenario progressed this stutter would increase. Ruining everything. Monitoring showed that my system resources were not really being used to the max, so I couldn't figure it out. I stumbled then upon this fix, and wow! It's like a different game. So many thanks Mustang. I was about to give up on the game again. This fix had an astonishing impact for me. A real and literal game-changer. Thanks. I really had almost given up hope.

Anyone help? I've been messing around so much with dual monitors, trying to get them to do what I want, that now I can't get anything sensible on the screen and can't get access to the buttons to change it back to default. Is there any simple way I can change the monitor settings to default without entering the program, any file I could delete or change, for example? Thanks, Peter

It's an incredible sim. No doubt about it. I was absolutely amazed at the diff between this release and beta 4. Great stuff. thanks.