Darkphox

Fixed Hey all, just dropping a note to confirm the latest patch has fully fixed this issue for me. It even went one step further, in old Dcs 1.2 and prior, the f10 map spread across my main display and out onto my mfcd panels, which sucked because they were only 800 pixels tall vs the 1200 of my main display. With the newest patch, my f15 radar not only exports again, but the f10 map doesn't spread beyond the main display anymore. Fantastic!

+1 to this. My export works fine in A10C, just as it did in version 1.2.xyz. For some reason the F-15C does not export. Additionally, I've set the cockpit mfd off in the viewporthandler lua, but in F15 it's still very much on. Not sure if this is something to do with a revert due to the export not working, but again it works fine in A10C, just not in the F15 (for me)

Hey there, I still get emails from this thread, no worries on late adds. If I'm reading your numbers right, you're getting 35 fps on each bench on high settings? Thats pretty good and better than you'd get on a 290x I would think. Also, I dont think DCS favors nvidia or radeon. In my own experience benchmarking, it just doesn't like multi-gpu setups...until edge of course. Unless im misreading your results, the 970 is performing solidly. R9 300 cards will be good but my 2 cents is wait for those and edge's release before switching out.

R9 290

Edit: sorry, didn't realize this was a month old. I've had this on and off between versions of DCS... With SoftTH, if the game loaded and went to full screen, it worked properly. If, when loading, it sort of flashed a minimized splash screen within a smaller window and then shifted to the lower right of myscreen, I had the click problem referred to in this post. Some versions the problem didn't exist. Other versions I couldn't get around it and just accepted that I would not be able to click the cockpit. For 1.2.7 I had to open an MP3 in VLC, start trackir, flash my head piece to trackir (but not leave it in view of the sensor) then start the multiplayer client and click it's icon on the taskbar twice. If I didn't follow this routine, the game would load as if it was behind an invisible window. I could see the cockpit, but not click it. It was mere luck that I realized I had an MP3 going and my head piece off when it suddenly worked one day. The two clicks may have been nothing more than a sacrificial offering to the DCS gods, but it worked nonetheless. Now that we have 1.2.7 update 1, all I had to do was uncheck "fullscreen" in the game's options and it works. (Yes, I tried this before resorting to voodoo in the previous version.) I don't know what they change between versions (my setup doesn't chang between versions) but in my experience this problem shifts with each patch.

Glad to hear you are happy with your setup Dave! I don't experience any issues with fan noise. That's never been a concern of mine anyway, but just to give a late response, my case is on the floor, under my desk about 2-3ft from my ears. With a game on I've never noticed the fans going at all. As for SSD, I have windows and several games all on a 180 gb and I've still got 74 gigs free. It's best if you have a secondary HDD to store miscellaneous stuff on and keep the SSD for your primary programs. Again, glad you're happy with the 290. This late after release, I'm guessing yours is non-flashable? I got mine the day after release and I ended up with the first Non-Flashable version. If I had ordered day of I might have gotten lucky like other folks have.

Doh! I hate to be the pilot who cried SAM, but this was a quickly resolved problem... I got a wild hair up my rear and decided to double check the SoftTH config file again...Zclear was set to 1 and it reminded me of an old post by Peter P regarding the Zclear setting. I switched it to 0 (off) and everything works! A few mysteries remain...I know I set this to 0 in the past...might have accidentally set it to 1 when I re-installed SoftTH. The other is I'm still not sure what the difference is between 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, since Zclear was still set to 1 in .5 but there was no problem. In the end, everything is well again! Sorry for yelling about the sky falling!

Hello all, Background: I run a 1920x1200 monitor with two 600x800 Lilliputs for MFCD export via SoftTH. Le Problem: 1.2.6 (as well as 1.2.3 IIRC) loads as if it were a secondary window, rather than the primary. The result is I can see the game screen just like normal but I can only click a portion of it. The left & right thirds of the screen are displayed properly, but it's like there's a clear window that I can't click through. This becomes a problem because I can load the game and even get into a mission...but I can't exit, close out menus, or manipulate the cockpit. The issue is exacerbated because SoftTH disables Alt-Tab functionality. I have to Ctrl+alt+del every time. I have two options. A: I stop exporting the MFCDs (turning expensive USB monitors into nice conversation pieces) or B: I roll back to 1.2.5 because it didn't have this problem (and lose ability to play with everyone else on 1.2.6). Neither is ideal. I've had this problem on Nvidia and AMD, and it persists through a clean windows install (formatted for the sake of Fall cleaning). I'm looking for any insight on a workaround, another way to export MFCDs to the USB monitors, or perhaps something I haven't thought to try? Thanks for any help!

Thanks for the replies everyone, this post got more traction when I found a "solution" than when I was having the problem, lol. 1 - I did only have 6 gigs of ram when I posted this, so you're not crazy Sith. That said, I still wasn't capping out. 2 - I had a GTX 680 at the time I was having this issue, so it's not R9 290 related From the error log, I thought it may have been something involving DirectX. What I did for a short time was host the server on my laptop, and play as a client on my desktop. That way when the mission crashed at least the server didn't go with it. I haven't tried Dragon maps since upping to 12gigs and the 290. I will give it another go and post back if I see anything different.

3120x1200 vs 1920x1200 Alrighty, had a chance to do that second comparison. Here's the results: Not exporting the MFCDs actually made a sizeable difference on Low settings. On high, there's 2-3 fps lost. 15-18fps is the absolute lowest I've seen, but I'll reiterate that this is intended to represent the worst-case scenario. In normal circumstances I'm seeing 40-45fps, with lows of about 30 when inbound to land in a busy area (trees!). Again, hope this is informative in some fashion!

Long version: It does a little bit. I've got SoftTH setting the virtual resolution and the extra 1200px width is only used to export MCDS, so it's not a significant loss. I did do a quick test in 1920x1200 to see how it felt but I didn't do specific settings or run a bench. Short version: I'll try to rerun the benches in that resolution tonight or tomorrow and post an update for ya.

Check out some reviews of the gtx 780ti and r9 290x...most sites show performance being nearly equal. Same thing with gtx 780 and r9 290. Hard ocp has good reviews on each card and tech report even has scatterplots that give a nice visual.

Cool, look forward to hearing your results TZeer.

I updated the reserved 2nd post to include a link to the benchmark track. Thanks for the idea, SkateZilla.

Here's a link to download the track, in case anyone wants to replicate for their own benchmark/comparing purposes. You'll see the nosewheel steering light flash 3x as the first benchmark begins. You'll also see it come back on at the end of bench 1, and flash 3x again as bench 2 begins. Part 1 fps are pretty steady, part 2 varies as you gain altitude. Recommend running a 60 sec fraps bench to get reliable figures. http://www.mediafire.com/?h27148511gmxtdq