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All my experiences are done NON -VR. So, I'd say judging performance Settings between VR and NO-VR users makes limited sense. VR seems to be a totally different story; Settings- and Performance wise

yes, all pretty sharp

Thanks for the Update Merker. Well, that's a very nice approach to kinda dedicate that Module in favour of Gos' and to keep him in Memory. He obviously was a great guy. Although least important atm, Im happy to hear that the Community A4 will make it to the finish line. All the Best to you Guys. .

looking good ! gets me in the mood for the Tonka Mod

ac5, when looking at your defered shading on/of comparison it's pretty clear there are some weaknesses in the pit views and contrasts, But for external views, deferred shading off seems almost like another - older- flight Sim , when compared to the "on" shot.. Your P51D over Normandie external side view shot shows best, what nice things Defered shading ON can do !

Maybe worth mentioning for players with similar PC specs - as I have: I tried many of the suggested tweaks within this thread, I found my personal Quality - Performance sweetspot for 2.5 atm. The main observations - at least for my System - were: --> turning ON MSAA 2x had no Performance Impact.. --> turning both Shadow Options down to "FLAT only" gave the best FPS increase without any noticeable Quality/Candy loss --> I messed around with Nvdia Seetings Panel but no good results Quality wise, the best DCS Fine Tuning still seems to be directly in the DCS GUI my DCS Settings: ( I dont have a screenie available as Im posting this from another PC) the below mentioned Settings give me a FPS bandwith of constant 45 to 65 FPS in MP in crowded areas.. over Sea and up higher around 80 to 120 FPS, .. sometimes more Textures: High Scenes: High View Distance: High Civil Traffic: OFF Heat Blur: Low !! Both Shadow Options: FLAT !! Lens Effect: Off HDR: OFF Deferend Shading: ON AF:4x MSAA: 2x Res of Pit Display: 512 Deph of Field: OFF Resolution: 1980x1080 on 1 "standard" 27 inch Monitor Clutter/Grass: 65% Trees: 70% Preload Radius: 90% Chimney Smoke Density: 1 Gamma: 1.6 Global Pit Illum: OFF Vsync: OFF I hope someone can gain any benefit out of this..

definately can confirm this ! :thumbup:

Very Sad News.. R.I.P. Gospadin My Condolences

atm no stutters at all - everything fine in MP.. ( out of 8 MP sessions, I once had a 10 seconds game freeze in Caucasus terrain though, but thats it) as stated earlier here, RAM usage in my DCS 2.5 MP sessions reached up to 21 GB max so far..

this is exactly where my prayers go to... 16GB should be more than enough..so much hoping they fix this. I was only updating to 24GB because of my 110% passion for DCS. but I have to admit that it feels a bit crazy to operate 24GB RAM (or more) on an aging home - PC just for flight simming :)

I had RAM issues only in MP with my former 16GB.. SP no issues - ever since..

Drag80, strange you realize these VRAM troubles. My experience is exactly the opposite. In DCS MP my 16GB RAM was immediately full and DCS stuttered or sometimes crashed. Updated to 24GB RAM yesterday and things are fine again. My GPU/whole System is way below yours , but never had any Trouble with VRAM.

Guys, just a quick update here: I upgraded my old Rig from 16 to 24 GB RAM today and immediately tested out DCS MP: -> It makes a huge difference and even crowded servers are now again a joy to fly ! BUT: after approx 20 mins of fluent MP gameplay I checked my ram usage: the RAM usage went up to 21,2 ! out of 24 GB ! No troubles so far, but DCS seems to eat up nearly all your RAM atm , just a matter of time.. my RAM issues seem to be healed for the moment but pls ED keep on your work on ironing out the RAM leak... *fingers crossed*

tested VSN F14A/D and F16C mod yesterday... working all fine.. Great work guys ! The F14 external model looks nice !

Just tried out VSN Mod for F16C and F14A/D flyable in 2.5 and it's marvellous ! Even available with AFM. Can confirm this - for Singleplayer Use - if you wanna have some fun with other airframes.

hey guys, nice !, will definately try the F14mod for 2.5 till heatblurs baby is out.. as I havent seen any F16C flyable mod for 2.5 so far: any chance we will see VSN F16C flyable mod back in 2.5 ?

perfectly redone ! nice idea !

today my first day of having upgraded to 2.5 OB... it looks stunning but can confirm serious RAM usage in MP ! I know ED is working hard to fix this... all my prayers to them that they can finally fix this...the Memory issue is a SERIOUS DCS disease !

Ok thx, well, question: once I manually pushed DCS 2.2 OA to update to 2.5 OB: will I also be able to jump from 2.5 OB to 2.5 stable once 2.5 stable is out ? So can the 2.5 OB technically be transferred into the 2.5 stable version or will these two always be two separate Versions ? .

are you sure about that ? I think the update logic is: 1.5. X open beta ---> update to 2.5 open beta ( now possible) once 2.5 stable is available: 2.2 ---> update to 2.5 Stable ! .

when can we update 2.2 open alpha to 2.5 ? there was something about "one or two weeks after the open beta version ... do we already know if 1 week or more ? i cant wait for 2.5 stable ! it looks so beautiful

Danke Yurgon ... dann warte ich auf die Release Vers

Hi Leute, war paar Tage nicht im Forum, kann mich bitte jemand ganz kurz auf Stand bringen: die 2.5 kommt wie angekündigt per installer gerade zu uns: vor paar tagen habe ich gelesen, dass die 2.5 zuerst als beta und ca 1 bis 2 Wochen später als release kommt. --> Was bedeutet das von der installationstechnik? dass wir wieder vorerst 2 DCS 2.5 Versionen nebeneinander haben? oder wandeln Sie die 2.5 beta dann per patch/update in die 2.5 release um ? pls kurze Info dazu .

I think the only one who can state, if this Mod is still alive is SkateZilla and/or Combatace/Gizmondo. As it has been a while that the mentioned ones gave an update here, my hope for this thing to be seen in the public declines.. .

May I kindly ask what this modified autoexec.cfg does ?