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Not that I have ever noticed, the sound stops momentarily during these pauses but I dont hear any pops or beeps or anything.

Thanks, but I have already ruled out Anti Virus: "- clean boot, made sure nothing else was running especially Anti virus/Anti Malware and background tasks." And I dont have Windows 10 so ... :huh: I checked again after the massive update to stable, other than some random keybinds going missing (whats up wit that?) its still there. And as I have mentioned, everything else (literally everything else I play) runs stellar.

Well Im still dead in the water here, support has no ideas either. Maybe the stable release addresses whatever this is: "Fixed several hundred bugs, added dozens of new features, improved stability of the game and multiplayer, as well as many, many minor fixes and improvements."

16GB. RAM has not been an issue so far that I have noticed and have taken a look at this very thing often and dont see anything jumping out at me in the processes. Besides, this is a fairly recent issue for me. This sounds interesting, do you mean turn off vsync in game (it already is) and turn it on in the nvidia control panel?

Hi, thats a good point - I have two SSDs. One has only Windows and its associated stuff on it, the other has my games. Also have a HDD that I keep more static things that dont need the performance boost of solid state but DCS has nothing to do with that one. But its a good idea maybe? Even if the one HDD is not being used by DCS maybe something else is happening over there that I am missing...

After I posted this went and tried to configure another module, and in the controls screen everything just locked. Can still hear the music but nothing is responsive. Hit the stopwatch on my phone and waited for 20 minutes, finally ended up having to kill the process. No crash log.

Hey all, Not sure what happened here but I finally got DCS running really well but had to put it aside for a while. Not even sure when, probably had not touched t for about 6 months or so. Coming back I let the game update and do its thing, nothing else major changed that I know of other than Windows patches and the like. I tend to keep my system as static as possible once I get everything tamed - and it was. Even after I upgraded my vid card to the 1660, had to adjust a few things but it was smooth as glass. Now - No matter which module or map I choose, DCS is basically unplayable right now. Every 1 - 1 1/2 minutes everything just stops - for a fraction of a second but its very noticeable. Its especially fun when trying to take off or land. I tried everything I can think of: - clean boot, made sure nothing else was running especially Anti virus/Anti Malware and background tasks. - unplugged all USB devices, including TrackIR, sat around in a Huey on the ground and even just looking around I still have the pauses. Fps is at a steady 80-90 on the ground. Flying around it dips to about 40 or so but besides the pauses seems fine. - Deleted the MetaShaders and fxo directories - updated to latest Nvidia driver - opened a case with ED, they had me completely remove the DCS folder from Saved Games so I had a fresh start. After reconfiuring everything (wish I had been warned about that )took a test flight in the Huey and there is no difference. - tried just about every combination of screen resolution/settings I can think of. Odd thing is that FPS doesnt seem to be affected much, but nothing I do will get rid of this pause. Other games run fine; IL2, Elite Dangerous. Subnautica, Fallout4, Doom 2016 etc all at pretty high settings - no other game I have exhibits this behaviour. I could posts tech stats and whatnot but wanted to get an idea first if anybody else has experienced something like this? Or maybe some suggestions on what else to look at, I think ED is just as confused as I am so far.

Thanks for the help all - I got the GTX 1660 in and am now seeing between 40-60 FPS even at high settings, averages between 35-50 depending on how hectic things are but its boatloads better than what it was!

Thanks for the suggestions - I have been looking at the 1060 as it fits my budget,but will also look into the 1660 series. Looks to be only a few dollars more. I just thought of something - my native resolution is 1920x1080 so thats what I run DCS in. I never thought of dropping the resolution, will have to give that a shot as well to hold me over until I can upgrade. Another challenge is something I didn't realize since I upgrade so rarely and just started looking into this - most of these new cards only have HDMI ports, a few may have one DVI but none of them have 2. And only one of my monitors has HDMI so I need to factor that in as well.

Bleh, that stinks. I knew it was on the lower end (built this system in 2015) but didn't think it was *that* far off. That being said - if anyone has recommendations for a video card upgrade I am all ears! I dont do this stuff very often so its always like starting over when do get around to doing it, :helpsmilie:

Hey all - I am pulling my hair out here. Following this guide to the letter, at the minimum setting I barely break 30 fps and usually suffer around 15-20. Is that the best I can expect with these specs? ASUS Z97-PRO LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard GIGABYTE GV-N75TOC-2GI G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4600 16gb RAM OS is installed on one SSD, DCS on a seperate SSD. Windows 7 64bit 1920x1080 I have not fired up DCS in a long while, and after I got the new SSD I moved the install from the old disk to the SSD, upgraded DCS and then upgraded 2.5.5, removed options.lua and set config for the minimum in this post. The bare minimum - and I average 20 fps. I have made sure nothing else is running, rebooted, even updated the nvidia drivers to 440.97 and all of the suggested settings are turned off (aa, vsync, etc) I did my testing on the Huey module, free flight. I can get 60fps if I stare at the ceiling. :lol:

Right, a lot of good points! One thing to point out: EDIT: I realized you were not talking about DCS here and may have misunderstood. As far as these missions go - It has been hit and miss so far. *some* things are shown and some are not. The ones that are not I have mostly been able to figure out but had to go outside of the game to find it. One example is the shutdown process - I had no idea how to turn off the throttles. The practice session paused at that point while I floundered around to find it, there was no indication since there is nothing clickable and there was no text telling me what keyboard command. I finally found it but I was not shown anything. Makes me wonder how much patience that guy has and how long it would wait... I am making progress and learning a lot as I go, so its still good.

Ok I found the practice missions - nothing new was showing up under Missions or My Missions so after some digging around I noticed they are in the Campaign directory. So this is a step forward, I can almost ramp start this thing to the instructors expectations :) RE: the manual - I agree its a valuable tool and I am the first to parrot RTFM. Although its more of a reference tool than something that can be utilized by reading front to back, it takes a lot of hopping around and searching after reading. And even then I find myself in the dark. One example is the first mission in the Tactical Training campaign (yes I know, do the flight first but sometimes I just want to see how far I can get). One of the requirements is to set up frequencies and its listed like this: Tactical Training Freq: TAD 12 Guard : TAD 08 Now I am fairly familiar with the radios and dont have any problems dialing in ATCs and such. But I have never seen a frequency in this format - so have been scouring the manual as well as online trying to find out what on earth I have to do in order to set this up. I dont even see a practice mission for this one - the first one listed is TAC11 and the only other one that is close is TTQ Arrival but thats just watching a chopper fly into the base.

I certainly did miss that! What jumped out at me was "Training" so I guess I need to read the fine print next time. :cry:

Its not in a similar order as either the training start up that comes with the A10, or any of the videos I have watched. Plus it has all sorts of tests to run that I have never seen or read about anywhere, other than in passing in the manual. So I dont even know where most of these buttons are.