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Increase drag to help the aircraft slowing down maybe?

Hey! Just wanted to chip in and just say I’m having a great time playing this campaign. Flew the first 4 missions and they really are my cup of coffee :P Not uber complicated, clear and concise and, overall, FUN to play. Keep up the good work!

I noticed this too. I think it needs to be pressed for a little longer. Short clicks don’t seem to work, but if you keep the button pressed for a little while it always works on the first try. Hope they fix it at some point (or maybe it’s just how it works IRL)

This! +1

Maybe you have the “global external lights” switch off? Don’t remember the exact name on the bindings, but its the switch on the left side of the left throttle axis. If its aft, no external lights will turn on. I usually have all them on, and just flick that switch aft when fencing in :P

Much better video card = same frame rate... Exactly like my setup. One logical core maxed out while the other 7 are not doing much...and the GPU at 60%. I’d say you’re CPU-bound, just like me. We don’t have too many options but cranking down CPU-heavy settings (trees, civ traffic, etc) and hope the Vulkan revamp to kicks ass and allows for better multi-core performance. [emoji20]

What Tippis said. And hopefully you only need to mess around with the axis tunning once per aircraft. No big deal...granted there’s no patch breaking all your bindings as it happened not that long ago :P At least we have options to configure our inputs to our liking. In that respect, DCS is way superior to similar software packages where the input bindings are real pain in the ass to manage.

Sudden lighting changes That could be the reason, yes. I’ll try to pay attention to the clouds next time . By the way, the “Global cockpit lighting” has nothing to do with it. It happens with and without it enabled.

Don’t know if this is helpful, but that same thing happened to me in the stock SU-27 campaign. Completed a mission, exited. Went to play again and the mission I got was the same I was supposed to have just completed successfully before. It happened twice; with different missions (same su27 campaign). Back in the 1.5 days; never witnessed that again since 2.5.

Don't know how to explain it, so I'm attaching a screenshot. It's been a while since I flew the P-51D (back in the 1.5 days); today I took her for a spin for the first time since 2.5, and I noticed a very werid thing around "red things" in the canopy; they look pixelated, way too much; and they are the only things that look like that. It's really weird; nothing critical, but annoying. You can see it clearly in the "Oxygen emergency by-pass" valve (the red geared thing on the lower right). It's the same with the other "red things", including the "Canopy Emergency Release Handle" (not as obvious in the screenshot). Jumped in the F18 right away just for checking the difference, and "red things" there look just right, which makes me think this is somehow related to the P51. Anyone else having this?

@Sub2K I know...it’s such a letdown. The impact of CPU/GPU stalling is definitely there, and it depends heavily on the nature of each software implementation. In the case of DCS and a hw setup like ours, it really matters. Again, keep calm. I’m sure you’ll be able to get a decent setup, maybe slightly lower quality than mine, but not much. I’m pretty satisfied with how DCS looks now. I have absolutely everything maxed out except for the trees; it looks gorgeous at 1080 (don’t yet have a 4K monitor). And if your rig is overclocked to 4Ghz...you might get even better performance than me, as I just have my i7 at its default 3.8Ghz. But then again, it’s a generation ahead which I suspect might help too. I won’t upgrade CPU/MB until ED releases the version with the new Vulcan based renderer. Then...I’ll see how it goes. I still have high expectations...time will tell.

Well...I can tell you my i7 3700K is not enough to use the full potential of the GTX 1080. That’s a fact. With the settings I have (and I’m comfortable with) the GPU usage doesn’t get higher than 60-70% on average. Which means the CPU is lagging behind and is not able to feed enough draw commands to keep the GPU busy. I can see it going up to 90-100% usage under certain conditions, when I get really high frame rates (over 90)...single player, simple missions, high up (so almost no trees), etc. To complete the picture, as I mentioned before, I can clearly see just one logical core doing all the work (peaking at 90-100%) while the other 7 sit idle (maybe going up to 25% from time to time). So everything fits and makes perfect sense with the results I see in DCS. As I said, I’m perfectly comfortable as it is right now. I’m really REALLY looking forward to the Vulcan refactoring; I really think it will help us get better performance. But right now it’s what it is. So far, my additional advice is (apart from checking power settings, vsync, etc) to bring down the “trees” slider in the graphics options. It’s so critical in my case, sliding it to full left (no trees) I get ludicrous FPS; don’t remember the figures because it looks awful without trees so I just moved it back around the middle (maybe a bit further to the right) where I can see quite a lot of trees but still get decent frame rates (averaging 50 I think). Hope this helps you getting better FPS; I know how it feels when you launch DCS after installing a brand new powerful GPU and going WTF?!?

Ok so it’s not just me. I thought I was going crazy, because it doesn’t happen every time. Some times it just works as expected. Some others it does not; but I haven’t found a reliable way for reproducing it. Must be a WIP thing then :) So it will be fixed at some point.

What CPU do you have? As we already know, DCS is still very CPU-bound mostly because it’s not very good at multi-threading. This same thing happened to me (sort of) when upgrading my ATI 7750 to a GTX 1080. I expected a great performance boost, but it just went up so little...I was disappointed. Having a closer look at it, and asking in the forums, everything seemed obvious that in the end: even when the overall CPU usage was around 30%, the ground truth was that all the load was being handled by just one logical core; while the other 7 remained almost idle. And the actual GPU usage never went higher than 60%. So the bottleneck in my case is my i7 3700K. My FPS are around 50-60, sometimes over 100; and the biggest game changer was tuning down the “trees” slider. That’s by far what makes my CPU busier; so a dipping it down a little really helped (I have to admit I got greedy and moved all the sliders and options to their limits after installing the 1080 :) ) On the other hand, after playing a while with the new card I could really tell the difference in performance; before the 1080 everything slowed down to 10FPS when zooming in, now everything is rock solid and consistent at all times. Long story short: right now you need a really powerful CPU to take the most out of a powerful GPU. I’m looking forward to the Vulcan thingy ED is working on; as that might help improving multi-thread performance (hopefully).

Mmm...maybe it’s not that obvious. AFAIK, as of today, more resolution means worse spotting...or so I understand (I’m currently playing @1080p so I can’t really tell the difference with a 4K setup).