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Thanks a lot! That's really a big improvement. Great to see some numbers to back it up also. :thumbup: Soo, where's that piggy-bank, and here's the hammer...

Belsimtek should totally release a Hip vs Huey package (just an old EECH fanboy here, sorry).

More info -> More dreaded waiting... Less info -> Grand surprise! ;)

But yeah, you're right. However my point was, that it makes you CPU bound, not GPU bound, hence reducing resolution and AA, settings that are strictly loading the GPU. And you do that to see what your CPU is is capable of, how it would perform with more flex at the GPU side. If you're already CPU bound at your preferred resolution, then upgrading your graphics card would yield you nil.

You can try to do what I did, lower the resolution as much as possible and disable any AA. That should hopefully make you CPU-bound, kind of simulating a GPU upgrade.

I did a quick test, sitting on the runway at Krasnodar in the Su-25 and the weather set to precipitation. At 1920x1200 4x MSAA I would get a little under 30fps with 100% GPU load. Lowering to 1024x768 with no MSAA yielded 50-55FPS at 90-95% GPU load. So I was probably CPU bound at that point. That kind of improvement would make me happy. Ignore this if you already know;). But keep in mind that if you look in the Task Manager and see a CPU load of 12,5%, it's a sign that one core is being used 100%. Since DCS at best utilizes two cores, you will never see a load greater than 25%. I get a little under 20%. Almost forgot, those percentages are for me, running 8 logical cores.

Great! I'm also interested. Here's a request: God vs bad weather, since that's a GPU-killer for me (edit: bad that is).

To my experience, the indexer will only run when the computer has been idling for some time. But to find out what service is bogging you down, I can recommend playing with Process Explorer http://www.sysinternals.com. It can show disk usage per process (look under View/Select Columns/Process IO). However services will still be lumped together into different svchost.com. But Process Explorer will at least tell you which services are in each (in the hover-tool-tip). Might help you pinpoint your problem. Have you thought about installing Windows on the SSD? I really think that would help, since the problem might be DCS trying to write temp files to the HDD as you pointed out, which could be busy with OS work. Alternatively, make DCS write its temp files to the SSD. Thanks, that will not save me money:thumbup:

That asus suite is one piece of bloatware, I would refuse to run something like that even with 100 cores and 1tb ram, old habits die hard. I do that kind of tweaking in the bios, a bit limited compared to the program, but still OK (Asus here too). But seriously, I think the difference will be minimal. The tread-scheduler seems robust enough to not distribute background work to loaded cores, if idle ones are available, and DCS will in its present state only use 2.

You could try to force Adaptive V-sync mode in the drivers, since it is designed to limit tearing, while not reducing fps. As I understand, it will basically enable v-sync while your fps is greater than 60 and disable it otherwise. Hence your fps will not be cut to 30 if your system is unable to deliver 60fps. Are you happy with the upgrade otherwise, I have a very similar system (even the same memory) but with a 560ti. Which should be kind of similar to your old card, a bit faster perhaps, and I was having one of those angel/devil things about the 770 ;)

When I first got interested in the Ka-50 I was also planing to play in game-mode, since it was just the flying I was after, not switch-galore or senors this or that. But I just got hooked reading the manual and before I had a chance to turn that game mode on, I had already learned enough of the cockpit to not look back. Also, having switches might even be easier than key commands, at least for an visually inclined learner (guess I am). They also encourages experimentation. Still, don't mock the game-mode! It's ED's (discreet) barker :pilotfly:

Yeah, I've also experienced this. The panel brightness knob does not dim the panel lights, it only turns them on/off if the knob is at the max/min position. The knob does however dim the PVI brightness and the other buttons that look like PVI-buttons, for example the data link panel and the targeting mode buttons on the left panel. My thought, if this worked in BS1, the change of cockpit format might be the root of the problem. Perhaps unrelated, but I've looked at Richardo's HD pit for BS1 and it did have a couple of "night" textures that does not exists in BS2. Just a small observation.

Hush-hush, your spoiling my bad-boy-rep. That 3d cockpit is amazing though, pretty please ED, make it click-able. Now I can't wait to litter the runways with broken landing gear!

Thanks! Makes me feel a bit greedy though, since I'm still are having lots of fun with the Su-25t and the Blackshark. Man oh man, I'm becoming an addict. I'll meet you in the air to prove my worthiness then - slaps with glove and all that. ;)

I remember reading somewhere on these forums that Belsimtek already has made an (non-public) Mi-8 simulator (I don't remember where, super sorry if I'm spreading false rumors). And PilotMi8 is an Mi-8 pilot, that should at least be 100% true :). So more experience with the aircraft, plus a better tuned DCS pipeline, can't be bad.

I can give it a go, if a newbie like me is worthy that is... :)