David OC

Have you tried setting this up a different way? I cannot see that you have posted how you setup the 3 screens in DCS are you using Nvidia Surround? All the old post and old DCS point to... Quote LINK "GTX 1080 FTW I'm only getting 70% GPU utilization and about 20-30 FPS." "UPDATE" "My three lower monitors that are joined via Nvidia Surround were plugged into my gtx 1080 and the 4th monitor was plugged into my second GPU (non-sli). I plugged my 4th monitor into the gtx 1080 and BAM! 60fps! The GPU is not running at 99%, but the 1080 can easily maintain 60fps even using the "High" preset in the graphics settings." End Quote LINK Have you tried any of these old settings on 2.5 now and see if you gain 40 fps?

You could see one, it is a Boeing aircraft so it could be a possibility. Need to be way after the Apache;) About picking up troops. You can fake script this, I just have the AI land or have trucks stop at a zone or spot and then activate a bunch of troops to simulate this. Yes it would be nice when CA gets better to have real troops load/unload when seeing this from ground level, until then there are workarounds. Those other sims have the troops magically jump in the aircraft anyway, so it's not that much different spawning troops at the choppers.

Hi av8r13 welcome to the forum. The guy's here might need to know a little bit more about your system specs and setup to help. Are you running a multi screen setup?

You are maxed out on the last core, once this one core is max out it basically holds the others to ransom and makes them wait. We are hoping Vulkan will help spread this out, we just don't know how long it will take? Vulkan would possibly allow you to keep the CPU and easily fed the 1080ti by utilizing the cores you have now better. The first graph is exactly what's happening to you on your last core. With the "possible DCS Vulkan??" graph below that. This pic below is my PC on one monitor @ 1440p trying to find my max fps output on max game settings. I have set process lasso to single thread performance here, so DCS is only using the 4 main cores. Note that the GPU graph holding 100% utilization when running sim, this is holding my cores at 5Ghz. I general have it set to 4.8 most of the time. I would like to see you hold your card at 100%, if you cannot, it's generally not getting fed enough. Like I said above tho, Vulkan could change all this perhaps....

The latest build has added a shutter problem for the rift in 2.5.3.21016 Open Beta. There is a hot fix, not sure if fix? I'm updating now... What graphic settings are you using ElCuco68? I hit the VR preset button then up the textures and view to high and have PD at 1.6 These are high settings for just very small missions and laps around the boat in the F/A-18 etc. If I play larger missions, I will have to lower the settings down a little to hold 45 or wring the neck out of my GPU and CPU to hold it.;)

The dust is an interesting new feature:) There are problems running MSAA with it tho.

Google Translate http://www.favt.ru In the area of the Pulkovo airfield (St. Petersburg), a pilot project has been launched to carry out the flights to the average sea level (QNH) Work on the transition to a new QNH system The Federal Air Transport Agency, in conjunction with the FSUE "State Corporation for ATM" (a branch of "Aeronavigation of the North-West"), began to run since August 2016. From 2 February 2017, the crews of Russian and foreign aircraft arriving and departing from St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport have switched to the new standards for the implementation of flights for the QNH system for Russia - flights at atmospheric pressure, the values ​​of which are given to the average sea level . Flights of civil aviation aircraft are carried out practically the same way throughout the world. Take-off aircraft performs with the barometric airborne altimeter pressure take-off aerodrome, then after a set of a given transition altitude, the crew resets the pressure of the airborne barometric altimeter from the airport to the standard atmosphere pressure QNE (1013.25 h Pa), common for all aircraft. This ensures the possibility of safe and reliable separation of aircraft in the vertical plane. When approaching the landing aerodrome, the crew at the transition echelon rearranges the pressure of the onboard barometric altimeter from the standard one to the airfield landing pressure and performs the landing stage. The implementation of this simple scheme for performing an aircraft flight from take-off to landing is presented in the form of two options. The absolute majority of the world's states, which account for almost 100% of the world's takeoff / landing operations, use aerodrome pressure, reduced to sea level according to the standard atmosphere (QNH), as the airfield pressure. These two variants of one scheme for performing flights from take-off to landing have a significant difference. Take-off / landing operations using QNH aerodrome pressure are safer compared to take-off / landing operations with aerodrome pressure QFE. This statement is a consequence of the fact that, in general for aerodromes in the world, the pressure difference between QNH and QNE is significantly less than the pressure difference between QFE and QNE for the same aerodromes. Therefore, errors in setting the airdrome pressure or standard atmosphere on the altimeter, when flying with QNH, have less serious impact on the risk of aviation events than the errors in setting the pressure for flights using QFE.

This has all been discussed before and is a good topic to get confused with...:D There is a great old post here by Slothface. Snippet below I'm guessing here major airlines out of major airports would never use QFE and USA GA pilots have never used QFE. Also Russia is changing to QNH Article snippet "Big change: Russia finally moving to QNH" Quick example for ULLI ILS 10L, so you get the idea: The ALT/HEIGHT conversion box is gone The “Alt Set” or Altimeter Setting box shows hPA (Hectopascals) instead of MM (millimeters), which means a QNH-based approach Previously charts showed QFE in bold which meant that was the preferred altimeter setting, now it’s QNH. Much more info by a pilot for pilots http://code7700.com/altimeter_metric.htm .

I would definitely start with the ram. It's better to get a "matched kit" for best compatibility. Keep them in there "matched pairs" when you purchases them when testing. Also dial back any overclocking, if you have it clocked?

I know right. What's the go with pilots always posting here fight hours and years flown when they have discussions / debate here, they should all just flop it out and compare and be done with it.:)

Neither am I, especially how they avoided all of this at launch and only focused on the new tech ""ray tracing". Normally it would be how much better is the 1070 compare to 980ti blah blah. None of that? Perhaps it's not that much difference this year to run the old games faster? I don't think anyone will be running this new tech anyway...Most simmers and FPS shooter games want more frames (144 Hz screens --> 144 fps) than eye candy. I know I do, that's why I bought 1440 @ 144 Hz for that speed eye candy balance. If it can run this gen or the next gen VR better? Then I would really be convinced to swap over.

It could be a strange fault that needs to be triggered. Just like I said about the work PC only faulting sometimes, not sure why it would even run at all with faulty ram? Must have been only be when the ram gets to a loaded level before it would shutdown I guess? With PC's S%$#^ happens sometimes. I had a PC at work go through 2 PSU's in 6 months.... Your PC is a few years old now, there are 100s of parts of each components that could potentially fail at some point in time, just like an aircraft. Some parts have to be rebuilt in aircraft after certain flight hours right, there's a lot more riding on these parts tho, like your life so just replace or rebuild when those hours are up. PC's, not so much and should last anywhere between a three to five years, we are not so worried when they fail, but they will. In business I just do the upgrades because we cannot have the downtime, so we spend the $ and also have local and cloud backup shadowprotect that's offsite, most home PC's don't bother with this. Some should tho that have important files at home, as you would lose everything in a fire. That three to five years for a PC also depends on the parts quality and upgrades done etc. Are you using 2 separate cables coming from the PSU to the new 1080ti, not that it should matter? It would be better and perhaps be worth a shot. I also came across an old cool video that Demon should like :D

I think that comes under the "level of bug"...:D Some are keen to have say, have the F/A-18's new "System" even tho ED knows in this build the "Blah Blah and Blah" is not right but none are game stoppers so update stable and try and keep some people happy, fix "them" hopefully before the next beta to stable etc.

A Motion Simulator would be nice, it would need to be a "real 6DOF" as I would want... All Pitch directions Yaw Heave, Surge and sway Like this one that cost way to much. On a little research I did find this 3DOF for 1800 that's a good size, only 3 DOF... I do like the fact it has the Yaw signal, so if your into prop planes especially, it would be cool when crosswind landing etc.

Yes Yes and Yes, your GPU will be 10x more powerful than any onboard motherboard graphics (Surprised DCS was able to run at all!). That's why these gaming PC's have separate upgradable GPU cards etc, E.G. I went from the 1070 to a 1080ti for more GPU gaming power. If you don't plug into them, you don't get the power from them.

That sentence is a little funny....:D Nurse and hours to kill LOL :) While playing DCS and nursing, don't confuse the life support beeps or flat line when monitoring with the RWR in sim, because that could ruin your mission completely.:D Start at 0:23

I was going to say.....Make sure the monitor is plugged into the GPU and not the motherboard, if that's what your saying above? .

Your system is not to bad, just don't expect massive FPS/eye candy here. If your not tech savvy and not interested? Then going down the overclocking route is not a good idea. It is OK to bump up the CPU a little 10% to get that bit better performance, to go higher you need aftermarket cooling. My CPU is water cooled and can go to 5Ghz the standard boost is 4.5 anyway. She can hold a constant 4.8GHz easily. Your PC can boost auto to 4.6 and it's not the K version so is limited for overclocking anyway. Start by setting the Nvidia settings to performance and DCS to Mid settings and go from there. I use custom setting under the Manage 3D settings in the "Nvidia control panel" seen below, you can takeoff or force many graphics options there, it's all a compromise between FPS and eye candy tho. "Right click" a clear space on the desktop, select "Nvidia control panel" Start with "Use my preference"= performance or just use balance for now and slowly bring up the eye candy in DCS options and Nvidia control panel until to YOU find the balance OK with you and your system. Many here including me have spent big dollars on our PC for flight sims, as this is our hobby and flight sims are one if not the hardest things that can run on a home PC so it's still always a balance especially for VR or 4K, I still run 1440P to have more FPS (70+) than to have 4K eye candy. EDIT: I will also add that I sometimes pullback my settings some to play larger VR missions so I can stay at 45 FPS, so even the missions can affect eye candy FPS and playability.

Does it reboot slowly or black screen completely off, then reboot? I had a PC at work doing that all of a sudden, it could sometimes run all day fine. It ended up being a bad stick of ram.

We should just shutdown all the forums on the net.:D I will upgrade perhaps at some point, but I'm still very happy with my system now. I'm really waiting to see rift 2 and see what the 2080ti will do or if it can hold 90 fps with Rift 1? This might also make me decided to sell my 1080ti. There is just so many decisions at the moment, which is very cool and "my" system is fine for now in DCS until. Vulkan performance / Threadripper 16 core potential 2080ti / 2nd Gen VR 2080ti / 1st Gen VR @ 90 fps? 2080ti / 4K performance

Offloading the graphics to the GPU and freeing up the core that bottlenecks and limits DCS fps and objects, see pic above. Not official at ALL and like I said it will be along time before we or ED know just how good at first and it could be years of optimizing to see it's full true potential. I'm waiting myself to decide on my next build and perhaps go threadripper? or Intel's new CPU? I just don't know what will work best and if DCS will use all the cores....

Yes, we or ED just don't know by how much yet with Vulkan? DCS may use all the cores much much more. Unit ED gets this done and optimizes it, we just don't know how good and how much better it would be with say....amd threadripper 1950x (16-core) or my 7700k (4-core) and using all the 4 cores plus threads to the full could be enough to match my 1080ti or the new 2080ti? Or having an amd threadripper 1950x might even allow you to control 1000 AI unit battle in sim @ 70+ fps....maybe...:music_whistling: The first chart is exactly DCS and is bottlenecked/limited by the one core feeding the GPU, like most games/sims. Vulkan will help a lot we hope:smilewink:

Here is that CVN template for the Caucasus region. Or you can copy the layout onto a carrier on the PG map.

Just run a repair. I've been using DCS for over 5 years and only once or twice on the "beta build" needed to run a repair and once rename my save game folder, then copy my controls back across. This is also without reinstalling on 3 different PC's, just copy and paste from an external drive, saves a lot on downloads. What is your system specs? Have you login (ED Store login) when launching?

There is a template mission file around here somewhere? Cannot find it:cry: You can always open up one of the Case 1 missions under the f-18 quick start missions and save it back to "MY missions" area so it doesn't get updated when updating the core sim. Then you can see how it's done and modify this to your liking or use as is.