captain_dalan

Solved it!
Turns out, it was an installer thing. The updater failed for some reason and created duplicates of the files, but after the fail, even though the window closed, the updater was still running and 'using'/referencing the files, not allowing them to be changed in any way. A restart solved the issue, after which I manually deleted them, and reinstalled the Apache. 

Serves me right for not shutting down the PC for day at times I guess 😄

@Kanelbolle and @MAXsenna
The issues seems resolved with the latest update (the hotfix), but i can't be entirely sure it's the only thing that helped, as i did follow Kanelbolle's advice as well, and added both exe files and configured them for high performance. A note, that even after this, i still had issue with the Persian Gulf map. In a final act of desperation i created a direct shortcut to the exe in the bin folder, thus bypassing the updater all together when running it. Et voila! This completely resolved all stutter issues i had when panning the view around. My launcher is still disabled BTW. For the time being i'll mark this as solution, though i will keep an eye on the stutters with future updates and the role of the launcher in them. 

This gave me an idea, i disabled the launcher and started DCS.exe from the MT-bin folder directly as i did before the update, et voila! Performance issues seem gone. Whatever the issues are, they may be launcher related!