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Thanks to the person who advised that the lack of performance was due to heavy network activity. Persian Gulf performance terrible for the last few weeks. Having got the jitters yet again, and removing the Rift and putting it back on again failed to cure it, I remembered that thread about network activity. Soo I pulled my wifi dongle from its extension cable. Jitters went immediately, then came back a couple minutes later with a vengeance and the game froze. Closed the game with task manager and kept it open this time to look at this strange network activity and monitor everything else. Restarted the game and sure enough, loads of network spikes at 100% Jitters as usual. Closed the game and restarted it, letting it log into the DCS server, then pulled my wifi adapter. Nice and smooth sat on the tarmac at Al Dhafra, starting the Hornet up. Then freeze and crash. (log enclosed) This time I did not reconnect my Wifi adapter, therefore not allowing it to connect to the DCS server; just started the game on the three day grace period.. Smoothest mission I have had for several weeks, NO hourglass stutters, no jitters, good FPS. Absolutely know nothing about examining logs but... Looking at the log, it looks to be trying to load every damn thing on the DCS server onto my PC and also firing large quantities of information back to the ED server. This all started a couple of updates ago. dcs.log-20180717-184304.zip

Yep. It is not optimal. It is an AIO, Corsair H80i to be exact. Due to case design, I can only fit a 120mm rad, albeit a double pass type, with a dual fan push/pull arrangement and this is on the exhaust side of the case, with 3x intake fans. Exhaust side rad from tests on youtube only makes a couple of degrees difference overall, not a problem usually, but now I'm on the ragged edge due to outside temps. I do need to rebuild my rig, originally went for a cheap case so I could spend more on components, its done well for 3 years, but I guess it's getting old being pushed so hard. Currently waiting for Turing to be released... In the meantime I will try running without the case side fitted as an interim measure in this heat and see if it makes a difference....

(PG Map). Just a quick reminder for those of us that have been enjoying unseasonably hot weather this summer. I have had issues where I have flown a two hour mission and suddenly lost major fps on landing. Of course I did what everyone does... Damn DCS screwed something up again. Checked my GPU temps in Asus Tweak and found it running at 80C. I know Asus will start reducing power at around this temp and majorly at 84C, but I was seeing sudden dips in GPU use, almost by 90%. I would have expected a gradual decline. Set the GPU fans to manual 100% over auto and dropped the max temp by 5C. Next time I ran DCS I enabled Corsair link to monitor all the hardware temps and same thing happened, lost fps on landing. Normally do not bother monitoring my CPU temps as it is always pretty stable at 78C and have a custom throttle back setting at a conservative 90C, over stock 100C. Looking at the logs after quitting, it seems my CPU package temp hit 90C and throttled, even though none of the individual cores did. Perplexed I looked at room temp.... 31C. Ahh. So just a timely reminder, if you are running your hardware hotter, with the current unseasonably summer temps in Blighty, your thermal overhead is much reduced and could be the cause of some performance problems. As for me, I'm getting some Arctic Fox thermal paste and redoing that. Not happy with CPU hitting 90 and water only 58C. Seems PG is much more demanding of CPU, not experiencing any problems on the other maps.

PG is certainly glitched at the moment. Started after the update a week or two ago. Problem starts at the loading screen and I rate the chance of completing a mission without a complete PC freeze, hard reboot. and recovery disc reinitialisation and heart failure at 75/25. I'm back on NTTR now. PG is so much not worth the angst of a corrupted PC.

NTTR map. FA18 Hornet. Game crashed when moving master arm switch from armed to safe. dcs.log-20180708-120112.zip

Have both myself and my wingman fitted with 3 droptanks - Centre and both inboard stations. This is just enough to get from Al Dhafra to the Iranian coast, whereby when both fuel totalisers come into synch, I punch off the tanks. This would be maybe 30% into the mission. My wingman however, does not punch them off and there seems to be only a menu for ordering him to jettison weapons, not empty fuel tanks. When he calls bingo, I have to send him home immediately and even then he seems to flame out in the pattern. "Two Ejecting" is a distressingly common radio call. I do try to keep engines at 90% in the cruise so he can keep up without tapping the reheat and turns are gentle. I think the drag of the tanks are preventing him getting home, whereas I continue to fly the furthest waypoints to the end of the mission and still get home with 3000lbs.

Problem not present in Caucasus, NTTR or Normandy. As soon as the PG loading page starts, performance drops off into low single figures. Only happened after the patch a couple of weeks ago. Removing the headset, letting it reset and putting it back on smooth things over for a minute or so, then the fps plummets again. As mentioned, all this starts on the initial PG loading screen, not the mission loading screen. Nvidia drivers have been rolled back, reinstalled, clean installed, metashader and fxo folders deleted, repair option tried, GPU overclock stability looked at, GPU fans set to max, so no thermal throttling, max recorded temp 71 degrees. I think it's likely a Vram issue with the loading screen.

RL Hornet pilots have mentioned the audio is pretty spot on, however when taxying out, I can very barely hear any wheel rumble over the expansion joints. Since I use buttkicker, this means no response from the BK, or ridiculous volume that blows me out of the chair when aircraft join overhead. Is there any way of increasing wheel rumble only? The Hog rumble works very well. Damn those first world problems :)

Glad it's not just me having this problem. I do find the Hornet a real handful with full flaps. I recall Lex commenting that this behaviour is not correct.

Both DDi's work in night mode, but the MFCD does not, turning night mode on only dims the waypoint heading bug ect, not the surrounding HDI bezel or map.

Using VR with mouse confined to window, so cannot select DCS to gather data automatically button, so log attached..... PG Map, Hornet, Night Mission, VR. Edit: Attachment uploader failed to send the zip folder, I'll have to send it here in longhand....

Tried all ways of getting wingman loaded out in the Hornet in mission editor. No dice. Set loadout with ordnance and drop tanks for wingman and they do not save. Result, wingman flies mission with insufficient fuel and no weapons. PG Map, SP mission, Hornet, AL Dhafra Airbase.

As Above. Deselecting autopilot using paddle switch raises audible warning, Master Caution light, and fault caption on left DDI.

Someone on Hoggit mentioned taking off the headset for 20 seconds or so, then putting it back on. Tried it and it works.... for awhile, then it starts again. Got the Hornet started (PG, night mission, clouds and moonlight, cold and dark start), turned the flashlight off and the stutters did not return for a significantly longer time than previously, maybe 3 minutes as opposed to 1 minute. Took off and jitters did not return at all once I flew out of the clouds.

Thanks Sniper. Tried it, no dice. Problem still confined to PG map.

as per link: Tracked problem to PG. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=213713

Done some more testing. Problem is confined to Persian Gulf map. NTTR, Normandy and Caucasus work fine. However if you try PG first and get jitters, then back out onto one of the other maps, you get the jitters on them all. If you close back to desktop, then restart DCS, everything is fine. Happy days. Give the devs something to chew on. I will rethink my previous observation: DCS is partially unplayable. :)

No Dice, still unplayable. Log enclosed. Tried deleting metashader2 folder again and running repair option, still the same. Shutting down in task manager, I noticed the game is using TWICE the RAM it normally does. Normally when game is idling and I shut down in task manager I see around 4GB RAM used. This time it was over 9GB. dcs.zip

thanks for the quick advice Fee. I will give it a go. That's when the nausea goes away :cry:

First time ever I have had to say DCS is completely (Edit: partially) unplayable, but after the last update it now is. FPS must be around 4. The extent to this is that looking up at the moon and moving the head makes two moons appear. Downloaded the update Wednesday and first time I tried it is today, PC switched completely off between times. Windows update is disabled, so the problem is not one of their updates.

Happens on the other maps too. Apart from the 9 and 10 density, the clouds appear to restricted to around 40 miles or so of your take off point. If you F2 all the AI assets in the mission and see some flying in cloud, when you hit F1 again you are surrounded by clouds.

2.5. Persian Gulf Map. Hornet. Cannot seem to get any weapons loaded on either my own wingman or other flight wingman. Despite going through each loadout and saving individually.

The Hornet is very quiet on its wheels when rolling along the tarmac. This means you have to turn up the volume on the Buttkicker amp to feel the bumps and jolts at all. Trouble is, any other noise is also turned right up, so something like another plane taking off or flying past, shakes my chair to bits and the wife and dogs downstairs all think the roof is falling in. Be nice to have the option to turn up the wheel rumble without affecting everything else.

A friend of his just let me know. Passed away last night. We lost another good one. We were trying to get him interested in DCS and maybe contributing something, but sadly he was too ill. He did show some interest in the youtube harrier videos though. Don't know if Nick Grey knew him, but he might like to know. John Farley, now soars like an Eagle. Condolences to his family and friends. Bit about him. https://dunsfoldairfield.org/john-farley-afc-obe/

Only one way to answer that. In my opinion, Hell Yes.