Boosterdog

Just a little note of appreciation about how effective the set dressing is on the airfields. Adds a nice bit of atmospshere. May only ask would be to exchange some of those generic 00-00-00 skins for some of the unit specific marked ones but otherwsie....looks and feels great.

Marianas are the freeby showcases. As are the promo reels and the ED favorite you-tubers. Caucauses is the "look how well it runs on your potoato - BUY MORE!!" map. Adding more power demanding tech is possibly not just about time and effort but also about how is plays to a prospective customer. I think its day will come in time but I cant see that time being in the near furutre.

Whilst ED is in the business to selling maps I dont see much of a priority case for making a free one much better. Especially one that basically offers something for everyone like the Caucauses does. I will give a +1 though.

If you watch all the footage you'll also see long sections of it with no lag on the coast as well as with higher frame times (so less fps) over relatively sparse lanscape inland as Cap swings his head about. Caps also streaming, recording and flying on a virgin map, in a Clan server, in an MP environment and no doubt with a few other things that may cause issues. I still think that your're issue is that you are running your settings too close to the the Vsync limit. No doubt it will see some optimisation, but this isnt the principal reason for your frames halving. You can take this tip of not but when im looking a settings, especially for a new map, I turn off Vsync to see what the true Fps is, pick the heaviest bits i intend to use with the heaviest module, and aim to find settings that will give me a minimum of a clear 15 fps about my monitors refresh rate. It doesnt matter if Im hitting 200 fps at 30000ft, if im less than 75 on the ground anyywhere, i trim the settings back.

60 to 30 could possibly be Vsync halving the frames when you drop below your chosen refresh rate. It only needs to drop 1 fps under that to half the frames. As such the actually perfoamcne load may not be very much, it just that you are running the settings close to the bone. I think I know the fences. Its the cross wire chicken type? Again I think thats more a limitation of DCSs pretty clunky shadow tech. Could be talking out of my hat on both buth perhaps something to check?

Im runing an ageing 5600x with a 10GB 3080 and thr maps runs pretty well. No overclocks, evertthing at stock save for the RAM XMP type RAM profile to get the RAM up to the advertised 3600. Id suggest uninstalling the mods and perhaps running a repair. EDIT - I only run at 1080P however. If that doesnt at least get you some stability it may be a hardware thing.

Sadly that is the only grass you get in DCS. Hellishly dangerous when there is a tiger loose.

I noticed that the scrub "wipe" is absent from agricultural fields so presumably areas can be masked.

Looks great low and slow. Lots of clutter and objects in and around the airfields and heliports reduces the need to set build, performance on my older system is good for the most part and, if I were more inclined to have listened in geography, I susect that I would find most landmarks are roughly where I would expect them to be. Green certainly helps mask the ground clutter and small bush pop-ups. A really good day 1 experience. Obviously its EA so Im sure there will be bugz and issues but the only one I really have currently it that the colours feel a little over saturated. I think Ugra, should be proud of this one.

I agree. In general it feels a little over saturated and that serves to furher starken the grass/mud areas around the airfields which is also not helped by the unavoidable "Jurassic grass" of DCS.

Thanks @BIGNEWYNot an issue. Its actually nice to see Urgra's efforts so well recieved. I shall enjoy the anticipation of the wait....

@BIGNEWY am I correct in assuming the Cold War has generated the type of server crashing chaos normally reserved for day 1 Nvidia cards? Its not showing anywhere, the authoriation is faulting, the game cant update my module data and its all genrally very circle of doom.

I likley have missed it but are all those static airliners going to be included as map objects?

I dont think for 1 minute that the map will be perfect in every sense but Im enamoured enough with what Ive seen to drop £220 on a bigger M2 in order ot enusre I can fit it on as a permanent fixture. The community enagagment from @MAESTR0 and effort put into it has been especially appreciated.

Thanks but thats not what I asked