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First thanks much for trying to lend a hand, very appreciated. Have done this several times. Killed every app I could such that only the game and, as you say, the bare essentials were running - same behavior. Finally the Rift is pretty fantastic, still a long way to go, in 5 years VR is going to be incredible. No, I haven't yet but I'm familiar with the technique and thread you're referring to. I'll give that a try later this evening, I haven't yet as that feels rather hackish where I shouldn't have to do something like that on a PC like mine. That said if it fixes it then great. Thanks as well, I've seen several posts about these types of issues but this sorta can't be my problem or if it is I can't fix it. What I mean is my main drive is a Samsung EVO 850 SSD, a rather nice/fast one. My second drive is a standard hard drive, so moving temp files there would have far less performance. I've run disk benchmarks several times to ensure there are no issues, in fact about 6 months back my main SSD (a PNY at the time) was bad and writes were insanely slow. With the Sammy all tests are screaming. If I recall the settings page has several different tabs for graphics, controls, audio, etc. Am I right that all you'd want would be the graphic settings? Is it possibly a case that "low" would possibly be slower than something higher as it doesn't pre-load or pre-cache something that would help? Just an FYI but I have tried every level of the presets from Low to Highest (can't recall the actual name) I really do appreciate everyone's help. I'll say that I almost don't expect to figure this out as I've spent at least 8 hours total with various forum posts and troubleshooting. That said it would be great if we found that magic bullet that would get it going. ~X

@amazingme - Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 4 x 8GB DDR3 1866 - I can't believe for a second that would have anything to do with it but I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Again I play a number of AAA titles that all run fantastically (Overwatch, Battlefield 1, Elite, Assetto Corsa, Project Cars, Doom (4), Descent Underground, Fallout 4, GTA V, etc.) @Vlerkies - first, yes, I'll try just about anything at this point as I've tried just about everything I can think of to figure it out. I really have done a lot of investigation and troubleshooting trying to figure it out as my inner geek gets very annoyed when I can't work out an issue like this. Now to answer your question/idea I do not have that installed. While I've played around with these various Asus add-ons like that with my current Windows 10 build I didn't install any of those apps when I rebuilt, just the drivers / BIOS. While I do play some FPS games from time to time that's not my normal gameplay and I have no need for goofy apps like those. The only background apps that start at login are: - Dropbox - Plex (which I've tried disabling before DCS, no difference) - Plex.py (a Plex log file processor, I've tried killing it, no diff) - Windows Defender (again I've tried killing it) - ShareX (great simple screenshot app, guess what I've tried...) - And that's it There aren't any goofy processes running and nothing using anything more than a few percent of my CPU at any given non-gaming moment. When I play the AAA titles above at most I get about 45% sustained CPU usage with no more than about 60% of system RAM ever used. As I mentioned before I even installed the game to a RAM drive with the same issues. I really am at a loss - my frustration wants to say "damn is crappy software" but given how many are enjoying it just fine it's clearly not the game but rather some conflict with something odd on my PC. It's just so odd that it would be this specific to DCS since all my other games run so great. Hell I can get 150+ fps in Doom on full Ultra across 3 displays at 5760x1080 so it's not exactly a slow PC. Any other ideas gents?? ~X

Sorry I forgot to do this earlier, do you still need? I have tried everything on low with the exact same results. Yeah, no thanks - I'm on air cooling, a nice big Noctua but still would rather not. Besides it's well above the recommended specs and I never see more than about 60% CPU utilization at any given time. Any other ideas or I suppose I'll just have to punt.

Thanks for the replies guys, I do appreciate them.I've updated my original post with the answers to the above questions, they are: - Single player - AV is Windows Defender, no secondary or anti-malware. I've worked in IT for 20 years so know how to keep a machine very clean, this is only a gaming system and never anything funky on it. - No ther large or busy background processes. It is my Plex server but I've stopped Plex to ensure that it's transcoding processes aren't running. - Visual settings in-game make no difference, I've tried everything at it's lowest or at highest and the stutter is exactly the same. (can't beleive I didn't mention this before! Set Windows power management to "off", basically setting everything to performance / no throttling - Set the Nvidia driver to always prefer performance

This is sorta my last ditch effort to see if I can actually get to play DCS and get some enjoyment from what I spent on the A10-C module. First a bit about my PC then the issues. PC Details Core i7 4770k 3.5 Ghz (non-OCed) 32 GB DDR3 2 Samsung EVO 850 256GB SSD RAID 1 Samsung 7200 RPM SATA (data drive, game run from SSD) Zotac Amp!Extreme GTX 1080 8GB ASUS ROG Hero VII MB Gigabit NIC, 100MB down, 25MB up net connection Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS VKBSim Mark IV flight pedals Pagnain V2 Motion Seat Platform Oculus Rift 3 27" 1080p 60hz Samsung displays Thrustmaster TX racing wheel, Fanatec V2 Pedals, Fanatec SQ Shifter, Custom handbrake Custom USB Button box / racing dash (I only mention the racing hardware incase there is some bizarre conflict, I've tried them disconnected) Problem Details When in cockpit (in VR) there is a momentary stutter/pause every 2 or so seconds. It's about 15-30 frames or so (from observation, not a scientific measurement). It's consistent from the minute I'm in air for as long as I fly, starts immediately. If I hold perfectly still it still stutters, if I look around in VR it gets quite a bit worse, huge stutters as new terrain is drawn in. What I've Tried I've read a number of threads about this or issues like it and have tried a number of things. A few of them are: - In game visual settings make no difference. Have tried everything at their lowest to everything at highest and there is zero difference - Disabled hyperthreading - Disabled CPU power management - Set Windows power management to "off", basically setting everything to performance / no throttling - Set the Nvidia driver to always prefer performance - "Other" BIOS settings (can't find the thread now but used a thread that had a number of changes to try) - Originally installed to my SATA drive then installed to SSD - Created a 20GB RAM Disk and installed there - Full uninstall/clean of video drivers, reinstall - Confirmed all drivers are current - All Windows 10 updates, Anniversary edition - Have played without VR, same issues - Have used several version of Oculus Home, same issues (has happened since purchase) - Clearly a gaming focused machine, play many other AAA titles perfectly. Most notably Elite Dangerous with multiple add-on apps and software for my motion platform and additional hardware - Have tried right after a complete clean Windows 10 install (after all current drivers) - Tried setting the DCS thread to high priority via launching from a batch file - Tried flying the A10-C and the default plane that is included (just can't remember it now) - Playing in Single player - Using Windows Defender AV, no secondary or other anti-malware (very clean machine, I'm a senior network engineer) - No other busy or large background processes. The machine is my Plex server but I've been sure to stop that to ensure it's transcoding processes are not running (as they can effect Elite). - As I've worked in IT for 20 years I've done a lot of performance tuning in my day, this current build is fairly vanilla with only a handful of services stopped (I can share the list but I can also assure you nothing even remotely related) UPDATE - new things I've tried with no good results - Setting the DCS process to high priority - Verifying that maxfps isn't set - Deleted DCS folder in my Windows profile - Set Preload Radius to maximum - Confirmed that none of the Asus add-on tools (Sonic Radar, etc.) are not installed/running - No Anti Virus running (other than Windows Defender) - No Cloud or other background service running using CPU (killed all that were, namely Dropbox) - Confirmed that all Windows power/performance settings are disabled or set to max performance - Verified the firmware on all drives, SSD and HDD, all are current. - Have tried resetting the BIOS to defaults and to turn off hyperthreading and CPU throttling off. Again neither helped - Fresh install of Windows, drivers then DCS, still stutters - Have had DCS and OS installed to SSD, had OS on SSD and DCS on HDD So that's the story, I'm at a loss as to what to try next. I've read threads that 1.5 isn't great with VR and that I should move to 2.0 beta but I'm not about to spend another dime on a game that I've already spend $50 on and haven't been able to play for more than a few minutes, instead spending hours trying to make it work. My system is well above the recommended specs and I've gotten replies from several users to my Steam review with significantly less powerful hardware than I have who have no issues. As a huge fan of VR and flight sims and owner of the Thrustmaster Warthog I've wanted to get into DCS for a long time but every time I try I'm thwarted and it's simply unplayable. I don't think I'm being too picky as a stutter in VR like this can be extremely sickening. I welcome any input you guys have otherwise I suppose DCS will just have to sit in my library of games that were a mistake to buy. -Ross Here's 2 Youtube videos showing the problems VR Stutter test - starts at :26 Non-VR Stutter test - starts at :14