Damcopter

Hello, As written in the title I am experiencing huge freezes and stutter for a period between 10 and 30s, when the radar starts to operate (F16 is the worst, F4E is bad for 10s, F14 is in between the 2 others). I am a DCS veteran (2009) and very good at optimizing the game (and you know how difficult it is to optimize this game... ). But since roughly a year or so, I am struggling with some modules having a radar. it took me a while to figure out that my issue was only related to the radar as I was not playing with many modules. After a looooong period of testing everything (all the optimization tips found everywhere: w10 defender, fxo, metashaders, core affinity, pagefile, preload radius, lod, etc etc etc...), I found that the freezes/stutters where occuring when the radar starts to operate (wheels up after take off). I make sure my game is evenly spread on all cores (affinity set) and the game is capped at 60fps (for TIR5 smoothness) whilst it has the potential to run between 80 and 110. When I can, I maintain the radar switched off until I am high enough in height to give a little bit of room for CPU/GPU. But this is not a proper fix. Did anyone found a trick to sort this out ? (for the F4, settings the radar CPU to low in special settings doesn't change anything unfortunately)

Hi guys, it's been years we discuss the "track ir stutterring" issue, here and on other forums. The main fact that we have to consider is the camera refresh rate: 120Hz for the TIR. So, if you want to pan around in your cockpit (aircraft, cars, space ships etc....) with the TIR: YOU HAVE TO CAP FPS @ 60 or @ 120. If your rig is unable to sustain constant 120 fps, you'll have to cap @ 60. In DCS, even after 4 years of tweaking, my only solution is to cap @60. In Elite dangerous, AMS2, IL2: @120 (my rig is able to never drop under 120fps) I precise that I have a 165G-SYNC monitor, I7 8700K, 32 GB RAM, 1080Ti. In conclusion: with TIR, it's impossible to remove "pan around stuttering" except @60 or 120Hz. Some people say that they don't have any stuttering but the truth is that they are unable to detect it. I am really sensitive to stuttering and other people like me should cap @60 or 120. NB: It's useless to remove g-syng or to activate/deactivate V-Sync. The only solution is the FPS capping tweak. And for capping, you can use either RTSS (I encountered some conflicts between RTSS and Launchers since last DSC updates and Il2 updates...) or you can use NVIDA Control Panel (there is an option to cap FPS that appeared 6 months ago or maybe One year). Hope it helps you guys. Sorry for my bad English Dam from France

Pour info je viens de résoudre mon souci en désactivant Rivaturner (RTSS) qui me sert à bloquer DCS à 60fps. SI ça peut aider qqun

salut papamike, tu peux me dire exactement ce que tu as fait stp? J'ai le même souci que toi...

Hi, I would like to share my first video on DCS. I filmed all of the video during one mission with my French teamates. As I was the Mission Commander, I spent 95% of the mission on the F10 view, so the video doesnt't show the objectives of the mission (and what really happended) but it shows what is possible to do when you fly with friends in an immersive mission with SRS and realistic radio contacts. Sorry for my bad english. hope you will enjoy this 4 minutes of DCS flight Dam

Hi, for the same reason as you (TIR5) and with my144Hz GSync screen, I have tried all the solutions above and, for me, the best one to cap DCS at 60fps is to use RTSS (rivaturner).

Thank you for sharing

Hi Uboats, for sure I will buy your JF-17 day one! You made a great work! In the next video, I would like to see the aircraft also from different external views (F2 and F3) with a little bit of zoom. I don't need a "teaser" but I assume I need some hype with looking at this aircraft just flying. Thank you and keep pushing.

I performed a test flight one year ago with Borchi_2b "Sven", as I am a military heli pilot in armée de l'air. I flew the real Gazelle at the beginning of my career and now I am on the As555 Fennec with 3000h+. Sven is a very nice and comprehensive guy. I still wonder why the Polychop French guy (Patrick?) didn't speak to me even once. It could have been easier for me to explain my complaint about the FM. I left Polychop Discord after weeks because there was no more answer. I met some Gazelle pilote to try to help Polychop because we are really looking forward to take pleasure with the Gazelle but it is impossible with the current FM as it is so weird and the cyclic is not coded like a helo. Armée de l'air is very very very interested in DCS. It is a great software for us because it allows to perform COMAOs connected together from our respective air base. For the helos, we will use DCS for the formation of our future leaders, mission commander, for the CAS and CCA qualifications and so on .. So maaaany on. Unfortunately we can't use the Gazelle for that. So we will buy a lot of licence of the UH1 and the Mi8

The "lack" of buttons is solved with "modification button" (the orange ones) that are behind the throttle. It's very useful and I don't use the keeboard except for the view buttons (F1 to F11). I don't recommend the X56 because of the neutral of the stick which is very weird. The T16000 is very precise thanks to the "Hall effect" So my advice is : T16000+Twcs+rudder (the best price quality ratio) or if you have more money: The Warthog or Virpil or VKB. In DCS, Rudder pedal is mandotory to fly choppers but not mandatory for airplanes

Hello, I had the TM X like you and I have now the TM T16000 + Twcs: it's night and day in term of precision. So with the warthog it will be even better. FYI I am real military pilot and the T16000 is for me précise enough to feel like IRL.

I have 154hours of real flight in the Gazelle and 3000h + in other helicopters. I am helicopter instructor since 15 years on French helicopters. The DCS Gazelle has big problems considering FM. First of all: A steady cyclic displacement on the right or the left side doesn't correspond to a roll angle of X degrees like it is IRL. In DCS the Gazelle never stop rolling until fly on the back... IRL if you displace the cyclic x cm on the right, you will have a x degrees roll angle (it's a little bit simplified but too hard to explain in English for me) Just compare the MI8 and the Gazelle in DCS. Fly both at 120km/h (or the speed you want) and displace your stick 3cm on the right or left and maintain it. Just look at the behavior of your helicopter ������. The MI8 is realistic, the Gazelle is.... I agree with comments on the VRS in DCS. If it was like that in real life I wouldn't be able to write a comment on Ed's forum: I would be dead. Sorry for my English. There are some other weird things on the FM of the DCS Gazelle. I explained all of them to Polychop guys. They are working on it.... Or they are working on the next chopper and maybe... Maybe one day they will work again on the Gazelle. I am angry because Polychop never made a statement on the problem of their FM. They know all the mistakes they've done thanks to real pilots feedbacks but they don't speak about it and still earn money based on a lie. Some guys tell that ALAT pilots were happy with the FM when testing the Gazelle on DCS. It's normal because when you test a Sim for the first time when you are also a real pilot, you miss the real sensation of flight that you are used to. And you pilot the Sim in response to the instant behavior of the module. I made the same mistake during the first 2 hours of flight with the Gazelle. I was like a child when I saw the cockpit for the first time, it was like 15 years ago when I learnt to fly in ALAT school at Dax. But passing the first 2 hours trying to apply curves on axes to have a realistic feeling, I never succeeded to reach a realistic FM. Then I searched for the mistakes and I have discovered some. After that I performed a test flight with Polychop guys and now we are waiting for the new FM. Perhaps one day. Fingers crossed.

Alec Dolorean, I sent you a pm.

Wonderful job, thank you very much!!!!!! I think there is a little mistake page21. The landing pattern that you describe is the one when pilots are training for carrier landing on airfields.

@Fragbum I don't want to rewrite all the things already done in other posts on the Gazelle.(and I remember that you and me have already spoken about it on other thread) I spent à lot of time working with Polychop, now I am waiting for the FM review "this year" If the new FM is realistic I would be the first to congrats the hard work done by Polychop. You wrote:" This doesn't seem to be correct, cyclic displacement is rate of roll not an amount of roll??" In real French helicopters I repeat: x cm displacement of the cyclic on a side correspond to a x degrees of roll angle and not correspond to a never ending roll at x degrees per second like it is in the DCS Gazelle. This is the first big issue in the Polychop FM. So hovering with the DCS Gazelle is absolutely not realistic. I don't know why but when you trim the cyclic of the DCS Gazelle with x cm of displacement on a side, the never ending roll stops and the behaviour is right. But IRL, trim or not is the same because Trim is only a sort of magnetic brake which block your cyclic in position (in fact it's more complicated and I am unable to explain it in English)