DflippinK

Just maxed out some really low level clouds over Batumi at 8am...ripped through the cities and clipped every treetop of the surrounding mountains in the Hornet... GPU just relaxing at 60% load.... unfxxxingreal!! @Kegetys, Thank You for this... I only saw things getting worse for the hardware end of things, which is ridiculous... you have maintained the beauty, and enabled us all to fly smoothly without breaking a hardware sweat in an absolutely glorious environment... thank you..

delete the contents of "C:\Users\Username\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta" fxo and metashaders2 folders.

i think you need to bind it to "Cannon second detent" for A/A and cannon if i recall correctly.. weapon release usually works for rockets and bombs..

all good friend!!.. i was using ovgme... not sure why it didnt work the first time... but its workin now...:thumbup:... did you notice any anomalies when running the mod without renaming the dcs folder???

all good.. workin now..

I think i might have screwed up somethin... the mod loaded similarly on the first launch... but gpu load was up at 85% from 62% as if it was not working.. gotta go dig through it...:doh:

hmm... mod seems to not be working now for me after the update...

confirmed... FA-18 key bindings lost.

bummer...:doh:

cool..... curious myself!!... but currently doin the update...:music_whistling:

did everybody lose their key bindings with the update???.. saw a few people post they did..

oh.. i see..

wait... so people are ending up with 130GB after the update???.. cause i havent yet and im at 51.6GB with only Caucaus, F18C, F15C, SU-27, and Gazelle.... whats the deal with this???

the folder.... just rename it to dcs.old

its seems to populate a list of META2 files by default... but without the original folder name, all META2 files are written to the C:\Users\Username\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\ fxo and metashaders2 folder... which is much more populated with FXO and META2 files than when running DCS in stock form... usually,.. in stock form, there will only be one FXO file in the fxo folder.. with mod enabled, there are now 226... as i recall, a few updates ago, there were changes to the way DCS stored its metacaches in its main file structure... this might be mitigating that... but not sure why... guess we could see what happens if we dont rename the Caucasus\misc\metacache\dcs folder..

also, about the renamed folders, it seems that rather than using the \terrains\Caucasus\misc\metacache\dcs folder, the mod seems to make much more use of the fxo and metashader2 folders under C:\Users\Username\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta than when running without the mod...

@imacken ...well... i went through the files in the mod and replaced some of the FX and HLSL files with the stock files from my Bazar backup folder and then recompiled the shaders again and it seems to have brought back some of the vanilla look while still maintaining much lower GPU load.. im sure it could be optimized and implemented... and likely will... im just satisfied to see that anything can be done to make the deferred engine run better over time rather than worse...

recommend corsair 400c or 270r as really good flowing relatively inexpensive cases in a nice size... and at least a 240mm rad... here is my 400c with a 280 in it...

soo i have the f-15c and the su-27... but not FC3... can i make the F-14 mod work or not?

do you run fullscreen or full res windowed?.. full res windowed seems to tax the cpu less... also, while flying, hit Alt+Enter and switch between Fullscreen and Windowed mode... it does indeed still have an effect... sometimes, i will notice higher CPU and GPU usage and if i Alt+Enter twice, it goes back to its normal usage... give it a shot... as it is easy to do in game... seems like an odd bug, but it is real... additionally, there are a couple of post about the network adapter causing issues.. but i didnt get hit by that one.. if that doesnt work, you may need to repair or even re-install DCS... but id check for some of the odd issues first..

try deleting the contents of your fxo and metashaders2 folders located in: C:\Users\Username\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta just open both folders and delete the contents of each... restart dcs and it will repopulate them accordingly...

On my 4k monitor, this mod drops GPU load approximatly by 20%.. the only draw backs i could notice were grass looking a bit sparse when flying really low in the Gazelle, the lack of Bloom, and requires a bit of gamma adjustment... other than that... everything looks just as good as vanilla with a substantial performance increase..

What does it require for install?

This is sooo good!!!... every aspect of this mod needs to be turned into an in game slider!!!