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I don't want to resurrect this old thread, but I want to pass on that the helpful folks here were right: I upgraded to an i7-8700K, and my DCS frame rate has easily more than doubled. That definitely confirms that I was greatly CPU-bound with my good 'ol 2600K... :(

I'm new on the forum and your guides are gold. Thanks a lot!!

@ David OC, My 3 x 1080p monitors are all connected with individual DisplayPort cables to the 1080 Ti. I no longer use Nvidia Surround as I found it to be a bit 'flaky' at times. I simply setup my monitors as '3 Screen' and 5.33 aspect ratio in DCS.

@TJ, If I'm gonna upgrade my three 1080 monitors to three 1440..... I'm gonna need a loan!... ;)

@ElementLT, I already had it selected, but I now also selected the other settings that I can see on your screenshot. I'll give them a try. :)

@TJ, Actually, since I'm using 3 x 1080p monitors, I'm at 5760.

@ TJ, Actually, that screencap was taken over Dubai. Also, I have my pagefile set to 16 GB. Could that be the difference?

@TJ, Unfortunately, the native resolution of 2 of my 3 monitors is 1080.

@derodo, Alright then. I guess we wait for Vulkan... :(

@ Headwarp @ Aluminum Donkey Finally! I've attached two screencaps taken in Free Flight over Dubai: - My current settings - My Task Manager resources See anything weird/unusual?? P.S. I've since turned off Smoke Density.

@Headwarp, Thanks for some good insight into your experience and for providing some recommendations. I use a TrackIR 5 and I would be thrilled if I could get a steady 45 FPS. Unfortunately, as I mentioned in my previous posts, I seem to be stuck in low 20s ad vitam aeternam. I also get up to 60 FPS when I'm basically looking at... nothing. I'll keep my trials and errors testing going, and hope that Vulkan may help us all someday. :)

@TJ, I just checked, and my RAM usage holds steady at 57% (about 13.7 GB/24 GB). As soon as I can upload a screenshot, I'll post my settings.

@erniedaoage, Good suggestion, but I have tried both Windowed and Fullscreen with no change in FPS.

I agree with everything you mentioned TJ, now I just need to figure out how to 'tune' my system to take advantage of the new card as much as possible. BTW, I just ran the Single Threaded CPU MARK and got 2391 (91th Percentile) - They sure don't make things like they used to... :) Thanks a lot for all the feedback/help!

@TJ, I just downloaded and ran Passmark, and I got the following (typed since I can't upload an image): PASSMARK: 5072 (92nd percentile) CPU MARK: 8855 (75th Percentile) 2D MARK: 777 (76th Percentile) 3D MARK: 12745 (98th Percentile) MEMORY MARK: 2504 (83rd Percentile) You'd think I could run DCS 2.5 properly...