When I learned of the advice to delete metashaders and clean fxo folder after every update, I haven't noticed any drops of performance and if anything, helped to have stable performance after pretty much every update.
To be clear, speaking of (C:\Users\XXXX\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\metashaders2, C:\Users\XXXX\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\fxo, D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\terrains\FOR_EVERY_TERRAIN\misc\metacache\dcs and D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\terrains\FOR_EVERY_TERRAIN\misc\shadercache)
Only downside of this is everytime after an update, every terrain and game loading takes a little longer, but if that helps to prevent potential issues, I think it's an option everyone would prefer.
What I'd like to suggest it to implement clearing of these folders to the DCS updater application, so after every update they get automatically cleaned during the update without players having to worry about that. I bet there are a lot of players unaware of this and they could have issues because of having older shaders installed so having this clearing automated could help a lot.
Is it possible to forward this to the devs to take a look at?
Regards,
Vakarian