Low frame rate

Did that in v1.5.2 already, got better f/s, reinstalled it just now on v1.5.3 and the FPS is _still_ in the pits. Which then brings us to your next suggestion, which would be... what exactly? To claim a 4.6GHz i7-2600k can't run this thing on HIGH anymore, perhaps?

 

OK, enough with the sarkyness for now; but I'm pretty certain there's something wrong with the patch regardless. But then it's a beta, isn't it ;):D

Try to do a repair and or delete the Saved games Dcs world folder but save your input profiles. Then retest.

Use the attachment below if you wish to use the older 1.5.2 visibility values (unpack to Config\terrain folder in DCS)

Wow! Numbers in lines for 1.5.3 are doubled, tripled or even *10!

Looks scary!

Try to do a repair

But v1.5.2 ran much better regardless TBH, even after I toned down the v1.5.3 visibility values. So I don't know, I'm kind of eagerly waiting for the next episode here still... ;) S!

I used to get 60fps soldly but since update I get 40-50 and trackir is jerky when view panning meaning the game is not enjoyable in its current state. ED please fix this issue as we should need super PCs to run this on medium to high settings ultimately people will not play a game with poor graphics performance.

So I have had another go at 1.5.3.

If you use high settings for everything with a reasonably hi end PC 60 fps is within your grasp.

I am getting between 45 - 100 fps but for the most part I am at or around 60 fps and I think it does look better than much higher settings in 1.5.2

With track ir it is once again a decent experience.

with a reasonably hi end PC 60 fps is within your grasp

Oh, definitely. It's just that those 60 f/s aren't at all fluid anymore, but rather a stutterfest. Bumma :cry:

I tried many setting, stutters are not going away. I hope devs can fix this in upcoming patches. These micro stutters are deadly in dogfighting.

I found something interesting with my nvidia gtx 970 gpu...

when i enable shadow play within geforce experience (green button switch), all the stuttering is gone. as soon as i disable it, the stuttering is there again. tested with driver version 361.75. please check if this is reproducable.

For sure the update made the simulator stutter a lot. If I only would have known...

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I had lower fps as well.

But I recovered quite a bit of them by setting Flat shadows = On.

Oh thanks Mustang for the script , so much better now even if it 22-30 fps for me because of the laptop.

Use the attachment below if you wish to use the older 1.5.2 visibility values (unpack to Config\terrain folder in DCS)

This fixed it! I'm back to 60 FPS. Thanks Mustang :)

I must add though for anyone experiencing issues with the Visibility Range values in 1.5.3, I was able to go from 30 FPS to around 40-45 FPS by upgrading to NVIDIA Driver 361.91. I suggest upgrading display drivers to the most recent one first, and then only using 1.5.2 Visibility Range settings if you still experience stutters. Your performance increase due to drivers might vary, so IMO it's a trade-off between eye-candy (using 1.5.3 settings) and smoother frame-rates (1.5.2 settings).

After testing I had fps drop but not that significant with setting draw distance at ultra. I dropped it down to high and it is perfectly fine now and looks better than ultra of previous patch. No stuttering here, and that's a interesting bit about nvidia shadow play.

Enduro, you are taking this very personally, but we are just reporting an issue that wasn't happening before this last update.

What scares me the most is that DCS is behaving exactly like with the old engine (pre 1.5). I could have good frame rates with my modest PC with the new engine even with high visibility settings. Now even the lowest aren't enough to have acceptable frame rates, just like in 1.2 and before. And there is people here with amazing PC's reporting the same issue.

I hope this is some mistake like a debug version released by error or similar and we are back to the magnificent performance we were having before very soon.

Yes.. with the latest patch I have a massive FPS drop!

Before the last 2 patches I never got less than 60 FPS with 1.5. Now sometimes I have only 23 FPS.

Looks like the old "tree" problem again but this time no Flat ground shadows or something else helps me.

Edit: Very interesting is that my GPU temperature is going up if I got less FPS and dropping with more FPS and that in REAL TIME (all water-cooled). That's the first time that I can notice such a behavior in a game. Looks like a problem with the CPU too GPU transfer and vice versa.

The GPU average workload is around 63% which is a bad behavior. It’s jumping all the time between 40% and 75%

It’s so low that the GPU boost isn’t kicking in. The GPU is “idling”!

Before that the GPU had a work load of 90% and the boost was always on.

No hardware or software change has happen only the latest patches.

Iwill test this with 2.0.1 too.

? I just don't have good people skills. maybe a master thread should be made that lists all work arounds for fps and other issues. But then again it's beta and alpha

Interesting. I haven't had a chance to play the latest 1.5+ version. I'll give it a shot and report back. I do have a pretty ballsy computer, so it'll be interesting. I'll report back with results.

So from reading throughout the forums look at the settings like this

The new medium is the old high/ultra and adjust off of that visibility distance setting

But this doesn't expalin why the GPU is now "idiling"!?

50% GPU load is nothing for a GTX 980Ti.

Even so the visibility has changed the GPU load should be high.

Before the Patch even with all set to high I had min. 60 FPS.

With terrain shadows to flat and medium shadows I could run this game with mostly 80 FPS @ Ultra visibility range and now with medium visibility range and flat shadows I can't reach high FPS and the GPU load goes down all the time.

There is something wrong with the program. The changes may be one reason but not the visibility. If so the GPU load would be high as it was before patch 1.5.3.

I don't necessary agree as I have seen this with previous patches with 3D. I think with these settings we have seen the object count limit in dx11 on this engine or maybe their is something really goofy going on. But I'm inclined to think where hitting a wall and some tweaking needs to be done. It's obvious it's the object count with the new visibility settings at least that's what I have noticed and that is why when we use 3D or the oculus rift the most important setting is draw distance as even still with edge object count on the cpu is a major factor. Your not getting high gpu loads because your video card is a 980ti at 1920x1200. Select dsr at 4K and see the gpu load but you will also notice the gpu load drop when the cpu is getting hammered by object count.

drop from 60fps to 30 or less

Mustang old Lua files helps a bit, but i think there is something else. - Why suddenly thousands of objects while flying over town?

btw Seems, ED worked hard to make some ''SmallShit'' (see attachment :-)

This fixed it! I'm back to 60 FPS. Thanks Mustang :)

 

I must add though for anyone experiencing issues with the Visibility Range values in 1.5.3, I was able to go from 30 FPS to around 40-45 FPS by upgrading to NVIDIA Driver 361.91. I suggest upgrading display drivers to the most recent one first, and then only using 1.5.2 Visibility Range settings if you still experience stutters. Your performance increase due to drivers might vary, so IMO it's a trade-off between eye-candy (using 1.5.3 settings) and smoother frame-rates (1.5.2 settings).

Mav what was your previous driver? Can anyone confirm this?

thx

My previous driver was 361.43, so about 2 months outdated by now.

thx mate

I am using Mustangs script and it's pretty nice, BTW I can't see other MP aircraft in the distance and sometimes even close ones tend to disappear and reappear. Is there anything that can be done without using the 1.5.3 lua files ?

Would greatly appreciate all info / help.