DCS World Stutter during gameplay

Goa,

which LAN adapters are causing that issue ? Any specific one.

Is it specific to a certain Chipset, like z170 ?

We should make this sticky, but need more info to make it a hard fact info

Which Driver Version u use ? For ne 388.71 runs better then the newest. Also please check your windows Performance option that its set to High Performance.

I went that route and noticed an improvement. The newest drivers suck.

Turning the main shadows down to flat helps.

Reduce the load radius to around 40,000 helped.

For some reason changing the Anisotropic to x16 helped too.

Having Vsync off will cause stutters. If your frame rate bounces from 100 to 50, or whatever, then you will notice that. Having a constant 60 FPS makes the drops to 40 FPS are not that noticeable to me.

Goa,

 

 

which LAN adapters are causing that issue ? Any specific one.

 

 

Is it specific to a certain Chipset, like z170 ?

 

 

 

 

We should make this sticky, but need more info to make it a hard fact info

It seems to be intel I219-V NIC chips

TAKE A read here

https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=90214&start=25

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/941579/geforce-1000-series/gtx-1080-high-dpc-latency-and-stuttering/79/

https://communities.intel.com/thread/96606

Yikes, I got the same one on my Z370, I guess 90+% with Z370 and even X370/X470 have that Intel LAN chip.......omg...

I am using Intel driver 12.17.8.7 from 29th.Sept.2017, no issues on my end.

From what i read so far from the 3 links:

- It is more likely tp happen with 6th gen CPU's ( 6700k, 6600k, etc.. and Z170)

- Some have it, some don't, despite running same Hardware ( there must be another factor in the soup that triggers it )

- Asus seems to be mostly affected, AiSuite might play a role when installed

- disabling embedded onboard chips might help ( Bluetooth, USB, Sound ). YOu could deactivate BT, but who wants to skip

USB ports when we need them all ?!

Tbh, I can call myself lucky not to suffer the same thing, I got one foot in that game already.

I run Xplane, Arma 3, Project cars 2 from harddrive >NO STUTTERS. Dcs is broken and I feel sry when I see the community needing to do deep research to fix something devs should do. Optimize FTW.

I run Xplane, Arma 3, Project cars 2 from harddrive >NO STUTTERS. Dcs is broken and I feel sry when I see the community needing to do deep research to fix something devs should do. Optimize FTW.

That doesnt tell us what your HW is.

DCS is a different beast than all of the games/sims you listed. Just look at the map size compared to a race track, even Arma is small compared to any DCS map.

I am sure if you'd use SSD's you be far better off in general. HDD's are outdated and should only be used for NAS ( even there I see them decline ) and/or large Backups with daily re-writes.

For anything else, use SSD's.

You will be amazed. You'd be the first one who isn't, hands down.

Tanks

thanks! Thats constructive I guess, but it doesnt solve why you cant lower the settings and get rid of stutters. I´v read several posts about stutters on supermachines and >SSD and low settings and still STUTTERS. Thats why I say its broken. Dont get me wrong. I´d love to play, but hate to update too SSD and find 25 fps and stutters on low settings in MP or a heavy mission just because its porly optimized.

That's up to you to update to SSD or not.

You wouldn't loose it all if you still suffer stutters since your overall PC experience with SSD would benefit a lot. For less than 100€/$ you can get a fairly decent SSD, 860Evo for example.

Stutters might have more than 1 reason to occur. It isn't too far fetched to assume your HDD could likely be 1 of a few reasons that may exist. Since it does run stutter free on comparable systems it is likely a bottleneck somewhere in the pipe. Some are HW based, some can be tuned w/o the need to purchase new HW. It can be so many things tbh but a HHD is w/o question a good start to solve.

For me it was tacview. I stop recording and no studder every second or so. But some of my squadron mates have no issues with it. And I have a SSD and i7-9700k with 32gb ram.

Purchased 860 Evo, reinstall and no stutters. I stand grateful and very corrected too the benefit of the SSD in DCS. Thank You!

Should be in minimum reqs, though :-)

Cheers!

Purchased 860 Evo, reinstall and no stutters. I stand grateful and very corrected too the benefit of the SSD in DCS. Thank You!

 

Should be in minimum reqs, though :-)

 

Cheers!

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