theGozr Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 Well wanted to see if by removing the MI-8MT_lod0.EDM and replace it by MI-8MT_lod1.EDM Much smoother.. give it a try .. Fly it like you stole it..
Raven Morpheus Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) Interesting. I've been looking for similar files for the UH-1H as I believe doing what you have done could help my FPS in missions where there are more than a couple of UH-1H's in view. Sadly I can't find the relevant files. They just don't exist in my install unless they are compressed into another file?! I have however found .edm and also .lods files for what appear to be all the other static and flyable objects. It looks like editing the .lod files (so that each objects _lod0.edm is not used) would achieve the same effect as you have with replacing the .edm. Unfortunately there are 337 .lods files and not all object appear to have multiple .edm files to act as lods. Edited September 25, 2014 by Raven Morpheus
theGozr Posted September 25, 2014 Author Posted September 25, 2014 I really believe that it suffer the same troubles as the MiG-21. They are fixing it Polygons and textures layers.. I believe that the should try to work on the same fix for this model as well. ..The Huey maybe as well. Fly it like you stole it..
enigma6584 Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 I am glad to see I'm not the only one with these issues. It has been driving me nuts and keeping my flight simming with DCS short. Looking forward to the fixes with respect to this issue, hopefully sooner rather than later.
theGozr Posted September 25, 2014 Author Posted September 25, 2014 Yes this is something that should be addressed much more to the developers .. What make someone want to fly a DCS aircraft ?.. yes ..is realism and complexity but flying it in our pc it need to be optimized the best it can be. Like everything in competition " Doing the best " not only on 3D but in optimization for a best smooth experience. We count on them to do their best. Fly it like you stole it..
Raven Morpheus Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) I really believe that it suffer the same troubles as the MiG-21. They are fixing it Polygons and textures layers.. I believe that the should try to work on the same fix for this model as well. ..The Huey maybe as well. Well I dunno what the MiG-21 is like as I don't have it, but yeah the UH-1H needs a fix or something. I also don't have the Mi-8 but your idea gave me an idea... I just swapped out the _lod files for the AH-1W (and everything else that has multiple lods, i.e. _lod1, _lod2 etc. which seems to be all air units from what I can tell) for the lowest _lod file that still gives a reasonable looking model. I think it has helped in the FPS department. Don't think it'll help if there's tons of ground units on a map though. But for example - with the default _lod files, on the Stray Eagle mission, when I've just started the mission I switch views to an AH-1W using F2 and I'm seeing 30fps, without moving the camera around. When I pan around to the UH-1H's sitting on the FARPs that gets more than halved (11 fps)!! With the lowest reasonable _lod file replacing all _lod files I'm now getting 50-60 fps when I switch views to an AH-1W using F2, but that still drops to 17fps when I pan around to the UH-1H's! Although I think I might have gone 1 _lod to far with the AH-1W because it looks a little poorer than I'd like and I can't see the pilots! But I don't need to see huge amounts of detail on them because I'm never up very close to them to see it! If I could find the UH-1H's .edm files I could do the same, assuming it even has _lod files! Aha! I found (after a search here) that the UH-1H .edm files are in fact called AB-212! Doh! Doesn't make much of a difference though. Edited September 25, 2014 by Raven Morpheus
theGozr Posted September 25, 2014 Author Posted September 25, 2014 Yes :) I had a lot more fun tonight on the MI-8MT .. smoother.. I was having fun doing aerobatic with it.. We can feel much better the flight with high FPS for sure .. such fun ! I really found how fun it can be flying it.. So yes a fix should be done :) Fly it like you stole it..
kobac Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 Did you theGozr, actually duplicated MI-8MT_lod1.EDM and renamed it to MI-8MT_lod0.EDM? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]Everything is possible ...
Highwayman-Ed Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 Thanks for the tip! I can hardly tell the difference between the models except for the 15% fps gain when looking at the model alone from the default F2 view on the ground at Kobeleti Intel i9-9900KF @5.2GHz MSI Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon 32GB G.Skill Trident Z DDR3200 RAM MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio 40" Panasonic TH-40DX600U @ 4K Pimax Vision 8K Plus / Oculus Rift CV1 / HTC Vive Gametrix JetSeat with SimShaker Windows 10 64 Bit Home Edition [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
anlq Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 I see no difference replacing these files. It got even worse FPS, how strange o_0
c84 Posted October 5, 2014 Posted October 5, 2014 (edited) if someone interested, i did the same thing in little bit more extreme way (even lower res. lods used) with little bit more aircrafts. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B16moVcixYc6OWs4RUJfRWpsZGc/view?usp=sharing ps 1,i do not have mi-8 or huey module, so can not guarrantee there are no negative effects from cocpit view 2, this is one way how to do it, second seems to be just edit .lods files 3, readme included Edited October 5, 2014 by c84
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