Low frame rate

[Kuky]

Thanks kuky, i lowered the shadows and it kinda fixed it.

 

Question: Is it a bug or something ? will it be fixed?

 

Thanks o7 :)

 

I don't know. Developers are constantly making new shaders... the sim is simply evolving into new engine, with new effects. Shadows could be changed/reworked again.. I really don't know (and if I did, but ED didn't announce it publicly, I wouldn't be in liberty to say it anyway) :)

[jorelomlgprof16portugal]

Thanks :)

[fjacobsen]

And I want to add about stutters... they can be caused by many things. For me I get them sometimes also when FPS jumps around 60fps. I think its because something in hardware is switching on and off, and every time it does it, causes minor pause (we call stutter).

 

I have mostly solved this issue on my end by limiting my FPS bellow 60. I use Autoexec.lua and set maxfps to 44. It works for me... I don't need 60fps all the time.

 

Stutter due to flucturating FPS is not only a DCS World problem, but a general problem in games.

 

A low, but more steady fps is better than high flucturating fps.

 

If You see high flucturating fps, then You will probably find the sim much smoother locking the fps at a lower number like Kuky says.

For a 60 hz monitor locking fps at 59 will probably give a much smoother experience - Your monitor doesn´t update faster anyway.

[Ignition]

Something is wrong with the game.

 

All the threads of the CPU don't pass 60% usage they never reach 70% for sure, RAM never exceeds 5GB and the GPU runs at 33% and still I get fps drops below 60 and stutter.

 

Intel i7 2600K, 8gb RAM, SSD, GTX980.

[kobac]

Yes I know that Kuky you are helping us, and I appreciate your efforts.

[Frusheen]

I was getting 200fps in Nevada on minimum settings a few weeks ago (1080p monitor). This when used with the rift managed to maintain the required 75fps in the hmd. Now I'm averaging 140fps still on minimum settings and the rift is unusable for me. I've shadows, HDR, blur, dof etc all off.

 

My GPU, cpu and ram are only being utilized at about 40%. Something in the software over the past few updates is having a very detrimental effect on performance.

Edited March 4, 2016 by Frusheen

[heroe]

after the last update I lost 10 fps :(, let's go back to how we were before?

[Enduro14]

No let's not go back lets go forward and let the updates come, it's a transition of this sim into a new engine their will be speed bumps and future proofing

[BIGNEWY]

Thread cleaned of 1.1 and 1.2 violations.

 

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[msalama]

Doing the following solved it for me. I'm getting good frames & seeing no stutters anymore, all of which was achieved by:

 

1) reinstalling the graphics driver (NVidia)

 

2) unchecking then rechecking the shader cache option & THIS I THINK IS IMPORTANT since it seemingly purges your system of old cached shaders

 

3) lowering the visibility settings somewhat (OK a lot in some cases)

 

4) redoing the DCS NVidia Inspector preset

 

...and now it all works again, believe it or not! Although I'm not gonna berate ya if you don't, having probably seen the amount of whines I spewed just a couple of days ago ;)

[snowsniper]

2) unchecking then rechecking the shader cache option

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could you, please be more precise ? where is that stuff ? a screenshot maybe ?

Edited March 4, 2016 by snowsniper

[msalama]

could you, please be more precise ? where is that stuff ? a screenshot maybe ?

 

Coming up, just a nooyork minute please...

 

EDIT: here you are Sir.

Edited March 4, 2016 by msalama

[snowsniper]

thank you. i'll give it a try.

[Peter5on]

With the last patch something go wrong for sure, I'm talking about

(DCS 1,5) lowering view distance dont give me more FPS. Before that patch I could have set everything to max and still have 60FPS now it drops to even 40FPS on low view distance.

 

Talking about reinstalling nvidia drivers or other things dont help me. And I think its more placebo than any real fps gain.

 

I5 4690/Gtx970 8GB ram

[msalama]

And I think its more placebo than any real fps gain.

 

Placebo? Phah. Check my posting history about this and rethink.

[snowsniper]

did this trick unchecked shadow buffer in conventionnal nvidia panel + deleted metashader and fxo and log in user files

seems to be really more fluid in 2.0.1

 

but nothing better in 1.5.3 with this, with high or medium visibility

[Gliptal]

Has anyone with AMD found a way to clean their shader cache?

[Corbett1403]

I just turned VSYNC on and off with on my frames stay at 60fps but off they go up too 100fps

[Gliptal]

I just turned VSYNC on and off with on my frames stay at 60fps but off they go up too 100fps

That is exactly the point of vsync.

[Corbett1403]

Is this a high end PC I still get bad frames in places

 

 

 

Intel Haswell i7 4790K (overclocked to 4.4Ghz) CPU

Gigabyte Z97 Game-Plus Motherboard

16GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3 1600MHz Memory

Samsung 500GB SSD EVO Series

1 Terrabyte 64Mb Cache HDD SATA

24x DVD Re-Writer Dual Layer

NVidia GTX 980 Graphics card

[thejimreaper]

Low frame rates

 

Hello fellow fighter pilots, I don't know if this will help anyone else's frame rates, but it helped mine tremendously.

 

My system is Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit, I5 3470, HIS Iceqx2 video card.

 

I reduced the settings to low, disabled shadows, city traffic off, and moved the sliders to their minimums, turned off vsynch in the sim and on the video card overclock screen as well, HDR off, flat shadows off, MSAA and TSSAA to 2X

 

I now have frame rates that never go below 75, no matter which way I look and no stuttering or micro stuttering, no matter which way I look or what scenario I'm flying in and the screen tearing is gone as well.

 

My card temp was above 65 C and now is about 50 C.

 

Also, even with city traffic off, I still have city traffic.

 

I'm not a computer expert, so I don'y know why this works for me, I'm just glad it does.

 

I really hope this can help some other pilots, because I know all too well how frustrating stuttering can be.

 

All the best

[droopy114]

Hello fellow fighter pilots, I don't know if this will help anyone else's frame rates, but it helped mine tremendously.

 

My system is Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit, I5 3470, HIS Iceqx2 video card.

 

I reduced the settings to low, disabled shadows, city traffic off, and moved the sliders to their minimums, turned off vsynch in the sim and on the video card overclock screen as well, HDR off, flat shadows off, MSAA and TSSAA to 2X

 

I now have frame rates that never go below 75, no matter which way I look and no stuttering or micro stuttering, no matter which way I look or what scenario I'm flying in and the screen tearing is gone as well.

 

My card temp was above 65 C and now is about 50 C.

 

Also, even with city traffic off, I still have city traffic.

 

I'm not a computer expert, so I don'y know why this works for me, I'm just glad it does.

 

I really hope this can help some other pilots, because I know all too well how frustrating stuttering can be.

 

All the best

 

Yes sure should work fine because you play at the lowest setting, but you lost all the eye candy thing and you fly in an empty world now.... and visual is for me as important as the system modelling of an aircraft, I mean the immersion factor. What work for me: both flat shadows to flat, trees visibility no more than 9000, vis.range set to high, and it's perfect now. I don't use HDR (don't like the effect), civilian traffic depend wich mission I fly, but i can live without. Turning off sync is not a good idea, you waste energy and have to deal with screen tearing....

[Ramsay]

Hello fellow fighter pilots, I don't know if this will help anyone else's frame rates, but it helped mine tremendously.

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I reduced the settings to low, disabled shadows, city traffic off, and moved the sliders to their minimums, turned off vsynch in the sim and on the video card overclock screen as well, HDR off, flat shadows off, MSAA and TSSAA to 2X

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Good for you.

 

After finding a work around (reverted to 1.5.2 settings) - I tested lower 1.5.3 visual settings, as a number of posts suggested.

 

Even at the lowest settings and resolutions (DCS looked more like Lock-On than DCS), I had terrible stutters and freezes, my frame rate went up but I'd never want to play DCS or continue paying hundreds of pounds for peripherals, modules, etc. if it was even a solution.

Edited March 7, 2016 by Ramsay

[Corbett1403]

We need ED to sort this out before oculus rift is released

 

 

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[droopy114]

We need ED to sort this out before oculus rift is released

 

 

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Virtual reality headsets are maybe a too "young" technology and waaaýyyy too demanding for our current systems, hard to handle a constant 75 or 90 fps in a credible environment with a lot of units/objects/etc (must be an amazing experience though)i'm not saying this is our hardware fault, sure ED need to optimize this, but it's on beta stage...wait and see and fingers crossed for better optimisation....and less crash too :)