Micro stuttering

[Reinaldow]

Hello guys.

 

I have a Intel I5-4460 LGA 1150 3.20GHz, Asus Z97M Plus, Memory Corsair Vengeance (2x4GB) 2400MHz Black Corsair, SSD 500GB, GeForce GTX 970 4GB and Smart TV Sansung 40' 60hz.

 

I not sure what happens, I have X Plane 10 and runs fine with my pc specification. But in DCS, I have micro stuttering in every movement I make.

 

It happens with DCS 2.0 with nevada map either.

 

I try to settings everthing in lower, but still have micro stuttering.

 

 

All driver and bios are updated.

 

 

Somebody can help me?

 

Thanks in advance.

Edited February 17, 2016 by Reinaldow

[7rooper]

I have a lot of stuttering with the new update. I hope a next release will fix it

[Reinaldow]

So is it a dcs problem? Not a specification system problem right?

[BitMaster]

8GB is the recommended minimum.

 

It may not be the one cause for your stuttering but more RAM would for sure help.

 

When you overlay MEM/SWAP/CPU/GPU with for example msi-afterburner software you can see

 

how much your system consumes when actually playing DCS. It is not ony relevant how much

 

DCS consumes but also how much RAM is being used totally.

 

 

My actual numbers are an amazingl 10GB/10GB RAM/SWAP +/- a few GB usage while DCS is

 

alone shows around 3GB in TaskManager. It remains a mystery where the other GB's went to,

 

maybe caching. The 10GB+ swapfile make me worry but there is no way around it I guess.

 

If I had 16 more GB on the desk I would love to try 32GB and see what swap does.

[Reinaldow]

Bit Master, with your configuration, do you have micro stutters?

[Necroscope]

Try this. Works fine for me.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1075781-tweak-enable-hpet-in-bios-and-os-for-better-performance-and-fps/

[BitMaster]

Bit Master, with your configuration, do you have micro stutters?

 

100% no stutter anywhere on both maps, 45-144fps worst-best range

 

Gsync is the key, not the 4.8 - 5 GHz

[secret1962]

RAM usage / swapfile stuff is causing serious stutters with my 8 GB Ram. This began happening since EDGE. Can't play anymore since then. It just won't go past 10 minutes.

So I guess your RAM is the cause aswell. There could be a discussion on how much ram dcs is using since edge but heh...

[wolle]

In my case the microstutter appeared only after the latest Nvidea driver update I did last night...

[gazmonalpha]

Hello guys.

 

I have a Intel I5-4460 LGA 1150 3.20GHz, Asus Z97M Plus, Memory Corsair Vengeance (2x4GB) 2400MHz Black Corsair, SSD 500GB, GeForce GTX 970 4GB and Smart TV Sansung 40' 60hz.

 

I not sure what happens, I have X Plane 10 and runs fine with my pc specification. But in DCS, I have micro stuttering in every movement I make.

 

It happens with DCS 2.0 with nevada map either.

 

I try to settings everthing in lower, but still have micro stuttering.

 

 

All driver and bios are updated.

 

 

Somebody can help me?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

tbh i think your resolution to your spec ration is a major problem, SLI setup is a must at this res , im not surprised you are getting micro-stutters tbh

 

i would try a test on a lower res and see what this does, ram is so important at your resolution and you only have 4gb vram on your card and 8gb system ram, got to be looking above these at your resolution

 

Nevada is proving very component intensive, its a massive terrain, we can all tweak settings but its basic power under the hood

Edited February 17, 2016 by gazmonalpha

[Reinaldow]

Necroscope, thank you, really worked here too!

There are some micro stutters, but rarely...

I used this command to enable:

bcdedit /set useplatformclock true

 

By the way, my OS is Windows 10 Professional 64bits.

And tks for another people. I will increase more RAM and maybe change for I7.

 

Thanks!

[Necroscope]

Glad to help! :)

Mine setup is almost the same as yours but Win7, and I'm not going to upgrade anything. Got 40-60+ fps in Ka-50 story mode with almost everything on max.

[Theskyline35]

Glad to help! :)

Mine setup is almost the same as yours but Win7, and I'm not going to upgrade anything. Got 40-60+ fps in Ka-50 story mode with almost everything on max.

 

I just tried but nothing changed for me, the game feel like running at 15fps, it's unplayable (even if my game counter is saying I'm at 45fps :noexpression: )

[droopy114]

I just tried but nothing changed for me, the game feel like running at 15fps, it's unplayable (even if my game counter is saying I'm at 45fps :noexpression: )

 

Last week, i went from 8Gb to 16Gb RAM, GSkill 4x4Gb Ares low profile 2133Mhz to be more precise...no more stuttering since my upgrade, i can stay for hours on multiplayers servers without crash, a real game changer.

[El Hadji]

I just tried but nothing changed for me, the game feel like running at 15fps, it's unplayable (even if my game counter is saying I'm at 45fps :noexpression: )

 

I think more RAM and using SSD instead of HDD would improve your experience.

[Theskyline35]

I think more RAM and using SSD instead of HDD would improve your experience.

 

We aren't suppose to have 16Go of ram to have a proper experience when the 1.5 since the beggining worked VERY well concerning my framerate, and damn guys 16Go of ram is a lot of money...

[BFBunny]

I've not notice any stuttering using an nvidia gtx 760 oc 2gb card with cheap ddr3 kingston 16gb basic ram and an i-5 (the k one - 4690k 3.5ghz with turbo to 4ghz). I do have an SSD. Samsung evo 8-whatever 250gb.

 

I think this is a pretty average rig for people on a budget and just meets the min requirements. (I wonder what he built his budget pc for)

 

I was interested so I did some small tests just for you guys as I'd never thought about it.

 

DCS 1.5

 

CPU use is around 30 - 50% with some spikes not affecting fps of 70% fps 70 - 130 SSD got hit with 100% use at times I think I have a lot of settings on high.

 

I had 14 chrome tabs (as I loaded dcs just for this reply) with one playing a youtube video.

 

RAM is 7GB total use in sp - dcs using around 3gb

RAM is 12.5GB total use in mp - dcs using 8.6GB (night)

RAM is 13.7GB total using in mp - dcs using 9.5 - 10GB (day)

 

1920x1080 rez, no action happening, outside view / flyby from other players.

 

No ram change when action happens.

 

I was alt tabbing full screen with the action happening in the background and looking at windows task manager.

Edited February 27, 2016 by BFBunny

[BitMaster]

We aren't suppose to have 16Go of ram to have a proper experience when the 1.5 since the beggining worked VERY well concerning my framerate, and damn guys 16Go of ram is a lot of money...

 

 

With any new machine and 8GB you have a good chance to run into svchost.exe to consume ALL OF YOUR RAM while you install updates in i.e. Win7-64 as there are more than 150 Updates installed at a time and windows internals alone will prompt you with an "out of memory, please close applications and...." message.

 

Had this multiple times while installing various customer machines since about a year now.

 

I highly recommend 12GB for tripple channel and 16GB dual channel as minimum if you want to avoid standard scenarios getting out of control.

 

This doesnt happen often with 8GB machines, but you will have a 30% chance to encounter this when reinstalling WIn7 and installing all Updates as prompted.

 

 

This is actually a Windows flaw, there is no need to swell svchost to such an extend to overflow RAM and SWAP but Redmond seems to push the experience you get with win7 towards "i want 10".

[Theskyline35]

But this is the "easy" fix for this issue : upgrading our PC, the reality is that DCS is badly optimized, we had a big step between 1.2 and 1.5 but problems are back.

[Wolf Rider]

With any new machine and 8GB you have a good chance to run into svchost.exe to consume ALL OF YOUR RAM while you install updates in i.e. Win7-64 as there are more than 150 Updates installed at a time and windows internals alone will prompt you with an "out of memory, please close applications and...." message.

 

Had this multiple times while installing various customer machines since about a year now.

 

I highly recommend 12GB for tripple channel and 16GB dual channel as minimum if you want to avoid standard scenarios getting out of control.

 

This doesnt happen often with 8GB machines, but you will have a 30% chance to encounter this when reinstalling WIn7 and installing all Updates as prompted.

 

 

This is actually a Windows flaw, there is no need to swell svchost to such an extend to overflow RAM and SWAP but Redmond seems to push the experience you get with win7 towards "i want 10".

 

 

 

Shouldn't be auto downloading/ installing updates ( or other ) whilst running a sim ( or other ) anyway

[Nealius]

So, are the stutters a RAM issue? With 8GB I'm getting decent frames but 1.5.3 is a stutter fest while 1.5.2 runs smooth as butter.

[Theskyline35]

So, are the stutters a RAM issue? With 8GB I'm getting decent frames but 1.5.3 is a stutter fest while 1.5.2 runs smooth as butter.

 

Me too, stutter simulator 2016, sometimes I get freeze for 10 secondes, and everytime I spawn a plane, OMG, looking around take ages, everything lag as hell :joystick:

[susuwatari]

I have 24 gb RAM and still getting that annoying momentary micro stutters/jumps 2-3 times a minute. (No fps problems).

[Theskyline35]

Just uping the post to tell that recent update didn't changed anything about this issue.

 

And I upgraded to a GTX 970 4Go and still have the same problem.

[Sn8ke]

100% no stutter anywhere on both maps, 45-144fps worst-best range

 

Gsync is the key, not the 4.8 - 5 GHz

 

May I ask which driver you are using? Reason I ask is because I use gsync as well, however gsync likes to pic and choose which driver it will actually work with.