Fish Posted April 14, 2016 Posted April 14, 2016 do yourself a favour, and bring your ram up to 16gb. Ram is cheap now, and it will improve your experience with DCS. Fish's Flight Sim Videos [sIGPIC]I13700k, RTX4090, 64gb ram @ 3600, superUltraWide 5120x1440, 2560x1440, 1920x1080, Warthog, Tusba TQS, Reverb VR1000, Pico 4, Wifi6 router, 360/36 internet[/sIGPIC]
Hoggorm Posted April 17, 2016 Author Posted April 17, 2016 Okey Fish, I ordered some new RAM on friday. Hopefully I'll be able to test this in a few days :)
AstroEma Posted April 17, 2016 Posted April 17, 2016 Upping the ram to 16Gb didn't make any difference in my setup. What made the difference was turning Threaded Optimization off in the Nvidia control panel. Kaby Lake @ 4.6Ghz - Gigabyte Z170-D3H - 16Gb DDR4 - Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 OC - Samsung EVO 250Gb SSD - Seagate 1 Tb HDD - HTC Vive - Rift CV1
Hoggorm Posted April 17, 2016 Author Posted April 17, 2016 And I thank you very much for your input as well AstroEma. I'll keep that in mind when I try again in a couple of days. I guess my Nvidia GeForce 660M is not the best either... Unfortunately it is not possible to update the graphics card on my laptop...
Hoggorm Posted April 19, 2016 Author Posted April 19, 2016 I've just upgraded to 16GB RAM and can't really see any difference. The stuttering is still there. I also turned off Threaded Optimization - No difference there either...
kobac Posted April 19, 2016 Posted April 19, 2016 If you have SSD try to disable prefetch and superfetch, maybe it'll help. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]Everything is possible ...
TAW_Impalor Posted April 19, 2016 Posted April 19, 2016 I had stutters in DCS while ago, which I cured by moving TEMP folder to a RAM drive. I use imdisk via .cmd in Startup folder. 12900KF@5.4, 32GB DDR4@4000cl14g1, 4090, M.2, W10 Pro, Warthog HOTAS, ButtKicker, Reverb G2/OpenXR
Hoggorm Posted April 19, 2016 Author Posted April 19, 2016 I have laptop without SSD, but thanks for the tip anyway! I had stutters in DCS while ago, which I cured by moving TEMP folder to a RAM drive. I use imdisk via .cmd in Startup folder. I must admit that I do not undersand anything of this except that you had stutter a while ago... Do you have a tutorial that can explain perhaps?
Fish Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 Just a thought...... you could take down the bushes and grass and trees to zero. don't really need them, and might try a lower resolution to 1600x900, should not impact your experience much since you are playing on a laptop screen. Also make sure your laptop is running in performance mode, and that the processor is working t max (turbo) speed all the time. Find it in the power settings. it should be working at 3.4ghz. You can check this with CPUZ or some other tool. Finally, This game is a real hog of performance, and i think even a good laptop is going to struggle with it. The processor is decent but the GPU while good for a laptop, is very basic. GPU benchmarks Fish's Flight Sim Videos [sIGPIC]I13700k, RTX4090, 64gb ram @ 3600, superUltraWide 5120x1440, 2560x1440, 1920x1080, Warthog, Tusba TQS, Reverb VR1000, Pico 4, Wifi6 router, 360/36 internet[/sIGPIC]
HiJack Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 Also white list the DCS program folder and user foler in your antivirus scanner! Important!
TAW_Impalor Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) I have laptop without SSD, but thanks for the tip anyway! I must admit that I do not undersand anything of this except that you had stutter a while ago... Do you have a tutorial that can explain perhaps? Sure. I found the idea on this very forum. It helped me with an earlier version of DCS, but I still use it. Even with lots of RAM the game (and now NVidia driver too) write some temporary files to a TEMP folder, usually on c: drive. Even with SSD this takes some time and creates micro stutters. The idea is to allocate some RAM as a virtual hard-drive and direct system variables TEMP and TMP to it. Now any software that needs to work with temporary files will do it super fast. The added benefit is that on reboot the "RAM-drive" is created anew, so all this crap gets deleted instead of accumulating on your system drive. Here are the steps: 1) google and download "imdisk", install it 2) take the attached ram.cmd file and put it in some folder (I had to zip it to attach) 3) create a shortcut to this ram.cmd and put it in your Startup folder 4) Reboot, see that T: drive is created. 5) Go to Control Panel - System - Advanced System Settings - Advanced - Environment Variables and change TEMP and TMP variables in _BOTH_ locations (system and for your user name) to T:\TEMP (see the picture) Now you can delete contents of your regular c:\Windows\Temp folder and enjoy more space on your c: drive. I do hope this helps you!ram.zip Edited April 20, 2016 by impalor 12900KF@5.4, 32GB DDR4@4000cl14g1, 4090, M.2, W10 Pro, Warthog HOTAS, ButtKicker, Reverb G2/OpenXR
Hoggorm Posted April 20, 2016 Author Posted April 20, 2016 Thank you impalor for the steps. I see an issue with this though. As far as I can see it I have to format the drive T every time I start the computer from now on is that correct? It seems to a bit of a hassle if this do not work by itself. Also - If I do not start the ram.cmd file the changes made in Environmental Variable could be somewhat bad? The system will then look for a drive that is not there... It does not appear to be a permanent and automatic change done to the system. I have to apply it every single time I start the laptop... Is that correct?
TAW_Impalor Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 No, if you put the ram.cmd in Startup folder (just drag it to Win Key - All Programs - Startup) it will create drive T automatically on boot. No need to do anything once it's set up once. 12900KF@5.4, 32GB DDR4@4000cl14g1, 4090, M.2, W10 Pro, Warthog HOTAS, ButtKicker, Reverb G2/OpenXR
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