Is my GTX 980 underperforming?

[Jacks]

So I recently upgraded from a 770 to a 980 and I am running the new card with no overclock. I have attachment my settings and with these conservative settings I am generally getting 45-50FPS at low altitude with microstuters and panning the view with trackir is jerky with ghosting.

 

So other 980 owners how does my performance compare to yours?

 

Jacks

[Hadwell]

So I recently upgraded from a 770 to a 980 and I am running the new card with no overclock. I have attachment my settings and with these conservative settings I am generally getting 45-50FPS at low altitude with microstuters and panning the view with trackir is jerky with ghosting.

 

So other 980 owners how does my performance compare to yours?

 

Jacks

 

Have you tried turning flat terrain shadows on? turn trees down some too...

[Jacks]

I have tried flat shadows on and it makes little difference. I also use the the no tree shadow mod.

[Bobby-M.]

So I recently upgraded from a 770 to a 980 and I am running the new card with no overclock. I have attachment my settings and with these conservative settings I am generally getting 45-50FPS at low altitude with microstuters and panning the view with trackir is jerky with ghosting.

 

So other 980 owners how does my performance compare to yours?

 

Jacks

 

Hello

Well i´m no expert, but your system specs look allright to me, you got a fast enough system.

 

your Grafic card should be faster than my ... i got the AMD RX 480 and i have higer settings with more average frames...

 

hmmm. so what i would do ist too put the anisotropic filterin down to 8x

 

and the cockpit display to 512

 

also i would go down with the grass to about 500

 

put vsync of and give it a try

 

but to be honest i don´t get it i should run smooth

[golani79]

It should run pretty smooth with your card - I´ve got a 970 and almost every setting on high and I have no problems with microstutters or jerky movement with TrackIR

 

I have the settings for Clutter/Grass, Trees Visibility and Preload Radius lower though.

 

Not sure how much of a difference the CPU is making (got a 6770k)

[Nooch]

Set resolution of cockpit displays to 512. It will help the framerate quite a bit. Also Flat Terrain shadows should be ON.

[Jacks]

But with a 980 and a fast CPU should I have to make these comprimises? Surely my system should be capable of running DCS at high settings?

[Hadwell]

But with a 980 and a fast CPU should I have to make these comprimises? Surely my system should be capable of running DCS at high settings?

 

Well... there are two ways to look at it...

 

1. It's awesome when developers future proof games, put settings in games that no computer can currently run yet, that way the game still has top of the line graphics going forwards...

 

2. It sucks when games aren't optimized...

 

 

DCS is some of each... though i would say more of latter...

[NeilWillis]

It is more a case of waiting for the 2 versions of DCS World to merge, so we're all using the same version of EDGE than a lack of willingness to optimise frame rates.

 

Give ED a time to get things like that resolved, and you may see some welcome advances in performance come along in the not too distant future.

 

Seriously, do you expect current cards to cope with the most demanding settings in a game that has not long been updated, and will naturally want to exploit fully all the power currently available - and some! If they didn't future proof to some degree, we'd really have cause to complain!!!

 

What would really suck would be a game that even mid-range processing power could cope with!

[Jacks]

Neil yes I do expect to be able to run a recently updated game with decent performer since I am only running at 1080p with moderate settings. It is not as though I am running 4K or VR and so a 4.5GHz processor and a 980 should be man enough (in fact they run at 100% in DCS).

[Wrecking Crew]

Hi, Jacks,

I'm running a GTX 980 Ti with a i7-6700K @ 4 GHz, no overclocking. DCS is running great at 60 FPS, the adapter is set to 60 Hz, running a Samsung 48" 4K TV JS9000. I have a second 22" monitor connected to this card, at 1680x1050, for TS and other stuff.

 

WC

[Jacks]

WC,

 

So with those settings you get a solid 60FPS?

 

What does your FPS drop to over the large cities and forests?

[Enduro14]

Ya bro in basically running it maxed out at 4K and am locked at 60 except for processor moments. That's with single 980 I need sli in 2.0 to achieve the same

[Jacks]

I wonder why I cannot achieve the same performance? I am getting 45-60 at much lower settings in 1080

[JLX]

I wonder why I cannot achieve the same performance? I am getting 45-60 at much lower settings in 1080

It sounds to me like you may have an issue outside DCS.

 

Try temporarily disabling Anti Virus when you're playing and see if that helps. Any other programs running in the background? For example sometimes people forget to turn off torrents or there may be some other background services stealing CPU cycles.

 

Have a look at process and CPU usage in the task manager and see if you notice anything. It may not be the answer but you never know. It's worth a look.

 

 

Sent from my LG-V497 using Tapatalk

[Jacks]

I will check that out. However my CPU cores never go over 70%.

[Wrecking Crew]

Your settings screen looks to be from DCS v2? I'm still on v1.5. I was running SLI until last w/e when I pulled the second card out, because after an update the FPS went down and fluctuated from 47-54, don't know whether it was a graphics update or DCS that caused it, but I was done with having to reset the SLI profile after updates. The single card actually runs a bit better in clock freq and is in the mid 70°s instead of 80°s in SLI with the cards so close together. Yes, my frames are solid at 60 in DCS. I'll see what happens in the new version after v1.5 and 2.0 merge. No drops in FPS, I'm happy with it.

[FraserNZL]

Are you playing on the open conflict server by Chance?

[Jacks]

No I am not playing on open conflict server. My settings are from 1.5.4 open beta not 2.0.

[Justin Case]

I think the improved FPS in 2.0 is due to a less amount of objects rendered when flying over most of the map. I guess Caucasus in 2.5 won't be much different than in 1.5.

[BitMaster]

Your CPU usage, despite its only a four core, seems to be too high.

 

I have a constant 22% load on my i7 when I play DCS, so that should double for a i5 aka 44-45%.

 

Where do your 25% ( 1 core maxed out ) come from ??

 

Virus scanner maybe ?? Can you exclude your AV from being the culprit ??

 

 

The performance is not as it should be. I have some higher fps with same or better settings at 1440p. The lowest I drop usually in the Ka-50 ( and that is the worst in fps of all modules ) is like 55fps for some moments, usually it is 62-67fps with peaks in 80's range when there is not much render.

 

I think your performance killer is outside DCS, but set shadows to FLAT ON, 512 cockpit res, and the trees to about middle.

 

Hope this helps

[Jacks]

One weird thing I find is that view panning is jerky above 60 FP: if I turn VSync off. Is this normal?