HW too low?

[Rhinozherous]

Hey!

 

I need your opinon, I am desperate.

I tried several times to go multiplayer, with the mig21, the mirage... on op blueflag, open conflict server... But I dont come over the first lobby screen most times. It takes a long time until I could choose my slot. But everytime DCS crashes or I get a timeout :(

 

My PC Hardware is seen in my signature, I know that it is not the newest, but is it really that low?

In which way would you setup your graphic settings with this specs?

 

Thank you

[Knock-Knock]

Start from the bottom, choose the Low setting preset (I would restart the game after changing settings, just to be sure it changes), and try and join. If that works, then start upping the details.

 

Im on a i5-4670 @4Ghz, with 8Gb system mem, GTX 970 4Gb, running of a SSD. And I sit and wait 'for ever' when loading in to Open Conflict. Even when selecting my slot, initially, the screen is frozen while it sorts all the data out, so there is a lot of data being loaded in for sure.

[Endmonster]

Hello,

 

I guess your hardware, especially the grafics card is restricting your game play. On the open conflict server I sometimes had 9 GB RAM/4 GB VRAM and was kicked out.

 

Try with low settings like low textures, no civil trafic, no water, no blur, low shadow, lowest MSAA, HDR off, other effects off.

[winchesterdelta1]

I have even worse graphics card. I had the same issue. Put the sliders for view distance of all kind of things lower. Objects, three's and such. And the one for pre-render. Also SSD will help for loading with these kind of specs.

[Rhinozherous]

Thank you guys, will trie it with low settings! I will report if it works.

Unfortunately I cant upgrade HW at this time...

[Rhinozherous]

No success so far... I think there is no other way than upgrading :dunno:

[Jugdriver]

I have seen my RAM usage go over 9 GB, if you dont have a ton of RAM having and SSD will help, but I would concentrate on RAM (first) and a card that has lots of VRAM (second) if you are going to upgrade.

 

JD

 

AKA_MattE

[Knock-Knock]

Wow, indeed. Never monitored RAM usage in DCS, just knew 8Gb is quite sufficient for any other game really. But just loaded a simple practice mission with a few air targets, and I had 6.75Gb peak use. Damn, hungry :). Think I need 8 more, to have some buffer.

[Rhinozherous]

I have seen my RAM usage go over 9 GB, if you dont have a ton of RAM having and SSD will help, but I would concentrate on RAM (first) and a card that has lots of VRAM (second) if you are going to upgrade.

 

JD

 

AKA_MattE

 

Sounds goog, looked at my motherboard, it has two slots and I have 8GB in first slot... but I think my Motherboard does not support 16GB :doh:

It is a GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2P

[doodenkoff]

Sounds goog, looked at my motherboard, it has two slots and I have 8GB in first slot... but I think my Motherboard does not support 16GB :doh:

It is a GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2P

 

According to Gigabyte it will support 16GB.

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3833#sp

[Rhinozherous]

According to Gigabyte it will support 16GB.

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3833#sp

 

Hmm thats weird, I have checked with an programm named "Sandra". It shows just one bank, alltough I have two on my MB. And the paper handbook says up to 8GB... could it be that they have made a change via software update or so? :huh:

[Rhinozherous]

Maybe I got things a bit wrong, it could be that 8GB is the max for ONE ram unit... but I cant find out if it has dual channel architecture. Maybe I just trie it, because RAM is affordable at this time (not so expensive as a new pc ^^... my next rig will base on intel :smartass:)

[Rhinozherous]

Okay guys, I just tried it... and it seems to work :thumbup:

I have now a 2nd RAM unit with 8GB and it works like a charme, I was online. :)

[Knock-Knock]

Good to hear Rhinozherous :)

 

I just did a quick run on Open Conflict, while monitoring memory use. Had 22/25 clients when I joined. When the 'Choose Slot' screen appeared it was at 5Gb, and then it went fast up to 7.91Gb, at which point I was able to choose a slot, Mirage in this case. That of course made it swap like mad, and from then on I was hovering at 7.85Gb, and every stutter I had, was when it started swapping.

 

Quite the eye opener, the memory consumption of DCS. Thx for the heads up.

[Rhinozherous]

Will monitor what the consumption looks on my config, just curious. Also didnt realize before that it is that hungry.