Captain Orso Posted June 13, 2017 Posted June 13, 2017 I just checked. In DCSW 1.5 '..\Saved Games\DCS\fxo\' contains 14 files. In DCSW beta '..\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\fxo\' contains 11 files. And in DCSW alpha '..\Saved Games\DCS.openalpha\fxo\' contains 295(!!) files.' I'm only flying with an Oculus CV1, but I'm running the ME without VR, so I'm often changing back and forth between those. Additionally, I'm still playing around with graphics settings a lot. I'm wondering if I might be screwing up the fxo folder by switching between VR and non-VR, and with all the graphics settings I'm often changing. Is this normal, to have 295 files in fxo? Does anybody know this? When you hit the wrong button on take-off System Specs. Spoiler System board: MSI X670E ACE Memory: 64GB DDR5-6000 G.Skill Ripjaw System disk: Crucial P5 M.2 2TB CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D PSU: Corsair HX1200 PSU Monitor: ASUS MG279Q, 27" CPU cooling: Noctua NH-D15S Graphics card: MSI RTX 3090Ti SuprimX VR: Oculus Rift CV1
SkateZilla Posted June 13, 2017 Posted June 13, 2017 alot of them are likely old, You can delete the folder and they will re-compile. 2.0 Alpha has Gone through several changes, and w/ Deferred/PBR Being Added has several more shaders compiled than 1.5. Windows 10 Pro, Ryzen 2700X @ 4.6Ghz, 32GB DDR4-3200 GSkill (F4-3200C16D-16GTZR x2), ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate, XFX RX6800XT Merc 310 (RX-68XTALFD9) 3x ASUS VS248HP + Oculus HMD, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS + MFDs
Captain Orso Posted June 14, 2017 Author Posted June 14, 2017 Hi SZ, thanks for your answer. What I'm really trying to get at is, how often do I need to remove the old fxo files and let new ones be generated? When you hit the wrong button on take-off System Specs. Spoiler System board: MSI X670E ACE Memory: 64GB DDR5-6000 G.Skill Ripjaw System disk: Crucial P5 M.2 2TB CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D PSU: Corsair HX1200 PSU Monitor: ASUS MG279Q, 27" CPU cooling: Noctua NH-D15S Graphics card: MSI RTX 3090Ti SuprimX VR: Oculus Rift CV1
VampireNZ Posted June 14, 2017 Posted June 14, 2017 Just did a rebuild - and I have 161 files in fxo folder.... Vampire
splash Posted June 14, 2017 Posted June 14, 2017 You can delete "metashaders" folder too, can't you? Mine is quite big and I would like to start from scratch.
Captain Orso Posted June 14, 2017 Author Posted June 14, 2017 I could delete both of them before each time I start DCS. The question I'm trying to find an answer to is, when should I delete them? When you hit the wrong button on take-off System Specs. Spoiler System board: MSI X670E ACE Memory: 64GB DDR5-6000 G.Skill Ripjaw System disk: Crucial P5 M.2 2TB CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D PSU: Corsair HX1200 PSU Monitor: ASUS MG279Q, 27" CPU cooling: Noctua NH-D15S Graphics card: MSI RTX 3090Ti SuprimX VR: Oculus Rift CV1
Flagrum Posted June 14, 2017 Posted June 14, 2017 Rebuilding the shaders is what takes DCS so long after an update. So ... maybe you want not to do this manually too often. Especially as it seems that DCS automatically detects if a shader needs to be re-compiled. Maybe you will accumulate old, unused shaders, but besides wasting a few KB of disk space, I would rather trust DCS to do a decent job there.
VampireNZ Posted June 14, 2017 Posted June 14, 2017 I could delete both of them before each time I start DCS. The question I'm trying to find an answer to is, when should I delete them? I am fairly sure the general idea is to delete both those folders following an update - such as 2.0 - 2.1. Deleting every time you start DCS etc is not really necessary as nothing has changed regarding shaders etc since last time you ran DCS. As I mentioned I just deleted the fxo folder to see what happened (I deleted after 2.0 to 2.1) and it rebuilt exactly the same number of files - so no change. Vampire
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