when will the engine performance be improved in teh future?

[Riverseeker]

hide your mirrors... that thing drops my fps in caucaus from 80 to 40/30...

In nttr its different story: mirrors seems to function better and fps are more stables.

 

Anyway its fun to see how much fps improved setting water to low in a desertic theatre :megalol:

[Mars Exulte]

Things like dynamic weather, ressource management and stuff similar to this may not need to be squeezed into 1 core in my understanding but I do see the point with bullets.

 

Radar for instance, would that need to be in perfect sync to FM ? I guess not.

 

As CPU's seem to be stuck somewhere at 4-5GHz now and the only things "new" are more cores at the same speed, it is clear that down that long road, as you add stuff, you eventually have to come up with some kind of splitting things up to more cores.

 

How difficult that is..I have no idea..I am a gamer and sys admin, no developer.

 

These voices wont calm down by just saying no, they will get louder and louder over the years while CPUs get 10, 20, 30 cores at most likely said speed. Unless a game changer CPU comes out, like the SSD was a true HDD killer. I am open to ANY solution to this, as long as it allows more scripts, weather, proper ground Radar, Missile FM etc. to be used.

 

Aynthing that helps and time will tell.

 

That's not how that works....

 

Adding eye candy doesn't really affect you. There's this thingy in the game where you can adjust stuff like that.

 

They'll take care of it eventually, but most the issue comes from the very physics calculations that make the game what it is. The biggest way to 'improve performance' would be to not do those calculations in the first place. Here's the thing though, there are already games like that which you can find with relative ease. DCS nature, for better or worse, is to push things to the limit.

 

Also bear in mind the problems one person suffers don't necessarily affect another. I run all settings maxed and get decent FPS. I want to upgrade to the new Volta chips when they come out, though as I'm GPU bottlenecked at these settings. That's not a DCS issue though, it's partly the nature of the environment and partly a concious choice to max my settings.

 

 

People always go on gaming threads shouting 'optimisation' and 'more cores' or whatever their beef is, like they're the first guy to ever think of it, or that the devs have never thought of it before. The devs HAVE thought of it multiple times, and have even written explanations as to why things are the way they are.

 

#1 They determined it would not yield the magic fix everybody expects. It would yield some, but not a huge amount.

 

#2 It is not copy pasting a few lines of code. It requires a complete rewrite of the engine, likely taking a couple years to do. Considering point #1 there isn't much incentive for them to pursue it.

 

They have explained this multiple times. I have seen the same explanation offered by other devs in similar situations. I have even researched the specific topic and seen articles suggesting the very same points.

 

They are neither blatantly stupid, nor irredeemably lazy.

 

 

Case and point, when A3 made the jump to 64-bit a few months ago, which the community had loudly demanded because IT'LL FIX EVER THEEEEEENGS

 

It didn't. We have more STABLE FPS, because it can cache more data, and avoid loading stuff on the fly, but it did NOT triple FPS like everybody crying for it had expected. Now they resumed yelling 'optimise' and 'needz more cores'... Evidently learning nothing.

 

There are no magic 'Oh just do this to fix everything'. Seriously. If it was that easy, these professional, multidecade long companies wouldn't need random forum warriors to suggest it to them. They'd have simply already done it.

 

Note, that's not directed at you specifically (only the first line regarding CPU)

Edited June 30, 2017 by zhukov032186

[sunski34]

I myself just replaced my GTX970 (died on me a month ago) against a GTX1080 and the only issue I have is RAM/preload radius.

Rest of my PC is a i7 2600K@4,2 GHz, 16GB RAM and an SSD. Running Windows7.

 

Same config for me except running with Windows 10, I bought a 1080 GTX too... Same result and I had to upgrade my CPU and RAM !