scampaboy Posted February 3, 2018 Posted February 3, 2018 Hi, i'm looking for a little advice. I've got the steam version so i downloaded 2.5 without thinking as I was quite excited and of course I have come across the defered shading AA problem and a lot of microstutters. So on the first day i spat my dummy and went back to 1.5.8 and had a tinker with the graphics and got it running really really nice. Ill write my specs. here and change my sig later i5 6400 240gb ssd cheap £69 motherboard 8gb ddr4 corsair ram (2144 hrtz i think) 1050 ti oc (4gb) I am not interested in running at max settings more midrange but i would like to be able to have normal looking trees or adjust the gamma and no jaggies. Is this going to be possible on the kavkaz map at all ? I have Nevada also btw. the stutters it seems are not an AA problem as the FPS is steady at 45 but stuttering what could this be? In reality for me its the same as when i would run FS9 which i could make look nicer than FSX. Should I persevere with tweaking 2.5 or should i just wait with 1.5.8. I can only really afford a cheap 4gb stick of ram as an upgrade tbh. Is there any more things i could tweak ?
HiJack Posted February 3, 2018 Posted February 3, 2018 You are way to low on RAM and GPU. Don't go for 2.5 with this hardware.
QuiGon Posted February 3, 2018 Posted February 3, 2018 8GB of RAM is not way too low. It's low, yes, but not way too low. He should be able to play 2.5 just fine if you lower the settings a bit. The graphics card has evem more VRAM than mine and I can run DCS on max settings with Deferred Shading + 2xAA and trees maxed out. It runs smoother than 1.5.8 did. 1 Intel i7-12700K @ 8x5GHz+4x3.8GHz + 32 GB DDR5 RAM + Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 (8 GB VRAM) + M.2 SSD + Windows 10 64Bit DCS Panavia Tornado (IDS) really needs to be a thing!
scampaboy Posted February 3, 2018 Author Posted February 3, 2018 8GB of RAM is not way too low. It's low, yes, but not way too low. He should be able to play 2.5 just fine if you lower the settings a bit. The graphics card has evem more VRAM than mine and I can run DCS on max settings with Deferred Shading + 2xAA and trees maxed out. It runs smoother than 1.5.8 did. Thanks I understand that i cant ever have max settings with those specs, but at the very least 2xAA and defered shading and everything else to the left. I have a very similar graphics card to yourself but the 2 gb version, do you think its worth swapping over ? At the moment the best i can get from 2.5 is medium to low settings which is the same as 1.5.8 but 1.5.8 looks better. Would there be any benefit to installing 2.5 on a separate ssd i have one of those somewhere. im going to get the 4gb of ram over the next few days its all i can afford at the moment im a single parent and i can only work part time
counter25 Posted February 3, 2018 Posted February 3, 2018 Concerning the GPU: I use exactly the same GPU on two different PCs for DCS 2.5 and it works just fine. I get way better FPS than in 1.5 with even more demanding settings.
Ziptie Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 Definitely not. Even if the hardware you had was going to be adequate, they have the beta so messed up right now - you really can't even fly (with any seriousness). I'd wait, then if you decide to upgrade your hardware, then go for the 2.5 install. For now, 2.5 is the worst decision I've made in sometime. Wish I kept 1.5 i7 6700 @4ghz, 32GB HyperX Fury ddr4-2133 ram, GTX980, Oculus Rift CV1, 2x1TB SSD drives (one solely for DCS OpenBeta standalone) Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, Thrustmaster Cougar MFDs Airframes: A10C, A10CII, F/A-18C, F-14B, F-16C, UH=1H, FC3. Modules: Combined Arms, Supercarrier. Terrains: Persian Gulf, Nevada NTTR, Syria
Sceptre Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 (edited) look at my specs (in sig), i think they are below the minimum system requirements, however I'm running it on solid 30-40fps, take that as you will. also if you are asking about multiplayer, I'm not sure, as I don't play it (my ping too high). However 2.5 runs very well for me in SP at the end of the day it's up to you if you find this fps acceptable, if you do not and are used to having 60+ then I wouldn't upgrade. here are my settings Edited February 4, 2018 by Sceptre RTX 2070 8GB | 32GB DDR4 2666 RAM | AMD Ryzen 5 3600 4.2Ghz | Asrock X570 | CH Fighterstick/Pro Throttle | TM MFDs | TrackIR 5
scampaboy Posted February 4, 2018 Author Posted February 4, 2018 look at my specs (in sig), i think they are below the minimum system requirements, however I'm running it on solid 30-40fps, take that as you will. also if you are asking about multiplayer, I'm not sure, as I don't play it (my ping too high). However 2.5 runs very well for me in SP at the end of the day it's up to you if you find this fps acceptable, if you do not and are used to having 60+ then I wouldn't upgrade. here are my settings Hi i actually tried something from the "lets talk about defereed shading" post and it worked for me. Im currently skimming tree tops in a harrier at 60fps. Although I still have stuttering at low level with a huey for example. I think to be honest i was going round in circles trying to find good settings instead of actually just flying the aircraft and enjoying what i have. Also it helps when you do change a setting to fly around for more than 10 mins more like 20 to 30 mins and then things seem to balance out, it gives the system time to load stuff. The only real problem i am facing now is gamma and the mcdu on aircraft being black i hve to change the black/white white/black setting before contact. Thanks for all the help guys And thanks to ED/DCs for creating such a wonderful sim
scampaboy Posted February 4, 2018 Author Posted February 4, 2018 Definitely not. Even if the hardware you had was going to be adequate, they have the beta so messed up right now - you really can't even fly (with any seriousness). I'd wait, then if you decide to upgrade your hardware, then go for the 2.5 install. For now, 2.5 is the worst decision I've made in sometime. Wish I kept 1.5 Im not sure of your hardware, but if you have similar to me try some of the settings posted on the "lets talk about defered shading" post they may help and do what i did just fly and close my eyes to the jaggies
Ziptie Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 Im not sure of your hardware, but if you have similar to me try some of the settings posted on the "lets talk about defered shading" post they may help and do what i did just fly and close my eyes to the jaggies After my 4th complete uninstall and reinstall, something has happened for the good. Unsure if it was due to me manually deleting the saved game folder which was in a totally different location than all the other DCS stuff. For the first time since 2.5 beta dropped, I flew for an hour without being booted to the home menu screen. Will attempt to fly online in the next hour. I also increased my page filing from start point of 40,000 and max point of 100,000. Unsure which actually had the positive impact, but I will not change either since I can actually fly again now. I can screenshot my settings if someone likes, but again I am unsure if this luck or actually fixed and issue on my side. Cheers, Ziptie i7 6700 @4ghz, 32GB HyperX Fury ddr4-2133 ram, GTX980, Oculus Rift CV1, 2x1TB SSD drives (one solely for DCS OpenBeta standalone) Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, Thrustmaster Cougar MFDs Airframes: A10C, A10CII, F/A-18C, F-14B, F-16C, UH=1H, FC3. Modules: Combined Arms, Supercarrier. Terrains: Persian Gulf, Nevada NTTR, Syria
scampaboy Posted February 5, 2018 Author Posted February 5, 2018 So i gave up and went back to 1.5.8 As soon as i added units to the map it started grinding to a halt. So im in the market for a gpu ive got about £300 is it a bad idea to get a 980ti 6gb ? is it a step backwards ? or could someone recommend something different im not against AMD i just dont know their products. Or should i spend some money on ram and wait till next time for the gpu ?
Recommended Posts