Placing units in the vincinity of Kutaisi City causes microstutters

[Veritech]

While building a mission, I've realized that placing units close to Kutaisi city (200 meters to the west) causes consistent microstutters every 2 seconds in the whole map, disregarding POV. Placing the unites a few km to the east solved the issue.

While the unit close is high (500+) I have another mission where the unit count is north of 600 and there are no issues recorded.

[Lixma 06]

Possibly related but I've noticed that taking off from and zooming around Senaki and Kutaisi is much heavier on the PC than most other areas - not sure why.

[Veritech]

Frame drops around Kutaisi were a common issue back in 1.5. This is a different matter. When units are olaced in a certain area, the whole map stutters, disregarding of the point of view. Got stutters on external view on a flight of Su-25As 80km east of Senaki as well as on a company of Abrams 10km to the West.

Did all kind of things, including reinstalling the whole DCS just to discover that the issue were the unit placement. I’ll upload a track in two days.

 

Thanks for the reply!

[Knock-Knock]

Maybe a 'Line of Sight' thing. Lots of AI looking trough Kutaisi.

If that would be the case, I guess it should happen near any of the bigger cities, with hostile on the other side of the given city?

[twistking]

could also be pathfinding related?!

 

was the AI moving? on roads or cross country etc. ..

[Veritech]

Twistkkng, it was. But the thing is AFTER temoving those two batallions of tanks an bmps and placing them 5 km to the west, the stuttering was gone.

The moving tanks (The Abrams/Bradley Team) was not the issue. That have been tested.

 

On the other hand, Knock Knock, even having an external view of a 25A more than 50 miles east of the FEBA (and disregarding the POV), I still had stuttering. As I mentioned before, the solution was to move certain unitos 1 to 2 km to the east, which is still east to Kutaisi.