Sideslip Posted February 15, 2018 Posted February 15, 2018 The new explosion effects look absolutely fantastic, but they can sometimes be a big performance hog. Positioning the camera near a target, a half-second barrage of rockets takes my framerate from 94ish (100% GPU) to 13-25. Granted, while in the cockpit it's more like 35-40 if I am looking at it, but that's still a pretty significant impact. I hate to think how bad it is for someone only getting 40-60 fps to start with. And then dropping 8 X RBK500Us is even worse viewed from the cockpit. These effects are cutting FPS by 60-85% on a GTX 1080. If we could simply get an "explosion effects" slider in the settings that could scale the effect from like 20% to 100%, that would help tremendously and yet retain the fantastic effect for those with the hardware to run it. I'd probably have it around 50% or so. Probably not a problem a couple years from now. 1 System specs: i7 3820 @4.75Ghz, Asus P9X79LE, EVGA GTX1080SC @2100mhz, 16GB Gskil DDR3 @ 2000mhz, 512GB 960EVO m.2, 2 X 512GB 860EVO SATA3 in RAID0, EVGA Supernova 850W G2, Phantek Entho Luxe White. CPU and GPU custom water-cooled with 420mm rad and lots of Noctua fans. ASUS PG348Q. VKB Gladiator Pro w/MCG, X-55 throttle and MFG Crosswind.
PeaceSells Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 +1 This is showing to be very important. I don't have a cutting edge computer, but I can run DCS 2.5 with pretty good frame rates until I fire a vikhr missile, for example. Its smoke trail being rendered twice (both on my view and on the skhval screen at the same time) brings the frame-rate to a crawl. For rocket salvos, even without the skhval, it gets abruptly and extremely slow. An option to lower quality of effects would make DCS so much more playable on medium to low and even high end computers, as I can see it also happens in many youtube videos... My DCS modding videos: Modules I own so far: Black Shark 2, FC3, UH-1H, M-2000C, A-10C, MiG-21, Gazelle, Nevada map
discwalker Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 +1 Many new explosion at same time cause a big FPS hit. Rocket pod usage at low level cause player kill on not high-end PC. GTX 1070 8GB, 16GB DDR3, W8.1 on SSD, DCS on another SSD
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