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[BitMaster]

upper left - MSI Afterburner

 

 

 

 

setup

 

32GB Swap ded. SSD + 32GB RAM

 

 

 

GPU default - CPU 5G-All Cores

 

 

Server_ Aerobatics Online Causasus_ca. 30 players +/-

 

 

 

 

 

All I did was taxi out of the shelter and then had bring my kid to bed, when I came back...I had those numbers, WAITING on the sidewalk.

 

 

So yeah, have plenty PageFile and RAM, 32GB each is my old prayer and here's the proof ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

*edit: getting worse...29.5GB swap now with 16.2GB RAM....gonna take the dog for a walk and then check back..LoL

Edited August 27, 2018 by BitMaster

[BitMaster]

soon I run outa mem...ehhh SWAP LOL

 

 

grab a beer and watch the drama happening

[Lenux]

I don't understand why the Swap is working, while there is still free RAM

[TexasWarbird]

 

*edit: getting worse...29.5GB swap now with 16.2GB RAM....gonna take the dog for a walk and then check back..LoL

 

See my response to https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=218766

I managed to uncover something else too..

[Goa]

soon I run outa mem...ehhh SWAP LOL

 

 

grab a beer and watch the drama happening

 

Honestly I havent noticed any difference in terms of perofmance betwen having the system managing automatically the pagefile and setting it manually to 40-60 gb lol...not even in multiplayer servers such as for example Blueflag .

 

I am running your same specs , 32b ram / 8700k@5.0 ghz / 1080ti....I am not even checking the pagefile usage as I always have freeram available.

 

 

For thouse having stutter, pls try Emptystandbylist, its a well knonw little software in the gaming comunity since win 10 fall creators update came out

 

 

https://wj32.org/wp/software/empty-standby-list/

[BitMaster]

Honestly I havent noticed any difference in terms of perofmance betwen having the system managing automatically the pagefile and setting it manually to 40-60 gb lol...not even in multiplayer servers such as for example Blueflag .

 

I am running your same specs , 32b ram / 8700k@5.0 ghz / 1080ti....I am not even checking the pagefile usage as I always have freeram available.

 

 

For thouse having stutter, pls try Emptystandbylist, its a well knonw little software in the gaming comunity since win 10 fall creators update came out

 

 

https://wj32.org/wp/software/empty-standby-list/

 

 

having it on AUTO might just do the same thing as mine. Have you measured your swapfile usage ?

 

 

 

 

Anyway, i have this spare SSD and I see no problem to give it the full thing if it needs to be. Rather I'd see DCS make use of 32-64GB RAM, or even more if need to be on servers with a high player count.

[Lenux]

I don't understand why the Swap is working, while there is still free RAM

 

Could anyone help me with this question, please ?

I have 32 GB RAM. I tested with MSI Afterburner :

DCS is using 10 GB RAM, and the SwapFile is 15-16 GB used.

Why is the SwapFile used, when i still have 20 GB RAM free ??

Edited August 29, 2018 by Lenux

[Goa]

Could anyone help me with this question, please ?

I have 32 GB RAM. I tested with MSI Afterburner :

DCS is using 10 GB RAM, and the SwapFile is 15-16 GB used.

Why is the SwapFile used, when i still have 20 GB RAM free ??

 

It could be DCS's side or WIN10 who cant properly manage the ram, it's a good question btw, maybe someone from the dev's or ED's team can spend a world on this issue.

[Lenux]

I'd like to install Windows 7 x64, on another SSD, just to test the performance, stuttering, fps drops, etc

When the FPS drops occurs, the CPU is about 25 % used, GPU 75 - 80 % and RAM 10 GB / swap 16 GB

Edited August 29, 2018 by Lenux

[jnr4817]

I was having a similar issue with all of my games, including DCS. It is the real time file protection in windows defender that was causing this. Once I disabled, the issue went away.

[Goa]

I'd like to install Windows 7 x64, on another SSD, just to test the performance, stuttering, fps drops, etc

When the FPS drops occurs, the CPU is about 25 % used, GPU 75 - 80 % and RAM 10 GB / swap 16 GB

 

this is what I'm going to do today evening, I've already prepared an USB flashdrive .

 

Most of the reason is due to gsync which apparently is broken in win10, so I want to see if I manage to have a smooth trackir/gsync experience, if not I'll siwtch back ti win10.

 

tihis a guide on howto create usb bootable pen for win7 which includes usb and nvme support for win7

 

 

 

Edited August 29, 2018 by Goa

[Lenux]

I was having a similar issue with all of my games, including DCS. It is the real time file protection in windows defender that was causing this. Once I disabled, the issue went away.

 

Do you mean the FPS drops?

[Goa]

Do you mean the FPS drops?

 

I mean jittery/stuttery when using anygame in conjuction with trackir.

 

This seems to be caused by win10 and gsync, so I want to test win7 and see...i read a lot of threads on nvidia forums, reddit, etc etc and it seems that win7 is not affected by gsync problems so I'll give it a try..

 

:thumbup:

[toutenglisse]

Could anyone help me with this question, please ?

I have 32 GB RAM. I tested with MSI Afterburner :

DCS is using 10 GB RAM, and the SwapFile is 15-16 GB used.

Why is the SwapFile used, when i still have 20 GB RAM free ??

 

it's because it's not directly related to free ram, but to virtual memory option.

In my opinion most of the pagefile/swap size is datas that have been used by DCS in ram, but no more used and stored in pagefile to be more quickly accessed if needed again later.

 

As you use old standard virtual memory from windows, this swap/pagefile is set to be handled by virtual memory (parts of ssd/hd that is set to be used like Ram, but way more slower, 80 times with my rig, firstly there in case you run out of ram, so system doesn't crash but runs slower) so system is sure that unused data won't take ram that you fear to be short with (it's what you said to system by keeping virtual memory enabled)

 

So there is no chance for swap to be handled by free ram until you disable virtual memory.

 

Doing that (disabling virtual memory) or not is another thing.

 

One thing sure is that if you have a short limit for swap, this swap will be often replaced with more recent unused data coming from ram. One thing I believe is that If you set your swap to infinite, and fly forever over always new terrain, your swap load will increase with no limit.

[BitMaster]

 

One thing sure is that if you have a short limit for swap, this swap will be often replaced with more recent unused data coming from ram. One thing I believe is that If you set your swap to infinite, and fly forever over always new terrain, your swap load will increase with no limit.

 

 

 

 

When I did my testing, all i did with the Fa18 was spool it up and taxi 20m away from the shelter, parked it there and went on with housekeeping for a couple hours, checking the screen when possible. So no, you do not need to fly over new terrain, the SwapFile growth also happens with a static view from your cockpit at a quiet place on ( I dare to say ) any airfield and any map tho i tested only 1 airframe on Caucasus on 1 airfield, pretty boring but tells me a lot.

[toutenglisse]

Yes sure, as with MP a lot of new things load up even if you only wait, just traffic will increase swap. It was just an exemple with zero real ingame observation.

[Goa]

btw for those who might be intersted, I've tried also win7 64ultimate on my coffelake 8700k and there is no improvement at all, switched back immy to win 10 as 7 is obsolete :D

[petsild]

A lot of users not only DCS are back to a stable smooth W7.

[Eldur]

I don't understand why the Swap is working, while there is still free RAM

 

Because Wendows is not Lenux

 

Keeps swapping constantly at a usage of just 3GB when 32GB of physical memory are available. That why the first step after a installation of that OS is to completely disable the devastating swap file. And that's why DCS' real minimum specs IS 24GB since it definately will crash up on just 16GB in less than half an hour.

[KoN]

What about clearing the memory I'm sure there is a little software that cleans memory. Would that help .