Anyone have a handle on the stutter-on-weapon-hits problem?

[Aluminum Donkey]

Greetings everyone,

 

 

As the title says?

 

 

I've been getting good, stutter-free performance with the newest DCS Open Beta when just flying around, even with lots of planes in the air and high settings, but as always, whenever there's an engagement and weapon hits, the framerate tanks for a split second and I get the dreaded immersion-killing stutters. It always happens a lot and kills the fun of the sim.

 

 

 

I have a pretty capable PC and DCS is installed on one of those uber-fast NVMe M.2 drives (Samsung 960 Evo.) Still, it takes along time to load maps in the mission editor (newly selected maps slowly load one "block" at a time), and also takes quite a while to load missions, despite my NVMe drive benchmarking very well (over 3200 MB/sec reads.)

 

 

 

Is it worthwhile just wiping out the entire SSD and re-installing only the Release version of DCS World? Or, is this problem persistent across all versions?

 

 

Is DCS searching for a file it needs and has a hard time finding? Or is there a .lua file I can edit to pre-load the needed effects into video memory? (I have an 8GB graphics card.)

 

 

I've always been inclined to think it's an asset-loading problem, and maybe there's something wrong with my install despite the usual cleanup and repair routine. But, 120GB of stuff is a *lot* to download!!

 

 

Thanks,

AD

[backspace340]

It's on both stable and open beta. Don't bother messing with your build - it happens to everyone, I've got a 960 Evo like you, and a 1080ti, 32gb RAM and i7-8700. I don't think you'll see any results from wiping and reinstalling either.

 

It was introduced with the Memory Manager, and will probably stick around until ED tweak it further. I wish they'd just give us a slider / option to turn off the Memory Manager if our rigs are beefy enough to handle it - I had no issues before they brought it in (though I know lots of people on lower end rigs did).

[Aluminum Donkey]

It's on both stable and open beta. Don't bother messing with your build - it happens to everyone, I've got a 960 Evo like you, and a 1080ti, 32gb RAM and i7-8700. I don't think you'll see any results from wiping and reinstalling either.

 

It was introduced with the Memory Manager, and will probably stick around until ED tweak it further. I wish they'd just give us a slider / option to turn off the Memory Manager if our rigs are beefy enough to handle it - I had no issues before they brought it in (though I know lots of people on lower end rigs did).

 

 

I'm not sure it's memory manager related... I could swear I've had it happening just about forever, and *really* wish it didn't.

 

 

The new content is cool and all, but for something as complex as DCS, I wish they'd iron out the various sim engine shortcomings... My system is modest compared to some, but I still get excellent framerates. It's just this annoying stutter.

 

 

It would be less of a problem if it was truly random, maybe a huge memory swap as you fly around the map, instead of knowing it WILL happen every time I engage a target!

 

 

AD