Visual settings that only impact GPU and not CPU resources

[Mr_sukebe]

I only run DCS in VR and believe that it’s my CPU that’s the bottleneck.

If I check MSI Afterburner, it shows that I’m typically only using 60-70% GPU, I.e that I’ve definitely got headroom to up some settings.

Clearly I can go conduct some trial and error tests to identify what graphics settings I could change without impacting any further on CPU demands, but has anyone already done this and care to comment?

 

Settings that spring to mind are:

- Pixel density

- texture level

- grass and trees

- draw distance

 

Any thoughts?

[Fab]

Shadows is the biggest fps eater....

[Tinkickef]

I only run DCS in VR and believe that it’s my CPU that’s the bottleneck.

If I check MSI Afterburner, it shows that I’m typically only using 60-70% GPU, I.e that I’ve definitely got headroom to up some settings.

Clearly I can go conduct some trial and error tests to identify what graphics settings I could change without impacting any further on CPU demands, but has anyone already done this and care to comment?

 

Settings that spring to mind are:

- Pixel density

- texture level

- grass and trees

- draw distance

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

PD and MSAA should not impact your CPU. The rest neither, but it would impact your RAM and VRAM. Perhaps draw distance might have a significant effect as it has to shove more data at a higher speed.

Edited September 18, 2018 by Tinkickef