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I haven't played DCS for more than a year. The last week I picked singleplayer up again since I bought the F/A-18C. Single player works fine except that loading missions now takes a lot longer than it used to in the past. I came to DCS years ago for a reason: because it used to run like a knife through butter. Not anymore.

For multiplayer I even turned down my graphics settings but the loading takes ages. When the role selection screen comes up this is frozen and I cannot even scroll the list. Most of the times I cannot get in and the game is just stuck or crashes. The few times that I do manage to get in, the 3D cockpit loads really slow but then eventually I can fly. FPS are ok but they drop drastically once in a while. In summary: multiplayer for me is a pain in the ass and a no-go!

 

 

Specs here below. DCS World is on my secondary HDD drive since windows is on my 250GB SSD. I managed to move stuff away from the SSD and free up space and I am now copying the entire DCS World folder onto C: SSD hoping that this will help but I'm pretty sure it's not going to make much of a difference.

In the screenshots you can see my specs on screen display but I do not know how to interpret them. I would say my rig is powerful enough to run the game. Again, no issues in the past with multiplayer interface but now it's messed up.

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My rig:

My YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/mWdlQk

PC Specs: Intel i7-3770k 3.5GHz | GeForce RTX 2060Super 8GB | Iiyama Black Hawk G-Master 75Hz dual monitors |16 GB RAM | ASUS Z77 Sabertooth mobo | Saitek PRO Combat Rudder Pedals | TM HOTAS Cougar | TrackIR5 | Win10x64

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No MP just takes a while to load, just get a coffee whilst loading and it's all good. :thumbup::D

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So if you buy a ferrari and after a year it only drives max 50 km/h you will buy a newspaper?

Even if I go for a piss while it's loading and patiently wait till it's done, multiplayer is still laggy with drops in FPS. It's unplayable. There was a time it used to run smooth.

My rig:

My YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/mWdlQk

PC Specs: Intel i7-3770k 3.5GHz | GeForce RTX 2060Super 8GB | Iiyama Black Hawk G-Master 75Hz dual monitors |16 GB RAM | ASUS Z77 Sabertooth mobo | Saitek PRO Combat Rudder Pedals | TM HOTAS Cougar | TrackIR5 | Win10x64

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See my earlier thread on this:

 

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=221946

 

 

What worked for me was to increase my pagefile size to 32GB.

 

 

It's now playable, although after some time I start getting those bad FPS drops again. I guess computer upgrade is the real answer.

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Thanks, I moved DCS onto my C drive (SSD) and created a 32GB pagefile and it only just fits on the 250GB SSD. Performance seems to be better (less bad).

Is it a bad idea in terms of performance to move the pagefile to another HDD drive that has more space?

My rig:

My YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/mWdlQk

PC Specs: Intel i7-3770k 3.5GHz | GeForce RTX 2060Super 8GB | Iiyama Black Hawk G-Master 75Hz dual monitors |16 GB RAM | ASUS Z77 Sabertooth mobo | Saitek PRO Combat Rudder Pedals | TM HOTAS Cougar | TrackIR5 | Win10x64

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I think the pagefile works better if it's on a different drive to the game, because then they're not both trying to read the same drive. But the pagefile benefits a lot more from being on SSD, that needs read/write speed more than the game files. I have 32GB pagefile on my C: SSD and DCS on my D: HDD and that works for me for now.

 

Loading into a server still takes about 5 minutes, but that's OK, just leave the PC alone, close all other apps don't touch anything and it shouldn't crash. In game it's playable with slight, tolerable, FPS drops when other people connect.

 

You have slightly more RAM than me, everything else the same, so you should be fine.


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Thanks for the tips. The 32GB pagefile on C:SSD helps. And I copied DCS world folder from D:HDD onto C:SSD. Loading times on the HDD are 2x or even 3x longer. But on my SSD I now only have 17GB free space left. DCS definately works better on the SSD. Server joining screen still takes minutes to load but tonight I played for more than one hour on a server with FPS 40 - 60 which sometimes dropped drastically but overall good performance (but only a few other players though).

EDIT: later on another server I gave up after 1.5h because it was impossible to connect and I even had to reset my pc because CTRL+ALT+DEL and end process didn't work either. So it's not SSD that is going to save your bum in multiplayer. DCS World Multiplayer is simply f****d up, period!


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My rig:

My YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/mWdlQk

PC Specs: Intel i7-3770k 3.5GHz | GeForce RTX 2060Super 8GB | Iiyama Black Hawk G-Master 75Hz dual monitors |16 GB RAM | ASUS Z77 Sabertooth mobo | Saitek PRO Combat Rudder Pedals | TM HOTAS Cougar | TrackIR5 | Win10x64

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