Help with performance please! (and Project Lasso)

[DUSTY]

I've been suffering from freezing in larger MP sessions or complex missions while having perfectly good FPS.

 

I thought that I had optimized my settings for my system quite well because in SP even with lots of units placed and a lot going on my FPS is stable and smooth.

 

 

I fly the Huey mostly but also the F/A-18. In the Huey I have very few issues with freezing in large MP missions but it's far more frequent with the Hornet. Again, FPS is good but then I get random long freeze 'spikes' at all the worst times and it is SO frustrating.

 

 

From another thread I downloaded Project Lasso to try and interpret what is going on and I am a bit too illiterate to know exactly what these graphs are showing me about my system so I would appreciate some help.

 

 

RAM usage is very high but 'ProBalance' restrictions on program priority is also curious. Can someone please help me understand what is going on here?

 

 

TIA

 

 

 

 

 

[will-]

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/24/cpubalance/

 

maybe try uninstalling it?

[David OC]

This might not be just your system, it's also a multiplayer thingy;)

 

I get this also in very larger multiplayer games, sometimes I don't and others are screaming on comms.:) This is also why servers only allow pings of 250ms, that's not always the case tho, as bandwidth and stable connection is also important. Also the server could be having a meltdown, happens on the server I use. ED is working on a dedicated server as we write. It's in testing now.

 

Just get your pc running as smooth as possible in a large mission in single player and disconnect everything using your internet connection for max bandwidth. TV's, Netflix, phones etc.

 

You could also try this out and see if it helps.

 

EDIT

I will also add, when anyone moves lots of ground units in MP, we all freeze or start stuttering. This needs work on ED's side.

 

Also the main reason we use Process lasso is to force the chip to only use cores and disable hyper threading.

 

Right click on DCS icon in PL

 

 

As you can see DCS only uses the 4 cores on my chip 0,2,4,6

 

I also set the priority class to always high.

 

App (DCS) Power profile "Bitsum Highest Performance Mode"

 

https://bitsum.com/processlasso-docs/

Edited February 6, 2019 by David OC

[Goa]

honestly I havent found any evidence after months of testing that process lasso or cpubalance improves in anyway the responsivness of my machine.

 

 

With or witouht process lasso, disabling or enabling hyperthreading has no effect at all on my end.

 

 

The only software I use from lasso is parckcontrol ( https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/ ) , you might want to take a look at that :)

[DUSTY]

Thanks everyone for the help so far.

 

 

 

@David OC, interesting stuff, thank you!

[David OC]

I will add that most only use PL when the CPU is not using all the cores for DCS for some reason?

PL will force it to use the cores. This has helped many on the forums.

[BitMaster]

honestly I havent found any evidence after months of testing that process lasso or cpubalance improves in anyway the responsivness of my machine.

 

 

With or witouht process lasso, disabling or enabling hyperthreading has no effect at all on my end.

 

 

The only software I use from lasso is parckcontrol ( https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/ ) , you might want to take a look at that :)

 

 

our 8700k's do not benefit from it but older CPU's do indeed. The 5th gen and older mostly according to what the feedback said in this forum over the past year.

 

Heck; I can even set it to Balanced power mode andit is no different. Try that with a 2600k ! stuutt..tter

[Goa]

our 8700k's do not benefit from it but older CPU's do indeed. The 5th gen and older mostly according to what the feedback said in this forum over the past year.

 

Heck; I can even set it to Balanced power mode andit is no different. Try that with a 2600k ! stuutt..tter

 

 

hi bro its been long time, how you doin?

 

 

:thumbup:

[Crimson_Ghost138]

Hi, i am also having very bad impacts and lagging in multiplayer on large servers :(

 

Played Aerobatics Germany today and it was stuttering alot...

 

In singleplayer, on most missions, i get a good experience even in VR and Supersampling set to 1.5!

 

Maybe it´s because i am using an old 2500k overclocked to 4,5Ghz ?!

 

@Dusty, i try to find out if there is some co-incidence with our processors...

[Headwarp]

If you're going to use process lasso be sure after running any game executable for the first time after installing PLasso to right click the executable in the process lasso window and "Exclude from Probalance"

 

Probalance tries to keep processes in check that it thinks are using more CPU than it should. You don't want it messing with dcs.exe or your other games. Frankly.. i don't remember this being a feature the first time I installed process lasso..

 

Since it was added I've made sure to exclude every game I run on my system, as well as any VR software.

 

There's also a way to add .exe files to the list of programs excluded from problance somewhere within the options if you don't want to alt tab out of your game to find it in the list of programs running in the process lasso window.

 

Other than that the only thing I've seen it recommended on these forums for is to disable logical cores for dx11/dx9/dx10 titles without completely disabling hyper-threading.

 

I don't mind letting probalance keep my background tasks in check.. but I don't think it's really needed and added an extra step for most of our main reasons for using Process Lasso

Edited February 7, 2019 by Headwarp

[BitMaster]

hi bro its been long time, how you doin?

 

 

:thumbup:

 

 

busy, busy and even more busy tbh.

 

 

I do my fliying but it is so irregular that I didnt see a point in making any appointments that I cant hold anyways, likely. Kids and new job I am looking for...mainly.

 

 

maybe tonight....I will open discord if i am on....doing the Paveways now

[Goa]

busy, busy and even more busy tbh.

 

 

I do my fliying but it is so irregular that I didnt see a point in making any appointments that I cant hold anyways, likely. Kids and new job I am looking for...mainly.

 

 

maybe tonight....I will open discord if i am on....doing the Paveways now

 

 

I'll be there !:thumbup:

[BitMaster]

Great flying mate :joystick:

 

 

:pilotfly: