Vertigo72 Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) Lots of people seek advice on buying computer hardware for DCS, but about the only thing they can hope for is opinions and hearsay. I would like to see some facts. How much difference does ram speed really make? is there a tangible difference between cpu's from AMD or intel at similar frequency? how do otherwise comparable nvidia cards perform vs AMD cards? is a midrange RTX series a better choice than an older highend 10x0 card ? Tiborr did some amazing work back in 2016 using DCS1.5: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=157374 But I cant find anything similar for 2.5 and using current day CPUs and GPUs . DCS is unfortunately rarely if ever used as a benchmark in GPU or CPU reviews, and I dont have 10 different CPUs and GPUs laying around. So I propose doing the following; 1) someone record a track using the Su25 on Caucasus map. Preferably with a fair bit of "action", a mix of low and high altitude, cockpit and exterior views, etc. Everyone would be able to play that track and provide framerate results, they dont need to buy any modules. Hopefully one day some review sites could also start using this? 2) Someone record a second standard benchmark track using a high fidelity plane that is going to be tougher on the system. With mirrors on. Possibly on persian gulf map? I would love to use the F14 for this, but its track recording or playback seems to be broken, so I will leave it others to pick a plane for this. Which one is both hard on the GPU and popular? tracks should be short, below 5 minutes if possible. Once two tracks are selected, we would need to standardize settings, and I think the easiest way is to use the game's own "high" preset (just with vsync disabled) and the most common 1080p resolution. I would use high because its more future proof and probably closer to what we fly or want to fly than the other presets and 1080p because its by far the most common and almost everyone can run at that resolution. Results of this test will not directly tell you if some video card is fast enough to drive the game at 4K 4xMSAA or in VR, but it should give at least an idea if card X is better or worse than card Y And after some time, we may learn that one should achieve at least 150FPS (or whatever) on that bench to have a smooth experience in VR or in 4K. I will gladly compile, analyse and publish results. But I would like someone else to make the tracks, as Im not only a novice DCS pilot, I know nothing about flying the Su25 :). Edited April 30, 2019 by Vertigo72
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