VR Optimizing

[Wali763]

I used the setup-guide from Thud but that did not help. He is always talking of frametimes in the low teens. Well, if I have those I dont need ASW anyway. Because, then Ill have 80fps all the time. My frametimes are usually 20-25 fps, just that I stay below 25ms most of the time to get smoothing from ASW.

 

That was a misspell. I meant 20-25ms, but from the context I should have been understandable. I mostly have frametimes under 25ms so I get the full 40fps for ASW to do its job.

 

Anyway, I still dont think my CPU is the bottleneck, even though its not overclocked. I tried that once and a mild overclock to 4,7 on all core gave me a worse result than the standard clock. I think I needed to put in some more effort here to get it right.

 

I dont give too much anyway on clockspeeds, since 4,7 Ghz on a i7-4790K is way different (worse) than 4,7 (or 4,3 on all cores) on my CPU. But of course 5,0 on a I9 will be quite the same as 5,0 on my CPU, because DCS is using only 4 (some even say 2) cores anyway. Real multithreaded performance is of course another story when comparing i9 to i5 of the same generation.

 

Anyway, I think I gave myself the answer anyway. Either way a RTX2080Ti would not do much for me in my current situation.

[Gnadentod]

Anyway, I still dont think my CPU is the bottleneck, even though its not overclocked. I tried that once and a mild overclock to 4,7 on all core gave me a worse result than the standard clock. I think I needed to put in some more effort here to get it right.

Your CPU isn't a bottleneck, you could gain a very small amount of performance going with the newest top-notch processors but when using VR it really is the GPU which is the bottleneck, even with 2080 Ti. Let's be excited for how much gain Vulkan brings about.

[Gunnars Driver]

That was a misspell. I meant 20-25ms, but from the context I should have been understandable. I mostly have frametimes under 25ms so I get the full 40fps for ASW

Anyway, I still dont think my CPU is the bottleneck, even though its not overclocked. I tried that once and a mild overclock to 4,7 on all core gave me a worse result than the standard clock. I think I needed to put in some more effort here to get it right.

 

I dont give too much anyway on clockspeeds, since 4,7 Ghz on a i7-4790K is way different (worse) than 4,7 (or 4,3 on all cores) on my CPU.

 

For DCS you’re not much helped with a i9 instead of a i5 at the same clock.

I still think you should check the load on that single core when DCS-gaming.

It might be a eye opener.

 

Before my upgrade and with i7@4.7 +1080 I was limited by the CPU. Seing people writing that Pixeldensity only put load on the GPU, I know that for me I got a lot higher CPU load when using higher PD

About the overclock, I cant see that a proper overclock can not change things to the better.

The decision not to use overclocking is of course up to you.

[dave-uk]

Thanks Gunnars & Stuart for the clarification. I have a lot to learn.

[speed-of-heat]

On your processor, i doubt increasing your ram speed will have a significant impact in performance, given you are already running at 3000. I

[speed-of-heat]

If you were going Ryzan I would say go 3200, intel it’s nice to have but, frankly 3000 you could OC to 3200...

Edited January 14, 2020 by speed-of-heat

[GunSlingerAUS]

On your processor, i doubt increasing your ram speed will have a significant impact in performance, given you are already running at 3000. I

 

After recently going from 32GB of DDR4 2666 to 3866MHZ, I can categorically state that faster RAM won’t help at all.