FPS stuttering (dropped frames) regardless of settings

[Helios1138]

I get this very regular pattern of lost frames every half a second or so (especially noticeable if you slow down the gameplay to like 1/16th)

 

I'm running 9700K/2080ti/32GB/SSD so usually the settings are quite high, but just for testing purposes I tried switching to lowest settings possible and lowering the resolution and the same behavior is reproducible. In fact, the rate of dropped frames is still exactly the same.

 

Neither CPU (the single core of it) nor GPU is 100% loaded.

 

I even tried limiting the framerate to 30fps in Nvidia Control Panel, but the stuttering is there regardless, even though the game otherwise runs perfectly in the 70-80fps range even on the highest settings for me, so how it still stutters on 30fps lock with lowest settings - I don't understand.

 

It's not a game-breaking issue for me, but I'm trying to record videos in-game and I'm looking for a way to get a constant smooth framerate.

Edited February 28, 2020 by Helios1138

[Aluminum Donkey]

Are you using Adaptive Refresh? In other words, does your monitor support Freesync or G-Sync?

 

Reason I ask is now that Nvidia graphics driver also support Freesync, I enabled it on my system and it's the only thing that's ever made a really significant improvement in my stuttering problems with DCS.

 

Also, 2.5.6 stutters a *lot*. Everybody's griping about it. It's probably something that ED is going to have to sort out in the coming months/years, and there's nothing that us end-users can do about it because we didn't write the program :)

 

Finally, one last thing, install and run Nvidia Inspector and make sure that Nvidia Ansel is turned off. It's used for recording game footage, and can cause stuttering.

 

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