Micro stutters - VRAM Usage?

[B_Tank88]

I have a Nvidia 1060 with 3gb of VRAM.

 

I get good FPS, but I get occasional micro stutters which I think may be attributed to my VRAM usage.

 

As soon as I start a mission, my VRAM goes straight to 3gb usage. It never seems to drop.

 

Please check my settings attached.

 

Note I have tried changing terrain textures, vis range, shadows, a-filtering, msaa all to lowest settings and it makes no difference to VRAM usage.

 

I'm not sure if this is normal..

[panton41]

Yeah, 3GB of VRAM is extremely anemic these days. I have a 1070 with 8GB and frequently run into problems with too little VRAM, though not from gaming.

[The_Nephilim]

I have a Nvidia 1060 with 3gb of VRAM.

 

I get good FPS, but I get occasional micro stutters which I think may be attributed to my VRAM usage.

 

As soon as I start a mission, my VRAM goes straight to 3gb usage. It never seems to drop.

 

Please check my settings attached.

 

Note I have tried changing terrain textures, vis range, shadows, a-filtering, msaa all to lowest settings and it makes no difference to VRAM usage.

 

I'm not sure if this is normal..

 

 

Well with those settings a 2080 might struggle. if you did lower terrain textures and did not notice a vram drop something is wrong somehwere ..

 

basically your settings in DCS are way to high for your system which you did not list or even say what resolution you game at VR or Monitor??

Edited April 24, 2020 by The_Nephilim

[Svsmokey]

It looks like your preload range is set to minimum . This can result in a lot of terrain-loading stutters . And yes , otherwise your settings are very , very high .

[B_Tank88]

I've updated my system specs on my sig now.

 

I tweaked my graphics settings using the DCS optimisation guide on this forum. Like I said the frame rate is great, I get 60 solid in the air, and around 40 on the ground.

 

I play on a 49 inch TV at 1080p 60.

 

I will try now to go from absolute lowest settings upward and see if VRAM usage changes.

[B_Tank88]

So I lowered all settings, except resolution, to it's minimal, and the VRAM only went down to 2.8gb usage from 3.0gb.

 

I've got no real breathing room here at all so I'll just live with it. FPS are good to me so it's ok I'll just live with the stutters.

 

I increased the preload radius as mentioned earlier to see if that will help.

[fab.13]

Hello,

 

 

I use a GTX 1060 6Gb

 

stutter could have many sources

 

 

Here some tips about stutters,

you should find in forum about :

 

- clean fxo and metshader ( run mission on each terrains to force recompile )

- disable hot plug device

- disable replay tacking

- disable windows game recording

- reduce windows process in background

[Worrazen]

Unfortunately nothing much you can do, DCS just needs more VRAM unless you manage to put things to low.

 

But still I made this utility which was meant more for performance testing, tho I haven't updated it, most likely may not work for 2.5.6 but you could try because the terrain stuff may haven't changed that significantly since.

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3303133/ .... EDIT: that's really not optimal for ordinary user but I did have plan to get into that kind of testing again later, if you ask me or PM I can help with the tool but I don't have plan right now I'm busy with some non-DCS stuff, I'd like to be here doing testing while the free period is going but I just have to take care of some other things i've been delaying. I should really make that program to move files and not delete permanently hah.

Edited April 24, 2020 by Worrazen