GPU overclocking and DCS.

[Harmer]

I recently put a vid up on the results of overclocking my GPU card to try and squeeze some better frames from DCS.

 

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(Thanks to Phil Style for the use of an early Storm of War mission - used for testing).

[Harmer]

For those Spitfire experten, it had been a while for me, and I forgot that you only need around 8lbs of boost to get airborne.

[Harlikwin]

Well does it or not?

[Harmer]

Sorry, but hard to say. Really didn't work in the vid.

I'm still overclocking my regular MP sessions, and I seem to be getting slightly better frame performance.

I'd really like to know how others have done that have gone down the same track.

[Motomouse]

Overclocking GPU does not do anything for my frames. l am CPU bound most of the time. 1080ti & 3600x

[Harmer]

I did a test today, running TTI (Through the Inferno) on our (ASOR) dedicated server.

Test 1 was no overclocking and produced an average 40-50 frames.

Test 2 was with overclocking and produced no discernable difference.

 

Conclusion: Overclocking GPU is not worth it. From this I gather that DCS is more CPU intensive?

[speed-of-heat]

No, I think it’s just the amount of performance that you can raise by Oc’ing a gpu is not statistically significant for dcs...a lot depends on the card... cooling and a variety of other things, but if your error rate is 20% to begin with you would need to add over 20% performance to the card in order to show a major improvement, and most oc’s are between 10 and 20% ... and that doesn’t even account for thermal throttling

[stormrider]

I think OC will only give results in the Low range of fps. For me the standard has always been OC. Running Afterburner in order to get Rivatune to display stats. The only problem is that for me, in two different installations (4770k on a MSI Z87 G45 and now on a MSI B450 Pro Carbon with Ryzen5 3600) Oculus software always became very unstable under any OC whatsoever.