Shopping list questions for people with brains,unlike me

[Gethy]

Hello everyone,first timer here.

I fully know my computer is nowhere near as good to being considered acceptable by you people,but I'm working on it. (rx570 4gb,ryzen 5 2400g,shitty 2009 hdd whose specs I can't find online,2x4 3200mhz ram. Nothing is overclocked because I have no clue how that stuff works : D  (althought theres literally a button to oc the gpu automagically in the AMD software,but I never tried that)

My question is, should I buy an SSD to install DCS on or more ram first?

I can run dcs at my custom settings fine FPS wise (jumps from 50ish in combat to 80 out of it) and the only real problem I find are the immediate stutters when i move the camera around (which as you can imagine isn't particulary nice when catfighting). (and yes the maps and editor take at least 5 minutes to load,but I don't actually consider that a problem)

So yeah,I'll eventually buy both,but do you people think its better to get another 8gigs of ram(of the same 2x4 3200mhz) or an SSD first : O? 

Sorry for any annoyance I have brought to you people.


And for the future,should I upgrade the gpu or cpu first?

Again I'm really sorry,I'm not really a techy person :l

[xoxen]

Go for the SSD first. This will improve your stutters most probably (no guaranty). But it will be a totally different feeling to have fast loading times. 16 GB are enough as long as you don´t fly on crowded (AI and/or clients) online servers. Otherwise 32 GB are very much benifitial. The prices for SSD as well as RAM are not that high at the moment. I guess you would make yourself a good christmas gift investing in both. I hope this helps.

The higher the resolution you fly in the less important the CPU gets. I would aim for a GPU first. But you can watch with MSI Afterburner how much the GPU is utilized at the moment. Mine is at 98% nearly always, so it looks like a GPU bottleneck.

Xoxen

Edited December 1, 2020 by xoxen

[Gethy]

Thank you kindly for the answer and help,and I have indeed decided that I'll get both this christmas,since I got the money x'D
Much appreciated^^

[Worrazen]

Wait you have a lot of stutters when you move the camera around?

 

That may actually be the 1000hz mouse polling stutter bug that I was experiencing for +2 years before figuring it out.

 

Please check if your symptoms correspond to what I'm describing, even in a barebone missions with 1 static unit, rotating the external is not smooth and feels as if the camera has some kind of an achor that keeps catching off-and-on and produces a feeling of high drag, 

 

You need to set your mouse polling rate to 125hz which is the standard desktop poll rate, 250hz, 500hz, 1000hz will each introduce more lag respectively.

If you don't get any lag at 125hz then you solved the problem, but you won't get the benefit of a 1000hz mouse.

If you have a gaming mouse with 1000hz but no way to configure it via the drivers then you are unfortunately in a need of a new mouse that has the option to set poll rate.

Or, you can test it with a really cheap non-gaming mouse which should only support 125hz and try with that to see if it works better.

 

It's not actually engine lag, so you won't fix it by adding more hardware horse power. However you are in need of better HW anyway.

 

So do follow the previous advice too.

[Gethy]

 

On 12/2/2020 at 1:34 PM, Worrazen said:

Wait you have a lot of stutters when you move the camera around?

 

That may actually be the 1000hz mouse polling stutter bug that I was experiencing for +2 years before figuring it out.

 

Please check if your symptoms correspond to what I'm describing, even in a barebone missions with 1 static unit, rotating the external is not smooth and feels as if the camera has some kind of an achor that keeps catching off-and-on and produces a feeling of high drag, 

 

You need to set your mouse polling rate to 125hz which is the standard desktop poll rate, 250hz, 500hz, 1000hz will each introduce more lag respectively.

If you don't get any lag at 125hz then you solved the problem, but you won't get the benefit of a 1000hz mouse.

If you have a gaming mouse with 1000hz but no way to configure it via the drivers then you are unfortunately in a need of a new mouse that has the option to set poll rate.

Or, you can test it with a really cheap non-gaming mouse which should only support 125hz and try with that to see if it works better.

 

It's not actually engine lag, so you won't fix it by adding more hardware horse power. However you are in need of better HW anyway.

 

So do follow the previous advice too.

I have absolutely no idea what my mouse is haha XD its a cheap ass mouse I found in a chinese cheap stuff store haha XD