Poor Multiplayer Experience .

[KoN]

Rubber banding and slow loading times coupled with big frame drops looking around in cockpits . 

Dogfights are stuttering and rubber banding . 

All Ram is used whether 16gb or 24gb . Vram is all used up if you go above 2K resolution . 

Multiplayer needs a overhaul . 2.5 and now 2.7 and we are still no closer too 100 players . 

[Cpt Cuckoo]

Maybe DCS needs to do an advertizing campaign to expand the player base?  It's never one of the games in the test lists for benchmark trials.

[StandingCow]

Don't think it's you, tons of servers are warping all over the place and it's been that way for quite a while.  Really hope ED can focus on fixing the netcode at some point.

[KoN]

DCS strong point years back was the online experience . I was part of a large squad . 2.5 came along and it went down hill after that . 

I would not take any online Tournament's serious today  . I would only see them as fun .

ED really need to address this ,  it has been going on for quite some time .

When was 2.5 released . ?

Edited April 27, 2021 by KoN

[Badass1982]

Know this is an old topic but ill add my hat into the ring too. I run 6 dcs servers and have tried them on both server hardware running virtualized with 128gb ddr3 2x xeon 8 core cpus and ssds passed through to the VM for the os drive and dcs installation 

 

Also tried on bare metal on my old gaming PC with 16gb ddr4 and a 5960x 8 core cpu. Gig down 50 up cable internet connection and mad warping/teleporting/lag. Really hope ED can optimize the net code it would help dcs as a product massively especially for us server admins.

Edited August 14, 2021 by Badass1982

[Nealius]

Not to mention the whacko landing physics. Aircraft wheels and sometimes even the entire aircraft (particularly at high descents like in a Harrier or an arrested trap in the Hornet and Tomcat) clipping below the ground and rubber-banding around....Even ancient flight sims from the 90s had solid ground-collision physics over multiplayer. 

[evilnate]

I’ve had good performance with 12 players, but as the client count rises the performance degrades pretty fast. 

 

What is the max clients for dedicated server before performance degrades using a relatively light mission load?

[Oceandar]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, its around 16 players max according to ED

[evilnate]

This is dated, so who knows if this is still the limits or not.

 

[KoN]

Six months into 2021 and still i see no fixes with multiplayer . 

Other flight sims are making progress . 84 players and with ground units moving in open world battle space . 

ED what's going on . ???  

[Mike_Romeo]

You do know that DCS is much older than the most flight sims right ? DCS is a sim from 2008 with roots in the 90's. There is a lot of lagacy code that must be reviewed and changed and with their limited resources, I dont think that quick changes are possible.

[HC_Official]

4 hours ago, Mike_Romeo said:

 There is a lot of lagacy code that must be reviewed and changed and with their limited resources, I dont think that quick changes are possible.

I love that you spelt it like that , indeed it is laggy code

[Nealius]

19 hours ago, Mike_Romeo said:

DCS is a sim from 2008 with roots in the 90's.

 

I can think of another sim that was made in the 90s that still had better multiplayer experience.....

[LithiumR]

Can just do what everyone else does.... give up and check back in a few years to see how it's going haha. I'm kidding... but seriously.

[Z4ng3tsu]

On 9/4/2021 at 7:50 AM, Nealius said:

 

I can think of another sim that was made in the 90s that still had better multiplayer experience.....

I fly on DCS and Falcon BMS (which is way older than DCS) and Falcon BMS is really stable in multiplayer even with a lot of pilots. The BMS team put a lot of work to improve the net code. I just hope DCS will do the same eventually. This is really the most annoying thing when playing online currently.

[Strong05]

Agreed, really really hoping this gets addressed.  It's way overdue.  Would love to enjoy the busy servers but the lag completely kills it for me.

[Dr. Anti-Vehicle]

I feel MP performance has dropped in the last few weeks

[Nealius]

Agreed on the drop in performance. Framerates for me are okay, but when framerates do take a hit it induces warping, which should not be happening. Framerates and latency should be completely indepenent of each other.

[Wood]

Well thank god I’m not the only one seeing this. Really noticeable warping now with the latest update.  Hope this gets fixed

 

[FA_Crazy-Canuck]

Warping is making the online experience extremely poor.  It is an issue and a big one. I enjoy the sim very much but I fly exclusively in MP and it makes it difficult to sell new comers on DCS with the current state of the MP experience.

[cgstever91]

i hope it can it make flying in servers very difficult and jaring in vr 

[Revox]

Came back to dcs after a year. Multiplayer is so laggy compared to a year ago. Great shame as so many other improvements have been made. It always seems to be a neglected area for dev, but nothing like flying with other people.

[KoN]

TRy Engima Cold-war server thats running quite well 80% of the time . 50+ players .

Still not there at 100 players yet but with the new game engine Vulkan i hope things change . META is inbound .