Performance impact on loading a follow on mission

[Mr_sukebe]

Hoping that this has already been reported, as I seem to vaguely remember it being mentioned.

 

When I first open DCS and load a mission, runs fine.

If I end that first mission, then open a new one (e.g. simply re-opening the same mission again), I get a loss of frame rate of over 50%.

 

The mitigating action is to not just exit the mission, but exit the game, then go back into mission, which avoids the issue.  However, it's a bit of a pain.

 

My assumption is that there should be a piece of logic in place to "flush" the resource usage from a previous mission before starting a new one, and that it's simply not working as it should.

 

Happens to me in both single and multiplayer, and also going from say a single player mission, then into a multiplayer mission.

Edited June 23, 2021 by Mr_sukebe

[eddyimac]

Same Here...

[Mr_sukebe]

Update.

Had my frame rate go to poop whilst in a multiplayer this evening.

Took a scan in MSI Afterburner.  CPU was under 60% loading.  GPU had jumped from 80-90% to a solid 100%, and also with a LOT of bus usage. 

I was flying the Hind and had just used the Shturm missiles.  I wonder if that had resulted in a big increase in VRAM use?

[Gizzy]

Happens to me in VR only though.... when respawning from one aircraft to another - from 50FPS to 10FPS.... G2 on high settings GTX2080ti.... what works for me is to alt tab to SteamVR and 'reset seated position' that normally cures it.  Seems somewhere DCS ? Windies is not releasing memory.

[5ephir0th]

I suffer that too, sometimes the workaround that @Gizzy said works, sometimes not, it looks that many of the endemic performance problems of DCS are due a (very) poor VRAM management.

 

It uses too much, it doesn’t free the non use correctly, etc