System usage question

[Shibbyland]

Hi All,

 

I've been trying out the Syria map with the idea of buying it. Absolutely fantastic terrain but I'm finding it's just wreaking havoc on my memory usage and as a result I get crashes, particularly when trying to quit to desktop or quit then load another terrain.

 

I have the following system specs:

 

i7 9700k 3.6GHz

32 GB RAM (reasonably new RAM)

Geforce RTX 2060 Super

Samsung 500GB SSD (with 170GB free space)

 

Here's what I'm getting with mostly high graphics settings:

 

Caucasus: 45% memory usage, 99% GPU usage

Syria: 98% memory usage, 99% GPU usage

 

Reducing graphics to low/medium results in very little change to GPU usage. If I have everything set to the absolute lowest value I'll get around 80% GPU usage but then the game just isn't worth playing in that state.

 

The CPU varies but is around 40% or so, sometimes it spikes as GPU usage drops.

 

Does anybody know if Syria is likely to be able to put less strain on systems as it is updated? Would love to buy and it's playable at the moment but I prefer not to run things so close to the limit and it is a pain having such a hard time quitting DCS after playing on Syria, multiplayer is likely to be totally unplayable but I haven't tried yet. I frequently have to restart my PC after playing Syria.

 

 

Edited July 2, 2021 by Shibbyland

[ArjenHVA]

Seen a similar thread yesterday morning 

What's your pre-load radius? There was an performance improvement in update 2.7.1.7139 so there is work done on it. Not sure if there will be more.

[Spuks]

Hi Shibbyland

 

Look at this video, maybe it help you to optimize your game settings and find solution good for you.

 

 

[Shibbyland]

My pre-load radius is very high, I'll try turning that down. I'm not finding much difference lowering graphics unless I set them all to the lowest setting in which case the game isn't worth playing.

 

I'm getting pretty decent frames on mostly high settings (about 80 FPS) with reductions to 45fps low level over cities such as Damascus. I don't think my graphics settings are the issue as such, I think Syria just needs so much memory and 32GB RAM is already way beyond what I need for anything else I have on my PC.

 

I haven't yet bought Syria, I want to, so far its my favorite map but if I'm maxed out on memory just doing the simple instant action mission then it's probably going to be unplayable when campaigns start coming out for it.

[Kubuxu]

Try reducing the preload until you stop maxing out your RAM.

I think what happens is that preload keeps going on no matter if you run out of RAM or not.

I went from 99% RAM usage to 90-95% and Syria is much smoother and load in is much faster.