Years of stuttering finally solved !

[SpecteRED]

@LadanHow did you turn off this service? Windows won't let me. And if I turn it off anyway, then the system crashes because it is a critical service. Win 11

[scommander2]

nullFrom "Computer Management"->"Service"->"Power":

[SpecteRED]

8 минут назад, scommander2 сказал:

nullFrom "Computer Management"->"Service"->"Power":

is it Win 10? on win 11 i cant stop this service

 

[MAXsenna]

46 minutes ago, SpecteRED said:

is it Win 10? on win 11 i cant stop this service

 

Set it to disabled, and then reboot. 

[Ladan]

2 hours ago, SpecteRED said:

@LadanHow did you turn off this service? Windows won't let me. And if I turn it off anyway, then the system crashes because it is a critical service. Win 11

Search for : Services, then go down the list and look for Power. Double click on it, and it will show Startup Type. In the dropdown list, there is an option that says Disabled.

48 minutes ago, SpecteRED said:

is it Win 10? on win 11 i cant stop this service

 

Win 11

[Ladan]

Update : Noticed a bit of stuttering last night, but prob bc I was on Multiplayer. I mean, it started out fine, until one of my buddies joined me on same mission... but idk

[Why485]

After noticing that DCS seems to run stutter free, but only when I run it off my C drive (NVME), I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why that is, especially because the drive I normally had DCS on was literally the exact same model of NVME, just not the Windows C drive. 

I did the thing to remove the power service and yeah, it's shocking. It runs without stuttering at all. I cannot believe DCS looks like this, because for years I've had this stuttering and while some of that was just my hardware, even in an empty SP map I would get these awful periodic stutters spaced every 1 to 3 seconds.

Basically with this trick after a massive hardware upgrade, DCS has gone from this, to this:

  

As for side effects of doing this, I suspect that the Windows thing where it powers down hard disks if they aren't in use for a while might not work anymore, but that's not a big deal to me.

Edited 14 hours ago by Why485

[scommander2]

Yes, it is the first step to isolate the issue if power management service is disabled to ensure that no device is capped by it.

Edited 16 hours ago by scommander2

[Hiob]

9 hours ago, scommander2 said:

Yes, it is the first step to isolate the issue if power management service is disabled to ensure that no device is capped by it.

It's not only the power saving, but the thousands of interrupt requests that service generates. It is a prime example of how not gaming optimized Windows is....

[scommander2]

Agree with 100%, Windows tuning is only one but many (or too many). 

 

[MoleUK]

I swear windows really does hate DCS. The list of windows tweaks that do appear to help fix DCS performance issues continues to get longer.