Using AlacrityPC with DCS?

[ArtMan_NL]

Hi,

 

Does somebody use AlacrityPC for starting up DCS?

http://alacritypc.kensalter.com/

 

AlacrityPC switch of a lot of services in XP or Vista which you don't need during gaming.

 

When I assign DCS.exe to AlacrityPC I'll get an error message that it can't start lua.exe.

 

With FSX it's working fine and is running much smoother on my pc.:thumbup:

 

Ciao,

Arthur

[Thx1137]

I expect it is because Alacritypc's install folder is the processes current-folder instead of the black sharks folder. You can get alacritypc to launch a batch file that then launches black shark with something like .

 

@START E:\Ka-50\bin\stable\Launcher.exe --console

 

in it. The affinity settings won't work for black shark of course because we would only be setting the affinity of the black shark launcher, not the game engine. It is still useful though for launching things like track ir with it's affinity set to the last processor. Alternatively you could use alacritypc to launch the batch file that sets the DCS process affinity that is supplied elsewhere in these forums.

 

Steven.

[Purg]

I see very little to no gain with software like this these days.

 

In fact, quite often while I play I have another 2 operating systems loaded in the background (an XP machine and a Ubuntu machine) - even if I shut them down as well as a bunch of other apps I get no gain in FPS whatsoever.

 

Perhaps it's because I'm using Vista with multicore enabled. During BS not a single core is running at 100%

[ArtMan_NL]

Hmm,

 

Less services is more resources for the game.

 

When i play FSX the game is running smoother without all those services on.

 

Maybe my system is getting old :( I'm still using the good old P IV (overclocked to 4.2 Ghz)

[Purg]

Hmm,

 

Less services is more resources for the game.

 

When i play FSX the game is running smoother without all those services on.

 

Maybe my system is getting old :( I'm still using the good old P IV (overclocked to 4.2 Ghz)

 

Well, yeah.. on an older machine you may get some benefit but unless your machine is starved for resources then it will do little to boost FPS.

 

My machine is a quad core running Vista64 with 8GB memory. Last night I flew with 3 Operating systems running in the background! :music_whistling: (Windows XP, 2008 Enterprise and SUSE 11.1) as well as having email, MSN, Skype, Xfire and a number of other apps running in the backround. They're all resident in memory but are consuming virtually no CPU cycles. So provided you have enough physical memory, the need to be aggressive with shutting things down becomes less beneficial.

 

Looking at my machine now I'm currently using 3262MB of mem. Load up Instant Action and it goes up to 3765MB. BS has a very small memory footprint compared to most other sims.