Egri_komrade Posted October 13, 2022 Posted October 13, 2022 Hello all, My brother've been having some serious issues with DCS for a long time time now, and I just had the idea to share it with you too, maybe someone can help. The issue is very simple, and a lot of people with cheaper PC's suffer with it. It's the high RAM usage. We tested this for a few months now, and this is what he's been experiencing: His game crashes after 10-15 minutes of playing on Caucasus map in multiplayer because he used all of his RAM. At this stage usually his whole PC shuts down, in a better case only DCS, maybe Discord too. I experimented with his settings to lower it to the most minimum settings that I can, but this didn't seem to extend his playtime. I also told him the obvious to close any programs running in the background that are not necessary, this only had a very minor impact of things. Here is his PC specs: ASUS Prime H310 M-E 2.0 Intel(R) i5-9600K 16GB DDR4 RAM running at 2400MHz RTX 3050 OC I know that 16GB's of RAM is not enough for DCS to comfortably run, but the strange thing is that I had the almost EXACT SAME PC config as he, but with a 6 gig GTX 1060 and never crashed the game because of not enough RAM. Here are his settings he's having now: I'm open to any ideas, and thank you all in advance.
speed-of-heat Posted October 13, 2022 Posted October 13, 2022 What size is the page file set to? SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware AMD 9800X3D, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO YOUTUBE CHANNEL: @speed-of-heat
Egri_komrade Posted October 13, 2022 Author Posted October 13, 2022 28 minutes ago, speed-of-heat said: What size is the page file set to? Where can I check that?
speed-of-heat Posted October 13, 2022 Posted October 13, 2022 https://www.elevenforum.com/t/manage-virtual-memory-paging-file-in-windows-11.8618/ SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware AMD 9800X3D, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO YOUTUBE CHANNEL: @speed-of-heat
Egri_komrade Posted October 13, 2022 Author Posted October 13, 2022 9 minutes ago, speed-of-heat said: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/manage-virtual-memory-paging-file-in-windows-11.8618/ Okay I checked it, it's set to 5888MB on every driver
speed-of-heat Posted October 13, 2022 Posted October 13, 2022 (edited) Ok. ideally create one page file on an ssd and make it at least your ram size (16384mb), ideally twice it 32768mb , you can get rid of the others. Put it on a seperate drive from dcs, if you can. Edited October 13, 2022 by speed-of-heat 1 SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware AMD 9800X3D, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO YOUTUBE CHANNEL: @speed-of-heat
Egri_komrade Posted October 13, 2022 Author Posted October 13, 2022 8 minutes ago, speed-of-heat said: Ok. ideally create one page file on an ssd and make it at least your ram size (16384mb), ideally twice it 32768mb , you can get rid of the others. Put it on a seperate drive from dcs, if you can. Unfortunately my brother has DCS on his only SSD, so I'll have to try that. I set the 16384MB or 32768MB to the starting size for the pagefile right?
Solution Sacarino111 Posted October 13, 2022 Solution Posted October 13, 2022 6 minutes ago, Egri_komrade said: Unfortunately my brother has DCS on his only SSD, so I'll have to try that. I set the 16384MB or 32768MB to the starting size for the pagefile right? Hi. Yep, I had that issue also, specially with Syria and "Through the inferno" MP mission. Once I did upgrade the page file to 32 GB (+ -), bang, no more problems. Saludos. Saca111 1
Egri_komrade Posted October 13, 2022 Author Posted October 13, 2022 9 minutes ago, Sacarino111 said: Hi. Yep, I had that issue also, specially with Syria and "Through the inferno" MP mission. Once I did upgrade the page file to 32 GB (+ -), bang, no more problems. Saludos. Saca111 That sounds good, do I set the 32786MB's to the upper (Starting size) or the lower (Maximum Size) bracket?
speed-of-heat Posted October 13, 2022 Posted October 13, 2022 Both SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware AMD 9800X3D, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO YOUTUBE CHANNEL: @speed-of-heat
Egri_komrade Posted October 13, 2022 Author Posted October 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Sacarino111 said: Hi. Yep, I had that issue also, specially with Syria and "Through the inferno" MP mission. Once I did upgrade the page file to 32 GB (+ -), bang, no more problems. Saludos. Saca111 1 hour ago, speed-of-heat said: Ok. ideally create one page file on an ssd and make it at least your ram size (16384mb), ideally twice it 32768mb , you can get rid of the others. Put it on a seperate drive from dcs, if you can. Thank you guys, I did as you said, and haven't experienced any stutter or crash since. The goes smooth and my lil bro cna finally fly normally. 2 1
Sacarino111 Posted October 14, 2022 Posted October 14, 2022 12 hours ago, Egri_komrade said: Thank you guys, I did as you said, and haven't experienced any stutter or crash since. The goes smooth and my lil bro cna finally fly normally. Nice. Thanks for the feedback! Enjoy! Saludos. Saca111
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