Being updated out of existence

[kingeider]

at the time i bought an alienware r11 with the rtx 3070 because of lack of funds and you could not find a gpu which i would have prefered over this almost 2700 dollar mistake! for a build that i would have gladly kept building on to . i love DCS but everytime they have an update my computers performance suffers ,so right now i keep my dcs settings on medium with temps at 70 gpu 75 cpu in fear of melting my system to soon and if DCS keeps with the updates i will be updated out of this wonderful simulator and Thank god i have il2!

[72Stu]

75° is ok for a 3070 and CPU but yes, DCS isn't well optimised yet, that will come. Updates to games have always pushed PC performance, that's how gaming has always gone, no surprise really. I had to ditch my ZX Spectrum to play Jinxter and Gauntlet II on AtariST, upgrade to Playstation 1 to play the next generation of great games...and so on. PC gaming is no different.

You certainly won't "melt your system" playing DCS. 

 

[EightyDuce]

Sadly Alienware have notorisly bad case design/management with poor cooling. That being said, 70-75F...isnt terrible, your computer won't melt. What's your ambient temp? 

 

As far as updates go, it's not that updates degrade performance (well, sometimes there are bugs that do), but they add new visuals, complex models, AI, etc. - those things all take need to be processed. If hardware stays the same and game becomes more complex and demanding, over time performance will suffer if settings remain the same. 

[kingeider]

i try to keep my room temp low the computer idles between 27 to 30 degrees celsius normally. when i am in DCS i will turn the room heat down or off  and during the heat of the summer i turn my graphics settings down also i have high fan settings just for dcs keeping gpu settings to medium. i have used higher settings and it looks fantastic with 2560x 1440 p  i have only had this setup under two years.

[Hiob]

I have yet to see a prebuilt PC with good thermals. However, as the others already pointed out - those temps are perfectly fine and won’t hurt your hardware.

Also it‘s really hard to permanently damage modern cpus and gpus (without aggressive overclocking). Worst thing would be them throttling down when getting hot.

But we are talking ~80-85C for the gpu and 95C for the cpu before that happens.

[kingeider]

truth be told my first choice was purchasing a gpu for my 7 year old amd fx 8350 with the sabertooth mother board you could not find a gpu or i should say i could not get the one i wanted !my old case was overkill with 11 fans and enough room in it for nesting sparrows but at the time all i could muster up was a msi 1660 x and was not happy with that! my old system back in 2014 with the 27in BenQ 1080p monitor evga 700 watt bronze originally  had a evga gtx 780 and all the usual trimmings pieced together with the help of pc parts picker and  these forums cost almost 2500 and to make  room at home i just sold it for 250 dollars what a heartbreaker that was!  

i should not complain though between dcs and il2 i am having a lot of immersive fun and around the time that i got the alienware i bought a virpil CM2  and the gladiator  mk2 or ww2  and the nxt or what u want to call it by vkb  and gave my x52 away.

Edited November 20, 2022 by kingeider