Stutters for No Apparent Reason

[Recurve]

Hi all. Can someone help me please?
My name is Dave & I'm a DCSaholic.

Seriously though I'm hoping someone can help with an issue that's cropped up fairly recently.

Up until a month or so ago, everything was running really well, even VR only stuttered once in a while, but then for no apparent reason it started to stutter & drop frames in both VR & using the pancake. I hadn't changed any of my settings  on the GPU, the PC or DCS.

After the MT update I was hoping that this would improve things but nope. CPU usage has gone from 15% to 39% & the FPS has jumped up, all which are brilliant improvements, but still getting the stutters.

I've tried reducing the graphic fidelity, still stuttering, tried different GPU settings. ... still stuttering, & I've not dared go onto a multiplayer server & aren't even going to bother with VR until I've sussed what is happening.

Does anyone have any ideas that might help please?

My system has a Ryzen 5800X, 64Gb of 3600mhz 
RAM, an RTX3070ti GPU & I'm running DCS from an SSD.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Edited March 11, 2023 by Recurve

[RuskyV]

Hi @Recurve

First start with cleaning out both your FXO and Metashaders2 by deleting the contents, you will find this in DCS saved games. Next clear out your DirectX shader cache (right click your OS drive and properties > tools> Disk clean-up.

You can also clean out the Nvidia cache located here C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Local\NVIDIA (There's DX and GL cache folders)

With all shader locations deleted your game will take some time loading while it recompiles new shaders, load up the game and check to see if you are seeing any improvements.  

[Recurve]

Hi @RuskyV

Thanks for the information, I will give it a try later & let you know how I get on.

Edited March 11, 2023 by Recurve

[Candiru89]

On 3/11/2023 at 12:15 PM, RuskyV said:

Hi @Recurve

First start with cleaning out both your FXO and Metashaders2 by deleting the contents, you will find this in DCS saved games. Next clear out your DirectX shader cache (right click your OS drive and properties > tools> Disk clean-up.

You can also clean out the Nvidia cache located here C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Local\NVIDIA (There's DX and GL cache folders)

With all shader locations deleted your game will take some time loading while it recompiles new shaders, load up the game and check to see if you are seeing any improvements.  

Its great advice! I dont say Im 100% stutter free but mostly am. It does not occure anymore just because I turned my head sideways or zoomed in. Thank you!

[RuskyV]

Hi @Candiru89

im glad I could help you, even thought it was probably only a little bit