DCS Optimized Textures

[MAXsenna]

All of them sequentially is my understanding.

Mine too. Though I made "one" package, where I copied all the changes into.

Cheers!

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[Tusk.V]

3 hours ago, noremorse1004 said:

Hi @Taz1004

I'd like to first thank you your incredible effort to optimize DCS, It helped a lot for me specially. I'd like to

report one small texture issue regarding the B-8m1 pylons missing textures  

Thank you again

 

I think @Taz1004 knows about this. Syria and AIM-9X are missing textures also.

[FupDuck]

On 8/17/2023 at 8:43 AM, zildac said:

All of them sequentially is my understanding.

Thanks for the reply, this is what I ended up doing, and it seemed to have worked. 

For what it's worth, I didn't see much off an improvement, but maybe it's because my rig is already fairly decent? 

On 8/17/2023 at 8:43 AM, zildac said:

All of them sequentially is my understanding.

Thanks for the reply, this is what I ended up doing, and it seemed to have worked. 

For what it's worth, I didn't see much off an improvement, but maybe it's because my rig is already fairly decent? 

[zildac]

Thanks for the reply, this is what I ended up doing, and it seemed to have worked. 
For what it's worth, I didn't see much off an improvement, but maybe it's because my rig is already fairly decent? 

The main benefit of these are the savings in VRAM, if you're not VRAM constrained then the performance benefit will be minimal if any.

[FupDuck]

On 8/30/2023 at 1:47 AM, zildac said:

The main benefit of these are the savings in VRAM, if you're not VRAM constrained then the performance benefit will be minimal if any.

Sadly, even with 24GB, it often maxes out...

[Steel Jaw]

sit rep on latest beta version please

[Ram69]

I've always stayed away from texture mods and haven't used a mod manager for DCS until today. Was reading about this last night so decided to give it a go today. Watching back a track on Marianas map with settings that max my 3080's 10GB of dedicated VRM, here's how it looks with these optimized textures disabled:

And, here's how things look with them enabled:

I'm still maxing out my dedicated vram with those particular settings and that map, but the savings are clear. Thanks for your work on this @Taz1004

[Ram69]

And high over Caucasus before:

After:

[Toro]

On 9/7/2023 at 5:11 PM, Ram69 said:

I've always stayed away from texture mods and haven't used a mod manager for DCS until today. Was reading about this last night so decided to give it a go today. Watching back a track on Marianas map with settings that max my 3080's 10GB of dedicated VRM, here's how it looks with these optimized textures disabled:

And, here's how things look with them enabled:

I'm still maxing out my dedicated vram with those particular settings and that map, but the savings are clear. Thanks for your work on this @Taz1004

I have identical behaviour with 8Gb VRAM. Unfortunately the savings,  though substantial, aren't enough for me to avoid stuttering. Guess this was the last nail in the coffin for the 3060ti and will upgrade to the 3090. 

Offtopic: Love the trees mod by the way! That definitely is a game changer for me, as they know look steady and not flickering as I fly by.

[-Relax-]

Do i need all the update patches or just the last one?

EDIT: and what is optimized clipmap?

Edited October 14, 2023 by -Relax-

[Ithronwise]

On 8/17/2023 at 4:40 PM, Tusk.V said:

I think @Taz1004 knows about this. Syria and AIM-9X are missing textures also.

At least for the texture issue of the B-8M1 rocket pod I found that three files are missing in the AeroWeapons.zip file of the Bazar\World\textures folder that are existing in the origin file:
b20_diff.dds
b20_diff_RoughMet.dds
b20_NM.dds

I copied them from the original zip, halved the size of the b20_diff_RoughMet.dds and b20_NM.dds (I left the b20_diff.dds unchanged) and added them to the AeroWeapons.zip of Taz1004's Optimized Core Textures mod. Now the B-8M1 rocket pod has textures again.

Edited October 15, 2023 by Ithronwise

[Tusk.V]

Has anybody tested these with 2.9 yet?

[Wizard1393]

54 minutes ago, Tusk.V said:

Has anybody tested these with 2.9 yet?

Yes. Still works.

[KCOOL]

2 hours ago, Wizard1393 said:

Yes. Still works.

And are they necessary yet? Or does 2.9 include any of these benefits?

[Wizard1393]

18 minutes ago, KCOOL said:

And are they necessary yet? Or does 2.9 include any of these benefits?

I don’t know, but my guess is they will still make a difference VRAM wise. I don’t think ED has done much with textures for this patch though I’m unsure how much of a difference their work on LOD’s does for VRAM usage. 
 

I just enabled the mod in my mod manager and ran with it. Haven’t done any proper testing. 

Edited October 20, 2023 by Wizard1393

[chichowalker]

I have installed and I notice difference so, I recommend installing

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[edmuss]

Reinstalled them this afternoon and it's dropped the VRAM usage a fair amount so still on my ovgme list for now

[RedeyeStorm]

Hi Tazz,

Mayby a bug. I found that the R60M has no texture. I disabled your core mod and it was back on.

[speed-of-heat]

@Taz1004 hi same with the French Super 530D , textures are missing with the mod and present without

(core seems to be the culprit)

 

[Taz1004]

1 hour ago, speed-of-heat said:

@Taz1004 hi same with the French Super 530D , textures are missing with the mod and present without

(core seems to be the culprit)

 

I changed the download link so you can download individual files.  File that fixes both of them is

/Bazar/World/textures/AeroWeapons.zip

[Blinde]

51 minutes ago, Taz1004 said:

I changed the download link so you can download individual files.  File that fixes both of them is

/Bazar/World/textures/AeroWeapons.zip

Where's the link?

 

The whole optimized core package?

Edited October 24, 2023 by Blinde

[Taz1004]

8 minutes ago, Blinde said:

Where's the link?

 

The whole optimized core package?

 

I replaced the link.  If you click it, you should be able to navigate through the folders.

[Taz1004]

UPDATED Core 10-26-2023

/CoreMods/aircraft/FA-18C/Textures/FA-18C.zip

/Bazar/World/textures/GBU.zip

 

UPDATED Cockpit 10-26-2023

Optimized FA-18C  (133MB)

Edited October 27, 2023 by Taz1004

[zildac]

1 hour ago, Taz1004 said:

UPDATED Core 10-26-2023

/CoreMods/aircraft/FA-18C/Textures/FA-18C.zip

 

UPDATED Cockpit 10-26-2023

Optimized FA-18C  (133MB)

Thank Taz!

[Sr.]

4 hours ago, Taz1004 said:

UPDATED Core 10-26-2023

/CoreMods/aircraft/FA-18C/Textures/FA-18C.zip

 

UPDATED Cockpit 10-26-2023

Optimized FA-18C  (133MB)

Thanks man.

DO you know if your haze fix is currently working after the 2.9 patch?