Pretense - Dynamic Campaign

[Dzsekeb]

16 minutes ago, 4eyes said:

Help.........I start the mission with 90-110 fps. By the time I fly to the target my fps have dropped from 11-26 fps? 

What are your PC specs?

[Dzsekeb]

Im not sure exactly what the summary counts as aircraft in the mission. Pretty much all aircraft are spawned in and despawend over time. Not all of them are active at the same time. 

If theres 400 active aircraft after 15 minutes, something is not quite right. 

Are you running a vanilla version or did you edit it in any way? 

 

[Dzsekeb]

8 hours ago, 4eyes said:

Vanilla Verson. I just tried again. While sitting to re-arm and fuel fps was 108 fps.   As I started to take off it began to wildly fluctuate. Clear down to 18 fps.  Here is a snapshot from dcs.   Lot's of objects.  I looked at the f-10 map. Saw a lot of Blue aircraft. Red must be hidden.

The stats seem to be all the units placed in the mission file. Not all of these are active simultaneously.

I'm afraid your PC might just not be able to handle it. IDK what else to tell you.

[Dzsekeb]

6 hours ago, 4eyes said:

I re-flew the same Mission this evening.

Breakdown:

Target: Rayak

King Hussein Airfield.

Start-up 110 fps. and Taxi was 70-80 fps.

At Irbin Ramath it was dropping to the low 50 fps.

Roch Pina it was 40 fps.

At Kiryot Shmona I was getting less than 20 fps.

Halfway between Kiryot Shmona and Rayak, Pretense froze and DCS crashed. 

I use no mods other that the A4-E.  I flew the same mission once in the A-10a. Same problem.  

I also fly Retribution/Liberation. No problems

Are you running the multi threaded version of DCS?

[Parrotnut]

I play Pretense in VR ( and loving it, thanks Dzsekeb  ) with 45 fixed fps without any trouble. Why do you want 110 fps? Your system ( processor or videocard ) is probably throttling and makes your fps drop like that. I think you better set vsync to 60 or even 30 frames and see if that makes your fps more stable. I don't think Dzsekeb is able to do anything about it.

Maybe you can also lower some settings like 'forest density' for example.

[Draken35]

11 minutes ago, Parrotnut said:

I play Pretense in VR ( and loving it, thanks Dzsekeb  ) with 45 fixed fps without any trouble. Why do you want 110 fps? Your system ( processor or videocard ) is probably throttling and makes your fps drop like that. I think you better set vsync to 60 or even 30 frames and see if that makes your fps more stable. I don't think Dzsekeb is able to do anything about it.

Maybe you can also lower some settings like 'forest density' for example.

VR FPS are usually reported per eye (it has to render 2 sighly frames for each 2D frame, for the 3D effect). So if that is the case, your GPU/CPU are really rendering 90 FPS, so your comparison is only partially true... Now, in VR, I find that 30 FPS (per eye) are enough for a smooth gameplay (for me - but I get between 65 & 80 per eye in Pretense - Syria) but some people get dizzy with that FPS count. I do not fly in pancake mode, so I don't know what a minimum FPS rate is necessary for a smooth game play . Anyway, the personal preferences of visual quality are just that, personal. 

Specs, are just part of the equation... You might have the most powerful CPU and GPU available, but if they are improperly configured or the workload of the machine is to high (running additional software, including malware  ) your result would not be what you expected of those specs.

@4eyes unit counts is not the only factor to compare missions. The scripts running within them are also a big component. Liberation missions are relatively light in scripting, Pretense is in the opposite end of the spectrum.  Good luck in you tweaking Sir.

 

[Parrotnut]

1 hour ago, Draken35 said:

VR FPS are usually reported per eye (it has to render 2 sighly frames for each 2D frame, for the 3D effect). So if that is the case, your GPU/CPU are really rendering 90 FPS, so your comparison is only partially true... Now, in VR, I find that 30 FPS (per eye) are enough for a smooth gameplay (for me - but I get between 65 & 80 per eye in Pretense - Syria) but some people get dizzy with that FPS count. I do not fly in pancake mode, so I don't know what a minimum FPS rate is necessary for a smooth game play . Anyway, the personal preferences of visual quality are just that, personal. 

Specs, are just part of the equation... You might have the most powerful CPU and GPU available, but if they are improperly configured or the workload of the machine is to high (running additional software, including malware  ) your result would not be what you expected of those specs.
 

 

Exactly what i meant. With the aero 45 fps per eye ( 90 total ) is enough for smooth flying in DCS for me. 

[Dzsekeb]

Caucasus V1.3.5 - 9 Aug 2023

• Fixed TARCAP target player list not showing
• JTAC now lasts 60 minutes
• Fixed AI patrol missions choosing enemy zones to patrol
• Zones that are more then 70 nm away and more then 4 hops away from the frontline will now go to export operating mode even if they would otherwise be forced to stay active, these will still build aircraft in export mode
• Zones now get instantly built up if they get bumped up to normal operating mode, as far as the resources allow it

Syria Cold War V1.0.3 - 9 Aug 2023

• Fixed TARCAP target player list not showing
• Fixed AI patrol missions choosing enemy zones to patrol
• Fixed some AI patrols having wrong default task
• Adjusted fuel of helicopters to 50%
• Zones that are more then 70 nm away and more then 4 hops away from the frontline will now go to export operating mode even if they would otherwise be forced to stay active, these will still build aircraft in export mode
• Zones now get instantly built up if they get bumped up to normal operating mode, as far as the resources allow it

 

 

The latest releases bring some additional ground unit culling to Pretense. This should improve performance a bit.

[ww3231]

Ive noticed some trucks in convoys (the trucks with AAA) dont show up as hot on IR. DCS bug or mission bug?

[Dzsekeb]

Pretense Syria (Modern version) now available!

Download

Edited August 11, 2023 by Dzsekeb

[zildac]

Pretense Syria (Modern version) now available!
Download

Fantastic, thank you!

[ww3231]

Does the Syria feature same fixes from Caucasus despite being 1.0.0?

[ZeroReady]

Awesome mission thank you! However the Syria mission shows as v1.0 while the change list say it's at 1.1. Is there another download somewhere or is 1.0 updated?

[YoYo]

Btw. F-15E is present or not yet? Just the question.

[Dzsekeb]

8 hours ago, 4eyes said:

I am curious. Why is the Su-25T not included?

Not having the Su-25T denies access to new players who start out with that jet.  Which limits the number of players who download and try Pretense.    

The Su-25T is included in both the Caucasus and Modern Syria versions.

It is not included in the Cold War version because I didn't feel it fit that era. You have the free A-4E mod on that one if you don't have any other Cold War era modules.

On 8/12/2023 at 10:32 PM, YoYo said:

Btw. F-15E is present or not yet? Just the question.

The F-15E is in both the Caucasus and Modern Syria versions.

 

On 8/12/2023 at 10:19 PM, ZeroReady said:

Awesome mission thank you! However the Syria mission shows as v1.0 while the change list say it's at 1.1. Is there another download somewhere or is 1.0 updated?

Modern Syria version is v1.0. There's no changelog for it yet, as nothing has changed since release. Maybe you're mistaking it with Syria Cold War?

On 8/11/2023 at 3:07 PM, ww3231 said:

Does the Syria feature same fixes from Caucasus despite being 1.0.0?

The core part of all 3 Pretense missions is the same. Some fixes are specific to each variant though.

 

On 8/11/2023 at 6:29 PM, 4eyes said:

 

 

Please please please WWII Normandy next?

I don't really play WW2 era and I'm not familiar enough with it to make a mission.

I also feel it is quite expensive to buy into it, and not really worth it for me to spend the money, especially if I'm not that interested in it in the first place.

[Parrotnut]

Fantastic campaign, really enjoying this. Thank you very much for creating this Dzsekeb.

Question: Are the "CMD" points not saved? The captured zones are all saved but not the CMD points you earned. The next time i start the campaign the points are back to zero in the player info. ( yes i landed after earning them   )

[Dzsekeb]

7 minutes ago, Parrotnut said:

Fantastic campaign, really enjoying this. Thank you very much for creating this Dzsekeb.

Question: Are the "CMD" points not saved? The captured zones are all saved but not the CMD points you earned. The next time i start the campaign the points are back to zero in the player info. ( yes i landed after earning them   )

Did you stop the mission right after landing? Persistence is saved once per minute. If you landed, claimed your points and stopped the mission very soon after, it might not have had time for the next save cycle to run.

[Parrotnut]

Aha, that might be it. Thanks for the explanation. Next time i wait a few minutes after i landed 

Edited August 22, 2023 by Parrotnut

[pastranario3]

Hi, Some possibility of cold war on the South Atlantic map.

[zildac]

9 hours ago, pastranario3 said:

Hi, Some possibility of cold war on the South Atlantic map.

I'd +1 that. Been thoroughly enjoying this on Caucasus and Syria, really like the mechanics.

[Matt Glover]

any way to reduce the amount of Enemy AI spawning?

[pastranario3]

En 19/9/2023 a las 5:31, zildac dijo:

I'd +1 that. Been thoroughly enjoying this on Caucasus and Syria, really like the mechanics.

Check Discord Pretense in General Canal - someone put a version of SA

[HappyVoo]

any way to reduce the amount of Enemy AI spawning?

[oakdown]

Let me preface this by saying I'm not the greatest at the f16 yet. 

But I'm just curious from other players using the f16, if you are experiencing difficulties laying down markpoints in the markpoint specific range of 26 - 30?  I feel like markpoint 26 never takes, sometimes 27 will, and so the whole process has become a bit of a fiddly bit for me to get to work.  I feel the underlying issue might be that the waypoints for the different zones go right through 26 to 30 and are pre loaded, and overwriting them with a markpoint is dicey, but then again as I'm fairly new could be just finger problems on my end. 

 

This all being said, I'm loving pretense, and some of my best dcs experiences have been playing it! 

[Dzsekeb]

It works fine for me, it just overwrites those points when I make a markpoint.

Just have to remember to cursor zero to remove any offsets you introduced.