Shooting the ground from up close freezes the game

[virgo47]

If I shoot the ground up close, the particle effects make the game stuck and unplayable, although while recording the bug I noticed the FPS graph goes on. The game does not fix itself anytime soon (if ever), it's not completely frozen technically, but it is from the player's perspective. It does not react to input at all, the view is frozen too, etc. Only Task manager helps in this case.

Video (see the graph up left):

This reminds me of similar problems I had with cluster ammunition when I was flying Su-25T more than a year back. The moment the game gets to single-digit FPS, it's likely to get stuck like this. I guess it's not really Huey-specific but related to the low performance of smoke close to the player.

This is the first time I encountered it with RTX 3060 I've gotten a year ago, but, granted, I haven't shot the ground from this close since. Seems like faster FPS helps, but the problem is somehow systemic. The game should be able to recover from low FPS situation, not effectively freeze.

Log is attached.

dcs.log

[MAXsenna]

Dropped some clusters in the Su-25T the other day, an stupid me pressed F6. One slide slideshow. While my computer is slow, it would've been nice to get back into the cockpit.

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[virgo47]

46 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

Dropped some clusters in the Su-25T the other day, an stupid me pressed F6. One slide slideshow. While my computer is slow, it would've been nice to get back into the cockpit.

There are two aspects of this:

1. Drop in FPS. Would be nice to be more graceful. Drop is OK, but FPS dive like this is bad. But that is still not my main concern.
2. Unresponsive game that needs to be stopped. That's my problem.

So I don't mind the slideshow. It's ugly, but whatever. But... DCS, please, just let me continue on the mission.

[MAXsenna]

There are two aspects of this:

1. Drop in FPS. Would be nice to be more graceful. Drop is OK, but FPS dive like this is bad. But that is still not my main concern.
2. Unresponsive game that needs to be stopped. That's my problem.

So I don't mind the slideshow. It's ugly, but whatever. But... DCS, please, just let me continue on the mission.

Yes, I agree! Pretty much what I meant with "one slide slideshow". I had to kill DCS process.

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[virgo47]

Today I tried to shoot the ground - and while the FPS went down, it wasn't THAT bad (still above 10 with my config), and - the most important thing - the game DID NOT STOP/CRASH! Can anyone confirm this improvement? I can't pinpoint it in any changelog, but I like what I'm seeing.