Laika007 Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 While flying DCS, F-18 in VR, the program freezes up and "flusters" to the point of not being able to use DCS. I am using Windows 10, GTX 2070, 16 GB RAM, plenty of hard drive space. I am using DCS flight through Steam VR. I have a VALVE Index headset. Using DCS version 2.16. I have re-set all controls several times, MSAA is at 2X and I have tried 4X. Not sure why this is happening, any assistance would be grateful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed-of-heat Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 it's quite likely your hardware is not up to the challenge of driving a Valve Index .. and that either a CPU, GPU or even memory bottle neck is causing these "flutters" , i would suggest dropping dowen a number of steps , try the default VR settings to begin with and go from there... I would certainly recommend upgrading to 32GB of RAM , you don't say what CPU you have SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware Intel Corei7-12700KF @ 5.1/5.3p & 3.8e GHz, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Dell S2716DG, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO YOUTUBE CHANNEL: @speed-of-heat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob10 Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 If you're back on 2.16 and having that big of issues I'd say your easy solution (unfortunately) is hardware upgrade. Not sure I'd bother with the RAM upgrade unless you're doing more upgrades than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laika007 Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 Thanks for the recommendations. Interestingly, I have used my VALVE index many times on this DCS...thought it may have been the version that I am on. As for processors, it is showing eight Intel(R)Core(TM) i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00Hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laika007 Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 the computer is a Dell, desktop PNHU642 null Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laika007 Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 I have 1.86 TB of storage with 952 GB free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed-of-heat Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Lower your settings see if you have the same problem... Start with the default vr settings in dcs SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware Intel Corei7-12700KF @ 5.1/5.3p & 3.8e GHz, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Dell S2716DG, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO YOUTUBE CHANNEL: @speed-of-heat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon1-1 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Your CPU is not especially powerful, and the GPU is downright wimpy by VR standards. The 2070 is inferior in performance to the 1080ti, and has inadequate VRAM. 16GB RAM is also borderline for VR. I've used these settings, but performance was meh at the best of times. Try lowering the textures and CPU-heavy settings to see if it helps. Do not expect to have everything maxed out on that Dell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laika007 Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 Thanks as always. I see that upgrading to 1080Ti is about $250-$300 and getting a total of 32gb ram would be around $60. I can put them all in as applied to sending $1k on a new gaming computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaBrownie Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 16gb is borderline for even non VR DCS, especially on multiplayer. Made the upgrade to 32gb of ram a few months back on my older system, 1080 + i7 8700k, the performance difference was huge in regards to freezing and stuttering (Not FPS to a noticeable degree however). For sure that would be my first go to in this situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laika007 Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 Great, let me try that. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laika007 Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 Very interesting, in communicating with DCS support, they suggested having the page size set to 35 GB. When I went in to check this, operating RAM was set to 16000 and the other set to 35Gb. I changed them both to 35 GB. This may have happened when I upgraded the OS to Windows 11……..go figure. I went back to Windows 10 but, now I know what I need to do it I upgrade to Windows 11. thanks again for all the assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoN Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Since last patch DCS isn't right in VR , very sluggish. Playing catch up in frames , a upgrade to 32gb of ram will help you, but you won't see increase in frames. That GTX 1080 Ti will help . More vram the better in DCS . 2.9 . Also look at AMD cards . However DCS is pushing for Nivida . Gigabyte - X570 UD ~ Ryzen - 5600X @ 4.7 - Pulse - RX-6800 - XPG 32:GB @ 3200 - VKB - Gunfighter 4 - STECs - Throttle - Crosswinds Rudders - Trackir 5 . I'm a dot . Pico Nero 3 link VR . @ 4k Win 11 Pro 64Bit . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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