Can't figure out cause of random stutters while flying

[maverick90]

Currently on DCS OpenWorld Beta v2.9.4 and have tried both the MT and non-MT executable. But made no difference. I am still getting random stutters through out flight. I think I have a pretty decent system to run DCS on. 

My specs are as follows: Windows 10 Pro 64bit, 64GB RAM, RTX 3090, i9-10900k. I am playing in 4K. I have tried setting the game to DLSS, Quality, etc and a combination of settings, but still for the life of me can't figure out why I am getting these random stutters. Is it because I have the game installed on a physical HDD?

Edited April 17, 2024 by maverick90

[Hiob]

2 minutes ago, maverick90 said:

Is it because I have the game installed on a physical HDD?

That is certainly not helping. The game needs to constantly stream terrain data from your storage and with a HDD the data transfer rate is low and even worse, the access times are horrible when the data is spread over the physical disks. A SSD would certainly improve your experience.

That said, there are other possible culprits, like other programs running in the background eating up system resources. E.g. Antivirus software, Monitoring Software, Windows file indexer, RGB-controller etc. pp. you get the idea.

Best practice for a hardware sensitive game like DCS is to keep your system as lean and tidy as possible.

[Mork]

Did you tried Disable the last 4Ecores?

Your i9 has ??8P/16Ecores?? so Disable the last 4Ecores.

Start your DCS-Shortcut and during/before logging in, via Taskmanager-Details-DCS-RightMouseClick-Affinity.

Disable the last 4Ecores.

 

Hopefully it works for you, at least it worked for me.

[Nightstalker]

I get these same stutters since the last patch.  I have an I9 13900k but I've never had to mess with my Ecores.  Everything has always been butter smooth since multi-threading.