Huge variation in performance across theatres, missions & scenarios

[markturner1960]

I have a decent PC and in VR all my modules fly well and smoothly with great quality visuals. Yesterday on first try with the F4, I flew the first three training missions. Performance was not noticeably any different to what I was getting usually. I should add on update I cleared all my fxo & metashaders etc as usual.....

Today, I jumped straight into free flight on the caucusus and it was a performance horror show......15 - 20 fps, the cockpit textures had still not loaded after 5 minutes, and the ground textures were not completely loaded either....basically unplayable in the scenario that is usually the least demanding...over the sea. I went back to the training missions...they were good, well at least, much much better....... I tried the F14....72 FPS in free flight same area. 

So I tried free flight in Nevada and Syria.....both took around 1.5 2 minutes to load the cockpit textures and complete the world texture loads. Once done, I was mostly at 36 FPS which is the frame rate for my ASW using the occulus software. OK< but not great. 

So then tried take off mission in those three theatres, which you might expect to have worse performance, being on the ground and with statics etc ( this is the  case usually) Interestingly, all three performed better, with caucusus still the worst, with a cockpit texture load time of around 40 seconds and the others around half that. FPS once all loaded was around 36. 

After that I flew online with 4 friends in one of thems hosted mission, in Syria, with a fairly busy mission. Textures loaded fast and we had a great flight with good performance.

So something is affecting the performance in Caucusus and in the canned missions especially, very badly.......

I hope this information is of use in tracking down the culprit and interested if others have the same experience. To clarify as well, other modules running as normal with VR and DCS, IE no issues. 

 

Thanks

Edited May 23, 2024 by markturner1960