Texture loading varies wildly

[markturner1960]

HI, as title, I am finding huge variations in time taken to load all the cockpit and map textures. It can vary within the same mission and theatre on different days. In rare cases, the cockpit textures have not loaded even after 5 or 6 minutes........

Why is this? I have a decent card with 24GB Vram, and a powerful system,,,,, I dont understand the apparent randomness of it and the variation......

Any ideas? 

[Q3ark]

I’ve noticed the textures taking longer to load in since the last DCS update, not as long as you’re reporting though, also for me its on any map with any module, I think it’s a core DCS thing. 

[jimiC]

finding the same. used to be max 10 seconds for some modules being worse than others, now climbing into the minute + mark to have textures settled and FPS to recover. Seems to be worse in the F4 though

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

As far as I understand, the loading of textures is entirely determined by EDGE, and thus has nothing to do with Heatblur.
I remember a comment from Bignewy a while ago saying that he'd ask the team to take an extra look at texture loading in particular.

[Q3ark]

4 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

I remember a comment from Bignewy a while ago saying that he'd ask the team to take an extra look at texture loading in particular.

He must have done that, they’ve definitely been tweaking things because they’ve made it worse

[zildac]

I concur, texture loading in the F4 is way slower than the other modules, and the other modules are slower than they were around 12-18 months months ago. Around 30 seconds for a complete load in the F4 for me.

Edited May 28, 2024 by zildac

[markturner1960]

Yeah, since an update in the last few months, I noticed that in all modules, there is an increased time to load teh cockpit textures, tied I guess, to the change noted above. However, it is always much longer in the F4, and varies hugely across missions and theatres, which must be related to the module.......

[USA_Recon]

Is there any work around for this - I will run the same mission 3x in a row and each time it sits and reloads the same textures.

Surprised that isn't cached