Blurry cockpit and big loading time while flying

[Jael24]

Hello,

Here are my issues:

1. When using the Single Thread version, my plane is completely blurry, except for the screens. This is also the case for other planes and the aircraft carrier, as shown in the video.
2. When using the Multi Thread version, I don't have the blurriness problem, but every 4-5 minutes or so, my game freezes and shows a loading icon. This lasts about 2 minutes, and then everything goes back to normal.

So, it is almost impossible to play due to these two problems.

Here are my system details, and the videos.

Problem 1 (Single thread):

Problem 2 (Multi thread):

DxDiag

dcs.log

 

Screenshot of DCS settings page and VR setting page.

Screenshot of your VR device settings

The version of my NVidia driver is 560.81.

 

Thank you for your help.

Edited October 5, 2024 by Jael24

[MAXsenna]

@Jael24
Double check if "motion blur" for some reason be been turned on in settings.
ST? You haven't updated. ST doesn't exist anymore.
Cheers?


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[Jael24]

Thanks for your reply. Yes indeed my DCS was not updated, I did the update and there's no more ST. I also had the "motion blur" enabled, on LOW, I deactivated it. Now the "blurred cockpit" issue is gone. However, I still have freeze. Much less (I've just done a 1-hour flight and had to deal with it 4-5 times, with an average duration of 10-15 seconds, so clearly it's much better). Do you think this could be related to my RAM? I have only 32 GB DDR5 and I'm wondering if I should add 32 GB to get 64 GB.

Thanks

[MAXsenna]

Thanks for your reply. Yes indeed my DCS was not updated, I did the update and there's no more ST. I also had the "motion blur" enabled, on LOW, I deactivated it. Now the "blurred cockpit" issue is gone. However, I still have freeze. Much less (I've just done a 1-hour flight and had to deal with it 4-5 times, with an average duration of 10-15 seconds, so clearly it's much better). Do you think this could be related to my RAM? I have only 32 GB DDR5 and I'm wondering if I should add 32 GB to get 64 GB.
Thanks

What GPU do you have, with how much VRAM?
I had seriously bad performance after this patch. (My MB/CPU are 11+ years old. I did upgrade to a 2080Ti when we got 2.9 as DCS refused run on my old Titans).
So I went scientific about it. Clicked low and just worked my way up from there. I'm back at pretty much everything on max. One setting I didn't change was preload radius. I've kept that on 100, (compared to 49K before patch), and my game runs better and loads a lot faster.
As my 2080Ti only has 11GB of VRAM, I'm using the reduced texture mod, and that works well for me. Better performance and no reduction in visual quality.

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[rob10]

51 minutes ago, Jael24 said:

Thanks for your reply. Yes indeed my DCS was not updated, I did the update and there's no more ST. I also had the "motion blur" enabled, on LOW, I deactivated it. Now the "blurred cockpit" issue is gone. However, I still have freeze. Much less (I've just done a 1-hour flight and had to deal with it 4-5 times, with an average duration of 10-15 seconds, so clearly it's much better). Do you think this could be related to my RAM? I have only 32 GB DDR5 and I'm wondering if I should add 32 GB to get 64 GB.

Thanks

64 GB is never a bad thing, but as long as you have a total of 64 between your physical RAM and PAGEFILE you should be good.  I would check what your pagefile is set to and make sure it's set to at least 32 GB rather than Windows managed.  Also check that you aren't getting tight on space on the drive your pagefile is on.

[LOW_Hitman]

vor 16 Stunden schrieb rob10:

64 GB is never a bad thing, but as long as you have a total of 64 between your physical RAM and PAGEFILE you should be good.  I would check what your pagefile is set to and make sure it's set to at least 32 GB rather than Windows managed.  Also check that you aren't getting tight on space on the drive your pagefile is on.

Can you please tell why it is better to set a fixed pagefile instead of system managed? I tried both and never noticed any differences. There is no prove that this does anything better instead of letting windows manage the ram. I think many many years ago with hdd drives it was a magic trick that worked on some machines but today iam sure windows is doing a way better job.

Edited October 6, 2024 by LOW_Hitman

[MAXsenna]

Can you please tell why it is better to set a fixed pagefile instead of system managed? I tried both and never noticed any differences. There is no prove that this does anything better instead of letting windows manage the ram. I think many many years ago with hdd drives it was a magic trick that worked on some machines but today iam sure windows is doing a way better job.

On older systems, Windows/system might not catch up and expand the page file quickly enough for DCS. And it crashes.

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[LOW_Hitman]

vor 4 Minuten schrieb MAXsenna:

On older systems, Windows/system might not catch up and expand the page file quickly enough for DCS. And it crashes.

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Do you mean even when using windows 11 with "older" hardware it is possible that windows isn't fast enough to "resize" the pagefile? Ok all i want is to understand what can be a possible problem within this game. But as i said before - never saw a difference between fixed and system managed. What's the ideal size? Equal to ramsize? I'll give it a try and see what happens.

[MAXsenna]

Do you mean even when using windows 11 with "older" hardware it is possible that windows isn't fast enough to "resize" the pagefile? Ok all i want is to understand what can be a possible problem within this game. But as i said before - never saw a difference between fixed and system managed. What's the ideal size? Equal to ramsize? I'll give it a try and see what happens.

Well, it's my take on it reading through the various crash reports from users. Mostly users with >32GB, reports more crashes, and they go away when setting the page file to 32GB, (seems to be the sweets pot currently, 32X1024MB = 32768MB).
One should think with SSDs, it would be expanded quickly enough, while it seems it doesn't. Whether that is DCS on full teat demand or Windows/system, old hardware I haven't really bothered to test.


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