Patch Notes discussion March 2025

[Gunfreak]

18 minutes ago, Dragon1-1 said:

It downloaded in a snap on Steam, but it updated 28GB of files, so it's probably small changes to big files. I suspect the standalone updater is just dumber than Steam and just redownloads all changed files all the time, while Steam is able to do it piecemeal.

It also depends on how a game is built.

Some game engines are notorious for huge size of updates for tiny changes. Some, I i think it's unity that is used by a lot of indie devs. Basically download thr game each time it needs a patch. Luckily indie games are ofteb quite small. But silly to see 20gigs downloaded to fix a typo in a menu or something. I'm glad DCS is better. Having to download 1.2TB each time the game gets an update would be frustrating  

[Tenkom]

What about the city-spanning craters?

[Wizard_03]

I'm having Major Performance issues with this latest patch, game freezes and stops the whole PC, Multiple cores pegged at 100 percent. I've tried a quick and slow repair made sure my drivers are updated, renamed my saved games folder, deleted all mods, made sure I'm not running in admin, deleated FXO and metashaders2, checked that hotplug is disabled, all the usual suspects. Please fix, DCS has been running smoothly for me for the last couple years. Whatever was introduced in the last two patches has made the game highly unstable. At this point the game completely freezes my PC on startup, and I can't get past the main menu. I can't even post crash logs because DCS doesn't think it crashed. I have to hard reset my computer.

Edited March 28 by Wizard_03

[Pillowcat]

2 hours ago, Wizard_03 said:

Major Performance issues with this latest patch

Ensure you don't run DCS as administrator and core parking is really deactivated - these 2 was major causes of performance problems after last updates for most people. Your particular description match core parking behavior discussed on the forum this week https://forum.dcs.world/topic/371134-igra-i-kompjuter-zavisajut-na-osnovnom-jekrane-i-pri-priblizhenii-udalenii-na-karte-f-10-kolesom-myshi/page/2/#findComment-5623528
upd. also process priority must be normal

Edited March 28 by Pillowcat

[Wizard_03]

1 hour ago, Pillowcat said:

Ensure you don't run DCS as administrator and core parking is really deactivated - these 2 was major causes of performance problems after last updates for most people. Your particular description match core parking behavior discussed on the forum this week https://forum.dcs.world/topic/371134-igra-i-kompjuter-zavisajut-na-osnovnom-jekrane-i-pri-priblizhenii-udalenii-na-karte-f-10-kolesom-myshi/page/2/#findComment-5623528
upd. also process priority must be normal

As I stated in my first post I'm not running it in admin mode and I checked both places where that could be on. Core parking has been disabled on my PC for a while now. It's definitely a new bug that has been introduced, for some background I haven't had a straight up crash with DCS in years, and now I can't get past the main menu without it completely locking up. I meet all the system requirements for high graphics settings. I typically have 60 - 80 FPS. So I definitely think something got borked by the last major patch. 

Edited March 28 by Wizard_03

[draconus]

2 hours ago, Wizard_03 said:

As I stated in my first post I'm not running it in admin mode and I checked both places where that could be on. Core parking has been disabled on my PC for a while now. It's definitely a new bug that has been introduced, for some background I haven't had a straight up crash with DCS in years, and now I can't get past the main menu without it completely locking up. I meet all the system requirements for high graphics settings. I typically have 60 - 80 FPS. So I definitely think something got borked by the last major patch. 

Go here:

https://forum.dcs.world/forum/482-game-crash/

Make new thread, upload dcs.log.