Core parking???

[Dginn69]

Hello All. So up till yesterday my system ran fine. After the update today I can't even play with all the freezing. When I look at the log I see it starts of with a WARNING EDCORE CPU ha sparked cores. I ran several tests and I get that warning in al the logs. 

SO what would cause my system to all of a sudden start park cores and cause latency? And more important how can I remedy this. The only change from yesterday & before to today is the DCS update. Any help is greatly appreciated as I cannot fly in it's current state. I am attaching a log file as I do not really understand most of the info it contains. Thanks in advance.

04_17_2025.txt

[pegasus1]

What CPU are you using?

[sleighzy]

I'd recommend cleaning up your installation first to get it in a known state initially, should be done after every update.

• Remove your custom mods
• Run a slow repair with the option to remove extra files
• Delete Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2
• Play the game and then reapply mods afterwards and delete fxo and metashaders2 again.

You can use something like ParkControl to check if your cores and being parked, and unpark them if so.

Log analyzer called out a few points:

• Remove the OH6GunnerExport script for performance reasons.
• If you have FPS issues, try turning off VSYNC in graphics settings.
• Set Clouds to High.
• Set Water to Low.
• Disable civil traffic.
• Decrease Visib Range to Ultra or lower.
• Turn down Anisotropic Filtering.
• Enable Full Screen mode.
• Set Shadows to Medium.
• Decrease Terrain Textures.
• Upgrade your OS to Windows 11 to better support your CPU or disable cores 12,13,14,15 in Windows or Process Lasso
  • Note: this comment re: disabling cores came from the DCS log analyzer, I would not use this as your first tool, sort out the other items.

 

Edited April 18 by sleighzy

[Pillowcat]

Was the solution for some people  at least parking warning shall gone from logs

Edited April 18 by Pillowcat

[Dginn69]

7 hours ago, pegasus1 said:

What CPU are you using?

Intel Core i5 12600K 3.7 GHz, 64 gb ram. It is not an FPS issue. It seems to be core parking.

 

5 hours ago, Pillowcat said:

Was the solution for some people  at least parking warning shall gone from logs

Interesting. But I can get past the sign in fine. It's in game that giving me Hell.

 

[Dginn69]

6 hours ago, sleighzy said:

I'd recommend cleaning up your installation first to get it in a known state initially, should be done after every update.

• Remove your custom mods
• Run a slow repair with the option to remove extra files
• Delete Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2
• Play the game and then reapply mods afterwards and delete fxo and metashaders2 again.

You can use something like ParkControl to check if your cores and being parked, and unpark them if so.

Log analyzer called out a few points:

• Remove the OH6GunnerExport script for performance reasons.
• If you have FPS issues, try turning off VSYNC in graphics settings.
• Set Clouds to High.
• Set Water to Low.
• Disable civil traffic.
• Decrease Visib Range to Ultra or lower.
• Turn down Anisotropic Filtering.
• Enable Full Screen mode.
• Set Shadows to Medium.
• Decrease Terrain Textures.
• Upgrade your OS to Windows 11 to better support your CPU or disable cores 12,13,14,15 in Windows or Process Lasso
  • Note: this comment re: disabling cores came from the DCS log analyzer, I would not use this as your first tool, sort out the other items.

 

I tried most of those  suggestions before  posted. Later I did try the Park control & it seemed to work, but I was testing it without trackir running. I saw on another thread that a user had issues with trackir. I will investigate further tonight. And I should just update to win 11 & get it over with.  

[Dginn69]

6 hours ago, Pillowcat said:

Was the solution for some people  at least parking warning shall gone from logs

Seems those folks are freezing on the main screen. My main screen is fine. It's in game that's causing problems.

[Dginn69]

So I updated my pc BIOS & finally migrated to Win 11. That's seems to have solved my freezing issues. Thanks to all who replied.

[anlq]

This is getting worse, I got freezed 2 times in a row with VR. I got freezed with 2D multiple times before. Don't know what caused this, but it's surely DCS problem. @BIGNEWY @NineLine 

dcs.log

[silverdevil]

hello @anlq

i dropped your log into the discord analyzer.

Advice

Please update to the most recent version of DCS World.
Windows 10 will be EOL Oct 14th 2025. Upgrade to Windows 11.
Upgrade your OS to Windows 11 to better support your CPU or disable cores 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27 in Windows or Process Lasso
Verify that this is configured correctly in Windows:
Game Mode disabled
Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling disabled

Tuning Tips

Disable civil traffic.
Tuning tips are recommendations for better FPS based on your CPU, GPU and RAM.
They might result in slightly decreased display quality.

unfortunately (IMO) the newer gen intel cpus cause issues. i have an 11 gen cpu and have none of these issues. it is the sales pitch of intel to claim all these cores and it is a combo of P and E cores. E cores do not play with DCS very well.

[anlq]

3 hours ago, silverdevil said:

hello @anlq

i dropped your log into the discord analyzer.

Advice

Please update to the most recent version of DCS World.
Windows 10 will be EOL Oct 14th 2025. Upgrade to Windows 11.
Upgrade your OS to Windows 11 to better support your CPU or disable cores 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27 in Windows or Process Lasso
Verify that this is configured correctly in Windows:
Game Mode disabled
Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling disabled

Tuning Tips

Disable civil traffic.
Tuning tips are recommendations for better FPS based on your CPU, GPU and RAM.
They might result in slightly decreased display quality.

unfortunately (IMO) the newer gen intel cpus cause issues. i have an 11 gen cpu and have none of these issues. it is the sales pitch of intel to claim all these cores and it is a combo of P and E cores. E cores do not play with DCS very well.

thank you for sending my log to ED.

AFAIK, I upgraded the machine last week, and the problem has happened to my old PC (old i7 9700 old gen). So I don't think this is newer CPU problem.
I may try upgrading to Windows 11 to see if this still remains. 

Thank you again. 
 

[scommander2]

5 hours ago, silverdevil said:

Please update to the most recent version of DCS World.

We have few already have had some performance issue with the latest DCS patch.

On 4/18/2025 at 5:17 AM, sleighzy said:

• Upgrade your OS to Windows 11 to better support your CPU or disable cores 12,13,14,15 in Windows or Process Lasso

DCS uses E-cores for IO cores. 

[sleighzy]

11 hours ago, anlq said:

This is getting worse, I got freezed 2 times in a row with VR. I got freezed with 2D multiple times before. Don't know what caused this, but it's surely DCS problem. @BIGNEWY @NineLine 

dcs.log 69.27 kB · 4 downloads

VR wasn't being used in this session, but I did notice TrackIR. Do you have TrackIR (and were using it)?

2025-04-27 08:36:40.536 INFO    INPUT (Main): created [TrackIR]

Couple of other points:

• You're running DCS as administrator, do you have another account you can use instead (for security reasons you shouldn't run stuff as administrator). I also ask this as users on Winwing MFDs experienced a similar issue when running as administrator, hence my question around TrackIR.
• You're running DCS from the bin-mt directory. Run DCS from the bin directory, they're both multithreaded and bin-mt will be removed in the future.

[anlq]

1 hour ago, sleighzy said:

VR wasn't being used in this session, but I did notice TrackIR. Do you have TrackIR (and were using it)?

2025-04-27 08:36:40.536 INFO    INPUT (Main): created [TrackIR]

Couple of other points:

• You're running DCS as administrator, do you have another account you can use instead (for security reasons you shouldn't run stuff as administrator). I also ask this as users on Winwing MFDs experienced a similar issue when running as administrator, hence my question around TrackIR.
• You're running DCS from the bin-mt directory. Run DCS from the bin directory, they're both multithreaded and bin-mt will be removed in the future.

I'm using Quest 3. Recently I got ingame message about TrackIR unplugged a lot. I don't have another account. 

[sleighzy]

3 hours ago, anlq said:

I'm using Quest 3. Recently I got ingame message about TrackIR unplugged a lot. I don't have another account. 

Can you confirm whether or not you have ever had TrackIR (or other head tracking), or have installed TrackIR software, or have one plugged into your machine?

Do you still get these messages appearing? Can you also disable Device Hotplugging in the DCS controls settings, it’s the button at the bottom on the right hand side. Let me know if this is already disabled. 

Edited April 28 by sleighzy

[anlq]

5 hours ago, sleighzy said:

Can you confirm whether or not you have ever had TrackIR (or other head tracking), or have installed TrackIR software, or have one plugged into your machine?

Do you still get these messages appearing? Can you also disable Device Hotplugging in the DCS controls settings, it’s the button at the bottom on the right hand side. Let me know if this is already disabled. 

I don't have TrackIR, I'm using Quest 3 now.

That TrackIR unplugged message popped a lot in the last few updates (all of the April updates I guess).
I have Opentrack installed but not running at the same time.

The Hot Plug button is as below attachment.

I have updated to Windows 11. It has been running well for 3-4 sessions. 
P/s: In Windows 11 I used Process Lasso to disable E-core and the game would be in black screen forever. Letting the game running with all cores is fine. (my CPU is i7 14700KF).

Edited April 28 by anlq

[sleighzy]

14 hours ago, anlq said:

I don't have TrackIR, I'm using Quest 3 now.

That TrackIR unplugged message popped a lot in the last few updates (all of the April updates I guess).
I have Opentrack installed but not running at the same time.

The Hot Plug button is as below attachment.

I have updated to Windows 11. It has been running well for 3-4 sessions. 
P/s: In Windows 11 I used Process Lasso to disable E-core and the game would be in black screen forever. Letting the game running with all cores is fine. (my CPU is i7 14700KF).

So sounds like this is working fine for you now since the Windows 11 upgrade and allowing your PC to use all cores? This is generally the recommendation anyway as Windows 11 + DCS handle hybrid P/E cores much better now.

If the problem comes back then drop another DCS log. If the problem comes back also try uninstalling OpenTrack, replicate the issue, and drop a log.

[Dginn69]

On 4/20/2025 at 10:09 AM, Dginn69 said:

So I updated my pc BIOS & finally migrated to Win 11. That's seems to have solved my freezing issues. Thanks to all who replied.

So I went ahead & upgraded to Windows 11 & all my problems went away. I had to upgrade for Win10 end of life in October, so now it's done.