Popping in. How I got rid of micro stutters completely.

[bloomstombs]

Obvious everyone has a different setup and different set of issues to contend with.

This is by no means an indepth guide. Just general things I did and the order I did them in. 

1. Hardware installation

Building the system perfectly. See if you can disable somethings in bios (e.g. integrated graphics after you have your video card installed). have a usb ready with network/chipset drivers and another with latest bios for your mobo. 

Make sure you put the components in the correct slots. Video card should go on the closest pcie slot to the cpu as its the one with most bandwidth usually. Make sure NVME isnt sharing lanes with it. 

Good airflow and cooling. Use a good thermal paste like thermal grizzly when installing cpu.

update your bios .

Install windows 11  and drivers from your USB.

When installing nvidia drivers I used an app called NVCleanstall to minimize nvidia footprint. Again GPT can help direct you on using this and suggest what you should not install and what you should. 

 nullThe real fight begins in DEBLOATING windows 11. Stopping unnecessary services. Optimizing power modes. Everyone is different . You may need to keep some stuff I dont, but the goal is the same. Get rid of the bloat. Your latency times will improve. I dont need the weather, or copilot or the nonending adds windows 11 assaults you with. 

I spent about a day or two with debloating and optimizing windows settings, literally butchered the operating system with powershell and gpt making the scripts, using snipping tool to give gpt eyes to basically gut my operating system. 

Powersettingsexplorer is a great tool for some extra options you will need when changing powerplan settings- plenty of guides out there on the important changes you can make to powerplan.

Here is an example of one of the things I changed: 

After I was satisfied with the latency, temperatures, cpu/memory stability and speed, only then did I install DCS (on its own drive) and oculus software and VERY importantly oculus tray tool . I had avoided using this because it is discontinued, but man, that turbo mode really really helps. 

In nvidia control panel i changed nothing except power for best performance.

metaquest / oculus app 72hz  and render resolution to 1.5x (leave dcs settings at 1.0 obviously). Oculus debug tool only changed video codec to H.264, encode dynamic bitrate disabled, and dynamic bitrate max 900, link sharpening quality.

DCS settings only changed textures to high/high mssa 2x. shadows flat,  smoke off, reflections off, dirt flare off, but really settings are not the issue imo - you can lower them and raise them depending on your system. My issue, as many of you out there, was micro stutters which most of the time is not just hardware dependent. 

DLSS J/K isnt there yet unless you just want to fly around.. looks great for that. not for actual simming.

System - 9800x3d , 5090 , 64gb 6000mhz ram.

Most of the tools I used:

LatencyMon, NVCleanstall, Zentimings, HWMonitor, aida64extreme, powersettings explorer, p95, cpu-z.

ZenTimings.

 

[LucShep]

Yep, that latency tweak in the video will work for some.  
No harm in trying it (though I believe that "5000" in AC value is a bit too much, may cause instability).

Another good latency tweak is this other one, for Windows 11 users (it unfortunately doesn't work with Windows 10 since year 2020).
 

Lots of interesting stuff on that guy's YTB channel.
 

Edited yesterday at 04:32 AM by LucShep