Patch notes discussion May 2025

[rob10]

13 minutes ago, HansPeter1981 said:

Probably again on the cost of Fidelity.
LOD and Visible Range are still epically broken... even both maxed out (Extreme & LOD set at 2.0), stuff pops in late with 'higher' detail.
Shadows are a mess and AMD card owners suffer of severe shimmering which I trace back to low resolution shadows and textures. Almost have the impression Eagle dynamic seems to be sponsored and hence focusing on NVIDIA DLSS... (AI/Algorithm Upscaling seems to handle lower resolution better)

Please give us the option for all the detail - far and close. No matter what we set the FOV

I'd love less "pop in" for stuff at range.

But in NO WAY does NVIDIA "sponsor" ED.  The NVIDIA splash screen on startup is due to licensing requirements for using DLSS tech in DCS requiring it.  ED also said very clearly (before DLSS was added) that they were focusing on it (DLSS) because a very high percentage of DCS users were NVIDIA users vs the small number with AMD or other video cards.  They were initially not even planning to include any FSR until they had DLSS fully implemented, but they did end up including it at the start for non-NVIDIA users.

[Gunfreak]

So no F4E in the mission generator if you set SEAD and cold war 47 to 70 or 71 to 91? Does this mission generator use the over strict time restriction from the regular mission editor? Which is quite useless in regular mission editor, but even more useless in the mission generator.

Don't find the F4 even in 71 to 91 in ground attack? 

[Hillman]

Unable to authorize aircraft's and campaigns when starting DCS. Terrains are ok.
Worked fine yesterday before I updated. Date/clock/timezone is correct.

Anything to do with the update?

[PawlaczGMD]

Just now, Hillman said:

Unable to authorize aircraft's and campaigns when starting DCS. Terrains are ok.
Worked fine yesterday before I updated. Date/clock/timezone is correct.

Anything to do with the update?

usually to do with your antivirus blocking game files.

[Hillman]

26 minutes ago, PawlaczGMD said:

usually to do with your antivirus blocking game files.

Strange. It worked fine yesterday and why does it not affect the terrains and the supercarrier? Only the aircrafts and campaigns.
And I dont run any antivirus except the built-in Windows defender...

[rob10]

1 minute ago, Hillman said:

Strange. It worked fine yesterday and why does it not affect the terrains and the supercarrier? Only the aircrafts and campaigns.
And I dont run any antivirus except the built-in Windows defender...

And the AV decided today there was a problem with some of the files.  Completely random why it's affecting your other modules but not your terrains, but not unusual really.  Windows Defender isn't immune from false positives (although some others (i.e. Kapersky, ESET) are way more likely to throw false positives).

[Hillman]

23 minutes ago, rob10 said:

And the AV decided today there was a problem with some of the files.  Completely random why it's affecting your other modules but not your terrains, but not unusual really.  Windows Defender isn't immune from false positives (although some others (i.e. Kapersky, ESET) are way more likely to throw false positives).

Excluded the DCS folder and the DCS saved game folder in MS Defender and did a repair (slow). Still get the same result.

[draconus]

12 minutes ago, Hillman said:

Excluded the DCS folder and the DCS saved game folder in MS Defender and did a repair (slow). Still get the same result.

Steam version?

[Hillman]

1 minute ago, draconus said:

Steam version?

No, direct from ED.

[cuchara]

too many fixes =less add

[YSIAD_RIP]

21 hours ago, Biggus said:

I hope one day to see an update to FSR.

I believe we can't expect any FSR updates until Vulkan arrives.

• As a workaround you can try OptiScaler: https://github.com/cdozdil/OptiScaler
  • It actually helps to reduce the crazy amount of AA shimmering that my AMD RX6800 suffers from. 
  • Only install to DCS World\bin  - Make sure you follow the instructions. DCS no longer uses the bin-mt folder. 
  • This requirement and other suggestions plus plenty of videos are documented online if you do a few searches

Good luck.

[draconus]

50 minutes ago, Hillman said:

No, direct from ED.

I'd contact support.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/

[BIGNEWY]

2 hours ago, Hillman said:

Unable to authorize aircraft's and campaigns when starting DCS. Terrains are ok.
Worked fine yesterday before I updated. Date/clock/timezone is correct.

Anything to do with the update?

If you are stand alone but using steam link check our website and hit the fetch modules button again. 

If it is not that contact support directly they will assist you 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/

thank you 

[Hillman]

11 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

If you are stand alone but using steam link check our website and hit the fetch modules button again. 

If it is not that contact support directly they will assist you 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/

thank you 

I have just a few modules purchased on Steam way back. Did a "Get licenses" on the Profile page on the DCS web, but the results are the same.

[BIGNEWY]

Just now, Hillman said:

I have just a few modules purchased on Steam way back. Did a "Get licenses" on the Profile page on the DCS web, but the results are the same.

ok please make a support ticket our team will assist you 

thank you 

[westr]

4 hours ago, HansPeter1981 said:

Probably again on the cost of Fidelity.
LOD and Visible Range are still epically broken... even both maxed out (Extreme & LOD set at 2.0), stuff pops in late with 'higher' detail.
Shadows are a mess and AMD card owners suffer of severe shimmering which I trace back to low resolution shadows and textures. Almost have the impression Eagle dynamic seems to be sponsored and hence focusing on NVIDIA DLSS... (AI/Algorithm Upscaling seems to handle lower resolution better)

Please give us the option for all the detail - far and close. No matter what we set the FOV 

 

Are you 2D? 
I use VR so visually it’s no different to what I’m used to I’m just noticing the F15E for example in a mission I had saved on Caucasus map is now staying at my FPS limit without dropping frames where as before I would get intermittent drops and stutters. 
I find the F15E one of the more demanding modules on FPS. 

[HansPeter1981]

8 hours ago, westr said:

Are you 2D? 

Yes 2D,
Not wanting to derail this comment into a AMD vs Nvidia Discussion. I only found that a lot of performance optimization like VRAM usage and increased FPS came through loss of fidelity in the previous years. And I wonder why we can't have better textures and better Level of Detail control. looks like ED is ignoring a lot of Reporting in the 2D Bug section. 
And of course with the help of DLSS and FSR you can make up for it and make it less noticable, I do it myself on my Handheld 1080p with FSR looks like 1440p.
But at least I can increase the native reslution if I think its not good enough.

In DCS there is no Slider to properly display Shadows certain angles from the cockpit. No sliders to have Static objects appear with all details from Far and not 500' or much less in front of me with noticeable pop in.

4x MSAA on 720 p on a 4k Screen looks awful

720 p on a 4K Screen with DLSS 3.2.123124124213523453464557567546 looks probably ok for many...

Also quite some optimization for VR is maybe hurtful for 2D with 'higher' FOV settings: like in this example below, >76 no cluster cloud visible, <76 visible... LOD 2 and Visible Range extreme, so what decides that I don't need to see this ?

you see my problem...
 

Edited 10 hours ago by HansPeter1981
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[giullep]

I started to download the patch yesterday at 8pm and after 3 o 4 time that I have an error and it blocked the download, today at 600 am I stop to try to download...,(in 10 hours I downloaded half of the patch..) terrible...this afternoon I will try to download...it's normal??

[BIGNEWY]

2 minutes ago, giullep said:

I started to download the patch yesterday at 8pm and after 3 o 4 time that I have an error and it blocked the download, today at 600 am I stop to try to download...,(in 10 hours I downloaded half of the patch..) terrible...this afternoon I will try to download...it's normal??

it could be your ISP throttling the download, if you have access to a VPN try it and see if the results are better. 

I'm in the UK had no issues with the download. 

[Robi Hobby]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb giullep:

I started to download the patch yesterday at 8pm and after 3 o 4 time that I have an error and it blocked the download, today at 600 am I stop to try to download...,(in 10 hours I downloaded half of the patch..) terrible...this afternoon I will try to download...it's normal??

 I start the Update yesterday at 5pm  2 times it start the Update again an than it broken my DCS World. No more DCS.exe found.  I start repair and it download 9 hour. Now it work.

[westr]

9 hours ago, HansPeter1981 said:

Yes 2D,
Not wanting to derail this comment into a AMD vs Nvidia Discussion. I only found that a lot of performance optimization like VRAM usage and increased FPS came through loss of fidelity in the previous years. And I wonder why we can't have better textures and better Level of Detail control. looks like ED is ignoring a lot of Reporting in the 2D Bug section. 
And of course with the help of DLSS and FSR you can make up for it and make it less noticable, I do it myself on my Handheld 1080p with FSR looks like 1440p.
But at least I can increase the native reslution if I think its not good enough.

In DCS there is no Slider to properly display Shadows certain angles from the cockpit. No sliders to have Static objects appear with all details from Far and not 500' or much less in front of me with noticeable pop in.

4x MSAA on 720 p on a 4k Screen looks awful

720 p on a 4K Screen with DLSS 3.2.123124124213523453464557567546 looks probably ok for many...

Also quite some optimization for VR is maybe hurtful for 2D with 'higher' FOV settings: like in this example below, >76 no cluster cloud visible, <76 visible... LOD 2 and Visible Range extreme, so what decides that I don't need to see this ?

you see my problem...
 

yeah, I can see your frustrations, but I haven't played in 2D in such a long time that I cant really comment on how you can improve the situation you have.

I know at one point on the Syria map when it was first released the tree populating was awful and you could physically see the trees growing in front of your eyes (again this was VR)

It helped by increasing visible range but certainly didn't eliminate the problem, of course this came at the expense of performance, eventually they improved the map and I no longer notice this.

I wonder do you experience these problems on all maps or a particular map?  

Edited 2 hours ago by westr

[Eaglewings]

I know at one point on the Syria map when it was first released the tree populating was awful and you could physically see the trees growing in front of your eyes (again this was VR)
It helped by increasing visible range but certainly didn't eliminate the problem, of course this came at the expense of performance, eventually they improved the map and I no longer notice this.
I wonder do you experience these problems on all maps or a particular map?  

I experience tree populating in my forward position as I approach in all the maps that I own irrespective of the change in settings.
Is this a vram issue because my gpu has got 8g?

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