Sluggish DCS menus, loading, enter, exit, etc. after BIOS update?

[Ala12Rv-watermanpc]

Hi all!

Since I updated my PC to a 13900k back then, I noticed the common issue with menus and DCS in general running slow, crashing, etc. After I used the registry edit to disable core parking EVERYTHING solved inmediately and completely, the game ran perfect as with previous cpus. It has been like that until a few days ago, when I decided to update my mobo bios (Z790 GAMING X AX) from F6 to F13, just to get latest microcode (although I hadn't had any issues with my chip). After that, I inmediately noticed that dcs started to run extremely bad in menus, enter, exit, loading, f10 map, etc , just exactly the same as is used to be before the core parking fix. 

The thing is, I have already the core parking fix working just fine, so I wonder what is going on or what could be causing this ¿?. The game itself (once in the cockpit), runs perfectly fine and smooth, but just loading the launcher takes ages, then the menus are sluggish, taking a lot of time to load, freezing some time for no reason, exiting the mission or dcs takes ages or crashes, etc. Again, very similar to what happened back then if I let core parking enabled, but now it is disabled so...I tried removing all mods, repairing dcs several times, adding dcs to avira and malwarebytes (already done) with no avail. This started exactly after updating bios, but other than enabling intel limits, rebar, and XMP, I dont remember changing other settings in bios that could be different now. 

I have game mode on and HAGS enabled in windows, but it was like that previously to the bios update and worked just fine.

Any help would be welcome. 

Thanks!!

[silverdevil]

7 hours ago, Ala12Rv-watermanpc said:

Hi all!

Since I updated my PC to a 13900k back then, I noticed the common issue with menus and DCS in general running slow, crashing, etc. After I used the registry edit to disable core parking EVERYTHING solved inmediately and completely, the game ran perfect as with previous cpus. It has been like that until a few days ago, when I decided to update my mobo bios (Z790 GAMING X AX) from F6 to F13, just to get latest microcode (although I hadn't had any issues with my chip). After that, I inmediately noticed that dcs started to run extremely bad in menus, enter, exit, loading, f10 map, etc , just exactly the same as is used to be before the core parking fix. 

The thing is, I have already the core parking fix working just fine, so I wonder what is going on or what could be causing this ¿?. The game itself (once in the cockpit), runs perfectly fine and smooth, but just loading the launcher takes ages, then the menus are sluggish, taking a lot of time to load, freezing some time for no reason, exiting the mission or dcs takes ages or crashes, etc. Again, very similar to what happened back then if I let core parking enabled, but now it is disabled so...I tried removing all mods, repairing dcs several times, adding dcs to avira and malwarebytes (already done) with no avail. This started exactly after updating bios, but other than enabling intel limits, rebar, and XMP, I dont remember changing other settings in bios that could be different now. 

I have game mode on and HAGS enabled in windows, but it was like that previously to the bios update and worked just fine.

Any help would be welcome. 

Thanks!!

hello. please attach your dcs.log. there may be some clues.

[miguelaco]

I think this is the same issue:

I'm personally having the same behavior although mine is a 14900k. The linked comment sounds exactly as yours.

I'm willing to downgrade my BIOS just to test this issue, but it seems a fix for long load times is scheduled for the next patch (hopefully releases today) so I'll wait for it.

[Ala12Rv-watermanpc]

17 hours ago, silverdevil said:

hello. please attach your dcs.log. there may be some clues.

Here you have it attached. thanks.

2 hours ago, miguelaco said:

I think this is the same issue:

I'm personally having the same behavior although mine is a 14900k. The linked comment sounds exactly as yours.

I'm willing to downgrade my BIOS just to test this issue, but it seems a fix for long load times is scheduled for the next patch (hopefully releases today) so I'll wait for it.

Yes, look quite similar. Definitely the bios update made this issue to pop up for sure because a few minutes before performing it, I was running dcs just perfect (thanks to the unpark fix) and inmediately after the update the issue appeared. 

The problem with this, is that going back to previous bios would be a pain in the a*s, since then secure boot and other problems with log-ins, keys, windows activation, etc. may accour, so Im not willing to do that personally. I think that, even if the bios update has something to do with this, ed should do something about it, since other apps are working fine so hope there is something in the works or in the todays patch that solves this.

 

EDIT:Forgot to mention that also updated intel ME, and other chipset stuff and general drivers after updating bios, at least as far as I know they exist.

dcs.log

Edited 4 hours ago by Ala12Rv-watermanpc

[BJ55]

While waiting to complete today's update and see if something is changed: I've had the slow loading/saving issue before updating BIOS/chipset drivers (W10 Pro), other simulators/games/sw had no performance drops, so I think it's only the previous DCS patch that caused issues.