constantly 1-3 second freezes

[Special K]

Am 1.10.2025 um 16:47 schrieb skynetsysadmin:

The i9-12900K uses Efficiency Cores (E-Cores). Many DCS players have had issues with this. I would also take a look at the YT video linked below. This helped resolve some problems with the CH-47F in VR for me. Essentially, it's about disabling the E-cores when using DCS only. The E-cores are still available for other apps running in the background. 

Spud Spike - Process Lasso

Never trust a YouTuber that has no idea about PCs. Do not disable E cores and don't use lasso. DCS uses E cores for less important tasks. If you disable them, DCS uses more valuable cores for the same tasks. That's a downside.

[MAXsenna]

4 hours ago, Special K said:

Never trust a YouTuber that has no idea about PCs. Do not disable E cores and don't use lasso. DCS uses E cores for less important tasks. If you disable them, DCS uses more valuable cores for the same tasks. That's a downside.

True! And "some" have a way of picking up tricks and present them as their own when they haven't the slightest clue of what's going on. 

[skynetsysadmin]

On 10/6/2025 at 3:31 PM, Special K said:

Never trust a YouTuber that has no idea about PCs. Do not disable E cores and don't use lasso. DCS uses E cores for less important tasks. If you disable them, DCS uses more valuable cores for the same tasks. That's a downside.

Not disagreeing with your stance on the E-cores. In my use case, the CH-47F is unplayable in VR unless I disable the E-cores. The other modules I own do not seem to have this issue. I tested the A10-A, C, CII, Huey, Apache, and Chinook modules with various maps over the weekend. Only the Chinook seems to exhibit the problem for me. And, it doesn't seem to be related to the map either. To be fair to Spud Spike, we are both using the same 14th Gen i9 CPU. Perhaps this specific CPU is key to the issue. The issue only happens in VR for me. Not certain about the 'YouTuber'. Maybe he is full of crap, but his suggestion is the only thing that makes it playable for me.

[Flanker35M]

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I got the game running smooth again, knocking wood! What I did was to disable Core Performance Boost on my motherboard and let motherboard adjust voltages/current. It could be one of those settings or both that cured the insane simulation thread spikes. I presume it is the CPB setting as 7800X3D possibly has no benefit of it. Still testing more, but so far looks good. The insane "hacksaw effect" when using in game VSync and flying low was cured by enabling Anti Lag feature in AMD GPU drivers. Testing some more, but so far so good...