DCS A-10C QUESTIONS

[pyates2104]

Hi everyone! I just finished building my new rig, which suprisingly runs DCS A10 worse, much worse than my previous computer.

 

The new specs are as following :

 

- CPU : Intel i7 960 @ 3.2Ghz

 

- GPU : Sapphire Radeon 5970

 

- Ram : Corsair Dominator 1600Mhz 12GB

 

- PSU : Corsair 1000w

 

- Mobo : Asus Rampage Extreme iii (3)

 

- HDD : 120gb Corsair SSD (Force series)

 

- OS : Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

 

Running the latest graphics drivers 10.10e

 

My game turns into a slideshow when flying over terrain that sticks out (trees, houses)

 

It gets even worse when i turn on the maveric monitor (sorry can't remember what it's called, looks like FLIR or something.. I'm a total noob at this game :doh:)

 

Graphics settings are set to "High" with "Traffic" set to off and "Cockpit resolution" set to 1024. The clutter bar is set to 0 aswell.

 

I'm not sure if there's anything important i've left out, if so please point it out. I'm half asleep as i'm writing this.

 

I'm hoping i can blame on it still being a beta but it just seems odd that it runs so shite on this setup.

 

seems strange that your seeing a slide show on your new rig with that spec.

 

Questions:

• What are your old system specs?
  
• How much USABLE memory is windows reporting.
  
• Is your CPU running at 3.2 Ghz or is that what it SHOULD run out of the box?
  
• Whats your Windows performance score?
  
• What bloatware have you got installed?
  
• What Virus protection are you running?
  
• Whats your CPU usage when nothing (that you know off) is running.
  

There are so many things that can have a negative impact on performance, the main one's are to do with incorrect system config (CPU clock speeds, RAM config) and stuff running In the background hogging CPU and memory (Norton antivirus etc).

[Syonco]

seems strange that your seeing a slide show on your new rig with that spec.

 

Questions:

• What are your old system specs?
  
• How much USABLE memory is windows reporting.
  
• Is your CPU running at 3.2 Ghz or is that what it SHOULD run out of the box?
  
• Whats your Windows performance score?
  
• What bloatware have you got installed?
  
• What Virus protection are you running?
  
• Whats your CPU usage when nothing (that you know off) is running.
  

There are so many things that can have a negative impact on performance, the main one's are to do with incorrect system config (CPU clock speeds, RAM config) and stuff running In the background hogging CPU and memory (Norton antivirus etc).

 

Hi, thanks for replying!

 

My old system spec was the following :

 

- CPU : Intel Q9650 @ 3.2Ghz Stock

 

- GPU : Nvidia 280 GTX

 

- Ram : 6GB Kingston 1600Mhz DDR2

 

- Mobo : Asus rampage formula 2

 

- PSU : Corsair 750w

 

- HDD : 150gb VelociRaptor @ 10.000RPM

 

Windows is reporting the following about my RAM

 

Physical Memory (MB)

 

Total : 12279

Cached : 5875

Available : 10629

Free : 4921

 

This is idle @ desktop

 

Windows performance score is 7.5

 

CPU 7.5

Memory 7.5

Graphics 7.7

Gaming Graphics 7.7

Primary Hard Disk 7.8

 

Using CC Cleaner daily.

 

Using Microsoft Security Essentials

 

CPU usage IDLE @ Desktop is 2%

 

My CPU is running at 3.2 Ghz out of the box stock, my RAM nor CPU has been tampered with as of yet.

 

Did i answer your questions correctly?

[sweinhart3]

Try putting your nvidia card back in. Some people are seeing issues using ATI cards.

[The Editor]

Try putting that nvidia card in. I think the ATI cards are having problems in this game. I'm suffering as well.

 

*damn sweinhart3 beat me to the punch!*

Edited November 15, 2010 by The Editor

[Poor mans sniper]

ATI Problems? Awww *hit! My computer only uses ATI, Intel and Gateway parts!

[Syonco]

I don't have the Nvidia card at hand here but i'll try that later. It was my first concern that ATI wasn't supported very well with this game yet. Hopefully they'll roll out a set of drivers that'll do better then 5 frames per second.

 

Thanks for the help :thumbup:

[hassata]

I'm on ATI (4870x2) and getting as good frame rates have been reported with similar systems in similar situations with NVidia.

[TeeJay82]

Can we expect more ATI optimalization in beta 3?

 

because i really want to try this game now:badmood:

 

4870x2 @800/1000@50c

920@stock

1333 ocz reaper

WD raptor 600gb

[159th_Viper]

Open-Beta issues to report only in the Open-Beta forums!

[pyates2104]

Hi, thanks for replying!

 

My old system spec was the following :

 

- CPU : Intel Q9650 @ 3.2Ghz Stock

 

- GPU : Nvidia 280 GTX

 

- Ram : 6GB Kingston 1600Mhz DDR2

 

- Mobo : Asus rampage formula 2

 

- PSU : Corsair 750w

 

- HDD : 150gb VelociRaptor @ 10.000RPM

 

Windows is reporting the following about my RAM

 

Physical Memory (MB)

 

Total : 12279

Cached : 5875

Available : 10629

Free : 4921

 

This is idle @ desktop

 

Windows performance score is 7.5

 

CPU 7.5

Memory 7.5

Graphics 7.7

Gaming Graphics 7.7

Primary Hard Disk 7.8

 

Using CC Cleaner daily.

 

Using Microsoft Security Essentials

 

CPU usage IDLE @ Desktop is 2%

 

My CPU is running at 3.2 Ghz out of the box stock, my RAM nor CPU has been tampered with as of yet.

 

Did i answer your questions correctly?

 

Yes..

 

Ummmm, well somethings up...and it doesn't appear to be your basic system setup or background processes. ATI driver would seem to be a good candidate, but as reported, other people are using new ATI drivers with no problems. I'd still swap over the card back to the old nvidia and see if that makes a difference. After that, your looking at running perfmon in the background while running DCS to see if you can identify the bottleneck. (Note that perfmon will have an overhead and affect the counters, don't enable all of them, just the ones you need.)

 

Good article on how to use perfmon:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/securitytools/archive/2009/11/04/how-to-use-perfmon-in-windows-7.aspx

[Scarecrow]

Is this going to be dealt with/workaround or at least acknowledged by the team at any point?

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=61123

 

:music_whistling:

[luza]

Wags stated that Beta 4 would focus on FPS optimization, I assume this includes optimization for Ati cards and the like ;)

 

- Check in the beta 3 changelog thread

[MemphisBelle]

ATI Problems? Awww *hit! My computer only uses ATI, Intel and Gateway parts!

 

 

I only use ATI/AMD Hardware and I am very pleased with the result comparing with the power of my CPU/GFx and RAM.

[Limelime]

Hello, DCS: A10C will be in french and in box edition?

[MemphisBelle]

Hello, DCS: A10C will be in french and in box edition?

 

Still Beta, so ask again next year...

[Syonco]

Sorry can't post in the open beta forum, don't have access for whatever weird reason.

 

But anyhow i was having CRAP-TASTIC performance with the beta running a setup that follows :

 

- GPU : ATI HD 5970

 

- CPU : Intel i7 960 @3.2Ghz Stock

 

- Ram : 12 GB 1600Mhz DDR3

 

- Mobo : Asus rampage extreme 3

 

- PSU : 1kW Corsair

 

Getting frames that are beyond un-playable with settings set to "High" with clutter set to 0 - visib range to low and cokcpit res set to minimum.

 

Mind you i also tried "medium and low" to no avail. Pretty much too lagy for me to play properly.

 

Running MSI Afterburner shows only ONE out of 2 GPU's being utilized (WTF:() and is running at 100%.

 

Is there any way to force it to use both GPU's? ANYTHING i can do at all?

 

Is this a known problem, ED? Are you in touch with ATI regarding optimizing performance?

[Loz]

I would say that there is definitely something wrong with your setup, as I have a similar setup and Civ Traffic to low everything else on High. HDR TSAA and Full Screen OFF and I get anywhere between 15 to 60. Both MFDs on TGP and MAV doesn't seem to slow it but over built up areas definitley does.

Our Card don't help as it doesn't use Crossfire, and doesn't utilise fully the cores, but it still is WIP :D

[gofrm76]

new export.lua?

 

are there any changes made in the WH-export.lua compared to the BS-version especially in the socket-methods()? some things seem to work different.

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1035246&postcount=5

[LordWolf]

posted this in a wrong thread... So i guess I'll try here :P

Can some1 tell me if the a-10 uses mirrors in their cocpit. I've searched around, but couldnt find any evidence that they would actually use it...

(it is an option in the sim tho...)

[Weaponz248]

Quick question

 

Am I going to have an issues running this game with the following setup?

 

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.00 GHZ

 

8 gb of RAM

 

1 TB hard drive

 

2x Nividia 9800GT cards

 

Windows 7 64 bit

 

 

 

Im really looking forward to flying the Hawg. I have worked on her for 2 years now and cant wait to see the realism.

 

 

 

Thanks guys

Edited November 19, 2010 by Weaponz248
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[159th_Viper]

posted this in a wrong thread... So i guess I'll try here :P

Can some1 tell me if the a-10 uses mirrors in their cocpit. I've searched around, but couldnt find any evidence that they would actually use it...

(it is an option in the sim tho...)

 

Up and to the right of Santa's cranium......3 mirrors. Cannot spot the elves though :P

 

[Limelime]

Hello, i have downloaded the beta 3 of dcs: a10c, but there is a problem:

There is not the Nevada, just the Caucase, why?

[MemphisBelle]

Hello, i have downloaded the beta 3 of dcs: a10c, but there is a problem:

There is not the Nevada, just the Caucase, why?

 

Thats been discussed a lot of times here...

 

Nevada has been removed cause its still too much a work in progress and would cause unnecessary delays to Beta releases. So ED is working on it in the Background while we will get it once it has finally been developed.

[Limelime]

Ok, thanks! I have an other question: how can we eject? Because, I press LCtrl+E, but nothing...

[159th_Viper]

Ok, thanks! I have an other question: how can we eject? Because, I press LCtrl+E, but nothing...

 

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