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[WOFAT]

 

After watching some u-tube videos, lets look at this one..

DCS A-10C Warthog Producer Note 2 Start Up

 

 

I would like to know the system specs of the PC, that video was shot on. I know it's a beta, but I have not found game and card settings that look like that. Smooth cockpit panning and clairty of gauges etc. Not to mention the scene and textures.. Here is my system, that should run it with no issues.. Do I have to go buy a EVGA GeForce GTX 580 for 500 bucks to make it happen?

Also have issues running MS FSX, but we all know what a system hog that is LOL...

 

Than you Wofat

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System Information

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Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

BIOS: BIOS Date: 08/24/10 18:04:07 Ver: 08.00.15

Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor (6 CPUs), ~3.7GHz

Memory: Corsair CMG4GX3M2A1600C7 4GB (2x XMS3 2GB) PC-12800 (1600MHz) DDR3

Available OS Memory: 4094MB RAM

Page File: 1154MB used, 7032MB available

DirectX Version: DirectX 11

User DPI Setting: Using System DPI

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Display Devices

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Series

Driver Ver: 2010 Not overclocked

DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)

Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6898&SUBSYS_29611682&REV_00

Display Memory: 2805 MB

Dedicated Memory: 1014 MB

Shared Memory: 1791 MB

Current Mode: 1600 x 900 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor

Monitor Model: VE208

Monitor Id: ACI20A8

Native Mode: 1600 x 900(p) (59.978Hz)

Output Type: HD15

Driver Name: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll

Driver File Version: 8.17.0010.1047 (English)

Driver Version: 8.782.0.0

DDI Version: 10.1

Driver Model: WDDM 1.1

Driver Attributes: Final Retail

Driver Date/Size: 9/28/2010 17:54:02, 628224 bytes

Draw Status: Enabled

D3D Status: Enabled

AGP Status: Enabled

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HD WD 500GB CAVIAR BLACK

[sobek]

That was created using Wags' PC, AFAIK. Clarity of gauges is dependant on your texture and anisotropic filtering settings.

 

Wags might have used the games 'render track to avi' feature to get the smooth framerate, although i am not sure about this one. If you are not satisfied with the current performance, please wait for beta 4.

[Engage]

That was created using Wags' PC, AFAIK. Clarity of gauges is dependant on your texture and anisotropic filtering settings.

 

Wags might have used the games 'render track to avi' feature to get the smooth framerate, although i am not sure about this one. If you are not satisfied with the current performance, please wait for beta 4.

When is the beta 4 :thumbup:

josh:joystick:

[Spartan]

i myself get allmost a constant 30-40 frames, peaking at 60 only due to vsync being enabled to prevent tearing.

Even with MAV and TGP active on the mfd's.

All settings are on high only exception being water, which is set to low.

Correct me if im wrong but as far as i knew water was being textured on the whole map, even under the land textures.

aa is at 8q and all other right hand settings in the tab are also enabled.

(forgive me, but im not in front of the computer atm to elaborate)

In the Nvidia settings i have tweaked the profile to complement the game settings aswell but these i couldnt say without bein in front of the computer.

 

system specs are in my sig,

paging file is 4gb min > 4gb max.

all drivers and bios are current as of this post.

[hassata]

Water rendered the way it is in DCS actually helps performance. Someone more technically savvy than me can could explain why.

[EtherealN]

Basically, the sea in DCS (and FC2) is a grand total of two polygons, with the water textures/effects applied to it.

 

The alternative to this solution would be to have the water "model" wrap to the coastlines, meaning that we have to cut hundreds of thousands of polygons from the terrain to stay within the polygon budget - or accept a constant FPS hit that is larger than the hit that comes from forcing the GPU's Z-buffer reject the stuff below the terrain until you are actually looking at it.

 

Correct me if im wrong but as far as i knew water was being textured on the whole map, even under the land textures.

 

This sort of depends on the exact code, which I do not know how it's done, but if I have understood DirectX right the driver itself should reject actually rendering the "subterranean water" simply through the normal Z-checks (where the GPU checks if a given surface or pixel is occluded by other things as seend from the camera, and then rejects those that it defines as hidden or out-of-view). This would sort of still cost a bit on the CPU (but not less than having all those extra polygons, since the cost on the CPU is still only two polygons and a few hooks to the textures in vRAM) since the CPU has to deliver this stuff to the GPU to be checked, but it should be "cut" before there's any texturing or such happening to the water surface that is hidden.

 

I hope that makes sense. I'm not an expert at that stuff so I may have misunderstood things, but there's my general understanding.

Edited December 17, 2010 by EtherealN

[WOFAT]

Thank you, I shall...

[mooshim]

God... reading this thread, I don't know whether to feel old or just kinda dumb. I wonder if google has a translator for this...:huh:

[Doctahg]

Will it be Track IR capable?

[EtherealN]

DCS:A-10C is already TrackIR capable.

[Doctahg]

Being very new to TrackIR...how to you set it in the options?

TY