Degraded framerate with 1.2.1

[BIGNEWY]

I am getting massive hits to FPS just looking at the terrain, if I look up into the sky I am back up to 40 - 50 fps as soon as I look at the terrain down to 16 - 17 fps ( no explosions just looking at terrain )

[Kuky]

I just installed 1.2.1 and I straight away used my own High.lua where I have 20km view distance for cities and bit more high res ground textures compared to default High.lua in sim and really... the sim is still running good for me.. same setting as what I had before to tress and bushes etc.. and honestly I can't tell any diference beween FPS I had in 1.2.0 with my tweaks and this one... I don't know what the fuss is about?

[GGM]

Seems it depends, coz I haven't noticed any frame rate loss also at first glance. Will check more intensively today.

[Corvus]

I just installed 1.2.1 and I straight away used my own High.lua where I have 20km view distance for cities and bit more high res ground textures compared to default High.lua in sim and really... the sim is still running good for me.. same setting as what I had before to tress and bushes etc.. and honestly I can't tell any diference beween FPS I had in 1.2.0 with my tweaks and this one... I don't know what the fuss is about?

 

You are lucky then:) Before uninstalling 1.2.0 i've checked my fps on Batumi's runway and it showed 43 (no mods, tweaks ect). After installing 1.2.1, setting it up as i had before in 1.2.0 i get 34 fps in same situation. It gets far worse later on: flying over Batumi i was getting 39 fps before, now it's 25 max. What's strange is that changing visibility to medium gives same result- 25 fps flying over Batumi, 34 on runway.

[Nate--IRL--]

Try renaming \\Bazar\World\Shapes\PRW-11.EDM to something else and try again.

 

Nate

[Corvus]

Try renaming \\Bazar\World\Shapes\PRW-11.EDM to something else and try again.

 

Nate

 

I gave it a try- result is almost the same, 34-35 at runway, 25 in flight over Batumi.

[SkateZilla]

i got my FrameRate back to 1.2.0 standards (or closer too) by dumping EDs DEfault 3-Screen LUA and going back to my custom Eyefinity LUA.

 

Still having intermittant issues with mouse, and having to ALT TAB and go back, at the start of missions or when going from Mainscreen to MP Screen.

 

Renderer also takes a minute to come back up when alt tabbing (sit at a black screen, then it comes back w/ scambled UI then restores it self correctly).

 

I was able to Get back about 80% of my Frame Rate on my system by using my Eyefinity LUA.

(Basically throws away the 3 Camera parameters, makes one Big Camera, and positions the UI on the center Screen).

 

Positioning the UI was the most work (which wasn’t more than 2 minutes)

 

As I have bezel correction on, so I have to take my Res (6048x1080), divide by 3:1 to get 2016x1080, which was still off,

 

Then I remembered, 2016 implies Bezels on both Sides of the Screen, and there is no Bezel correction on the edge of the left screen (position = 0), so 1920-2016=96 (for both sides), since the left screen only Does BC on the right Bezel, the Px for one side is 48, so 1920+48= 1968, which puts the UI/Subtitles/Radio Menus/Info Bar on External Views Perfectly on the center screen only without going behind the bezels.

 

From there is a matter of adjusting the Pit FoV a lil to reflect the 3 screens.

 

Now I get a 15-20% FrameRate hit when I fly low and fast with or without the MAV/TGP on. So it’s something to do with terrain and Looking at it, Flying High seems to allow higher FrPS, Coming down through the clouds though, as soon as Terrain is Visible, the FrPS takes the 15-20% Hit.

 

 

Also the Mouse Pointer not working when Mission Starts or when Going to the MP Menu. The MP Menu isn’t as much as an Issue as the ALT-TAB out and then back is quick.

 

ALT-TABing out at mission start, or anytime the renderer is active on the other hand, results in a Long wait at a black screen for the Renderer to restore itself, in which you also have to wait for it to restore the UI over the renderer.

 

In 1.2.0 it restore immediately and you can watch as the renderer restored textures.

 

Im hoping by time I get out of my Office today it’ll be fixed, other wise I’ll Post a Video.

[BIGNEWY]

Is this a ATI issue or are NVIDIA users getting frame rate hits ?

 

If I am looking towards terrain I am getting 10 - 15fps as soon as I look away from terrain back up to 25 - 30 fps. In its current state its unplayable for me, although it seems to run smooth after about 30 mins my eyes start to hurt :(

 

I hope this can be look at and resolved otherwise I will need to look at some serious modifications / tweaks to my client

[GriffonBR]

Well, my FPS are better now with the new update, but when I switch on my Track IR ON at DCS World, I get a lot of shutters. Does anybody noticed something like that?

I´m using a Track IR 5 + Track Clip Pro and the last version of Natural Point software.

My specs.

i5 2500k @ 4.3ghz

8GB Vengeance 1600Mhz

500 GB Western Digital Blue only for OS.

500 GB Western Digital Blue dedicated only for games. DCS World, FC2 and a lot of other games inside.

MSI GTX 660 Ti Power Edition OC.

OCZ Modxstream 700w

Dell S2230MX monitor

[Chippy]

If it makes you feel better, look at the sky when in game, all will return to normal :P

[SkateZilla]

Well, my FPS are better now with the new update, but when I switch on my Track IR ON at DCS World, I get a lot of shutters. Does anybody noticed something like that?

I´m using a Track IR 5 + Track Clip Pro and the last version of Natural Point software.

My specs.

i5 2500k @ 4.3ghz

8GB Vengeance 1600Mhz

500 GB Western Digital Blue only for OS.

500 GB Western Digital Blue dedicated only for games. DCS World, FC2 and a lot of other games inside.

MSI GTX 660 Ti Power Edition OC.

OCZ Modxstream 700w

Dell S2230MX monitor

 

I noticed Input Shutters on my Mouse Cursor as well, trying to flip switches and the cursor starts to jump a lil but.. kinda annoying.

[diveplane]

I noticed Input Shutters on my Mouse Cursor as well, trying to flip switches and the cursor starts to jump a lil but.. kinda annoying.

 

i dont think framerates are fully tweaked and optimised yet.

this is done near end of beta testing phases .

[BIGNEWY]

On a side note,

even setting everything to low / off has no effect still the same 10 -15 fps.

[cichlidfan]

i dont think framerates are fully tweaked and optimised yet.

this is done near end of beta testing phases .

 

DCS World has not been in beta, according to ED, since 10 July.

[GriffonBR]

Nobody here has any problem with shutters using Track IR devices?

I don´t know but I´m start to think that something at Nvidia CP is causing this issue. I´ve set everything to OFF on NVCP (the green icon of DCS World) but nothing seems to work.

Any tip?

[wess24m]

I've noticed a doubling of my framerates, everything maxed out getting above 60 FPS. no stutters, even loads faster in both SP and MP. I deleted everything and reinstalled zzz sound mod and smoke mod. I didn't anything special except delete everything off the HDD and reinstall new.

[SkateZilla]

i dont think framerates are fully tweaked and optimised yet.

this is done near end of beta testing phases .

 

I meant when i try to flip a switch, the + cursor flickers up and down or left to right (like my mouse if vibrating).

[YeaImRota]

I've noticed a doubling of my framerates, everything maxed out getting above 60 FPS. no stutters, even loads faster in both SP and MP. I deleted everything and reinstalled zzz sound mod and smoke mod. I didn't anything special except delete everything off the HDD and reinstall new.

 

Could you link to the smoke mod? I have a feeling that a major cause of the bad frame rates is the new smoke effects not being optimized.

 

Is this a ATI issue or are NVIDIA users getting frame rate hits ?

 

If I am looking towards terrain I am getting 10 - 15fps as soon as I look away from terrain back up to 25 - 30 fps. In its current state its unplayable for me, although it seems to run smooth after about 30 mins my eyes start to hurt :(

 

I hope this can be look at and resolved otherwise I will need to look at some serious modifications / tweaks to my client

 

 

I use a GTX670 and also have suffered massive frame rate hits.

[Meatwod]

I've noticed a doubling of my framerates, everything maxed out getting above 60 FPS. no stutters, even loads faster in both SP and MP. I deleted everything and reinstalled zzz sound mod and smoke mod. I didn't anything special except delete everything off the HDD and reinstall new.

 

Do you have a link to these that you can share with the group? If the new smoke is the problem, then this smoke mod might do the trick.

[-Mop-]

I meant when i try to flip a switch, the + cursor flickers up and down or left to right (like my mouse if vibrating).

 

i´ve got this too

[-Mop-]

I realised a huge impact on my performance... also the hotfix didn´t make anything better...

[USAFMTL]

Same here. I dropped my settings to medium and still so bad you cannot fly it.

[wolfstone]

i have had to turn everything down basicly ,i have noticed that the game does not use my second Grafic card it stays on idle...

my system is AMD 8core @4GHZ 16 gb ddr3 ram @2133ghz and 2 X6970s and the game is on its own SSD drive i get 1 fps at start and if i am licky it will go up to 20 but its very unstable, for some unknown reason my windows explorer keeps closing down as well since i have updated..

Edited October 2, 2012 by wolfstone

[lokitexas]

i5 3570k @ 4.3

560GTX ti 2gig

8gig Ram

Intel SSD

 

With almost full settings (sans water and civ traffic) I was getting 30-50fps constant, in 1.2.0 .

 

Now same settings in 1.2.1, I am getting 17-23 constant. I have lowered settings and it seems to make no difference at all. Used Nvidia CP as well as used only the game settings. No difference. Changed High.Lua and still no difference.

 

Also loading a mission is extremely long. Almost double from 1.2.0 .

 

Hope ED has found what is causing this. Is this a minority issue, or more folks getting this huge drop?

Edited October 3, 2012 by lokitexas

[ShuRugal]

SEVERE loss of framerate after update

 

updated to 1.2.1 following the stated procedure on the news post. no snags there.

 

got the game running, again, no snags.

 

load up the shooting range (KA-50) and i'm looking at 10 FPS cold and dark on the pad. Before the update I was getting 24-30 under the same conditions.

 

Started up and was looking at 8 FPS before takeoff. this dropped to 6 once airborne.

 

Checked settings, all are as i had them previously configured: same resolution, MSAA and other fancy effects turned off. regular AA forced off in nVidia control panel. Display drivers are current.