Low FPS

[Krupi]

Hi all,

 

I need some advice on what settings to turn down to give my FPS a hike.

 

My specs

Gigabyte X58A-UD5 | Intel i7 930 | Corsair H70 | ATI 5970 | 6GB Kingston DDR3 | Intel 160GB G2 | Win 7 Ultimate 64 Bit |

 

Yesterday I was flying with everything on max in the P-51 and checked my FPS I was getting around 20-10 most of the time and turning down settings such as cockpit res and FSAA from 16Q to 12 (IIRC) made no difference!

 

Any advice?

[Ala13_ManOWar]

Well, although my processor is a AMD 965 I think it's not so important in DCSW, my graphic card is a 5850 not far from yours. I have...

 

Textures High (no problem with 1gb or more vid memory)

Scenes High

Civ traffic Off (On time ago, give a try)

Water Medium (this is a FPS killer, and DCS water is not very good so lower it)

Visib Range Medium (try high with yours I had time ago, but medium is fine)

Heat Blur On (this has nothing to do with frames, your taste)

Shadows Medium (FPS killer, not very different high or medium)

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Res cockpit disp 1024

MSAA x4

 

Now some things that kill a lot of frames...

 

Clutter 250m (try yours but higher settings kill FPS specially on runway)

Tress visb. 6000m (higher setting may be possible with yours but not the highest I think)

 

and...

 

Tree shadows Off (this is the highest FPS killer I found, start with this and then lower others)

 

 

I had higher settings before, but I lowered for a fraps record and finally let them because they look fine and its smoother. With yours higher would be possible but give a try. Hope it helps.

 

S!

[Krupi]

Thanks dude I will give it a go, I find it rather amusing that unlike most others I could get a steady 60fps in Clod with most setting on high yet in this and RoF I cannot get anywhere near 60fps, then again Clod didn't exactly have a decent AA.

 

I was using a Xfire profile in Clod so I might have to try it on DCS :)

 

Thanks for the advice ManOWar I will report my findings :thumbup:

[JaseGill]

Guys,

DCS is very processor hungry. The Graphics card isn't doing all of the physics and background tasks, that's down to the Processor.

That is why you're not seeing any performance gain by changing graphics settings. Your processor maxed and it cant provide the performance required for DCS to be running at the FPS you're looking for.

 

Even with my system (see signature) I get late 20's early 30's best on the ground and 60 plus in the air. There are still slowdowns even then.

 

Crossfire wont work either, neither will SLI, DCS doesn't support it.

Check a few threads here and even though this reply is a general simplification you will see it to be so.

Rgds,

J.

[swe_badger]

I'd recommend you to lower MSAA quite a bit, at full HD you don't really need more than 4x anyway. Also, the "cockpit resolution" doesn't actually alter the cockpit res, it is the resolution of MFD's and shkval TV monitor in those aircrafts that have those. 512 are a good setting for that I reckon.

[Krupi]

Thanks guys and nice tip badger I assumed it was cockpit texture res.

 

I do have a overclock profile but the temps were a bit too high, I might have to look at reworking it.

[Ala13_ManOWar]

Good to know. Thanks you guys!

 

S!

[Krupi]

I have a SSD but currently DCS is on my HDD would I gain much performance moving it across?

Edited January 22, 2013 by Krupi

[KillaALF]

Define performance? Better fps = nope, faster loading times = most definitely.

[Krupi]

Define performance? Better fps = nope, faster loading times = most definitely.

 

Certainly did vastly improve my loading times :)