Strange FPS behaviour

[Vlerkies]

JUst looking right at my lighting panel, zoomed so that no part of the view is looking outside the cockpit, if I turn the flood light on I can drop as my as 25-30 fps, just by turning the flood light on.

[Wolf Rider]

Gotta keep in mind just how old the current engine is, the era of hardware the current engine was designed in and then see why EDGE is being developed.

 

Add in to that the difficulty associated with making a sim scalable across multiple cores and how many cores each player runs with. (just getting an engine to work properly on a multicore is apparently a task within itself)

Is the bulk of simmers running just a dual core?

Is the least sized group running a 6 core CPU? (I doubt very much that a great number of simmers will be running 6 cores)

 

Is the target of development for a 2 core or 4 core or 6 core?

[LordWolf]

They're making edge, so lets hope it has a different rendering settings

[TZeer]

Gotta keep in mind just how old the current engine is, the era of hardware the current engine was designed in and then see why EDGE is being developed.

 

Add in to that the difficulty associated with making a sim scalable across multiple cores and how many cores each player runs with. (just getting an engine to work properly on a multicore is apparently a task within itself)

Is the bulk of simmers running just a dual core?

Is the least sized group running a 6 core CPU? (I doubt very much that a great number of simmers will be running 6 cores)

 

Is the target of development for a 2 core or 4 core or 6 core?

 

 

The engine might be old, but it's still pretty. What really kills it sometimes is the shitty optimization.

 

* Heat blur effect, drags down performance even when your not looking at it.

 

* Cockpit flood lights, 30-50 FPS loss by just turning on a light in your cockpit. It's shitty optimization or bad code. Period.

 

* Water effects. Putting it on high making your FPS go all over the place. Even when your not even looking anywhere near water.

 

 

Everyone is talking about EDGE, but if EDGE is as badly optimized as the current engine it wont matter.

[SkateZilla]

Current engine is pretty much over 10 years old :)

[AtaliaA1]

I've experienced similar issue on my old system with a low-end GPU. I was able to achieve around 60 FPS when looking down, but no more than 14 looking towards the horizon, no matter how low settings I used.

 

My GPU load wasn't anywhere near 100% too. Not sure about CPU load though.

 

What is interesting, this issue came with DCSW 1.2.0. In previous beta release, I was able to maintain between 25-30 FPS at all times except huge battles, even with that poor system. AFAIK, nobody came up with some serious explaination why FPS was affected so badly on some systems by introducing 1.2.0.

 

 

Wasn't 1.2.0s' release inclusive of the new Graphics Engine?

[AtaliaA1]

I love this sim, and all that, but you really have to consider what they were thinking making it run on ONE CORE and putting only SOUND on the second CORE.... I'm flabbergasted by that.

 

 

Isn't that a matter of "When" and "Where" the software was being developed. No one had Multi Core Programming for Gaming back then.? AFAIK.

[SkateZilla]

1.2.0 and 1.2.1 introduced Combined Arms and soem extra stuff / layers to the terrain detail IIFC.

[Wolf Rider]

O.P. being previously known and documented concerns

[xcom]

Tzeer are you using FFB joystick? and it is enabled?

I got a problem with my Sidewinder FFB2, whenever the FFB is enabled in the game i lose around 20-30 FPS.

 

Also, I'd suggest removing some settings in the BIOS regarding CPU hangouts, I don't remember the exact setting name, I think it changes from BIOS to BIOS but the setting is the same, it checks wether the CPU is in max use and if not it lowers the multiplyer.

 

My spec -

I5 2500K OC@4.2GHZ

Radeon HD6870 1GHZ

DDR3 4GB 1600MHZ

Win8 Ultimate