Kameni Posted March 21, 2013 Posted March 21, 2013 In the recent few days I've tried to raise stability of DCSW on my PC by following "Tweak": PC Configuration: Win7 x64 RAM: 8GB CPU: Intel E8400 @3.00GHz (not overclocked) GPU: ATI HD5770 Sapphire VaporX @960/1300MHz (GPU/Memory) Now, as you may see, not some impressive config. But, this is what I did: 1. Start TaskManager 2. Start DCSW 3. Enter desired server 4. After loading the server, switch to TaskManager and set DCSW process to "High Priority". It has crashed only once (probably because of excessive alt-tabing) since I do this. Tonight, at the moment where 5 players dropped connection on 51st server - I haven't even had lag or FPS Drop. A friend tried the same - he still crashed after a while because of server overpopulation mostly (he doesn't have problems on low-player-number servers). But - I now don't have so much problems. Some of you might find this helpful, so I posted. Sorry if I'm wasting anyone elses time.
Devrim Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 It's worth to try I think. Thanks a lot Kameni. Intel i7-14700@5.6GHz | MSI RTX4080 SuperSuprimX | Corsair V. 64GB@6400MHz. | Samsung 1TB 990 PRO SSD (Win10Homex64) Samsung G5 32" + Samsung 18" + 2x8"TFT Displays | TM Warthog Stick w/AVA Base | VPC MongoosT-50CM3 Throttle | TM MFD Cougars | Logitech G13, G230, G510, PZ55 & Farming Sim Panel | TIR5 & M.Quest3 VR >>MY MODS<< | Discord: Devrim#1068
snuffles Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 Save yourself the ALT-Tabbing and use Process Tamer to automate the change in thread priority: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/proctamer/ 1 I don't always openly list my things. But when I do, I put it in my signature.
Kameni Posted March 22, 2013 Author Posted March 22, 2013 Excellent, Tasselhof! Thank you. I will test this over the weekend.
Hamblue Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 You should also be able to go to the process tab, right click on the process and assign affinity. That dedicates a core of your processor the the app. I don't think the program uses multi-cores so should work well. Asus Sabertooth P67 Motherboard 2600k CPU, 16 gig DDR3, 1600. Samsung 830, 256 gig hard drive, GTX780 Video Card, Warthog Hotas, Razer Mamba mouse. Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals. Trackir 5, Verizon FIOS 25Meg Up/Down
St3v3f Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 You should also be able to go to the process tab, right click on the process and assign affinity. That dedicates a core of your processor the the app. I don't think the program uses multi-cores so should work well. - DCS does not use multiple cores? correct (except for some sound stuff that is running in a seperate thread) - Setting the affinity dedicates a core to a process? No, it limits the process to certain cores. Huge difference aka: Baron [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
SkateZilla Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 Setting Thread Priority Forces Windows to Allocate resources to that thread before anything else, Included normal windows functions, having a 4 or 8 core CPU, you wont have any problems, a Single/Dual core CPU, and you'll have windows prompting you with unresponsive windows services that terminated. Windows 10 Pro, Ryzen 2700X @ 4.6Ghz, 32GB DDR4-3200 GSkill (F4-3200C16D-16GTZR x2), ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate, XFX RX6800XT Merc 310 (RX-68XTALFD9) 3x ASUS VS248HP + Oculus HMD, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS + MFDs
Kameni Posted March 24, 2013 Author Posted March 24, 2013 Single/Dual core CPU, and you'll have windows prompting you with unresponsive windows services that terminated. Not true. Never happened for me. And I used this feature for more than DCS for a long time. Then again, my PC is well maintained and does not run unnesecarry processes. (e.g. startup junk)
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