What FPS would you consider good on this?

[Dudester22]

I was just wonder what FPS would you consider good for this game or that make the game playable? I get between 52 and 35 FPS and I am wondering if there is anyway way I can get it to run more balanced instead of so up and down? Maybe show me some settings you have that would work well me me? I have just switched heat blur on also because I am not sure if that is such a FPS killer. Thanks

Edited May 6, 2013 by Dudester22

[Sov13t]

Hey dudester!

 

Anything above 30FPS is good, in fact a lot of players tend to clamp their FPS at 30 to avoid having noticeable jumps. Since you are running with only one screen and at 1080p you can probably clamp it around 35-40 FPS.

 

I have not done it yet myself in DCS 1.2.4, but I believe it is done through autoexec.cfg within the Saved Games\Config\ directory with the command maxfps = X [someone please correct me if I am wrong]

[Sorin]

I have it locked at 30FPS and I like it.

Steady FPS is more important than high FPS.

[Dudester22]

Hey dudester!

 

Anything above 30FPS is good, in fact a lot of players tend to clamp their FPS at 30 to avoid having noticeable jumps. Since you are running with only one screen and at 1080p you can probably clamp it around 35-40 FPS.

 

I have not done it yet myself in DCS 1.2.4, but I believe it is done through autoexec.cfg within the Saved Games\Config\ directory with the command maxfps = X [someone please correct me if I am wrong]

 

Can someone confirm this is how you do it? Also, I would like to know what you think of my setting I have included in the picture I uploaded? Do you think I could put the bars up for example and not see much, if any FPS drop?

 

Update. I don't see it here >>>>"autoexec.cfg within the Saved Games\Config\ directory with the command maxfps = X [someone please correct me if I am wrong]"<<<<

 

Could someone please direct me to where i can alter the max FPS. Thanks!!

Edited May 6, 2013 by Dudester22

[cichlidfan]

I believe you need to create that file yourself.

[Dudester22]

I believe you need to create that file yourself.

 

How to do that? Because I don't want to keep using Badicam to do it.

[Lange_666]

From the graphics readme.txt in the Config dir:

 

Old graphics.cfg is gone and replaced with graphics.lua.

However, please, do not edit this file directly.

Otherwise you'll lose your changes after each update.

 

New method for overriding options is to create (or edit) a file

 

C:\Users\<YOUR-LOGIN>\Saved Games\DCS\Config\autoexec.cfg

 

or

 

C:\Users\<YOUR-LOGIN>\Saved Games\edModelViewer\Config\autoexec.cfg

 

(for model viewer)

 

and place your changes there.

Note:

- autoexec.cfg settings will override the options set via GUI.

- Graphic options in autoexec.cfg should be prefixed with options.graphics.

- file encoding should be UTF-8 without BOM

 

Example autoexec.cfg:

 

options.graphics.maxfps = 30

options.graphics.render3D = false

options.graphics.ScreenshotQuality = 75

-- add custom texture path

-- note the slashes!

table.insert(options.graphics.VFSTexturePaths, "c:/Users/<LOGIN>/Saved Games/DCS/MyTextures")

 

@Dudester22: What videocard do you have? nVidia or ATI?

If nVidia, use adaptive VSync setting in the DCS World profile. If you run a 60Hz monitor, your FPS will be capped to 30 automatically. Just be sure you set Res. Of Cockpit Displays to a "every frame" resolution because otherwise these will go down to 15 FPS max and will stutter a little bit (only noticable when IR-video or TV-video is displayed).

[aussieboy]

An interesting thing about FPS are they're governed by your monitors refresh rate, whatever the maximum refresh rate of the monitor is becomes the maximum you can use, anything FPS above that number is a waste and not used.

[Dudester22]

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@Dudester22: What videocard do you have? nVidia or ATI?

If nVidia, use adaptive VSync setting in the DCS World profile. If you run a 60Hz monitor, your FPS will be capped to 30 automatically. Just be sure you set Res. Of Cockpit Displays to a "every frame" resolution because otherwise these will go down to 15 FPS max and will stutter a little bit (only noticable when IR-video or TV-video is displayed).

 

Nvidia. How do I do this? I don't see "autoexec.cfg" in any of those places you mention. Thanks!!

Edited May 7, 2013 by Dudester22

[Lange_666]

- Click right on the desktop

- In that menu select nVidia Control Panel

- On the left select "Manage 3D Settings"

- Once there, select the Programs Settings tab

- In the drop down menu, look for a DCS entry (like Digital Combat Simulations: Black Shark or DCS World, both use the same DCS.exe)

- Scroll to the bottom of the settings to Vertical Sync.

- Set it to Adaptive (half the refresh rate)

- Set Triple Buffering to "On"

 

Hit the Apply button on the bottom right. Done!!

 

You need drivers above 300.xx to have the "adaptive" option under VSync.

[Dudester22]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.