Does having too many activated modules cause stutter?

So I have the following activated modules:

FC3,A-10C, AJS, Bf109, P-51D, F-5E, CA, Mi-8, UH-1, Mig-15.

There is a FPS drop when inside airbases sometimes reaching 15 FPS in some modules, like AJS. Outside airbases and flying high, this gets to 25 FPS. when moving to F3 view flyby, the plane acts normal, and on passing up close its ok too, just when rear aspect is shown (going away), the stutter occurs momentarily on ALL modules.

My question is, does having that much activated modules within Caucasus cause this? Shall I remove some modules that I dont regularly fly?

It has been long since I thought about a SSD. Is it easy to transfer 1.5 to it from C:/Program Files if I get one? Or should I uninstall it from the C then download it and install it on the SSD if I do get one? Shall I get a 128 GB or 256 GB SSD for DCS?

I am not sure if its hardware or software problem so I hope I posted it right where it belongs.

1. The amount of installed modules does not affect game performance.

2. You just move the installation folder to the SSD drive

3. Get 256 GB (thrust me on this ;)

It would be nice if you have your specs in the signature (15 or 25 fps is like slideshow to me)

Let me know if you need more help to set DCS to perform more fps ;)

Take care,

Piotr.

+1 with =Pedro= for 256 Gb

First of all try to defragment DCS folder.

Or should I uninstall it from the C

You cannot just transfer it from folder to folder because of StarForce. You should reinstall it.

You cannot just transfer it from folder to folder because of StarForce. You should reinstall it.

Not true. Please check your sources cause you giving wrong advice :music_whistling:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=118796

3rd post. :D

First of all try to defragment DCS folder.

When you move the DCS folder to SSD drive don't even touch the defragmentation option - trust me on that too ;)

Piotr, thanks for the advice. As to my specs,

AMD FX8150

Gigabyte GTX 650 Ti OC 2Gb

8 Gigs of RAM

HDD 1TB

Win 7 Home Standard

TIR4 pro

TMWH

MFG Crosswind

Its important to know too, that I have no lag with F-5E or Belsimtek and ED modules, with the best running one being A-10C (no stutters at all), at least in airbase.

In air, as described above, with fly by view rear aspect.

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I have my O/S on one SSD, and DCS on a separate. Both are 256GB's. Definitely want a min of 256GB's for DCS :-)

Piotr, thanks for the advice. As to my specs,

AMD FX8150

Gigabyte GTX 650 Ti OC 2Gb

8 Gigs of RAM

HDD 1TB

Win 7 Home Standard

TIR4 pro

TMWH

MFG Crosswind

 

Its important to know too, that I have no lag with F-5E or Belsimtek and ED modules, with the best running one being A-10C (no stutters at all), at least in airbase.

 

In air, as described above, with fly by view rear aspect.

 

 

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Do you have heat blur on? That might be causing the rear view stutter. I would imagine that variations in frame rates between modules are more to do with the modules themselves, rather than your hardware (although that 650 Ti will no doubt be struggling, regardless of module).

Why 256gb drives for dcs and opsys?

Why 256gb drives for dcs and opsys?

I started out with just one SSD (256GB) and a 1TB HDD. My O/S drive (c:), has some "legacy" installs on it. the 1TB HDD is used as my garbage drive.

Over time, I decided to get a second SSD. To dedicate this for DCS, (I have a production, alpha, and beta installs). I also felt from a performance perspective, it would best for the O/S to have it's own SSD, and my primary app (DCS) having a separate one.

Lastly, with the onset of buying a Rift, I purchased a 500GB SSD. I've dedicated this drive purely for all of the VR games I've picked up.

Do you have heat blur on? That might be causing the rear view stutter. I would imagine that variations in frame rates between modules are more to do with the modules themselves, rather than your hardware (although that 650 Ti will no doubt be struggling, regardless of module).

Yes I have heat blur on. Yes it does struggle, mainly now Mig-15 trying to slave magnetic compass causes lag in pressing and releasing the slaving button. I'm just waiting on the Ti to die on me so I invest in 1080 Ti (if there is one). However my monitor is 16:10, 1366*768 native resolution. If I take the 1080, definitely I'd get also TH2Go and split on three widescreen monitors.

Javelina, I will get the SSD for DCS only as all my other games including Arma 3, RoFICe, ETS2, SH3, SBPro (albeit also some stutter on that last one in loaded scenarios) function more or less adequately. Once I have the SSD I shall report here if the stutter is gone under current settings.

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An eight core CPU will work far better with other games than DCS due to the very limited use of other cores. That may be a factor.

Why would you still go with a TH2GO with your future 1080 in 2017/18? All AMD/NVIDIA Cards support Eyefinity / Surround, which gives you the ability to have 3 Screens as one big screen without any additional hardware?

DCS is sadly, like Arma, pretty much running only on a single core. So Multi-Core Performance is irrelevant.

Why would you still go with a TH2GO with your future 1080 in 2017/18? All AMD/NVIDIA Cards support Eyefinity / Surround, which gives you the ability to have 3 Screens as one big screen without any additional hardware?

 

DCS is sadly, like Arma, pretty much running only on a single core. So Multi-Core Performance is irrelevant.

I did not know that. Thing is the connectivity could not be possible if I am using three 1366x768 monitos side by side connected by VGA. I never seen three VGA ports on a 1080.