DCS World Patch Notes Discussion Thread

I haven't updated yet. What new sounds does the update include for Hornet?

I haven't updated yet. What new sounds does the update include for Hornet?

The Hornet is quite cool, quiter and fuller in cockpit. F3 fly-by sound is really nice. On the external side F2, when I zoomed in up close to the front of aircraft there is some distortion in the sound coming out.

Sound is richer for me.

It still work in progress so more to come.

Do you use either the Kegetys or speed-of-heat variants of the shaders mod? Curious if anyone has tried Syria out with that. From what you are saying, I doubt it will help much.

No I don't. I spent a *LOT* of time optimising my settings (DCS, Windows, BIOS, ...) to get a nice balance between frame rate and eye candy, and in the previous maps (except for The Channel obviously) I sit around 45 fps which is good enough for me at the moment.

The new engine (multi-core and Vulkan) is indeed sorely needed, especially for us VR users.

I saw that there was an Israel skin for the f16, but I don’t see it in game? Heard several others with the same issue.

 

 

 

I was disappointed too, then I got the one from the download site and all is good..it was really easy to install, only took me about 30 seconds.:thumbup:

Yes seems to load faster, and vr in Syria is awesome!

 

Still TrackIR guy, but running 60fps min, over Syria, with pretty heavy settings for a mid range. Was hitting 120 fps at 2K feet on overflights. Runs as smooth as Caucasus with more eye candy (Syria)!

 

Maybe it isn't just Syria, maybe we got a boost across the board??

Anyone notice any performance improvement??

 

 

 

mine was a downgrade I had to set my terrain settings to low for Syria to get rid of stutter

New Hornet sounds = A big thumb UP :thumbup::thumbup:

Missions are coming, but they will take time

 

thanks

 

 

About 45 minutes worth. Whipped out my Swiss Army Mission Editor and already having a blast blasting away.

 

 

Bit like the Channel map, though, as someone pointed out. Shame to fly over it at 20,000+l this is a helo/CA playground!

Good for you: I have gigabit internet and got a maximum download speed of 11 MB/s. A lot better than what it used to be, but still shamefully low since it's not even 10% of my available bandwidth.

You can have 1000Gigabit bandwith, if somewhere along the line there's a tunnel which only allows 11Mbit/s, then that's your download speed.

 

 

 

Darn, I was super impressed with it today. Downloading Syria at 108MB/s from New Zealand. They must have local content here.

That's pretty nice, got a rocksteady 34,5Mbit/s yesterday while downloading the Syria map.

When did we get the ability to add a mobile TACAN station to a mission?

 

 

I am so incredibly happy with this update, and the state of DCS right now. Everything seems to be working great. I had a excellent experience in MP and SP with the SuperCarrier, Hornet, and Syria. Flew a sortie from the new Kuznetsov. Exploring the new alignment options for the Hornet, the new EXP radar modes. And I now just discovered we have TACAN units in game.

I'm incredibly impressed right now, and I know there have been some tough patches with bad updates and development delays.

 

 

Right now I'm just another satisfied customer if that helps...

Free Flight

 

Here's a Free Flight mission that includes most modules and helos across various airports.

Syria - Free Flight.miz

Here's a Free Flight mission that includes most modules and helos across various airports.

 

Great job, thanks! This saves me a lot of work to set up my own free flight mission :thumbup:

 

I've done a similar mission to explore the Persian Gulf area, if you're interested.

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3310197/

 

Happy flying!

Here's a Free Flight mission that includes most modules and helos across various airports.

 

Yes thanks for the MIZ file.

Downloading the map now............

Good for you: I have gigabit internet and got a maximum download speed of 11 MB/s. A lot better than what it used to be, but still shamefully low since it's not even 10% of my available bandwidth.

 

 

 

Yes it's unplayable at the moment: I just did a +/- 800 nm F-16 flight starting at Ramat David, and landing there again.

It's fine over the desert areas in the East, but in the Western areas I get between 17 and 28 fps at low-ish level, and extreme stuttering and screen-tearing, even in an empty map (my own aircraft being the only unit I placed).

 

Basically you can't fly around in the Syria map in VR without getting a massive headache...

It's a shame, because the map looks quite stunning indeed. I won't be doing any combat operations there until this gets fixed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strange...

 

For me the syria map is super smooth in VR.

 

 

 

Running on 1.5 PD on Rift S, ASW enabled, MSAA 2x, and experimental "stereo Frustum Culling" enabled.

 

 

But I also play with only vis.range on medium and without ground shadows. (building and tree shadows)

 

 

 

 

Edit: Terrain Textures may have a big impact. Big difference on fps between high or low on this map, as far as i noticed.

Edited August 20, 2020 by Tiphys

Edit: Terrain Textures may have a big impact. Big difference on fps between high or low on this map, as far as i noticed.

Yes so did I, after some experimentation. It runs fine on Low and Visibility Radius to High instead of Extreme.

When did we get the ability to add a mobile TACAN station to a mission?

 

 

I am so incredibly happy with this update, and the state of DCS right now. Everything seems to be working great. I had a excellent experience in MP and SP with the SuperCarrier, Hornet, and Syria. Flew a sortie from the new Kuznetsov. Exploring the new alignment options for the Hornet, the new EXP radar modes. And I now just discovered we have TACAN units in game.

I'm incredibly impressed right now, and I know there have been some tough patches with bad updates and development delays.

 

 

Right now I'm just another satisfied customer if that helps...

 

This! I went through all announcements since the beginning of the year, and the portable TACAN unit was never mentioned.

 

Please announce this retroactively for all to enjoy.

This! I went through all announcements since the beginning of the year, and the portable TACAN unit was never mentioned.

 

 

 

Please announce this retroactively for all to enjoy.

I am getting to know about the portable tacan unit recently.

Google search shows it is a tacan unit that can be place on an airfield, Farp or airstrip lacking tacan facility.

 

That is looks very interesting in dcs if what I am reading about it is correct as navigation to those airfield lacking tacan can be provide one during mission creation.

Strange...

 

For me the syria map is super smooth in VR.

 

 

 

Running on 1.5 PD on Rift S, ASW enabled, MSAA 2x, and experimental "stereo Frustum Culling" enabled.

 

 

But I also play with only vis.range on medium and without ground shadows. (building and tree shadows)

 

 

 

 

Edit: Terrain Textures may have a big impact. Big difference on fps between high or low on this map, as far as i noticed.

Its incredibly smooth for me too.

 

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Good job on the new fire, It's perfect! Will there be new smoke effect added in the upcoming update?

This! I went through all announcements since the beginning of the year, and the portable TACAN unit was never mentioned.

 

Please announce this retroactively for all to enjoy.

 

The 3D models was present into DCS long time ago.

Good job on the new fire, It's perfect! Will there be new smoke effect added in the upcoming update?

+1 wait for an answer

Many things broken with new patch, is there any hope for a quick hotfix today? or are we sadly stuck with this for the weekend at least?

Nice taxi handling on 109:thumbup:

But something wrong with 109 engine.:doh:

A friend sent me his task manager readings. Seems that the Syria terrain is filling up all the VRAM (he has 1080TI).

So there is probably a lot of swapping between VRAM and system.memory which hits performance. With Low texture, less VRAM is used per texture and performance should be much better.