Mission 11 fps on the ground

Love the campaign but the fps took a huge hit on mission 11, start up, taxi and take off my frames drop considerably, get in the air and everything is completely fine - is this missions a heavy hitter in terms of horse power needed to run smoothly? Granted there is a lot of stuff going on but i sometimes get the feeling that the m2000 is a resource hungry jet, more so than say the av8-b - anyone else notice a drop in perfemance?

Hey! Sorry, haven't experienced that and it's the first time I hear that M11 causes trouble.. anyone else getting this?

TL;DR:

Loaded Mission 11 up in single player - fps was similar to the other M-2000C campaign missions - ~45 fps on the ground (min ~35 fps), in the air 50-60 fps.

Detail:

I have DCS 2.5.2 pretty well optimised to avoid lag spikes in single player.

But had 3 or 4 lag spikes (~1 second) when messages triggered - don't know if it was 2.5.2, script triggers or because it was my first DCS run / texture load of the day.

Specs: i7 860 @2.8GHz , 12GB DDR3 , GTX1050Ti 4GB, 2+4TB HD, MSFFB2 joystick, X52 Pro Thottle, TIR5, Win 10 Pro x64, 1920X1080

To put my specs in context - my i7 has weak single core performance and I'm running DCS off a HD, rather than SSD, so avoid MP servers like the 104th as the large unit counts drop fps to the low 20's (at best).

Typical fps in Ranger 79's A-10C Piercing Fury - Mission 1 is ~35 fps

IMHO Mission 11 fps looks ok and the lag spikes I suffered were most likely due to the DCS engine or texture/effects loading.

I don’t think the mission is faulty, far from it, just that my pc which is fairly decent spec yet seemed to have a real hard time running it smoothly - as simgle player missions go this campaign has been amazing but has highlighted some issues i’ve never really had before and i’m keen to address the issue - is Ranger 79’s A-10C Piercing Fury a good mission to ‘benchmark’ performnce?

- is Ranger 79’s A-10C Piercing Fury a good mission to ‘benchmark’ performnce?

TBH, I'm not sure, it's just a mission I enjoyed that was on the limit of acceptable performance (~24 fps) on my system before the 1.5 -> 2.5 change.

I considered it a 'good' benchmark as Mission 1 was available as a 'sort of' free SP/MP trial while Ranger79 developed his full campaign.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=113333

Unfortunately the 'free' version doesn't look to have been updated for 2.5, but I expect Ranger79 is busy, keeping his paid DLC working in 2.5.x lol

So I gave that Piecing Fury mission a try and it was super smooth / really decent performance that i was happy with, i then went gack to mission 11 again to compare the 2 and it was also super butter smooth with no stutters whatsoever - the 2 ship su25’s took off followed by a pair a Mirage’s and even the mi-8 flying over did so completely smooth no jerkiness at all! I can’t explain why, even the taxi roll out ‘felt’ much better.

Gonna test some more and try and work out whats going on - thanks all

Glad to hear it was OK on the second try. Seems it is not connected to the mission itself :)

Enjoy the rest and hurry up, the Red Flag is just around the corner ;)

Ok so the problem looks to be connected with the game being in windowed mode, reverting back to full screen has completely sorted all fps issues including the stutters i had, its like a new game the diffence is really that huge. My apologies for posting this in the Campaign section for the Mirage, clearly it belongs in elsewhere - onto the final mission I go 07