Help Me With My Settings

Hi,

Here are my settings but the fling is kind of jerky, what would you recommend I increase or decrease? See my system in my signature below. Thank you!! Also, I don't appear to be able to display frame rate when in VR - do you guys know how to do this?

Two thoughts occur .

One is that we don't know what version you are running , open beta or stable . If the former , it is severely hobbled with performance issues that only ED can fix , although you can revert to stable .

The second thought is that cpu , which is clearly a bottleneck . If you can overclock it , you would realise a significant performance gain .

Otherwise , you may wish to consider dropping those settings that most affect the cpu . Chimney smoke , visibility range , and tree visibility . More trees = more shadows to calculate . I find that 70% or so is sufficient to avoid "popup" trees . Lens effects and high civil traffic are also candidates . I would drop them all , and check performance , then gradually increment up those features most important to you .

FPS VR , available on Steam for not much , will answer your last question if the DCS monitor is still bugged . (Rctrl+pause/break)

Two thoughts occur .

One is that we don't know what version you are running , open beta or stable . If the former , it is severely hobbled with performance issues that only ED can fix , although you can revert to stable .

 

The second thought is that cpu , which is clearly a bottleneck . If you can overclock it , you would realise a significant performance gain .

Otherwise , you may wish to consider dropping those settings that most affect the cpu . Chimney smoke , visibility range , and tree visibility . More trees = more shadows to calculate . I find that 70% or so is sufficient to avoid "popup" trees . Lens effects and high civil traffic are also candidates . I would drop them all , and check performance , then gradually increment up those features most important to you .

FPS VR , available on Steam for not much , will answer your last question if the DCS monitor is still bugged . (Rctrl+pause/break)

Thank you! I am running the old version 2.5, not the 2.6, so it is not that. I will try reducing the chimney smoke and trees to see the impact.

Thank you! I am running the old version 2.5, not the 2.6, so it is not that. I will try reducing the chimney smoke and trees to see the impact.

Might also want to turn down your PD setting if you don't get decent performance. 2.0 is extremely high

Yes PD of 2.0 is way too high for a Rift S.

1.2-1.3 should be plenty.

Id say these settings should be altered also:

-Terrain textures to Low ( probably no visual degrading but may lower CPU/GPU load)

-Civil traffic -Off

-Heat blur - Off

-Shadows to Flat only ( shadows is really hard on the hardware)

-MSAA - consider testing Off

-Depth of field - Off

-Lens effect - none

-clutter/grass/threes - min setting initially

-Chimney smoke -lowest

-Anisotropic filtering - begin lower, off or 2/4X

Cocpit global illumination - Off

-Start with Pixel desnity much lower- suggest 1.2 or 1.4.

This should get tou back on track with smooth gaming.

When you know its smooth, you can start increasing settings( only one by one). Look after sign of stutter or lower frame rate. Also look if tou actually see any digference in picture quality.

Quite a few really doesnt show better graphics in VR but it load your CPU or GPU, sometimes much without any real gain.

You have to realize that even with the best hardware available, you would have to compromise between picture quality and smooth fps flow.

Most of the settings above is mine current, with a i9@5.2Ghz, GTX2080ti(overclocked), 32Gb RAM.

And I strongly recommend as earlier said, to OC your CPU to at least 4.6/4.7Ghz. This means learning about overclocking and making sure your cooling including cooling paste on CPU is up to the job.

Main reason, your CPU is the bottleneck and actually your 6700K overclocked will not perfom that much lower than a brand new i7/i9 in DCS. Which means, getting a new CPU for DCS only would be kind of waisting money. I recently upgraded the CPU, but DCS was not the main reason. Had a i7 from 2013(3770K delidded@4.7 ghz) and that was fine.

Id say these settings should be altered also:

 

-Terrain textures to Low ( probably no visual degrading but may lower

Yeah I keep this low, eats some GPU VRAM. I see some visual degrading but only when looking outside (sitting in cockpit) and you see that runway near you is not so high quality. But I can live with that :smilewink: