Which CPU and Motherboard to run DCS really well?

Not bad if this rumor is valid :)

Nope. That's about it.

Install and run a dedicated server on your PC. There's some good guides around on that. Load one of your existing missions and run it using the dedicated server. You have the option to allow others to use it, but can happily password protect the server so only you can access.

Load DCS as per normal, then log in via multiplayer to your own server.

 

Management of your CPU cores won't be done by DCS, rather by windows.

So for example, if you have a 4 core CPU, windows will give a core to the dedicated server and when you load the DCS client, will allocate a different core to the game. So effectively, you're making DCS a 2.5 core (as the DCS client offloads audio to a different core to the main game).

As mentioned, you need a decent amount of RAM to do it, I'd say a min of 32GB.

 

Hope that helps.

Tried doing what you suggested. Got a dedicated server to run, however can't figure out how to actually open up DCS after it is running because DCS does not boot to the UI screen, it just stays on the intro scree with "DCS" and a black background behind it like when you start it, except this intro screen does not change :huh:

Tried doing what you suggested. Got a dedicated server to run, however can't figure out how to actually open up DCS after it is running because DCS does not boot to the UI screen, it just stays on the intro scree with "DCS" and a black background behind it like when you start it, except this intro screen does not change :huh:

Any joy on this?

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Sorry if I'm reposting prior comments, but I didn't want to go through the whole thread to give you my opinion.

I'm running the AMD 3900X on an X570 MB.

My processor(s) are barely being used. Although DCS isn't optimized for multi-threading/core, my primary core rarely goes above 45% with extremely high settings.

I'm guessing any of the Ryzen 9 or 7 procs would be great, and the AM4 socket on the X570 MB's gives you plenty of future proofing as AMD has announced compatibility on their newer procs out to 2022 and Zen3.

If you have a 2080 super I would believe that it will be the bottleneck once you upgrade. This should give you plenty of performance.

Assumming you don't have some really cheap ram (you should go with at least 3200 ram, I'm running 4000 ram but don't think 4000 neccissarily gives a boost over 3200) Below 3200 will experience drops, dual channel shoudl be required IMO.

I'm getting just shy of 60 fps, lets say 55 stable on most maps, around 30 on super carrier with a 1070 ti on very high settings.

The 4000 RAM setting does actually hurt your performance.

Take some performance notes now, with 4000...and then dial them back to 3600 and see again, things should get slightly better.

Any joy on this?

nope. In the grim reapers video tutorial that i watched they too had the DCS screen not boot to UI. The only way to close it along with the server was to use task manager. So the way they had it was so that the server was running and others could join, but never showed how to actually get into your own server. :(