Graphics card

I still use a GTX 1070 card, is this enough to run the F-14 ? My cpu is a i7 6000 something and my RAM is 32 gig . I don't play online or fight anything, I just fly around and use navigation to get from A to B if this makes a difference. Is my GC still relevant ?

Mizzy

I’m using a 980Ti in VR with a 6700k. It works great, but I can’t use the mirrors in Vr.

The 1070 is roughly comparable to the 980Ti. That said, I’m currently working on an upgrade either to the 1080Ti or the 2080Ti.

Edited to add - I’m usually flying in a dynamic multiplayer environment, so that’s an additional load on the GPU. Based on your intended usage, I think you’d be OK.

according to the e-shop, 1070 is enough for high graphics settings, but not for VR.

I use a 970 with VR. It works.

1070Ti in VR at the default graphics settings for VR. Game runs smooth as silk in the Tomcat.

I use 980m for vr. Plenty of guys use 1070s.

1070 will be fine. If framerate is a bit low the first things I'd turn down are shadows. They seem to have a big impact for me on a 780ti in 4k.

1070 will be fine. If framerate is a bit low the first things I'd turn down are shadows. They seem to have a big impact for me on a 780ti in 4k.

Especially "terrain shadows" are slowing down my machine massively, thus I turn them off, but I keep the object shadows to low or medium, to improve depth perception when flying at 10 to 50m above ground.

I'm running DCS with GTX 1070 on 3440x1440 with most of the settings set to high. GPU struggles while being on the ground sometimes with FPS dropping down even to 30 FPS (usually I'm quite creative with populating airbases with static planes and other objects in the mission editor) in F-14 or F/A-18.

I would say that 1070 for 3400x1440 is just enough minimum for the current DCS. Up in a sky it's quite ok. In 1080p GTX 1070 should be more than sufficient. For 4K I would think about better GPU or be prepared to accept reduced graphics settings.

Upgrading memory size from 16 to 32 GB doesn't seem to influence the FPS but helps for the macro stutter - less frequent landscape loading especially with the increased pre-load radius.

With i7 I would check if disabling HyperThreading doesn't improve the FPS.

Another important thing quite often missed is playing with the NVidia settings. Try setting Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames to 1 and Multithreading Optimization to On, V-Sync to Off.

I just upgraded from a gtx 970 to a rtx 2070 armor oc. I have my frames locked at 75 and I never see it go below except when using the Tomcat. I lose about 7 frames if I have the mirrors on and a couple more if I have high shadows enabled in the cockpit. My resolution is 2560x1080

I only have a GTX1060 3Gb, i7-4790 (4Ghz), 16G Ram and have solid 60FPS (limited to 60 in cfg). Med-High settings and really happy with the performance. :)