GunSlingerAUS Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 As you can see from my specs, I have a pretty decent PC. DCS always runs superbly on it (if you don't count VR). However, since the new patch, I'm consistently getting a half-second pause every 30 seconds or so. It's very frustrating, as it ruins the immersion. Any ideas? And yes, I've tried installing it on a super fast M.2 Samsung EVO Pro with 32GB DDR-4000 memory. Intel 11900K/NVIDIA RTX 3090/32GB DDR4 3666/Z590 Asus Maximus motherboard/2TB Samsung EVO Pro/55" LG C9 120Hz @ 4K/Windows 10/Jotunheim Schiit external headphone amp/Virpil HOTAS + MFG Crosswind pedals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRuffen Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 I've had some tendencies of this, but only in the F-16 of the planes I've tested. No problems in the Hornet or M2000. But do you have these problems in other planes than the F-16, GunSlinger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protea1 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 did u clean your fxo and metashaders file after u installed latest build? seems to help give it a whirl also helped me was a "clean" of the module DCS Updater utility cheers AMD FX-8350 PALLIT GeForce GTX 1080 [ NVIDIA] CRUCIAL MX500 1TB SDD DELL P4317Q 43" TRACK IR Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog Viacom VoiceAttack [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziptie Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 I notice these from time to time as well - using VR. I delete my FXO and metashaders2 folders every time prior to starting DCS. Cheers, Don i7 6700 @4ghz, 32GB HyperX Fury ddr4-2133 ram, GTX980, Oculus Rift CV1, 2x1TB SSD drives (one solely for DCS OpenBeta standalone) Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, Thrustmaster Cougar MFDs Airframes: A10C, A10CII, F/A-18C, F-14B, F-16C, UH=1H, FC3. Modules: Combined Arms, Supercarrier. Terrains: Persian Gulf, Nevada NTTR, Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyracer Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 did u clean your fxo and metashaders file after u installed latest build? seems to help give it a whirl also helped me was a "clean" of the module DCS Updater utility cheers Can please explain the bold sentence for a certified noob? MY SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware Intel pentium 3 @ 800 MHz, 256 Mb RAM, Geforce 2 64Mb, Dell screen 1024x768 + Microsoft sidewhiner joystick + TrackIR 2 + TrackClitPro SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 98, Noice Attack & VIASAT PRO, SnackView Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziptie Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 Can please explain the bold sentence for a certified noob? In your saved games folder, then DCS open beta folder, then fxo folder - delete the contents of this. Then go back one level, find metashaders2 folder, delete the contents of that folder. Then boot DCS. The contents of those folders are shaders and texture files that can cause problems by duplicating or not being replaced properly after an update. Cheers, Don i7 6700 @4ghz, 32GB HyperX Fury ddr4-2133 ram, GTX980, Oculus Rift CV1, 2x1TB SSD drives (one solely for DCS OpenBeta standalone) Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, Thrustmaster Cougar MFDs Airframes: A10C, A10CII, F/A-18C, F-14B, F-16C, UH=1H, FC3. Modules: Combined Arms, Supercarrier. Terrains: Persian Gulf, Nevada NTTR, Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tintifaxl Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 This kind of stutter sounds to me like a background task grabbing ressources every 30 secs. Maybe a virus scanner or an indexer? Some people report that this helps with stutters: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4060188&postcount=1 and maybe also add disable_write_track=true if you don't need the track files. Windows 10 64bit, Intel i9-9900@5Ghz, 32 Gig RAM, MSI RTX 3080 TI, 2 TB SSD, 43" 2160p@1440p monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protea1 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 sorry bud....just check Zipties answer all the best AMD FX-8350 PALLIT GeForce GTX 1080 [ NVIDIA] CRUCIAL MX500 1TB SDD DELL P4317Q 43" TRACK IR Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog Viacom VoiceAttack [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sangusan Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Malwarebytes is a known cause for those random stutters you mentioned. If you're using it (or an equivalent) I suggest excluding your DCS install. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worrazen Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 (edited) As you can see from my specs, I have a pretty decent PC. DCS always runs superbly on it (if you don't count VR). However, since the new patch, I'm consistently getting a half-second pause every 30 seconds or so. It's very frustrating, as it ruins the immersion. Any ideas? And yes, I've tried installing it on a super fast M.2 Samsung EVO Pro with 32GB DDR-4000 memory. 1. Download the Microsoft ADK for Win10 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install The current latest is 1903, direct link: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2086042 2. Use custom installation and you only need to install the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) so only select that, this is a web installer, it will only download the selected components. (there is offline available but for the whole ADK) 3. Download and Install the NET Framework 4.8 Runtime (not developer pack), the WPT GUI may need it (i'm not sure which ver, but get the latest and you're safe) https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework/net48 4. Reboot 5. Search for "Windows Performance Recorder" and start it, expand the tree and deselect everything else, only select the checkboxes for CPU Usage, Disk IO, GPU Activity. And make sure you don't use Verbose detail level, switch to Light. Verbose is default and it will never remember the setting. 6. Start DCS, load your mission fully, where you know it's laggy (not a big mission tho) but do not start playing yet so don't unpause. 7. Start the Recorder, then go immediately inside DCS and play. Do not change the views or rotate the camera when recording, keep it strictly stationary at all times. Record for about 1 minute. Make sure the issue is actually present when recording, or else you have to scrap and cancel and repeat the recording. Please SAVE the file immediately, a new dialog will appear asking to confirm filename, click SAVE at the bottom immediatley, waiting there AFAIK creates an annoying section of uselessness (IMO) in the graph called "trace rundown", rename the file if you wish later manually with the explorer (such as DCS_version_description_Date). Do a test recording before, to set up the output path, it should remember it, while filenames are auto generated. 8. Do several recordings of variable lenght from 30 seconds to 1-2 minutes in various sections of your mission. Don't record over 2 minutes in one piece. Do not select a mission with too much activity, not too many AIs, prefer small mission. 9. The output is saved to .ETL files in Documents or wherever you saved it, make sure you at least zip them to compress the size significantly, use WinRAR or similar to use much better compression than the old ZIP format uses. Upload them here so I can take a look, you can do it yourself but I think you already got full hands with this especially if you're doing it first time. You can't really take a look at it quickly, it would take you hours to do anything (in depth stuff takes days, weeks) to get the experience to use the analyzer correctly, and to know what to look for. 4-5 recordings should well be enough if the spike is happening all the time, across all modules, missions, etc. Edited March 4, 2020 by Worrazen Modules: A-10C I/II, F/A-18C, Mig-21Bis, M-2000C, AJS-37, Spitfire LF Mk. IX, P-47, FC3, SC, CA, WW2AP, CE2. Terrains: NTTR, Normandy, Persian Gulf, Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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