4K tv with GTX 1080?

[Cibit]

Can I make a suggestion. I have been playing around with this new aspect of Nvidia control panel.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=187520

I was running everything maxed out in 4k on a 40" 1080 TV, (although I will need to reduce some settings for FPS gain), go back to your 32 " monitor and try running 4K on that, it may prove to have less overheads than running on a dedicated 4k display. Just a thought and apologies if there is something ridiculous in what I suggest:)

[rajdary]

Hi, i have an Alienware Aurora which i have modified with my sig below. Im running at 4K with my 780Ti and it works very well in Caucasus Map, i had to erase Nevada because of space in my ssd so havnt tried it out since my other 780Ti went burst:(

I am actually surprised at how well it works with one card.

Yesterday i got a call from my computer shop and they informed me that my second 780Ti was within the warranty period ( i have had it for 2 years and 11months) and i will get a refund that i can spend in another product of theirs :thumbsup: , i was so happy with ASUS that i ordered a 1080Ti from them, the OC edition, its more or less the equivalent but i will have to pay a small difference. I wanted one anyway. But i am very surprised at how well the 780Ti deals with Caucasus in 4K, here are my settings :

 

Textures-High

Terrain Textures-High

Civ. Traffic-Medium

Water-Medium

Visib Range-Ultra

Heat Blur-High

Shadows-Low

Resolution-3840x2160

Aspect Ratio-1.7777777777778

Monitors-1 Screen

Cockpit Displays-1024 Every Frame

MSAA-16Q

HDR-On

Depth of Field-Off

Lens Effects-Flare

 

Clutter/Grass - 150

Trees Visb - 8450

Preload Radius - 150000

 

Anisotropic Filtering - 16x

Terrain Object Shadows - Flat

 

Note : before i had a triple monitor setup, now my other monitors are not plugged in only the Phillips 4k.

 

Disable Aero interface YES

Vsync YES

Fullscreen YES

Edited May 20, 2017 by rajdary

[BitMaster]

 

Cockpit Displays-1024 Every Frame

 

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I am almost certain you mostly fly airframes without MFD's, otherwise that setting is killer !

 

Try that setting in the Ka-50 and cycle your Abris, or A10-C.

[rajdary]

No, its 70% A-10C. I have seriously spent alot of time tinkering with setups until i found this setup which doesnt kill my 780Ti. I have actullay played and finished (I know its not the most demanding) the Stone Shield Campaign in the A-10C with this setup and apart from some minor dips never even noticed stutters or anything, i can only remember dips after Cbu's make impact but very minor.

 

The biggest impact to frames in my experience are the shadows, terrain shadows and tree shadows, they really make a difference!

 

By the way i have completed the first 2 missions of the Piercing fury Campaign and everything has been very smooth.

Edited May 20, 2017 by rajdary

[104th_Money]

toutenglisse already took the 4k tv back and got a 32" 2k monitor. But will try your suggestion.

Edited May 21, 2017 by 104th_Money

[104th_Money]

radjary, you are one of the lucky ones. I just returned my 4k tv for a 2k monitor and its barely hanging on. Not sure what I am not doing that everyone else is that is making it work for them...

[104th_Money]

BitMaster, water at low, but I like the civilian traffic alot! Adds to the immersion factor when you are on final and look out the window to see cars and trucks passing by. Especially good when flying the Gazelle over Vegas at night. Looks frigging awesome

[104th_Money]

Aceviper, I used the MSI Afterburner utility to turn max temp down to 70 degrees celsius and put gpu fan to 100%. didnt make a difference for me.

[rajdary]

I just remembered that another very important step is to uninstall all old graphics drivers with the DDU utility (Display Driver Uninstaller) look it up in google. Then install the latest one from nvidia

[rajdary]

There are also some things to change in the Nvidia control Panel, like preffer maximum Performance for the Power Management.

 

I Just posted my settings if you are intrested :

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3146386&postcount=24

[104th_Money]

Ok so quick update. After returning the 4k tv and going with an ASUS 32" 1440p monitor, the 1080 FE seemed like it struggled just a bit to keep up.

 

So I bit the bullet and got an EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW3.

 

In 1.5, the difference was minimal, slightly better frame rates. Bumped the MSAA from 8x to 16x and the fps held steady. Still get the tiniest bit of micro stuttering and if im surrounded by trees while looking sideways I see the fps drop into the low 50s briefly. Other than that its pretty smooth sailing.

 

In 2.0.5 its a huge difference. Switched MSAA from 8x to 16x and bumped up the vis range to high and its holding 60fps with vsync on no matter what. The biggest difference is that the 1080ti is not maxing out nearly like the 1080 did. At MSAA 8x and vis range medium the 1080 was hitting 90-95% gpu usage and memory load was 95-100%.

 

Now with MSAA 16x and vis range high GPU usage and memory load are holding steady at about 62%. Going to keep pushing up the settings little by little.

 

Tried downloading 2.1 but it took hours only to crash before I could start a mission. Hopefully they get it sorted soon so I can take advantage of my new card!!

[104th_Money]

UPDATE:

 

I can finally see the card starting to spike up to 90% once in a while, other than that GPU usage averages about 65-70%. Memory Load never passes 70%. Using EVGA Precision X to control the 3 fans, running them on a pretty high curve since I had to remove my intake fan to fit the card in. So far DCS 2.0.5 settings are:

 

Textures - High

Terrain Textures - High

Civ. Traffic - High

Water - Low

Visib Range - Extreme

Heat Blur - Off

Shadows - Flat Only

Resolution - 2560x1440

Aspect Ratio - 1.777777777778

Monitors - 1 Screen

Res. of Cockpit Displays - 1024

MSAA - 16x

Depth of Field - Off

Lens Effect - None

HDR - Off

Clutter/Grass - 1500

Trees Visibility - 15910

Preload Radius - 80500

Anistropic Filtering - 16x

Terrain Objects Shadows - Off

Disable Aero Interface - Unchecked

Vsync - Checked

Full Screen - Checked.

 

For me the $770 for the card was well worth the visual effects. The extreme visible distance and steady 60fps just makes 2.0 look awesome. And all this without even overclocking the card yet!

[=Pedro=]

:thumbup:

[BitMaster]

Is your 32" Asus screen Gsync ?

 

Model number ?

[104th_Money]

I don't believe it is. I just checked specs and it doesn't mention anything about it. The model I have is the Asus VA32QA. Was the cheapy model for $319+tx. It's not quite as nice as the 4K tv was but after playing in 4K I just couldn't go back to a 32" 1080p screen...

[Konovalov]

Personally 1440p with a 27" or 34" ultrawide is the sweet spot for me. I've owned this Dell 27" 2560 x 1440 for a good 5 years now. I just want to move up to a GSync featured panel.