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#4412128 - 03/22/18 06:47 AM Speeding up DCS  
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I was interested to see if anyone uses Prio or modifies the CPU priority while running DCS blah blah blah. While not a big fan of such manipulation, I see than it could help, so asking
here if anyone has any experience using it with DCS.

I do like the check integrity feature.


https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/prio-task-manager-on-security-steroids/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niNc4Xr46xk

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#4412144 - 03/22/18 10:38 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Obviously you dont need Prio to prioritize DCS, you can do that manually from the Task Manager, Prio just creates an ini file, that can set and save the priority you choose for a specific exe.

#4412146 - 03/22/18 10:46 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Below from
https://superuser.com/questions/752554/why-doesnt-prioritizing-processes-produce-a-speed-improvement

Priority does not help when the bottleneck is the CPU itself. What priority actually does is affect the scheduling algorithm the Operating System uses to determine which process runs next since there are not enough processors in most systems to run every process continuously.

A higher-priority task will make its way to the top of the queue quicker, so this helps with general latency, but if your process is exhausting the entire timeslice it is allocated on actual computation then scheduling is not going to change anything there. Changing the priority is more useful when you have a process that is waiting on I/O and you want it to be more responsive.

Interesting comments, I suppose advantage to DCS depend on where the bottlenecks are!

#4412151 - 03/22/18 11:30 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Enough theory and speculation, has anyone tried it?

I will try, but what parameters, to access the result?

CPU usage, is a higher % usage beneficial or detrimental? GPU usage doesnt seem measured by vanilla 7.

#4412166 - 03/22/18 12:33 PM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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#4412230 - 03/22/18 04:42 PM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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What I have done is use Task Manager to assign alternating cores to DCS. Prior to doing so, DCS would just use one core and stumble a good bit on itself and be very stuttery. After doing so it is very smooth and better frame rates. I am using a 6850K chip so I keep it completely off the first two cores then alternate from there to ensure that it is not sharing the same physical core for any thread (I believe it only has a couple threads anyways)

#4412276 - 03/22/18 09:10 PM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Why does the user have to do this in this day and age?


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#4412339 - 03/23/18 06:16 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: - Ice]  
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Originally Posted by - Ice
Why does the user have to do this in this day and age?


Agreed, and where does it say in the minimum specs the end user needs to alternate\assign cores in order to run this circus?

The Sunway TaihuLight would even struggle to run it

#4412345 - 03/23/18 08:11 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Again , its not required for majority of people. I dont need it and no need for any of our flight group.


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#4412350 - 03/23/18 09:42 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Where does it say in the minimum specs that end user need to switch computer on wink

#4412359 - 03/23/18 12:13 PM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Thank you BrettT for your suggestion, I'll give it a try!

Why do this?

Some people like, the challenge, and investigate their system in an attempt to maximize performance, or to gain a greater understanding of the system they use .......is this absolutely necessary...NO!

Does that mean its worthless to pursue the endeavor? That depends on your perspective!

Some people may see some value in doing this, and get satisfaction out of helping others, others....dont!

Enjoy!

#4412361 - 03/23/18 12:23 PM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Originally Posted by Slippery_Rat
Thank you BrettT for your suggestion, I'll give it a try!

Why do this?

Some people like, the challenge, and investigate their system in an attempt to maximize performance, or to gain a greater understanding of the system they use .......is this absolutely necessary...NO!

Does that mean its worthless to pursue the endeavor? That depends on your perspective!

Some people may see some value in doing this, and get satisfaction out of helping others, others....dont!

Enjoy!


rant out?

#4412442 - 03/23/18 07:30 PM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Originally Posted by Mokkeri
Where does it say in the minimum specs that end user need to switch computer on wink

Fair enough. Nothing in the minimum specs about having an end user to begin with. smile


Originally Posted by Slippery_Rat
Some people like, the challenge, and investigate their system in an attempt to maximize performance, or to gain a greater understanding of the system they use .......is this absolutely necessary...NO!

If I wanted to do this, I'd have joined a benchmarking group. What does this have to do with flight sims as a hobby?


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#4412491 - 03/24/18 12:02 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Mokkeri]  
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Originally Posted by Mokkeri
Where does it say in the minimum specs that end user need to switch computer on wink


Right at the end of both the minimum\recommended specs. The sim requires internet activation, Therefor the computer would need to be 'switched on' in order to complete the task and meet the 'minimum or recommended specs'

You can see this for yourself


#4412507 - 03/24/18 01:31 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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No, you only need internet connection to activate the module. Once it's been activated, you no longer need an internet connection, therefore, the computer wouldn't even need to be switched on. Then again, if you have internet connection, you have it whether the computer is turned on or not. If you do not have internet connection (ie, ISP issues), then you don't have it whether the computer is turned on or not. Do you have running water in your house only when a tap is open? C'mon man!! Let's apply some DCS logic here please!


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#4412510 - 03/24/18 01:40 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Doesn't DCS logic suggest that you need to activate every 3 days? Did they ever come back with a solution from January when they said it would be fixed and the solution described to the community within a few days after the poll!!


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#4412516 - 03/24/18 02:19 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Paradaz]  
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Well, you have internet connection whether you turn on your computer or not, so it should automatically activate when it needs to regardless of whether your computer is on or not. As you can clearly see, minimum requirements only stated you needed an internet activation, nothing about switching the computer on as eagle-eyed Mokkeri has stated.

I'm sure we'll have a beta of whatever the new activation timeframe would be.


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#4412528 - 03/24/18 06:39 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: - Ice]  
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Originally Posted by - Ice
Well, you have internet connection whether you turn on your computer or not, so it should automatically activate when it needs to regardless of whether your computer is on or not. As you can clearly see, minimum requirements only stated you needed an internet activation, nothing about switching the computer on as eagle-eyed Mokkeri has stated.

I'm sure we'll have a beta of whatever the new activation timeframe would be.



it's just so funny yet so true at the same time

#4412530 - 03/24/18 07:07 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Thank you! ;-)

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#4412531 - 03/24/18 07:59 AM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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Originally Posted by Slippery_Rat
Thank you! ;-)


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#4412585 - 03/24/18 03:32 PM Re: Speeding up DCS [Re: Slippery_Rat]  
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