You need to do more runway strikes. In honesty though, the DCS map is pretty airfield dense, barring the gap between Maykop and Min Vody and the middle of Georgia. You're basically always near an airfield unless you're flying in those regions.

From my time flying the A-10 and Ka-50, which I need to get back to, I'm looking forward to less spider tanks climbing 80 degree slopes made out of discontinuous terrain. DCS needs attention in many areas, but I think this is one of them too. More detailed airports should also work well with ATC improvements when they come.

Yep...that can happen sometimes.
The point you're missing is it's not against the rules to say "ED is the worst company". It is against the rules to take that as a personal assault on YOU...and start making personal attacks on someone that has a negative opinion of your favorite developer or video game.

Wow,really? Even for 1080p gaming?That means a GTX 1070 and upwards then. I'm not prepared to drop that much on a graphics card,not just for one game.

When I say "older" GPUs I mean "Archaeological". I have a GTX670 (probably 2gig?) setting Medium Textures is a massive improvement in FPS in Normandy, with negligible loss in image quality (in my opinion of course).

Nate

Hence why I stated a day or two ago inquiring about what systems ED is using to achieve the results they deem ok for release. The minimum just keeps getting pushed farther. Are medium settings the average they calculate by?

Not a slam, just a valid question. If I positively knew that upgrading from my 980 to a 1080 ti would gain better FPS and vis, I'd do it. Should last me a couple of years. But no one wants to commit to a truthful answer.

Yep...that can happen sometimes.

I have to disagree there, Every news post after about 5 responses ends up with a slam of ED or Wags or the other Mods at the ED forums, then the pro side gets involved






The point you're missing is it's not against the rules to say "ED is the worst company". It is against the rules to take that as a personal assault on YOU...and start making personal attacks on someone that has a negative opinion of your favorite developer or video game.

No I dont miss the point .. Its never OK to resort to personal attacks.. My point was Neutrality, Its both sides .... On my boxed copy of Blackshark there is a sticker that say As reccomended by SimHQ,

back When SimHQ was the premier flight sim community and there was none of this rubbish that is going on here

Yep...my boxed copy says that too.

That was also back when ED sold finished products and had not started their banning campaign on their paying customers. The attitude towards ED here has changed as ED has changed. The negative attitude here towards ED is not the fault of SimHQ...that lies squarely on ED's shoulders.


Thats enough of the "whats the correct opinion to have" discussion...we don't have to go through this every other thread.
You know the rules...stay on topic.

there is a lot of positive stuff being posted here at SimHQ about DCS , some people just tend to ignore it.

Only your excellent skin posts Tom

I have a 760 with 6GB of RAM (or 4? I forget) After the last couple of updates, that's not enough any more. I can get by but, flying over Vegas really drops my frames and flying formation becomes painful. Not impossible or particularly difficult, but uncomfortable (yes, I measure 'do I have enough FPS' in ability to fly form ... heh )

I might be a bit off the mark and you may be fine with 8GB, but due to the rapid growth of texture sizes I believe that in this gave, the more RAM on the card, the better. Of course, you can drop texture quality to reduce the load a well.

It's clearly stated in my posts. Read what I'm saying, not what you think I'm saying.




Just wanted to re-quote the above for the LOLs...



Speaking of VRAM and Caucasus, once 2.5 is released and the new Black Sea map is out, will the "Free DCS World" demo be upgraded to the new map or will it keep the old map?




De-rails? By asking about the FPS hit of the new map? Can you kindly point out where the "other side" derailed the thread into a rant?


And where did we "slam" ED or Wags or other Mods?



Nobody on the ED forums has spoken out stating what the performance was and under what hardware it was achieved for the above screenshot?




I bought Black Shark 2 despite the fiasco that it raised with owners of Black Shark 1.... but that was a very, very, VERY different time.



8GB? I've got a 980Ti and it's only got 6GB of VRAM. So essentially, anoyone who is not on the latest wave of GPUs and on the top tiers of that wave (1070 and up, 8GB 570/580s) are SOL?

I have 8GB of video RAM and 16GB of system RAM. GTX 1070. I get stutters in DCS. A lot of people claimed stuttering was due to lack of system RAM (I had 8GB) but upgraded to 16GB a few months back, and nothing changed because like every other PC game out there, 8GB of RAM is fine. I am not sure if this is a problem that can be solved with throwing more RAM at it. Unless you're doing some kind of professional workstation tasks, RAM isn't a problem. Video RAM can be, but few games need 8GB at 1440P, if any. Unless you have crazy texture mods.

I have not tried the suggested fix yet, but I think outside of that we will have to wait for ED to plug some holes in the engine.

Humour me and try Medium textures, just curious as to the result in smoothness on a 1070. I've been eyeing a 1070 or even a 1080, but I'll hold fire until I hear of some improvements to DCS i think

Nate

And this is Nevada (new graphics engine) under 1440p single monitor config? That's not good. While I fully suspect that it's the graphics engine that may not be optimized, I don't have enough experience in P3D/XP or other modern sim/game titles to grab some other numbers. Aside from BMS, I mostly play RPGs and turn-based games.... and on a single monitor. It's really only BMS and flight sims that makes full use of my 5 screens.

3440 x 1400 with 16G RAM + 1080TI ... still a bit stuttery at times

I always read and try to support whatever posts are helpful. Thank you for doing your part.

Not that I've seen or heard about.

Flying in NTTR now, in VR and low level I've encountered more stuttering than ever before. I dont know if this is a VR thing, or an updated mesh. I'm scratching my head a to where the problem lies. I've got 32Gigs DDR4 RAM, an i7 6700 and a GTX 980 which is supposed to be fine for VR use. But without any solid word as to the new requirements, it's a guess where to put money.

Thank you for sharing, My comments were based strictly on the 1st part of yours being Combined Arms without Helo intervention.

I will test this for myself however my video upload will be based on Human Tank VS AI vehicles . Combined arms has always been on the back burner and has been virtually untouched for some time now **excluding the wasted time to create the normandy map vehicles**