Hey guys! I hope this video helps you understand and get the most out of DCS World's graphics and performance settings and makes your copy of DCS as beautiful as all the awesome trailers coming from the Devs over at Eagle Dynamics and their 3rd Party Partners!
No one has yet appreciated how you've done a revamp on the intro to your 2.7 video. I saw the Tomcat painted in that glorious Sundowners livery and my day drastically improved 😂
Man! I'm really impressed with the channel! I used to love to play “US NAVY FIGHTERS ‘97” (I guess I’m showing my age 🙄😏) and if I was able to afford DCS I’d have the whole setup. I am not a pilot, but I did get to solo in a Cessna 150 in 1975. I was 16 and ground school was offered as a legit class in high school; that was probably the most enjoyment I ever had with my clothes on. I did not follow it up because I enlisted in the US Navy as a Hospital Corpsman/combat med and served with the USMC. I was medically retired in 2008 as a civilian paramedic with PTSD related to my response to the Pentagon on 9/11 after 31 yrs combined service. Please keep up the great work! I really enjoy watching your channel. Sorry this was so long… -Doc Lykins
Thank you dude, you're a rock star! I've been hitting my head against the wall for weeks, since I upgraded to a very high spec PC, and still couldn't get DCS to look as good as it could for my TH-cam channel. Many thanks!
Hey Spud! Great work on your videos. Love that you go very in depth to explain your content. As a suggestion, many of us already understand the settings and would like a quicker glimpse st your settings. It would be great if you included a screencap at the end of each chapter so we can quickly replicate them before listening to your reasoning. Thanks and kudos again!
I'm not any kind of videophile, so maybe it just doesn't matter much to people like me, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Started DCS a few years back with a GTX 970 w/ 16 gigs RAM. Ran with the default settings and didn't have any complaints about the graphics back then. Now on a 3080 RTX w/ 64 gigs and basically running with the default "High" settings at 4k. There must be minor things my untrained (and admittedly old) eyes are missing that others gain from tweaking settings. The game looks absolutely gorgeous right out of the box even on modest machines to me -- that's a testament to the devs at ED. The detail in the models themselves is where most of the sexy comes from, IMO. Jumping to the right cameras at the right angles w/ the right environment (time of day, weather, etc.) and adding some flare like music is all quite literally an art. The game is amazing. The community is amazing. I'm hopelessly hooked! Thanks for these tips and all your content, btw!
I think what most people gain from messing with the graphics is getting the highest frame rate possible while having it still look very good. And if you’re running an older card like my 3060 with 32 gb Ram it’s important. Especially while live streaming it creating TH-cam videos. You want it to look the best it can and still get 60fps or more.
Tried out all these settings last night. It totally improved my graphics and I was blown away. No frame tearing/smearing/better FPS overall and looked just like the game does in ED's amazing cinematics. My settings since started playing DCS were a bit all over the place and I think I just set everything to high without really understanding what the hell the different settings actually did. I appreciated how you went over each individual setting for dummies like me to understand what's worth turning up all the way and what isn't. Thanks a million for this video
just went step by step as I just picked up my new higher end PC, I have been fighting for years with settings in VR and this has made all the difference in the world. thank you
THANKS SPUD... If I would post a pic of my search history over the past few days THIS TOPIC EASILY DOMINATED MY FOCAL POINT. I have a few minutes to sneak a peek to see if anything new and SPUD COMES THROUGH WITH EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR...Yet again. To create a nearly hour long tutorial is not something that is done without allocating many resources...time, energy, effort, threat of angering the better half for the content creators with spouses who will never understand...although already mentioned, time..time = money for all of us..either money earned or money lost...and no, money isn't everything but as the song says, "try living without it"...point being, Greatly appreciated and needed especially for us newer players. Thanks again and take care.
Doing only VR flights, I’m troubled as these graphic settings don’t all work well. Curious if you use VR at all and if so, what your presets are in VR? Thanks for being here and I always learn from your great productions…..
Same. I still can't fathom those that fly on a 2D screen. 2D vs 3D VR is comparable to riding a scooter vs a motorcycle. The experience is just more compelling in VR. The newer headsets coming out at 50 PPD and up are going to be amazing.
Even though im basically watching this for the 3rd time (2.7 and 2.8) i still (and will) watch these, it is always good to have an idea of what wall these settings do/how much performance they take up. thanks spud!
Thank you! I greatly appreciate the time you took to make this. Since 2.9, I struggled to get the correct settings. On NTTR I was always getting this tiger stripe effect with shadows on mountains and everything was just not looking like the fidelity I see in your vids. After making most of the same adjustments, my RTX 3080, i9-12900 with 32gb DDR5 setup looks better than ever! Just finished a mission in the F5E over the Caucasus and it looked amazing, ty!
Thanks Spud. I'm new at about three months. My gaming laptop died six weeks ago. I'm using a backup PC with no video card, just the CPU on the AMD CPU. I don't have much work with right now but your video helps anyway. It will help more when I have more PC to work with.
Didnt realize that you can set the cloud thickness, density and so on, if you keep your presets off! This made a huge difference to my scenery! Awesome, thanks man!
GREETINGS FROM CARACAS I REALLY NEVER THOUGHT THAT DCS WOULD PERFORM IN SUCH A TRULY SPECTACULAR WAY THE DATA OF THE GRAPHIC CONFIGURATION A HUG AND A THOUSAND THANKS
I highly respect Spudknocker and I love his content. I wish he made a video for graphics options set up for PVP multiplayer servers. I can't play at 4K on Enigma or Contention server if I actually want to spot enemy planes in the distance. Old multiplayer Reddit threads might not be valid anymore as of recent DCS update. I doubt that I want to have DLSS enabled if I actually want to spot the enemy plane dot in the distance. PS Personally, I set Anti Aliasing in DCS to MSAA x2 because that shimmer of an enemy plane helps me spot it against dark background on Enigma server. The enemy plane basically sparkles. I also set Grass/Clutter to lowest value to make it easier to spot planes and helicopters on Enigma. I wish someone made a settings guide for precisely these kinds of multiplayer servers. Setting up DCS for visual fidelity vs setting it up for PVP cold server or even for Growling Sidewinder is a completely different ball game.
thank you buddy for taking the time to explain the new settings and what not i always got confused regarding the preload distances etc. just redownloaded after nearly like a years break sadly. on a i7 9700k 2080 super with 32gb ram at 3600mhz its on an m2 nvme drive as well. native resolution for my monitor is 2560x1440p 144hz. mentioning the specifics targeted there is gonna help greatly shave my time and annoyance dialing in graphics for it.
awesome - i actually got a brand new pc w same cpu and was getting stutters in dcs and other games that i never stutters in! i was tilted! this works! i just tried it in dcs & tarkov and fixed the stuttering - thanks you sir!!
just switched from a 1060 and everything to the lowest (30-40 fps depending on server) to a 4070, set almost everything like you did here, and have now 140 fps with a good looking simulator
Great tutorial and thanks for the other video about excluding DCS world on windows defender that was a game changer.... DCS loads ultra fast ......thanks
I have a 4090, and always recommend DLSS to anyone, on any game, always. The visual quality is outstanding, and it gives you extra performance. Also, DLSS does the job of AA, only better than any other AA option.
I use DLSS, but I do NOT recommend it for DCS. Unless you've got 4k resolution, do not run DLSS. Spotting, VID, screens, and more will be a horrible thing to deal with
i thing you should add some comparison screenshots or short videos when explaning each feature. when posting a visual content you could support it with visual shots imo. anyways its helpful video! cheers
Thanks Spud. I've been watching on and off but have yet to dive in. Guess I'm newer than a newbie, lol. My PC is built for Solid works. I do run SSDs and have a 60hz 4k Samsung monitor with i7 and 64gb of ram but a P2200 Invidia card. Not sure yet on how to really get started using this PC as well as DCS in general. Hoping to try this year sometime. Thanks.
Eagle Dynamics should take a note from you on the weather and time of day settings and adjust all missions accordingly as stock setups because the night and day differences on the scene is wonderful
I started playing DCS last week and was having this really nasty stuttering every 4 or 5 secs, to the point it was simply unplayable. I know I have a mid-tier PC, but anyways I searched all over the web for fixes and realized it's a pretty common issue even on very high-end machines. Tried all suggestions and fixes and nothing worked until I just bought an NVMe SSD disk and installed the game there. I was running the game from an HDD. No more stutters, even with all graphics cranked to the max I get solid 50/60 fps with zero stutters. The game now runs perfect. It's mindblowing how easy it was to fix the problem (not cheap though lol). My specs are: - Ryzen 5 2600X - GTX 1660 Ti (6GB) - 32Gb DDR4 Ram - NVMe SSD WD_Black SN770 1TB
SSS should barely have any performance impact. In the 2.9 FAQ post, it is also stated that: "SSS (Screen Space Shadows) This is a new option that allows for better shadow rendering, specifically in environments with many objects such as grass, bushes, and forest. It gives these areas a more realistic look and feel without any performance hits from standard shadow maps. " It is a computationally cheap option to allow shadows from global light sources (the sun) to be cast at the terrain because the shadows generated are from subtracting the object from the shadow map. It is a simple step in the grand scheme of computer graphics. From my own experience it has no observable impact on my pretty mediocre system, which reflects ED's statement above.
First, my sincere appreciation for taking the time to make this video. I'm just starting in DCS and this was very helpful. I have a couple questions for VR users. 1) Resolution: I've always been told that for VR, we should set this as low as possible because it only affects the monitor image that is mirrored from the headset. I've been running mine at the lowest setting and it certainly doesn't look bad in my Quest 3. So is VR an exception or am I doing this wrong? Also, if I am supposed to set it to my headset resolution, should I set it to the per eye res or the total across both? 2) Max FPS: I've always thought we should set that to a little above the refresh rate of the headset, not lower. I would think that being locked lower than the headset refresh rate would cause issues but maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
Worth noting that dlss/dlaa causes quite a bit of ghosting on digital displays in the cockpit, at least in its current form. Its worth the tradeoff for some, but in VR it can be quite distracting, so i stick with MSAA most of the time. Hopefully future versions will correct this.
Visible range is very important if you fly at night, if it's medium or lower you won't even see the city lights after 10nm. And i think that heatblur is broken in VR, if you have a jet in front it totally blurs your HUD
The Depth of Field option is more for specific cinematic shots, especially screenshots where it can simulate lenses depth of field effects. That's nothing you want to enable for actual flying as instead of simulation it looks totally like "Hollywood movie" with weird blurry fore and backgrounds, like through a high aperture lens. 😂
I made a video about DCS's graphics and performance with a 5800X3D and a 7900 XTX with FSR and AFMF. The performance is just incredible! I personally play on 1440p Ultra with 120fps capped. Most of the time I have 120 frames but in very graphically heavy scenarios, especially when I fly low over Mariana Island or Caucasus's forests then it drops to 60
Thank you for this Video, one of the best on this subject. However, would you create a detailed video including the other Anti-Aliasing options (TAA), the Upscaling options (FSR, NIS), and the Scaling slider, please? What these settings do, best setting for lower end vs higher end PC's? These options I could really use some guidance on.
Video request, best setting for A2A combat. I don't use labels and have a hard time keeping track of enemy planes in a dog fight. I have a 1440p screen and high settings but Im wondering if there's some settings that help or hurt the A2A gameplay
not to nitpick, but at 45:35, regarding your wind settings, IRL wind direction differ depending on the altitude, some might notice that the high alt clouds are moving in the opposite direction of the wind on the ground.
Any chance of a vr setting guide or recommend one for 2.9 as vr is a lot more power hungry even with my 5800x3d /4090/ 64gb ram but a lot more immersive than a monitor
Hey spud About the max fps setting, you can edit the config file in the option folder in your saved games folder I set mine to 72 ( VR, pico 4 ) and I have my headset set to 72 with VD, and I have no stuttering If I move to 70 or 75 I have stuttering You should try to set yours to 144 and see how it goes I'm going back to watch the end of the video, thank you mate ;)
Avant j'avais Reshad car je trouvais DCS trop blanc, pas très beau, mais lorsque j'allais regarder des vidéos sur mon iPhone de DCS sur TH-cam c'était plus beau. J"ai donc décidé de passer a un écran large OLED. et enfin plus besoin de Reshad, vous avez des missions de nuit dans des noirs profonds, et enfin l'image est magnifique . Pour moi la meilleure des solution est de jouer sur un écran large OLED j'ai en plus 175 HZ et le HDR ....le soleil brille dans DCS aussi fort que dans la vie de tout les jours.....alors le prix de mon écran c'est 1300€ mais il est large et le OLED est pour moi le mieux pour DCS
yeah...lets not bring up the fact most youtubers and trailers are using reshade. you want your game to look great and like the videos.. download reshade like the rest of us. no matter what you do in any game settings, it will never look like their footage unless you use reshade. also it hardly uses any performance. alot of great tips in here. also thank you for the descriptions on all of them. i have some idea for what to change around in my settings. i have a mid range pc, so i dont have to pick and choose best options, cant quite turn all settings up to max and call it done yet.
Just DL DCS today, trying to get started but the settings menu and tutorial in training font is way too small, I can't read anything, is there a setting to make the setting menus larger?
The best part of the 2.9 update is how I have to turn off extra AA to make the cockpit be a little clearer and then get ghosting amd jaggies. Seems specific to 1440 monitors and its annoying. And it's not like one can change any of these setting while actually playing the game so just gotta guess and hope.
Hi Spud,can I ask your advice on a problem that’s just occurred to my DCS? I have just updated the sim and have no throttle response on my warthog,the axis commands is showing a white circle with a red exclamation mark and I can get movement on the fine tuning graph but no response from warthog.Any advice would be appreciated Cheers
I've always been curious what to set the resolution to when flying VR? Should I fill my monitor's screen or keep it smaller so the video muscle goes to the headset?
I9-10900K with 3060TI. Im trying to run at least 2k (4k tv) but on Kola in F-4E with these settings I cant get above 9-15fps what is going on here?? I have dcs excluded from windows defenfer and core affinity to 6 cores.
I can't get my cockpit to be as clear as pre-DLSS update. (2.8?) To get it anywhere close, I have to turn off lots of AA, so I also have lots of jaggies. Oh, and ghosting. With my 4070 in 1440p, the older graphics engine would render better and probably with acceptable frames (no visible hitching). And the cockpit reflections they just added are low res trash. Unbelievable they thought a product they charge like $80 for would get such a crappy, low res looking "feature" in 2024. (referring specifically to Hornet.)
Can someone maybe help me? Unfortunately I can't play multiplayer in DCS because the game lags so badly that it's unplayable. In the single player, however, I sometimes have 120 fps. Why is that?
And how is DLSS and DLAA democratizing when I had to buy a new gfx card to have access to it? A 1080ti is still no slouch, but I had to go to a 4070 that barely fits in a small case.
I went to the Download page and I didn't see an Open Beta Version. I only see Two Downloads (1) DCS World 2.9 and (2) DCS World 2.9 Dedicated Server (modular installer). Is there somewhere else you download the Open Beta Version or is there now only One Download for the latest version?
Visibility range is conjucted with preload radius. If you set preload radius lower than visibility range, the objects in distance will not be rendered.
Hey guys! I hope this video helps you understand and get the most out of DCS World's graphics and performance settings and makes your copy of DCS as beautiful as all the awesome trailers coming from the Devs over at Eagle Dynamics and their 3rd Party Partners!
Just wanted to say thanks for this, nicely informative, keep up the great work you do.
@@dougroberts3840 thanks for the support doug!
I saw you in wingman finder!
@@MrWarthog_ yep!
Very great video. I have one question - the Chimney smoke density is also impacting the Contrails on a flying jet. Am I wrong?
No one has yet appreciated how you've done a revamp on the intro to your 2.7 video. I saw the Tomcat painted in that glorious Sundowners livery and my day drastically improved 😂
Haha you were the first one!
Did it… “Take your breath away?” 🤣
Man! I'm really impressed with the channel! I used to love to play “US NAVY FIGHTERS ‘97” (I guess I’m showing my age 🙄😏) and if I was able to afford DCS I’d have the whole setup. I am not a pilot, but I did get to solo in a Cessna 150 in 1975. I was 16 and ground school was offered as a legit class in high school; that was probably the most enjoyment I ever had with my clothes on. I did not follow it up because I enlisted in the US Navy as a Hospital Corpsman/combat med and served with the USMC. I was medically retired in 2008 as a civilian paramedic with PTSD related to my response to the Pentagon on 9/11 after 31 yrs combined service. Please keep up the great work! I really enjoy watching your channel. Sorry this was so long…
-Doc Lykins
Thank you for your service sir
Man I really appreciate your work for these tutorials. My DCS now has much less stutters and lags. I suffered for so much in order to fix this thing
Thank you dude, you're a rock star! I've been hitting my head against the wall for weeks, since I upgraded to a very high spec PC, and still couldn't get DCS to look as good as it could for my TH-cam channel. Many thanks!
Hey Spud! Great work on your videos. Love that you go very in depth to explain your content.
As a suggestion, many of us already understand the settings and would like a quicker glimpse st your settings. It would be great if you included a screencap at the end of each chapter so we can quickly replicate them before listening to your reasoning.
Thanks and kudos again!
I'm not any kind of videophile, so maybe it just doesn't matter much to people like me, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Started DCS a few years back with a GTX 970 w/ 16 gigs RAM. Ran with the default settings and didn't have any complaints about the graphics back then. Now on a 3080 RTX w/ 64 gigs and basically running with the default "High" settings at 4k. There must be minor things my untrained (and admittedly old) eyes are missing that others gain from tweaking settings. The game looks absolutely gorgeous right out of the box even on modest machines to me -- that's a testament to the devs at ED. The detail in the models themselves is where most of the sexy comes from, IMO. Jumping to the right cameras at the right angles w/ the right environment (time of day, weather, etc.) and adding some flare like music is all quite literally an art. The game is amazing. The community is amazing. I'm hopelessly hooked! Thanks for these tips and all your content, btw!
I think what most people gain from messing with the graphics is getting the highest frame rate possible while having it still look very good. And if you’re running an older card like my 3060 with 32 gb Ram it’s important. Especially while live streaming it creating TH-cam videos. You want it to look the best it can and still get 60fps or more.
I'm hopelessly hooked too! And I'm glad to be lol
@@therocinante3443 I can't wait until 5:30pm every weekday to stop working and bring my HOTAS setup back on my desk. I feel like a kid again! :)
try going back to your old settings and monitor. youll notice. and cap your fps. im the same story, and i do notice
game does look great any way still, i agree on this
Tried out all these settings last night. It totally improved my graphics and I was blown away. No frame tearing/smearing/better FPS overall and looked just like the game does in ED's amazing cinematics. My settings since started playing DCS were a bit all over the place and I think I just set everything to high without really understanding what the hell the different settings actually did. I appreciated how you went over each individual setting for dummies like me to understand what's worth turning up all the way and what isn't. Thanks a million for this video
Hey Spud, great video!
I noticed a way smoother experience having FPS on max and Vsync just on, especially with a Gsync monitor. 😊
just went step by step as I just picked up my new higher end PC, I have been fighting for years with settings in VR and this has made all the difference in the world. thank you
THANKS SPUD... If I would post a pic of my search history over the past few days THIS TOPIC EASILY DOMINATED MY FOCAL POINT. I have a few minutes to sneak a peek to see if anything new and SPUD COMES THROUGH WITH EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR...Yet again. To create a nearly hour long tutorial is not something that is done without allocating many resources...time, energy, effort, threat of angering the better half for the content creators with spouses who will never understand...although already mentioned, time..time = money for all of us..either money earned or money lost...and no, money isn't everything but as the song says, "try living without it"...point being, Greatly appreciated and needed especially for us newer players.
Thanks again and take care.
Haha glad I can help man!
Doing only VR flights, I’m troubled as these graphic settings don’t all work well. Curious if you use VR at all and if so, what your presets are in VR? Thanks for being here and I always learn from your great productions…..
Same. I still can't fathom those that fly on a 2D screen. 2D vs 3D VR is comparable to riding a scooter vs a motorcycle. The experience is just more compelling in VR. The newer headsets coming out at 50 PPD and up are going to be amazing.
Even though im basically watching this for the 3rd time (2.7 and 2.8) i still (and will) watch these, it is always good to have an idea of what wall these settings do/how much performance they take up. thanks spud!
Thank you! I greatly appreciate the time you took to make this. Since 2.9, I struggled to get the correct settings. On NTTR I was always getting this tiger stripe effect with shadows on mountains and everything was just not looking like the fidelity I see in your vids. After making most of the same adjustments, my RTX 3080, i9-12900 with 32gb DDR5 setup looks better than ever! Just finished a mission in the F5E over the Caucasus and it looked amazing, ty!
man ive been waiting for this video. Same song form 2.7 and all - keep doing what ur doing
Great content, well done! Continuously tweaking my settings to get the best out of it, especially in VR. (My 3090turbo edition hates VR😅)
Thanks Spud. I'm new at about three months. My gaming laptop died six weeks ago. I'm using a backup PC with no video card, just the CPU on the AMD CPU. I don't have much work with right now but your video helps anyway. It will help more when I have more PC to work with.
Didnt realize that you can set the cloud thickness, density and so on, if you keep your presets off! This made a huge difference to my scenery! Awesome, thanks man!
GREETINGS FROM CARACAS I REALLY NEVER THOUGHT THAT DCS WOULD PERFORM IN SUCH A TRULY SPECTACULAR WAY THE DATA OF THE GRAPHIC CONFIGURATION A HUG AND A THOUSAND THANKS
Hey man I’m so glad it helped you out!!
Hit play on this video and the song already made me hit the LIKE button
I need a 10-hour loop of the intro to just play in the background when I need to relax
Hey Spud! Thank you so much for this video! It really bumped my quality up quite a bit using your tips and tricks!
Awesome, thanks, now I am getting a clear wiev in the Tgp, and the rest is absolutely top notch.
I highly respect Spudknocker and I love his content. I wish he made a video for graphics options set up for PVP multiplayer servers. I can't play at 4K on Enigma or Contention server if I actually want to spot enemy planes in the distance. Old multiplayer Reddit threads might not be valid anymore as of recent DCS update. I doubt that I want to have DLSS enabled if I actually want to spot the enemy plane dot in the distance.
PS Personally, I set Anti Aliasing in DCS to MSAA x2 because that shimmer of an enemy plane helps me spot it against dark background on Enigma server. The enemy plane basically sparkles. I also set Grass/Clutter to lowest value to make it easier to spot planes and helicopters on Enigma. I wish someone made a settings guide for precisely these kinds of multiplayer servers. Setting up DCS for visual fidelity vs setting it up for PVP cold server or even for Growling Sidewinder is a completely different ball game.
That is a really good idea!
thank you buddy for taking the time to explain the new settings and what not i always got confused regarding the preload distances etc. just redownloaded after nearly like a years break sadly. on a i7 9700k 2080 super with 32gb ram at 3600mhz its on an m2 nvme drive as well. native resolution for my monitor is 2560x1440p 144hz. mentioning the specifics targeted there is gonna help greatly shave my time and annoyance dialing in graphics for it.
awesome - i actually got a brand new pc w same cpu and was getting stutters in dcs and other games that i never stutters in! i was tilted! this works! i just tried it in dcs & tarkov and fixed the stuttering - thanks you sir!!
Thank you for the updated video. this is the video for me to get into this game . the beautiful video is as good as looking at the real jets =D
Awesome explanations. Thank you for saving us time !
o7
just switched from a 1060 and everything to the lowest (30-40 fps depending on server) to a 4070, set almost everything like you did here, and have now 140 fps with a good looking simulator
Great toturial thx spud!!
I hope it helps you out man!
Thank you so much!! It's working amazing!!
Great tutorial and thanks for the other video about excluding DCS world on windows defender that was a game changer.... DCS loads ultra fast ......thanks
Fantastic! Glad to hear it helped you out man
I have a 4090, and always recommend DLSS to anyone, on any game, always. The visual quality is outstanding, and it gives you extra performance. Also, DLSS does the job of AA, only better than any other AA option.
I use DLSS, but I do NOT recommend it for DCS. Unless you've got 4k resolution, do not run DLSS. Spotting, VID, screens, and more will be a horrible thing to deal with
Why would u use dlss when u can play native
DLSS is LOWER quality than default... it's a performance enhancement measure.
How do you fix the blurring effect of dlss. Oh hope you know what I’m talking about
DLAA uses the exact same algorithm for AA, just without the reduced render resolution and upscaling….
Great video Spud, Thank you.
Instant LIKE !! Thanks Spud!
always this theme song... perfect! congratz @spudknocker! I update my setup!
i thing you should add some comparison screenshots or short videos when explaning each feature. when posting a visual content you could support it with visual shots imo.
anyways its helpful video! cheers
The Apache tho.. breathtaking.
Thank you Sir! Great video!! 👍🏻
Awesome vid man thanks for taking the time to make it
Amazing intro, hopefully my old system might get something out of this vid too.
I hope you will!
Thanks Spud. I've been watching on and off but have yet to dive in.
Guess I'm newer than a newbie, lol. My PC is built for Solid works. I do run SSDs and have a 60hz 4k Samsung monitor with i7 and 64gb of ram but a P2200 Invidia card. Not sure yet on how to really get started using this PC as well as DCS in general. Hoping to try this year sometime. Thanks.
Oh man! Hopefully it works for you man!
Eagle Dynamics should take a note from you on the weather and time of day settings and adjust all missions accordingly as stock setups because the night and day differences on the scene is wonderful
I started playing DCS last week and was having this really nasty stuttering every 4 or 5 secs, to the point it was simply unplayable. I know I have a mid-tier PC, but anyways I searched all over the web for fixes and realized it's a pretty common issue even on very high-end machines. Tried all suggestions and fixes and nothing worked until I just bought an NVMe SSD disk and installed the game there. I was running the game from an HDD. No more stutters, even with all graphics cranked to the max I get solid 50/60 fps with zero stutters. The game now runs perfect. It's mindblowing how easy it was to fix the problem (not cheap though lol). My specs are:
- Ryzen 5 2600X
- GTX 1660 Ti (6GB)
- 32Gb DDR4 Ram
- NVMe SSD WD_Black SN770 1TB
yesterday I broke my head, whit the settings thank for your pasion to the game, today you save my day, I HAve 3060ti dsll helps a lot
SSS should barely have any performance impact. In the 2.9 FAQ post, it is also stated that:
"SSS (Screen Space Shadows)
This is a new option that allows for better shadow rendering, specifically in environments with many objects such as grass, bushes, and forest. It gives these areas a more realistic look and feel without any performance hits from standard shadow maps. "
It is a computationally cheap option to allow shadows from global light sources (the sun) to be cast at the terrain because the shadows generated are from subtracting the object from the shadow map. It is a simple step in the grand scheme of computer graphics.
From my own experience it has no observable impact on my pretty mediocre system, which reflects ED's statement above.
Interesting I seem to get pretty bad stuttering from it
Thanks very much for sharing your settings. Looking forward toxthe eye candy, 😅:)
First, my sincere appreciation for taking the time to make this video. I'm just starting in DCS and this was very helpful. I have a couple questions for VR users.
1) Resolution: I've always been told that for VR, we should set this as low as possible because it only affects the monitor image that is mirrored from the headset. I've been running mine at the lowest setting and it certainly doesn't look bad in my Quest 3. So is VR an exception or am I doing this wrong? Also, if I am supposed to set it to my headset resolution, should I set it to the per eye res or the total across both?
2) Max FPS: I've always thought we should set that to a little above the refresh rate of the headset, not lower. I would think that being locked lower than the headset refresh rate would cause issues but maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
Worth noting that dlss/dlaa causes quite a bit of ghosting on digital displays in the cockpit, at least in its current form. Its worth the tradeoff for some, but in VR it can be quite distracting, so i stick with MSAA most of the time. Hopefully future versions will correct this.
Visible range is very important if you fly at night, if it's medium or lower you won't even see the city lights after 10nm. And i think that heatblur is broken in VR, if you have a jet in front it totally blurs your HUD
This helped a lot, thank you!
The Depth of Field option is more for specific cinematic shots, especially screenshots where it can simulate lenses depth of field effects.
That's nothing you want to enable for actual flying as instead of simulation it looks totally like "Hollywood movie" with weird blurry fore and backgrounds, like through a high aperture lens. 😂
I dare anyone to take a shot whenever you hear the word fidelity.
I made a video about DCS's graphics and performance with a 5800X3D and a 7900 XTX with FSR and AFMF. The performance is just incredible!
I personally play on 1440p Ultra with 120fps capped. Most of the time I have 120 frames but in very graphically heavy scenarios, especially when I fly low over Mariana Island or Caucasus's forests then it drops to 60
Thank you for this Video, one of the best on this subject.
However, would you create a detailed video including the other Anti-Aliasing options (TAA), the Upscaling options (FSR, NIS), and the Scaling slider, please? What these settings do, best setting for lower end vs higher end PC's?
These options I could really use some guidance on.
Thanks Spud! Super helpful!
Video request, best setting for A2A combat. I don't use labels and have a hard time keeping track of enemy planes in a dog fight. I have a 1440p screen and high settings but Im wondering if there's some settings that help or hurt the A2A gameplay
I just watched your last video about this 😢 Time to do it again
Very nice video Sir. Thank you.
Really good video but I would recommend watching it in 2x speed ;) that worked pretty well for me
DCS Then:
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not to nitpick, but at 45:35, regarding your wind settings, IRL wind direction differ depending on the altitude, some might notice that the high alt clouds are moving in the opposite direction of the wind on the ground.
Any chance of a vr setting guide or recommend one for 2.9 as vr is a lot more power hungry even with my 5800x3d /4090/ 64gb ram but a lot more immersive than a monitor
+1 this all works great, WAY better sharpness, and life like gameplay
Hey spud
About the max fps setting, you can edit the config file in the option folder in your saved games folder
I set mine to 72 ( VR, pico 4 ) and I have my headset set to 72 with VD, and I have no stuttering
If I move to 70 or 75 I have stuttering
You should try to set yours to 144 and see how it goes
I'm going back to watch the end of the video, thank you mate ;)
Good to know!!!
Avant j'avais Reshad car je trouvais DCS trop blanc, pas très beau, mais lorsque j'allais regarder des vidéos sur mon iPhone de DCS sur TH-cam c'était plus beau. J"ai donc décidé de passer a un écran large OLED. et enfin plus besoin de Reshad, vous avez des missions de nuit dans des noirs profonds, et enfin l'image est magnifique . Pour moi la meilleure des solution est de jouer sur un écran large OLED j'ai en plus 175 HZ et le HDR ....le soleil brille dans DCS aussi fort que dans la vie de tout les jours.....alors le prix de mon écran c'est 1300€ mais il est large et le OLED est pour moi le mieux pour DCS
trying these settings now =)
Good stuff. Thank you.
Great video, thanks for your work. I have a question if you don't mind: if i set the clutter/grass option to 0, will i get better fps? Thanks.
yeah...lets not bring up the fact most youtubers and trailers are using reshade. you want your game to look great and like the videos.. download reshade like the rest of us. no matter what you do in any game settings, it will never look like their footage unless you use reshade. also it hardly uses any performance.
alot of great tips in here. also thank you for the descriptions on all of them. i have some idea for what to change around in my settings. i have a mid range pc, so i dont have to pick and choose best options, cant quite turn all settings up to max and call it done yet.
Hey man most TH-camrs might be but Glowing AMRAAM the official DCS trailer creator has stated multiple times that he does not use reshade
Reshade is also useless in VR……
Okay. That's one way to open a DCS Video
Very helpful!
i just play the game on low and i love it.
Just DL DCS today, trying to get started but the settings menu and tutorial in training font is way too small, I can't read anything, is there a setting to make the setting menus larger?
The best part of the 2.9 update is how I have to turn off extra AA to make the cockpit be a little clearer and then get ghosting amd jaggies. Seems specific to 1440 monitors and its annoying. And it's not like one can change any of these setting while actually playing the game so just gotta guess and hope.
there are better settings to make it look better i believe, but good stuff spud
Hi Spud,can I ask your advice on a problem that’s just occurred to my DCS? I have just updated the sim and have no throttle response on my warthog,the axis commands is showing a white circle with a red exclamation mark and I can get movement on the fine tuning graph but no response from warthog.Any advice would be appreciated Cheers
Ty, Sir.
I've always been curious what to set the resolution to when flying VR? Should I fill my monitor's screen or keep it smaller so the video muscle goes to the headset?
Are there any specific NVidia driver settings you could offer such as Shader Cache size, etc ?
I9-10900K with 3060TI. Im trying to run at least 2k (4k tv) but on Kola in F-4E with these settings I cant get above 9-15fps what is going on here?? I have dcs excluded from windows defenfer and core affinity to 6 cores.
Don't we just do a Spinal Tap and crank everything up to 11? 😂
HAHAHAHA I would do that but my RTX 4090 is smarter than my brain haha
First 1:30 Minutes: Most romantic video in TH-cam. 😎
Hahaha Well I am a Jetrosexual LOL
@@Spudknocker Hah! Imagine you put that word in your CV before applying to an airline. LOL.
@@ardeshirrohbanie2909 HAHAHA!
I need ReShade in 2D just to get rid of the colour banding in the Sky on an OLED monitor.
I can't get my cockpit to be as clear as pre-DLSS update. (2.8?) To get it anywhere close, I have to turn off lots of AA, so I also have lots of jaggies. Oh, and ghosting. With my 4070 in 1440p, the older graphics engine would render better and probably with acceptable frames (no visible hitching). And the cockpit reflections they just added are low res trash. Unbelievable they thought a product they charge like $80 for would get such a crappy, low res looking "feature" in 2024. (referring specifically to Hornet.)
WWWWWWWWW. Saved me n my friend.
I have an rtx 3050ti and for some reasone i can't have dlss or dlaa
Anisotropic Filtering doesn’t cost performance? I would double check that, if I was you.
Can someone maybe help me? Unfortunately I can't play multiplayer in DCS because the game lags so badly that it's unplayable. In the single player, however, I sometimes have 120 fps. Why is that?
does this game support HDR display by now?
Is there a precise way to ask chat gpt to give you the best graphics/per fps settings for VR depending on yout rig?
Only you could turn a 10min video in 40mins 😂
I need some serious help with the settings for this game
Also, more words != better
Like, you have good things to say, but it's sandwiched between droning on and on. Brevity is the soul of wit, remember?
And how is DLSS and DLAA democratizing when I had to buy a new gfx card to have access to it? A 1080ti is still no slouch, but I had to go to a 4070 that barely fits in a small case.
Thumbs down for no F-16's and Iron Eagle music in the intro :P
Haha that will go into the next one!
I went to the Download page and I didn't see an Open Beta Version. I only see Two Downloads (1) DCS World 2.9 and (2) DCS World 2.9 Dedicated Server (modular installer). Is there somewhere else you download the Open Beta Version or is there now only One Download for the latest version?
They just got rid of the Beta options. There's only the one version moving forward. He must have recorded this a month ago.
Thx so much. You have some GREAT tutorials. Look forward to becoming a student.
Visibility range is conjucted with preload radius. If you set preload radius lower than visibility range, the objects in distance will not be rendered.
I get weird banding in Syria at night. Usually where dark meets light. Any ideas?
That is most likely a hardware issue for you unfortunately, take a look at your black level settings and what not in your monitor
@Spudknocker thank you for responding. It was the nvidia driver. I rolled back and it's good now. Love the channel!
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Has there been a VR fix for the frame rate drop when going into F10 menu?
I have frame drop in 2d and vr did you fix this ?