Hey guys, one thing I forgot to add, don't get too caught up with your FPS counter when you are trying to improve your FPS Performance, DCS like other flight sims are subject to massive swings in FPS, so use the counter as a baseline, but once you get to a point where DCS feels and plays well, turn off the counter, it will really increase your enjoyment of the simulator!
@Spudknocker what do you have your Nvidia gforce control panel graphics setting with the new 2.9 graphics changes? I have a similar graphics card as you and wondered if you use/configure gforces graphics settings or use DCS graphics settings only. Thanks as always for great content.
FYI, Secondary Shadows, Is Shadows Rendered by Secondary Light Sources (Carrier Island Lights, Airfield Hanger and Taxi Lights, etc etc). Primary Shadows are rendered by Sun/Moon.
I was so confused for 30 minutes in my graphics settings until I noticed you have to select the "Play MT Preview" option when starting DCS or use the appropriate binary if standalone, otherwise DLSS was greyed out
Awesome video Spud, great stuff, game changing update indeed! I can't wait to try it out soon. Finally DLSS and DLAA on DCS ! ! ! The ground effects it's the cherry on the top !
Tell me something, they fixed the apache gun shooting in moviment? The precision? Cuz was complete broken, there were no calculation made by the system, was insane hard to hit, that sucked, but i've been away from DCS for a long time, i think a year, they updated everything, special the Apache, so much, thank god.@@Spudknocker
Beautiful. The downwash on the grass and trees looks great. I think it will help with that "sense" of how high you are rather than relying on the radar altimeter. I think the colour grading will be great for cinematic and screenshot makers. I think, but I'm not sure, what ED's idea with that colour grading was to try to replicate the film effects of different film colouring techniques like Cinecolor and Technicolor. That's what it looks like to me. And if that's the case and its effects are accurate to the Cinecolor and Technicolor processes, that could be very useful for cinematic content creators like Phenom for creating historical cinematics. I find that talking while flying is tough as well, but you're still flying beautifully and gracefully. I find it especially hard when it's something different to what I'm doing in the cockpit, so I usually go quiet when I'm doing stuff like landings or AAR with my mates.
Haven't played DCS in awhile, but once I saw this update I immediately loaded into the first F-16 Red Flag campaign at Nellis. On the tarmac, startup with tons of AI planes starting up and taxing around and I'm getting my monitors' max refresh rate of 118-120. My monitor is a 2K utlrawide with a 120hz refresh rate. Don't think I've ever seen this level of performance. This is also my first time loading DCS since I've upgraded my CPU from the old 2013 intel extreme CPU i7 5960x (4.3ghz 8 cores /16 threads). Some of that performance could be due to the new CPU, but my GPU hasn't changed since I last played DCS when multithreading was released. Impressive AMD 7800x3d RTX 2080ti 32GB DDR5 6000mhz Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 OS Drive Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB M.2 (Game Drive) All settings at or near max. Increased the new LOD Switch Factor setting to max. DLSS set to quality.
Really awesome update with a ton of cool features, but the one thing that caught my eye the most is the KH-29 update. They overhauled the FM and external model of both of the KH-29 Kedge missiles, which is seemingly very random. The Su-25T seems have been left alone for a while, and that’s the only flyable aircraft that can fire the Kedge. Is it in preparation of an upcoming aircraft? There’s the Su-17, but that hasn’t really been announced. I mean I’d die for an F1EQ…
Good luck man! I am already an airline pilot, just moving to the Big 3 now, if you need any help studying please feel free to reach out to me on discord I am happy to help!
I was selected for WOFT in the Army as a street-to-seater. I leave for basic on Jan 3, and I should graduate WOCS and be a Warrant Officer 1 on April 4. Can’t wait! I’m only 18 so it’s a pretty wild feeling.
Hi @Spudknocker, my apologies if this has already been asked, I'm new to DCS so still trying to get my bearings, but when you talked about the "GoPro" view, around the 14 minute, you say that you can move it around using the W,A,S,D keys. I am trying this with the F-15E using the default key bindings in the View category, but I don;t have those keys bound to anything in View. In fact the W is bound to my brakes and the A to autopilot, etc. Please help, thanks.
Hey Spuds! Have not updated yet, going through some medical issues right now but will do this evening to see the what for. Ty so very much for the settings. I have a MSI laptop red dragon with the Nvidia graphics card and I do believe it's on the higher end but not sure I'll have to check that out. I'm sure the specs are in the system. It's always getting upgrades all the time. Taking off and long grass as an old rotor head. That grass will lay flat just at takeoff then as you increase an elevation the grass will shag as I noticed as you pulled up on the collective. Thank you so much for all that you do! I know you've been busy lately. I wish you all the blessings in the world on your journey in the love of your career. Best time of My life flying helos, nothing else like it. Carnival ride or anything like flying in a Helo. Take care my friend, Hope to see you soon 🕊️
Get well soon! Recovering from a spinal disc herniation myself ATM... I'm past the worst part of it already , but having boots on pedals while sitting in a chair for prolonged time isn't exactly the best in that situation, since Isimply can't move around as much anymore unless I let go of the pedals XD
Hello one question I play pc/vr and yesterday I had an idea is it possible to put better resolution in your dominant eye and lower one in your non dominant, I think it would work because most of what you see comes from the dominant eye, so lowering the non dominant eye quality would be pretty much unnoticeable but it would leave more pc power for better resolution for the other eye
Hey man! Not sure how much reading you do, but I'm looking for reccommendations for books about planes/general military history. Probably cold war-modern era timeframe. Any favourites spring to mind?
Had to go back to MSAA 4x. With upscaling off both DLAA and TAA are blurry and produce a lot of ghosting 😢 reprojection is off and no joy dont know whats going on...
DCS 2.9 update last night is looking good, but I'm not sure what's the best graphic settings. However in the MT version there's performance increase throughout. And then you have the colour theme choices. Plus, I'm loving the foliage animations and dust effect when it comes to the helicopters down-wash. So, well done, ED
Every since this update, I haven’t found a single setting that doesn’t either make my aircraft look blurry on the outside or some technical issue on the inside jittery hud etc.
Hi spud, does the DLSS update work with the Nvidia settings when set other than default or do you have to revert the Nvidia card to default before setting up DCS 2.9. Thanks for all your videos and input 👍
Hello Spud! My compliments for your ATPL first 😊 About DCS 2.9 I don’t have a Invidia card but I’m so curious with the FSR2 on Amd of there are improvements too. I really like the new “gopro” feature and the video customizzations!
What about the LOD (level of detail) ? Did they finally fix it ? Because it has HUGE negative impact on the performance, which DLAA/DLSS alone won't fix.
Well, there basically is a LOD bias slider now, don't know how much of a difference that could make though. And it was possible to change that in config files for ages anyways.
Unfortunately, it seems DLSS in VR did nearly no improvements in performance on my 3080 despite being the clear bottleneck (CPU in multithreading is running at 30% while the GPU is begging for mercy) even with everything at low. :/
really? this is pretty contrary to my own experiences and i have worse hardware. headset? do you run the game through openxr? pixel density? anti-aliasing settings?
I have the same as Dexter. On a 4070TI I got no gains in fps, but I am getting lock ups and CTDS now lol. also noticed that its using 32 GIGS of ram now Which is not the worse being i have 64 but Its never gone over 23 GIGS total ram usage.@@Shakedown1969
My 3070 is basically pegged to 180fps in 1200p(ancake), but still struggles to hold 45fps in VR with a Quest at 2400v(ertical). I only discovered recently that I'm seeing 90fps in Virtual Desktop thanks to that XR2 Super Resolution thing. Weirdly enough, running the CV1 at the same res has it pretty much locked at actual 90fps... but you simply don't wanna have to use that HMD anymore if there's a Q3 available XD
I don't know If someone has the same problem as me, but I'm unable to change the settings to DLAA. It appears to me as blank and imposible to click on it.
@@dpteqz. Yeah, there is no fix If your PC don't have a superior graffic card. You are unable to change those settings. Sorry, but I don't recall know from one you can edit.
Meh FG seems to be just trickery to artificially boost the FPS numbers. Perhaps at some later point you wouldn't be able to tell but so far that hasn't been the case. Also for the fact that it negatively affects latency.
ultra-wide - depends on your resolution. 3440x1440 only got 5M pixels to draw, compared to 9M for folks who jumped to full 4K. 5K was 200fps already graphics wise, only corner cases (try to eject into forest and walk there) and logic/physics of games itself. DLAA - that should save some FPS (ms) and visuals for VR thought.
I too am running the 3090. I have all the sliders and settings maxed out. Nice. But all you would be downloaders beware: You need 80 GB of free HD space to download this update. You will get a lot of it back once the download is over, but unless you have the space, expect the big red X message. I had to remove 2 maps to update then I reloaded. Meh...that's the price of going with a small HD. Should have gotten the 2 TB...
@ceciliacole5098 I am sure you're right. All I know is I had 34 GB free and it was telling me I needed 77. But when I started the down load it went to 80 GB. When the update was over it deleted all the obsolete files and now I am back where I was. I imagine it needs temporary space while it does its thing
I tried flying CP/G with George as pilot. Since the 2.9 update the heli keeps swinging left and right in hover mode and never hovers steadily. Is there anything I'm missing
My issue with DCS was never constant performance, it was the massive freezing and stutters you'd get in multiplayere. I managed to sus it out to when someone on the sever selects an aircraft seat to climb into.
It only works with multithreading unfortunately. But I have serious issues with MT in VR. After replacing 1080ti with 6950xt DCS MT became unplayable although it gives more FPS. It gives weird stuttering effect without FPS drop, it is unrelated to FPS
@@andrewhardie8138 It's right where you select DLSS. Other options are NIS and FSR. "NEW: Added support for AMD FSR 2, FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) also using an upscaling algorithm to improve performance. Also like DLSS, it will have little to no effect if you are CPU-limited. Multi-Threading must be enabled to enable FSR 2. WIP. NOTE: When using DLSS or FSR 2, the image may be blurry. This can be addressed with the new Sharpening slider."
World 2.9 is good, but the devs have a long way to go with optimizing and stability. I'd also like to see some future updates specifically for VR as there is a sizeable proportion of players who only use a headset. Unfortunately as good as this engine is, it has limitations and we will need to wait for a new title to see that changed.
VulcanAPI should smooth things a bit, but engine overhaul for low-level stutterness will be needed. Glad DLAA is there to get better visuals in VR with little to no cost, at least.
Grate unless you run AMD /FSR it now looks like I have Vaseline in my eyes. Even if I use my old settings now and none of the new stuff that's been added . Tryed for hours and nothing is helping
Not really. E.g. my reshade pulls depth, contrast, blacks, certain colours and adds lens darkening against the sun. DCS hardly gives you any options besides certain preset filters that aren't really useful from what I see, while Reshade lets you do so, so much in the postprocessing to completely overhaul the areas where DCS lacks.
Is it better to use dlaa only for visuals or is it better to use dlaa with dlss for the visuals? Or does dlss deactivate dlaa? I have a 4090 so i want the best visuals for this beautiful game
My 4 core CPU now runs at 90 plus percent. Video freeze stuttering and generally sittin waiting for graphics to load. Boight a new 3060 with 12 GB Ram. Made no difference. Can't play it anymore. Too many different opinions on what changes to make to improve performance that sem to focus on reducing graphical qualities. Really frustrating. Can't afford a 6 grand computer for gaming.
Being that the GPU is the most expensive part of a PC and DLSS is new the PC's that have it should be running well already. I guess we'll see how well this ages. Because of covid and the data-mining surge I'm still running a Nvidia 1070 GPU. So I am curious how 2.9 is running for people still with pre DLSS hardware.
Have an RTX 2070 Super; RTX (Super Res) turned on in Nvidia control panel, I load DCS but it doesn't allow me to click DLAA or even DLSS... my drivers are updated too, is it just me?
i cant turn it on its greyed out mt is on and i use the steam version but a fiend of me got also the steam version at it works we both got the rtx 2070s
I have an RTX 3080ti and I encountered some problems setting up DLSS. In multiplayer I experienced several freezes that lasted up to about 8 seconds. I also noticed a strange shadow effect on the numbers projected in the instrumentation, in the TGP and even outside on the ground I saw dark spots appear for a few fractions of a second. I switched back to 4x MSAA mode and everything was fine.
@@Spudknocker Hi, thanks for replying. I have already installed the latest Nvidia drivers and also deleted the files from the FXO and metashader folders. I don't know what it could depend on... but I've already read some complaints about it on the forum. The most annoying thing is the shuttering effect that occurs.
I spent 4 hours trying to get DLSS to work in 2.9 to no avail. The dropdowns are greyed out. When I looked this up, there were hundreds of posts saying the same thing. I have an RTX 3080, I updated the drivers, I ran both the MT and non-MT variants. Nothing...furious that we waited this long and it came out defunct for thousands upon thousands of people.
Problem is DLSS still has ghostings behind planes. So im back to msaa but with mt.exe. Pitty since dlss upped my fps by 60. DLAA has less ghosting and blur than DLSS but fps gain is minimal. That is on monitor.u
DLSS ghosting is kinda annoying. Also screen space shadows do not display right in VR, following your point of view instead of the sun, which is a pity as I find them very light on my GPU. Otherwise it's a very good update. Using Quest Pro and RTX3090.
Was kind of hoping for frame generation. For a game that is CPU bound, frame generation is a no brainer. But I'm assuming its not that easy to implement.
it's worth noting that some VR sets do motion reprojection themselves and it's similar to frame gen in some ways, so if you use VR you should check if you can enable this feature on yours.
@@pavel1548 Are you using the Steam version by chance? You need to set it to ask you which version it should start up, preselecting MT there still starts the ST one as far as I've heard.
Hey guys, one thing I forgot to add, don't get too caught up with your FPS counter when you are trying to improve your FPS Performance, DCS like other flight sims are subject to massive swings in FPS, so use the counter as a baseline, but once you get to a point where DCS feels and plays well, turn off the counter, it will really increase your enjoyment of the simulator!
Thanks bro. Sometimes we need a little assurance. And especially when we all spend so much on our setups.
@Spudknocker what do you have your Nvidia gforce control panel graphics setting with the new 2.9 graphics changes? I have a similar graphics card as you and wondered if you use/configure gforces graphics settings or use DCS graphics settings only. Thanks as always for great content.
We live in an age where anything less than 450fps is totally unplayable to some people.
Yeah, I’m getting massive FPS boost (from 60 to 160) but I’m getting massive stutters and pauses now. It’s weird.
I set my MaxFPS limit to 50 in DCS. I keep constant 50 and GPU is cool.
Great testing out for the grass and tree sway for down wash. ED did a good job on this.
Them making replay much better is something i like about the update.
A rare proper review, unlike many "letsplay dlss on"
FYI, Secondary Shadows,
Is Shadows Rendered by Secondary Light Sources (Carrier Island Lights, Airfield Hanger and Taxi Lights, etc etc). Primary Shadows are rendered by Sun/Moon.
I was so confused for 30 minutes in my graphics settings until I noticed you have to select the "Play MT Preview" option when starting DCS or use the appropriate binary if standalone, otherwise DLSS was greyed out
This was the video I was looking for. Thank you.
Awesome video Spud, great stuff, game changing update indeed! I can't wait to try it out soon. Finally DLSS and DLAA on DCS ! ! ! The ground effects it's the cherry on the top !
There’s more to this update as well but this is what I could cover
Tell me something, they fixed the apache gun shooting in moviment? The precision? Cuz was complete broken, there were no calculation made by the system, was insane hard to hit, that sucked, but i've been away from DCS for a long time, i think a year, they updated everything, special the Apache, so much, thank god.@@Spudknocker
Beautiful. The downwash on the grass and trees looks great. I think it will help with that "sense" of how high you are rather than relying on the radar altimeter.
I think the colour grading will be great for cinematic and screenshot makers. I think, but I'm not sure, what ED's idea with that colour grading was to try to replicate the film effects of different film colouring techniques like Cinecolor and Technicolor. That's what it looks like to me. And if that's the case and its effects are accurate to the Cinecolor and Technicolor processes, that could be very useful for cinematic content creators like Phenom for creating historical cinematics.
I find that talking while flying is tough as well, but you're still flying beautifully and gracefully. I find it especially hard when it's something different to what I'm doing in the cockpit, so I usually go quiet when I'm doing stuff like landings or AAR with my mates.
Haha for me it’s just the magic of helicopters that breaks my brain still haha
Yo, we need these color setting to be like: "Operation Delta Force IV, Top Gun I, Iron Eagle III"
Nvidia filters and we are home
Haven't played DCS in awhile, but once I saw this update I immediately loaded into the first F-16 Red Flag campaign at Nellis. On the tarmac, startup with tons of AI planes starting up and taxing around and I'm getting my monitors' max refresh rate of 118-120. My monitor is a 2K utlrawide with a 120hz refresh rate. Don't think I've ever seen this level of performance. This is also my first time loading DCS since I've upgraded my CPU from the old 2013 intel extreme CPU i7 5960x (4.3ghz 8 cores /16 threads). Some of that performance could be due to the new CPU, but my GPU hasn't changed since I last played DCS when multithreading was released. Impressive
AMD 7800x3d
RTX 2080ti
32GB DDR5 6000mhz
Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 OS Drive
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB M.2 (Game Drive)
All settings at or near max. Increased the new LOD Switch Factor setting to max. DLSS set to quality.
Really awesome update with a ton of cool features, but the one thing that caught my eye the most is the KH-29 update.
They overhauled the FM and external model of both of the KH-29 Kedge missiles, which is seemingly very random. The Su-25T seems have been left alone for a while, and that’s the only flyable aircraft that can fire the Kedge.
Is it in preparation of an upcoming aircraft? There’s the Su-17, but that hasn’t really been announced. I mean I’d die for an F1EQ…
I wouldn’t read to deeply into it, I would say they are probably just systematically going through older weapons
@@Spudknocker I figured. Just wishing. 😅
Thank you for making this so fast!!
Good luck with your ATP training! (I'm working towards the same :D)
Good luck man! I am already an airline pilot, just moving to the Big 3 now, if you need any help studying please feel free to reach out to me on discord I am happy to help!
I was selected for WOFT in the Army as a street-to-seater. I leave for basic on Jan 3, and I should graduate WOCS and be a Warrant Officer 1 on April 4. Can’t wait! I’m only 18 so it’s a pretty wild feeling.
@@rhysgoodman7628 oh nice man!! That’s very cool!
@@Spudknocker Gotcha, awesome! Thanks man
@@Spudknocker thank you!
Hi @Spudknocker, my apologies if this has already been asked, I'm new to DCS so still trying to get my bearings, but when you talked about the "GoPro" view, around the 14 minute, you say that you can move it around using the W,A,S,D keys. I am trying this with the F-15E using the default key bindings in the View category, but I don;t have those keys bound to anything in View. In fact the W is bound to my brakes and the A to autopilot, etc. Please help, thanks.
Hey Spuds! Have not updated yet, going through some medical issues right now but will do this evening to see the what for. Ty so very much for the settings. I have a MSI laptop red dragon with the Nvidia graphics card and I do believe it's on the higher end but not sure I'll have to check that out. I'm sure the specs are in the system. It's always getting upgrades all the time. Taking off and long grass as an old rotor head. That grass will lay flat just at takeoff then as you increase an elevation the grass will shag as I noticed as you pulled up on the collective. Thank you so much for all that you do! I know you've been busy lately. I wish you all the blessings in the world on your journey in the love of your career. Best time of My life flying helos, nothing else like it. Carnival ride or anything like flying in a Helo. Take care my friend, Hope to see you soon 🕊️
Haha thanks for the support man! I hope you feel better soon!
Get well soon!
Recovering from a spinal disc herniation myself ATM... I'm past the worst part of it already , but having boots on pedals while sitting in a chair for prolonged time isn't exactly the best in that situation, since Isimply can't move around as much anymore unless I let go of the pedals XD
Thanks for the video. Looking forward to trying it tonight.
Good thing i have Nividia graphics card!
Hello one question I play pc/vr and yesterday I had an idea is it possible to put better resolution in your dominant eye and lower one in your non dominant, I think it would work because most of what you see comes from the dominant eye, so lowering the non dominant eye quality would be pretty much unnoticeable but it would leave more pc power for better resolution for the other eye
Nice Video!
Great video as always! Just finished my fATPL in the UK so I understand the time required for that kinda training, good luck with the arilines!! :)
I am using an Nvidia 3080 card, and I run DLSS in Quality mode, and get 72FPS in VR with Quest3. DCS 2.9 is amazing.
I think we need a drinking game.....a guzzle every time he says 'fantastic' =)
Hey man! Not sure how much reading you do, but I'm looking for reccommendations for books about planes/general military history. Probably cold war-modern era timeframe. Any favourites spring to mind?
the downwash effects add a good bit of immersion.
Had to go back to MSAA 4x. With upscaling off both DLAA and TAA are blurry and produce a lot of ghosting 😢 reprojection is off and no joy dont know whats going on...
DCS 2.9 update last night is looking good, but I'm not sure what's the best graphic settings. However in the MT version there's performance increase throughout. And then you have the colour theme choices.
Plus, I'm loving the foliage animations and dust effect when it comes to the helicopters down-wash.
So, well done, ED
how do you get 2.9, when i try to update is says 2.8 is up to date
All I can say is WOW, nice attention too detail.
Every since this update, I haven’t found a single setting that doesn’t either make my aircraft look blurry on the outside or some technical issue on the inside jittery hud etc.
Is this for multi threading? I’m not sure if should be using it but when I first tried it it looked really wierd
Where did you see the Glowing AMRAAM screenshots you mentioned? Discord?
Hi spud, does the DLSS update work with the Nvidia settings when set other than default or do you have to revert the Nvidia card to default before setting up DCS 2.9. Thanks for all your videos and input 👍
you should be able to set it regardless if your using the nvidia optimizer which isnt always the best at setting the optimal settings to start with
Hello Spud! My compliments for your ATPL first 😊 About DCS 2.9 I don’t have a Invidia card but I’m so curious with the FSR2 on Amd of there are improvements too. I really like the new “gopro” feature and the video customizzations!
Awesome work!
What about the LOD (level of detail) ? Did they finally fix it ? Because it has HUGE negative impact on the performance, which DLAA/DLSS alone won't fix.
Well, there basically is a LOD bias slider now, don't know how much of a difference that could make though. And it was possible to change that in config files for ages anyways.
Unfortunately, it seems DLSS in VR did nearly no improvements in performance on my 3080 despite being the clear bottleneck (CPU in multithreading is running at 30% while the GPU is begging for mercy) even with everything at low. :/
really? this is pretty contrary to my own experiences and i have worse hardware. headset? do you run the game through openxr? pixel density? anti-aliasing settings?
I have the same as Dexter. On a 4070TI I got no gains in fps, but I am getting lock ups and CTDS now lol. also noticed that its using 32 GIGS of ram now Which is not the worse being i have 64 but Its never gone over 23 GIGS total ram usage.@@Shakedown1969
My 3070 is basically pegged to 180fps in 1200p(ancake), but still struggles to hold 45fps in VR with a Quest at 2400v(ertical). I only discovered recently that I'm seeing 90fps in Virtual Desktop thanks to that XR2 Super Resolution thing. Weirdly enough, running the CV1 at the same res has it pretty much locked at actual 90fps... but you simply don't wanna have to use that HMD anymore if there's a Q3 available XD
what I really wanna know is multithreading available as it is in beta?
I don't know If someone has the same problem as me, but I'm unable to change the settings to DLAA. It appears to me as blank and imposible to click on it.
Did you find a fix?
@@dpteqz. Yeah, there is no fix If your PC don't have a superior graffic card. You are unable to change those settings. Sorry, but I don't recall know from one you can edit.
I hope they being DLSS 3 FG for us 40 series owners!
That I unfortunately do not know, but I am sure there are 40 series owners who can answer that question for you!
Meh FG seems to be just trickery to artificially boost the FPS numbers. Perhaps at some later point you wouldn't be able to tell but so far that hasn't been the case. Also for the fact that it negatively affects latency.
3.5 is incoming as part of 2.9 updates across the coming months, confirmed by ED today
Frame generation is great in MSFS. I get no blur or ghosting.
There's a lot of stutter in main menu and in mission editor (not in game)... did you experience this as well?
i have a 3060 but it not allowing me to select dlss and i do have the beta version too
i try to turn on sss but for some reason it wont let me. same with the dlaa or dlss. I'm not sure why it wont let me
Is a RTX 3070 NOW considered a low end or med range card...especially since only has 8GB VRAM?
So what happens of you don't have a Nvidia card? Do the Nvidia settings still work?
Cannot wait to see the performance gain using ultrawide screen + winwing mfds but also VR.😊
ultra-wide - depends on your resolution. 3440x1440 only got 5M pixels to draw, compared to 9M for folks who jumped to full 4K.
5K was 200fps already graphics wise, only corner cases (try to eject into forest and walk there) and logic/physics of games itself.
DLAA - that should save some FPS (ms) and visuals for VR thought.
@@unotoli 5120x1440 ;-)
I too am running the 3090. I have all the sliders and settings maxed out. Nice. But all you would be downloaders beware: You need 80 GB of free HD space to download this update. You will get a lot of it back once the download is over, but unless you have the space, expect the big red X message. I had to remove 2 maps to update then I reloaded. Meh...that's the price of going with a small HD. Should have gotten the 2 TB...
@ceciliacole5098 I am sure you're right. All I know is I had 34 GB free and it was telling me I needed 77. But when I started the down load it went to 80 GB. When the update was over it deleted all the obsolete files and now I am back where I was. I imagine it needs temporary space while it does its thing
I tried flying CP/G with George as pilot. Since the 2.9 update the heli keeps swinging left and right in hover mode and never hovers steadily. Is there anything I'm missing
Oh my God...this update is nearly MSFS2020-levels of massive. Almost NINETY GIGS!!
Hey spud love your vids brother, do you have a pvp server as well? I'd love yo join
My issue with DCS was never constant performance, it was the massive freezing and stutters you'd get in multiplayere. I managed to sus it out to when someone on the sever selects an aircraft seat to climb into.
does DLSS work fine with dcs multithreading ?
Sure does!
It only works with multithreading unfortunately. But I have serious issues with MT in VR. After replacing 1080ti with 6950xt DCS MT became unplayable although it gives more FPS. It gives weird stuttering effect without FPS drop, it is unrelated to FPS
Bro the game is not in GeForce now
Any news on FSR? Will DCS implement FSR for AMD cards?
FSR 2 support is in there... and they are going to imrove support as well.
@@CakePrincessCelestia Really, since when? I cant see any option for it.
@@andrewhardie8138 It's right where you select DLSS. Other options are NIS and FSR.
"NEW: Added support for AMD FSR 2, FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) also using an upscaling algorithm to improve performance. Also like DLSS, it will have little to no effect if you are CPU-limited. Multi-Threading must be enabled to enable FSR 2. WIP.
NOTE: When using DLSS or FSR 2, the image may be blurry. This can be addressed with the new Sharpening slider."
We need better multi-threading on the CPU a lot more than DLSS on this game. Unless you’re running 4K on a marginal GPU.
i only see 2.8 on the dcs website?
It's only 2.9 beta right now. Not stable. You can join the beta at any time (launcher command line option).
World 2.9 is good, but the devs have a long way to go with optimizing and stability. I'd also like to see some future updates specifically for VR as there is a sizeable proportion of players who only use a headset. Unfortunately as good as this engine is, it has limitations and we will need to wait for a new title to see that changed.
VulcanAPI should smooth things a bit, but engine overhaul for low-level stutterness will be needed.
Glad DLAA is there to get better visuals in VR with little to no cost, at least.
Thanks for the video! Can you link Glowing Amraam's original settings?
Hey man, I can’t really link it here but they are almost the same as mine
@@Spudknocker no worries and thanks!
Is there any way to prevent the smeary looking MFD / MPD's with DLSS on? Also what Apache livery is this? Looks amazing.
Does the rotor downwash only work on player models or does it work for AI units as well?
Grate unless you run AMD /FSR it now looks like I have Vaseline in my eyes. Even if I use my old settings now and none of the new stuff that's been added . Tryed for hours and nothing is helping
Ignorant question: does it help VR?
is this update fully out or is it just the beta, because my settings look diferent
Oh I forgot to mention does this mean that we do not need Reshade now we have colour grading ? Thanks again 👍
Oh, cool
Not really. E.g. my reshade pulls depth, contrast, blacks, certain colours and adds lens darkening against the sun. DCS hardly gives you any options besides certain preset filters that aren't really useful from what I see, while Reshade lets you do so, so much in the postprocessing to completely overhaul the areas where DCS lacks.
Is it better to use dlaa only for visuals or is it better to use dlaa with dlss for the visuals? Or does dlss deactivate dlaa? I have a 4090 so i want the best visuals for this beautiful game
How can I set gas and collective separately in the settings?
My 4 core CPU now runs at 90 plus percent. Video freeze stuttering and generally sittin waiting for graphics to load. Boight a new 3060 with 12 GB Ram. Made no difference. Can't play it anymore. Too many different opinions on what changes to make to improve performance that sem to focus on reducing graphical qualities. Really frustrating. Can't afford a 6 grand computer for gaming.
Being that the GPU is the most expensive part of a PC and DLSS is new the PC's that have it should be running well already. I guess we'll see how well this ages. Because of covid and the data-mining surge I'm still running a Nvidia 1070 GPU. So I am curious how 2.9 is running for people still with pre DLSS hardware.
why I cannot turn on the DLSS, my graph card is 3070, but the DLSS option is grey
driver 545.83
Have an RTX 2070 Super; RTX (Super Res) turned on in Nvidia control panel, I load DCS but it doesn't allow me to click DLAA or even DLSS... my drivers are updated too, is it just me?
Also can't
Make sure you run the exe in DCS\bin-mt. Normally it should work on 20 series.
I have the same problem. Does anyone know what I'm doing?
does dlss improve performance in VR too ?
i cant turn it on its greyed out
mt is on and i use the steam version
but a fiend of me got also the steam version at it works
we both got the rtx 2070s
Interesting, do you have the latest drivers? it might be something to do with your nvidia control panel settings
By Golly! I must make a blood sacrifice to the Dark Brandon to properly commemorate this momentous occasion!
I have an RTX 3080ti and I encountered some problems setting up DLSS. In multiplayer I experienced several freezes that lasted up to about 8 seconds. I also noticed a strange shadow effect on the numbers projected in the instrumentation, in the TGP and even outside on the ground I saw dark spots appear for a few fractions of a second. I switched back to 4x MSAA mode and everything was fine.
Hey dude, make sure youre on the latest nvidia drivers and delete your FXO and metashaders folders
@@Spudknocker Hi, thanks for replying. I have already installed the latest Nvidia drivers and also deleted the files from the FXO and metashader folders. I don't know what it could depend on... but I've already read some complaints about it on the forum. The most annoying thing is the shuttering effect that occurs.
@@PredatorFly look into core parking
And now we just need FSR 3 for Radeon GPUs
It comes with that path too they claimed no?
game keeps crashing with me - any idea why? such a pain.
wind effect for player only?
I hope they allow us to save CTRL+F2 view locations.
What about VR? Any updates?
Won't load into VR. What's the fix?
And I still run DCS like butter at 4k.
I can't turn on my DLSS settings on a 3080
Did they add Ray tracing
I spent 4 hours trying to get DLSS to work in 2.9 to no avail. The dropdowns are greyed out. When I looked this up, there were hundreds of posts saying the same thing. I have an RTX 3080, I updated the drivers, I ran both the MT and non-MT variants. Nothing...furious that we waited this long and it came out defunct for thousands upon thousands of people.
U mě to vyřešila aktualizace ovladače GPU. Ruční aktualizace, ne cestou Win.
@@pavel1548Ten den jsem aktualizoval ovladač. Provedl jsem čistou instalaci. Frustrovaný.
How does DLSS effect spotting? Seems like it would either ruin you or give you a huge advantage.
advantage if anything but ihavent tested, its easier to see things in dcs the lower resolution u play at
They did change spotting in the update as well
Glad to see your back Spud!
Hope training is going well.
You going to be piloting a Boeing jet or assisting the computers on a Airbus?
Boeing thank god
I'm getting really weird rendering glitches running dlss upscaling. I turned it off and am only using dlaa. 3080 12gb
check your driver version and delete your FXO and Meta Shaders folder
@@Spudknocker didn't work. Also, I'm noticing the MFDs flicker and occasional screen flicker.
So no DLSS 3.5 for frame insertion???? Why would they not go 3.5?
They are working on it.
It actually runs really well. I’m not getting any blur or ghosting with my 4080.
Problem is DLSS still has ghostings behind planes. So im back to msaa but with mt.exe. Pitty since dlss upped my fps by 60. DLAA has less ghosting and blur than DLSS but fps gain is minimal. That is on monitor.u
Make sure motion blur is turned off and then check your drivers and delete your FXO and meta shaders folders
@@Spudknocker yes yes did all that
DLSS ghosting is kinda annoying. Also screen space shadows do not display right in VR, following your point of view instead of the sun, which is a pity as I find them very light on my GPU. Otherwise it's a very good update. Using Quest Pro and RTX3090.
Spud im suprised with your interest in the area you havent put out any Gaza content
I am currently in the process of moving to a Legacy airline so I have been crazy busy
Looking forward to checking this update out!
huge fps gains on my 3070 🎉
Fantastic to hear!!
Any settings recommendations for a 3070?
Was kind of hoping for frame generation. For a game that is CPU bound, frame generation is a no brainer. But I'm assuming its not that easy to implement.
it's worth noting that some VR sets do motion reprojection themselves and it's similar to frame gen in some ways, so if you use VR you should check if you can enable this feature on yours.
All that needs now is soldiers reacting to the helicopter produced wind.
Ahhhhhh!!! He's crazy!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!
My dlss is greyed out, I have a 4000series card
Does this work in VR?
I keep reading "it's here" but until we can all download and play it, it isn't here.
Don't suppose dlss works with a 1080ti
Unfortunately not
Will a 1080ti still work ok
@@jep1103 1080ti is still fine.
I cant turn on dlaa or dlss for some reason
i have a 2070 graphics card
Make sure you run the multi-threaded version from the \bin-mt folder.
No, it doesn't work with MT either. Another idea, what about this?@@CakePrincessCelestia
@@pavel1548 Are you using the Steam version by chance? You need to set it to ask you which version it should start up, preselecting MT there still starts the ST one as far as I've heard.
I Have non steam version 😢
@@CakePrincessCelestia So solved! I had to manually!!! install GPU driver 31.0.015.4584
Happy rotorhead noises