Good Quality and Good Performance Guide - NVIDIA
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Roger that Icer, Good job. Interesting in regards to transparency and MFAA, might have to experiment with them myself at some point.
Best of luck and good hunting.
Thx Dram, I put everything on to see if it would adversely effect Framerate (including FXAA not mentioned above) with the intention of turning things off one at a time but with FR in the mid to upper 80’s its not necessary with this system. Just to see how it affected DCS I popped into a P51-D Instant Action (Ground Attack) mission just for ha-ha’s and it was smooth as can be with 80’s FR also, not quite sure what to make of that but i’ll look at it more closely today.
I’ve included my current settings, not sure why my sig has stopped appearing under posts but i’m also pushing 144Hz into this GSync monitor at 2560x1440 (native res).
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It seems strange to me … this is so nice that I really have to tell you about it.
Any combination of presets I try, both inside Falcon and in the nVidia control panel, my RTX 2080Ti doesn’t care.
It overrides everything and goes on with its own. The result? Always 61 fps fixed, of course. What need to ask?Better to let it go as ‘she’ wants, ‘she’ always is in command anyway (like women use to do :lol: ).
With best regards to all.
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It seems strange to me … this is so nice that I really have to tell you about it.
Any combination of presets I try, both inside Falcon and in the nVidia control panel, my RTX 2080Ti doesn’t care.
It overrides everything and goes on with its own. The result? Always 61 fps fixed, of course. What need to ask?Better to let it go as ‘she’ wants, ‘she’ always is in command anyway (like women use to do :lol: ).
With best regards to all.
In case you missed I-Hawk ( BMS ) gave a really good explanation on the limitations of the (current) BMS rendering engine that would explain why the performance isn’t scaling up with the hardware.
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Thanks a lot, Vyper, I already knew that topic.
I wanted to make anyway a step beyond to see if anything has changed in better with the 2080Ti new technology, but no kind of settings could currently help.
So, let’s wait with patience and see what good the future will bring us.
I will continue to test however, and, as promised, I will post the results if I will be able to find something useful out.With best regards.
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It seems strange to me … this is so nice that I really have to tell you about it.
Any combination of presets I try, both inside Falcon and in the nVidia control panel, my RTX 2080Ti doesn’t care.
It overrides everything and goes on with its own. The result? Always 61 fps fixed, of course. What need to ask?Better to let it go as ‘she’ wants, ‘she’ always is in command anyway (like women use to do :lol: ).
With best regards to all.
Had the same issue with the 1080Ti until a good friend suggested I tick off in the configuration:
Hardware > Shaders > Shadow Mapping > Focus Shadows.
I’ve got only Cockpit Shadows ticked in that section.This simple change bumped up my FPS by 30.
Since it only affects your own shadow over objects I could exchange seeing my own shadow on the tarmac or sea or clouds for a huge increase in FPS. -
Thanks for this tip too.
I will try it, doubtfully however considering all my previous attempts’ results and the fact that the 2080Ti is amazing but ‘special’ from any point of view at the same time, you know.
Have a nice day, mate, with best regards.
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Had the same issue with the 1080Ti until a good friend suggested I tick off in the configuration:
Hardware > Shaders > Shadow Mapping > Focus Shadows.
I’ve got only Cockpit Shadows ticked in that section.This simple change bumped up my FPS by 30.
Since it only affects your own shadow over objects I could exchange seeing my own shadow on the tarmac or sea or clouds for a huge increase in FPS.I know what your saying but bms without the shadows under aircraft at bases etc doesn’t look great at all, hard to turn that one off
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I know what your saying but bms without the shadows under aircraft at bases etc doesn’t look great at all, hard to turn that one off
Here’s the thing…I trust A.S. regarding BMS much more than I trust many others and yet, for some reason, he didn’t turn it off.
I had never flown with cockpit or own aircraft shadows turned off before I tested many settings and couldn’t figure out why with a pretty capable system I was stuck at 61 tops.
That us until I read a friend’s of mine post with his incredible FPS.
Didn’t want to try it and didn’t make sense and after one trial I was hooked.
Unless someone shows me otherwise one barely sees one’s own shadow during those 15 minutes tops during day time.
More than that…since one spends 90% of the flight time airborne enjoying top FPS, even in real bad weather, makes the flight experience so much better.Now…I would appreciate if someone proves me otherwise or any other importance of focus shadows…till then do try.
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You already posted the proof to your self.
It’s your fps.
61 are more than enough.
Shadows though few times looked are welcomed and add to the pluralism of the SIM if you can afford them.
So lets see how you will argue with your self.Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T818A using Tapatalk
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Is it possible to use reshade or sweetfx with this setting?
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Good morning, Gentlemen.
As I promised, I’m submitting here the results of the last tests performed on my graphics card settings.
I would like to remind everyone that I am using an nVidia RTX 2080Ti, so I have to premit that all what I’m going to report now may be considered ‘true’ for this one only.
So, experiences with any other kind or brand may obviously vary.But before I would thank publicly Arty, I-Hawk, A.S. and Polaris-1, in particular, and all of many other members, who made me think and directly or indirectly aided me so much in many ways in troubleshooting, driving me to a satisfactory solution of my issue.
I was unable to get more than 61 fps from my card, no matter of how many changes might I make on my settings.
I’m recalling only to myself that this equation wasn’t easy to solve due the presence of three variables: 1) the BMS general settings; 2) the BMS ‘internal’ graphic setup settings; 3) the graphic card own settings, all interacting and to be combined properly to get the best final results.After months of tests and asking questions to all of you of various kind, I had yesterday an average datum of 203 fps, with a minimum of 177 and a maximum of 233. Here as follow are the final settings I was unable to find out finally yesterday:
- about the BMS general settings,
You can note that, about shadow mapping, I followed Polaris’ advise, getting a huge increment of performance in return (with all the three effects enabled: 177 fps average ; with the first two enabled: 187 fps average; with the firt one only enabled: 203 fps average).
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about the BMS ‘internal’ graphic setup settings,
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about the graphic card own settings,
About these last two arguments, I wouldn’t add any comments because I found the screenshots somehow self-explanatory by themselves.
But if I’m wrong, please feel all free to ask me (by PM, please) what do you need to be explained, I will be glad to explain myself better than I tried to do here.
My apologies for having bothered you all for so much time. I’m particularly stubborn and I don’t give up until I found the solution I’m seeking for, as you unfortunately know well.
With my sincerely thanks to you all, also for your kind attention, and my best regards.
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Thank you very much for those details ! This is very interesting as I have the same experience as you do, only getting low FPS as soon as there is rain or something. And I have a fast computer. I’ll try your settings.
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Thanks for your appreciation as first, Flow.
So, to your question: no, they don’t, to me. But, even if they would have any, in my opinion we are here to flying realistic combat missions, to be honest…
oherwise, there are others simulations privileging the graphic aspect, compared to the really tactical one (which I most care of).
A huge lot, I guess, not to mention ‘civilian’ ones.With best regards.
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Of course, but I’ll still take what I can in the graphics department. It can’t hurt
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Jackal, as far as your 61 FPS before, I can’t help but think you had either Vsync on (in game or in Nvidia settings) and are using a 60Hz monitor or you have a GSync monitor and had the refresh locked at 60Hz as that is what would cause the cap to be at 60+/- FPS. I don’t believe there are any graphics settings other than that which would get you from 60 FPS to 200 FPS?
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Hope that it helps, in part at least… I used a RTX 2080Ti, I have to repeat this, so only for this one those settings would be effective.
Good luck, and in case I’m here.
With best regards.
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Well there is something I don’t understand in my setup, so if anybody can point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it.
1 - My setup
i7 7700k / GTX1080Ti / Ram 32GB @ 3200 MHz / NVMe 512GB Samsung 970
Screen : Samsung 49" 32:9 / 3840 x 1080 / 144 Hz (so 1/2 of the pixels you are pushing with your 4K screen)
I run DCS in VR with quite good performance.2 - Initial configuration
Here is what I have used up to now :And the result in the Benchmark TE : 36 FPS on the ground / 45 in the air
3 - Trying your configuration
Result : a little better FPS, maybe 45 to 50 in the Benchmark TE
4 - What I have tried
Here is what I have tried to have better FPS :- Turn off display extraction (MFD / RWR / … on a second screen) : almost no change
- Run the game not in windowed mode : almost no change
Also, I see that you are applying the NVidia settings to the launcher.exe and not to the Falcon BMS.exe file, so I changed that too, but no difference. Where should that be pointing ? I don’t have experience with that.
With my system I should get really good FPS I believe. I don’t use any mods. On the Balkans theater, if there is bad weather, I even get stuttering.
Thank you
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Tick low res for clouds, remove rain rings,remove high res textures lol or get a smaller monitor
loooool. ,in bms we shouldn’t try all these experiments should run flawlessly49 inches is for cinema not for gaming
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Dear Flow,
I hope to be able and help you… don’t know if I can. I consider, however, that unfortunately running DCS is a matter, and running BMS another one (of course).
More specifically, as first, I pointed my nVidia control panel to the ‘launcher.exe’ file only because that’s the one choosen by the control panel itself by default.
By the way, I always run it to be BMS launched after.
This premitted, let’s talk the main argument.
I know a few or nothing at all about video cards. because I’m not a technician for sure. But this I have more than clear in my mind, after having compared some 1080 and 2080Ti specifics: they are quite different, and conclusively in their respective performances.
So, as I premitted in my previous post, those specific settings I found out and tested as ‘valid’ for my 2080 could reveal itself not appropriate, if not excessive or without effect, for any other model than mine, I have to think clearly more powerful than others.But the same… if you got some little improvements in performance is already a good start, isn’t it?
So if I were you I would continue to test less ‘heavy’ settings, as I was allowed to instead, trying to match BMS configurator and your 1080 settings… I would leave those at BMS ‘internal’ graphic setup as they are. It will be better for our mental health and well-being, you know :lol:
You should happen to find that unchecking those flags at the ‘shadows’ (the two last both) and the rain rings (most useless, to me) could change something… and so on.
About the nVidia control panel, please believe if I’m telling you what you should do in it… our cards are too much different, and so the possibilities in their panels, even if nominally having the same name. Reducing the refresh rate, maybe? I positively don’t know where should I start from, to be honest. So it’s up to you trying different settings once at a time, I’m afraid (please keep this well).Sorry if I can’t suggest you more.
Good luck and a lot of patience more, mate, I guess.
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Thanks for your answer Jackal.
My graphics card is a 1080Ti (not a 1080), yours a 2080Ti. In regards with BMS, they are very similar, since BMS does not use raytracing. Yours is a little more powerful, but not 100% more powerful. Also, you are pushing twice as many pixels as I do, so our results “should” be similar.
There is something off, and I need to find what.Edit : Jackal, could you run the BMS Benchmark TE in the saved TEs and tell us your FPS results please ? That would be great