Dimus
May 13th, 2020, 08:21
I am putting this here in case it will help someone having a similar problem.
I recently upgraded my rig from a 970 to an RTX2070 Super. After the upgrade all sims were working great, including P3D v4 and v5 and Il-2 COD at very high settings.
However, in DCS I started having crashes, especially in the F-14 and even on sim startup. I tried all tricks mentioned in the ED forum for crashes (deleting the saved games etc.) but nothing worked. I was disappointed that I had upgraded to a better GPU and could not even fly!:dizzy:
Digging more into the ED forum I managed to find the answer to my problems or at least a very good lead in this thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=205752
One particular setting to be ensured in a DCS profile in Nvidia control panel is the -Power Management --> Prefer Maximum Performance
I had this set for the 970 but when I changed cards I decided to flush clean the drivers and reinstall them, so I lost that setting and forgot to get back to it. It seems that this caused the voltage to my card to be reduced exactly when it was needed, causing a driver crash. When I did not have a crash I had terrible performance.
After setting this the crashes stopped and I was able to increase sliders to very high settings and DCS runs amazingly well. As a side note, it seems to be better to control MSAA and Transparency Antialising through Nvidia and leave the MSAA setting at 2x in DCS and no SSAA settings. Even though I have a 1080p monitor, I was able to run at 4k through DSR with no problems.
Happy camper now after three days of grief...
Hope it helps someone.
I recently upgraded my rig from a 970 to an RTX2070 Super. After the upgrade all sims were working great, including P3D v4 and v5 and Il-2 COD at very high settings.
However, in DCS I started having crashes, especially in the F-14 and even on sim startup. I tried all tricks mentioned in the ED forum for crashes (deleting the saved games etc.) but nothing worked. I was disappointed that I had upgraded to a better GPU and could not even fly!:dizzy:
Digging more into the ED forum I managed to find the answer to my problems or at least a very good lead in this thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=205752
One particular setting to be ensured in a DCS profile in Nvidia control panel is the -Power Management --> Prefer Maximum Performance
I had this set for the 970 but when I changed cards I decided to flush clean the drivers and reinstall them, so I lost that setting and forgot to get back to it. It seems that this caused the voltage to my card to be reduced exactly when it was needed, causing a driver crash. When I did not have a crash I had terrible performance.
After setting this the crashes stopped and I was able to increase sliders to very high settings and DCS runs amazingly well. As a side note, it seems to be better to control MSAA and Transparency Antialising through Nvidia and leave the MSAA setting at 2x in DCS and no SSAA settings. Even though I have a 1080p monitor, I was able to run at 4k through DSR with no problems.
Happy camper now after three days of grief...
Hope it helps someone.