Question to others: is the game playble since last updates?

[ATA_Vasilij]

HI there, 

 

I play many years. Since first IL2. I know what to set and how to setup settings to make game good playble.

BUT.

Since last two updates, the game is very bad running on my PC. (Specs: Ryzen 7 5800x and rx5700xt, 16GB, )

I have VR.

in cockpit now I have 45-60 fps which is bad. The game is not good. I used to have 90, now 45. :(

 

The FPS wetn DOWN about 30 fps compared the game a year ago. Before the last 2 updates.

I tried everything. Reinstall system, reinstall game. change bios, tried both win 10 and 11 . nothing helped.

I have stuttering in game. maps are not fluent, lags and microfreezing. 

 

DOes anybody of you experience the same?

Is the game so badly optimized, that in VR is not playable anymore?

 

Thx for any helps. advices and so on...

 

[ShamrockOneFive]

Generally speaking IL-2 is probably the best optimized of the four sims that I regularly fly. No, I haven't noticed any performance degradation at all.

[Majpalmer]

No issues here, either. But I'm not using VR. Why not try itr without VR and see if the problems persist. Is it something about your system, or your VR?

[Gambit21]

54 minutes ago, ShamrockOneFive said:

Generally speaking IL-2 is probably the best optimized of the four sims that I regularly fly..

Hmm.

Start playing with time acceleration in each.

 

That said I agree that I haven’t seen IL2 performance get worse. 

[DD_Arthur]

2 hours ago, ATA_Vasilij said:

DOes anybody of you experience the same?

Is the game so badly optimized, that in VR is not playable anymore?

 

Thx for any helps. advices and so on...

 

 

No, no performance issues.  Runs as well as ever and I run the game in VR exclusively.    If you're running VR and your frames went from 90 to 45 it would suggest that something might have changed with your pc's settings.

 

What headset are you using?

[spreckair]

I seem to have the same problem.  I am running an HP Reverb G2 on an I7-11700 with an RTX 3080.  My FPS also dropped from the 80 to 90 levels to 45.  I was thinking that it is a setting issue, but I haven't yet solved the problem.

[The_Ant]

No problem here in vr.On a Rift-s and a 3080,Settings set to max.and hittting 70-90 fps,never noticed a difference,since update..

[Skycat1969]

A few weeks ago my game became unplayable in VR (ie, very low frames, choppy motion) after I installed the newest Nvidia Game Ready driver. I had to roll back through a couple of versions until my game returned to normal performance. I'm currently using Nvidia drivers version 512.15. My GPU is RTX 2080 Ti. My VR headset is Reverb G2.

 

I used to install every new Nvidia driver version, but then two consecutive releases early this year broke Prepar3D. I was holding at a version that worked and I honestly don't remember why I installed the new release.

[jollyjack]

I went back to NVDIA 496.13 version for my 3080ti a while ago, but forgot why LOL ... . runs fine, swear to avoid further updates. No VR BTW.

Maybe AMD GPUs have also driver issues?

 

seen this?:

 

Edited July 17, 2022 by jollyjack

[Jade_Monkey]

I did notice a degradation in performance with more frequent "hiccups", like a frame drop every 3 mins or so. The odd thing is that the smoke animations get interrupted and restart, so a long trail of engine smoke will have a gap in the middle etc.

 

System: RTX 3080, Ryzen 3700x, 32 GB RAM, vive Pro 2.

[easterling77]

Recently upgraded to Ryzen 9 5950X and 64G Ram and I have no issues so far....GPU is to be updated next month (for now it's a 2080 super)

Edited July 17, 2022 by easterling77

[RossMarBow]

I have basically the same setup as you 
But don't play in VR 
No problems

 

EDIT: actually today I ran into a weird thing that sounds similar to your issue
game play FPS was down and it was telling me I was getting 90 FPS but everything was super stutter 
so about a 30 fps drop but it was running like shit
stopped and restarted the recording I was doing using the AMD recorder problem went away 

 

 

regarding jade monkey and the smoke thing
its a quirk in the engine that has existed forever 
basically you can simplify how it works to this
if you have already "seen" the smoke the smoke will keep happening 
but theirs a gap in the rendering distance 
so you can see the engine smoke of someone you watched taking off 
but you can't see the engine smoke of someone at the same distance but who started further away
its effect is that engine smoke plays no role in long range spotting because you have to be so close before it renders

 

 

back on topic 
have you benchmarked other games/benchmarks?

Edited July 17, 2022 by RossMarBow

[Asgar]

Nothing like that, in fact the last couple patches I had the best performance in VR yet

Edited July 17, 2022 by Asgar

[RedeyeStorm]

I have a Valve Index I7 9900K and GTX 3080, 32 Mb memory and Windows 10. Never had any issues in VR performance.

[ATA_Vasilij]

Thx, all for responses.

 

I have HP Reverb G2 (new cable already installed)

It was running well before the updates.

 

Without VR evertything runs perfect on 140 fps. Cannot be compared. VR needs double of pc resources, than monitor play.

 

SOme of you said that also have problems, so lets look what is the same in our setups.

 

is it HP, or AMD mtb?

 

edit: Yes, I tried benchmark(heaven benchmark 4.0), everything runs perfect. 
What runs badly is IL2 with VR

 

Edited July 17, 2022 by ATA_Vasilij

[ShamrockOneFive]

14 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Hmm.

Start playing with time acceleration in each.

 

That said I agree that I haven’t seen IL2 performance get worse. 

 

Oh I have. X-Plane is the weirdest/coolest where you can keep the sim rate at 1x but the landscape flies past at 8x or whatever you want it to go at. DCS can be squirrely. MSFS crashes sometimes when I do it. And IL-2 has time dilation. They are all adorable in their own unique way

30 minutes ago, ATA_Vasilij said:

What runs badly is IL2 with VR

That I can't help with. I'm running in 2D with a 4K monitor.

 

There may be some VR specific things that you might need to do to get things going well.

[JonRedcorn]

A rule of thumb I've followed for years is if you have a driver that's working perfectly do not update. There's no need, unless a new driver has a new feature you'd like to try you are just running the risk of messing everything up. I know some people like to update to every single new driver that comes out to which I never understood the point if everything is working correctly.