Game Performance

[76SQN-Minimayhemtemp]

Hi,

 

I'm having terrible performance in game.  I suffer from two issues:

 

1) Intermittent stuttering of the full gameplay (only occurs when playing and not in tracks, tracks are smooth)

2) Framerate drops from 74 to 35fps

 

I have a fairly decent computer, i7-9700, 3070ti, 64gb ram, m2 ssd.  I have the same problems on ultra as I do on low.

 

Why is this?  What can be done to fix it?

[BlitzPig_EL]

What kinds of missions are you playing?  Online? Offline?  Lots of AI units on the map?

 

Anything running in the background?

 

Monitor or VR?  1080P, 2K, 4K?

 

We need more details.

[Ribbon]

It's been since cloud hotfix and skybox update....at least for me.

Performance went down greatly, however i run it in VR (G2, 3080, 10700k), from previous stable 45fps with motion smoothening now drops down to 29fps in Kuban map tests i always use for comparision.

For me those updates had barely visible graphic enhancement while came with big performance cost.

To add overdone sun glare  that makes one lens blind on reverb G2 half of the flight time.

For me all that was huge downgrade in both graphics and performance.

 

I hope next il2 project will have those issues solved or done better ?

[Bica]

56 minutes ago, =VARP=Ribbon said:

It's been since cloud hotfix and skybox update....at least for me.

Performance went down greatly, however i run it in VR (G2, 3080, 10700k), from previous stable 45fps with motion smoothening now drops down to 29fps in Kuban map tests i always use for comparision.

For me those updates had barely visible graphic enhancement while came with big performance cost.

To add overdone sun glare  that makes one lens blind on reverb G2 half of the flight time.

For me all that was huge downgrade in both graphics and performance.

 

I hope next il2 project will have those issues solved or done better ?

There must be something else wrong then i think because i have worse hardware than you (5600x and 3070ti) and i run it on a g2 between 75(while flying low above forest) and 90 (flying high) fps. That's on 90% res upscaled with fsr. But on 100% res i can get 55-75 still, and -60 is just too jittery for me.

But this all is to say that surely you should be able to pull more than 29fps out of a 3080. Unless you have 4x msaa on.

[Ribbon]

24 minutes ago, Bica said:

There must be something else wrong then i think because i have worse hardware than you (5600x and 3070ti) and i run it on a g2 between 75(while flying low above forest) and 90 (flying high) fps. That's on 90% res upscaled with fsr. But on 100% res i can get 55-75 still, and -60 is just too jittery for me.

But this all is to say that surely you should be able to pull more than 29fps out of a 3080. Unless you have 4x msaa on.

Ultra preset

shadows off

Grass normal

Landscape distance x4

Clouds high

Shapen on

Msaa x2

 

Maybe i need to reinstall win and else.

 

I test peroformance on empty kuban map (south spawn area over the mountains) in QMB 

 

[Russkly]

13 minutes ago, =VARP=Ribbon said:

Ultra preset

shadows off

Grass normal

Landscape distance x4

Clouds high

Shapen on

Msaa x2

 

Maybe i need to reinstall win and else.

 

I test peroformance on empty kuban map (south spawn area over the mountains) in QMB 

 

 

You running SteamVR or OpenXR?

[Jaws2002]

2 hours ago, 76SQN-Minimayhemtemp said:

Hi,

 

I'm having terrible performance in game.  I suffer from two issues:

 

1) Intermittent stuttering of the full gameplay (only occurs when playing and not in tracks, tracks are smooth)

2) Framerate drops from 74 to 35fps

 

I have a fairly decent computer, i7-9700, 3070ti, 64gb ram, m2 ssd.  I have the same problems on ultra as I do on low.

 

Why is this?  What can be done to fix it?

 

 Install HWINFO64 and let the sensors on, to monitor everything, while you play. If your issue is thermal, the results will show it clearly.

 I had some weird fan speed up lately and sure enough, when I checked the temperatures, my CPU was getting hotter than usual. The coolant in the AIO was still cold, so I figure out it had to be the thermal paste. I checked it out and sure enough the liquid metal hardened and was dry.

 After I cleaned up the old one and reapplied liquid metal everything is normal and cool again.

 

 Also check this thread here:

 

Run the benchmarks and then check your results against other people with similar setups, to see if your computer is running with the pack or it's slower.

Edited March 7, 2023 by Jaws2002

[Ribbon]

3 hours ago, Russkly said:

 

You running SteamVR or OpenXR?

OpenXR

[Russkly]

16 hours ago, =VARP=Ribbon said:

OpenXR

 

Hmmm...that was my solution.

 

Could you try SteamVR to see if there's any improvement? At least that might indicate your OpenXR settings as the culprit.

[Ribbon]

3 hours ago, Russkly said:

 

Hmmm...that was my solution.

 

Could you try SteamVR to see if there's any improvement? At least that might indicate your OpenXR settings as the culprit.

I did, works better in openxr but stil on my usual test performance is not great.

First hit was after cloud hotfix and second one after new skybox and lightning,  i think those two did its job.

 

[Hinterseer]

have you updated the opencomposit .dll?

 

im running allso on lower hardware and have no troubles

RTX 3060 TI - I7 9700KF - 16 gb 2666 mhz ram - Ocules quest 2

Edited March 8, 2023 by Hinterseer

[76SQN-Minimayhemtemp]

I have basically the same setup as Hinterseer.  I'm also playing in VR, using a Q2 with OpenXR, and latest version of opencomposit.dll.

 

The issue occurs in career mode.  I thought it was isolated to Normandy but its also present in Moscow.

 

I found that the clouds update actually incresed my FPS by ~5 or so.  But the performance is still poor.  What's strange is that the stuttering, which I can only describe as half a second in length pauses in gameplay, occur in career mode at any time - during takeoff, en route to target, during engagement, on return journey.  It's not normally the whole duration of the mission, and time speed settings makes no difference.  This isnt a latency issue though I dont think, as the gameplay simply pauses and then continues, rather than compressing the pause into a couple of frames when the game has unpaused.

 

I think that is an annoying issue, but the fact that I cant get more than 35 fps when engaging ground or fighters is really frustrating, and ruins the immersion. 

 

Heat wise both my CPU and GPU are fine and none of my resources are near 100% utilization throughout the duration of gameplay.

[Hinterseer]

1 hour ago, 76SQN-Minimayhemtemp said:

The issue occurs in career mode.

 

And only carrer mode?

There is alot of stuttering in carrer mode - i cant play the beach mission on normandy, its a stutter party.

i dont have any issues on the other maps beside small stuttering when things get hot.
it could sound a bit like this you describe?

 

do you use wireless or cabel?

I dont play much carrer anymore because of the stuttering/judder
i now prefer the user made scripted campaigns - the usely run smooth