Sorry for the hijack, just a short sideline to illustrate how one can harness what freak outlined here: I just found a video where Mike Acton talks about how to optimize data for cache misses. It’s probably a bit technical for the general public but if you’ve ever written code in your lifetime and have some understanding of how a computer does what it does, this might be interesting.
I feel called out.
What he says from 17:42 to 19:13 is exactly the opposite of how I treat computers.
I work as a Platform Engineer and in my spare time, I build my own cloud made of desktops, laptops, Raspberrys and hopefully an old phone soon. The software is spread over it using a Kuberbetes cluster and the hardware is completely abstracted away (multi-arch Docker images are the greatest thing ever).
This is 100% the opposite of how Mike Acton says computers should be treated.
EDIT: Love the animation at 30:30. The accel/decel works even better for the feel than linear movement. AMD should use that in their marketing for 3D CPUs
EDIT2: feeling very validated by the shitting on object-oriented around the hour mark
He needs stuff to happen in 33ms. You on the other hand don’t want to worry about anything happening on the OS layer. It’s nice to be able to think like a game dev for the odd occasion when you need something to be stupid fast. But 90% of devs hardly ever have these kinds of problems.
I spent more than 8 years working in IT without knowing the difference between heap&stack.
Exactly! That’s me and my colleagues and friends.
The cool glasses are me and my homies saying words like “cloudnative”
Every hit with the baseball stick is another layer of abstraction or templating.
And the computer hardware is the computer hardware.
And we keep hitting it: Bam Docker! Bang! Kubernetes! Multi-architecture! Helm Template! GitOps! Bang boom bam
Weather is awesome these days, sunny yet cool and dry but not too dry. So here I am, happily laying brick an getting a huge kick out of hitting bricks just so with a little rock hammer to shape them and the client lady rocks up to me; “I heard you are handy with IT things, could you help fix this smarthome heater thing we got?” So I shook off the dust and got my nerd on. Half an hour later, the thing was fixed and my hatred for wifi related technology fresh and hot. Hit it with a hammer, good for the soul.
well I went to that guys youtube channel and tried some more of his tweaks. I reran Firestrike and get a whopping 48546 legendary score topping my old score…
most of the tweaks were for shader cacheing and such which really seemed to help in Firestrike… I am going to go and test DCS now and see if that helped in there some more…
here is the new score:
well this is wierd, I just reinstalled win11 pro and when I ran the benchmarks now I scored 10000 less then the best score. I am wondering if the newer GPU drivers are the issue…
I was using 566.36 now using 581.29. but I did score a legendary on Steel Nomad… This is really wierd…
Did you install any chipset drivers? Your system is not just a GPU, other things might be to blame.
yes chipset and other motherboard drivers are 1st on the list to be installed… I mentioned the GPU drivers as that is mostly what is different this time around 
Well I tweaked a few settings with 2 videos by Software guy and 1 random I seen plus I added Process lasso to the mix again for some more tweaks to help with the process .exe and it has seemed to been a stellar success.
I had ran a multiplayer mission on “Through the Inferno” and during the entire 25minutel flight in the apache I had no lag spies it was a complet flatline.
Also when shutting the game off the Frametime in fpsVR was @99.9%, I think I did not get 100% as when loading into the mission before it started I lost 10 Frames. but during the entire flight it was a complete Flatline in the DCS FPS counter…
I always knew it was probally mostly the OS and it not being tweaked to handle games well. I had never had such a smooth DCS Session altho I never had much issues for some reason it alway ran near flwaless on my past couple of PC’s and now it runs even better…
Having played at 4:30 am probally helped but there was still about 25 flyers on the server when I joined. and even when someone disconnected I remained Flatline on the DCS FPS Counter amzing it is…
Now I think I found a win 11 OS light better then LTSC version and I am going to give it a try maybe if I can get to DL it… I found a bunch of tweakers on Discord and youtube that seem to know a bit about tweaking as well…
I am going to go and test MW5:Mercs and see if I get the same smooth gameplay as I did in DCS. But I still get the way low scores in the Firestrike benchmark even thos I score legendary in the Steel nomad one… go figure…
I had spent all night and all day tweaking. I ended up getting a light version of Win 11 home and been playing with that it is called FSOS…
I have not been able to recreate my 7.8ms Frametime lows in DCS but still is not bad at about 10.4ms… I just think it was a fluke and the stars aligned for a moment.
Having not been able to recreate it with even this light version of Windows. I was using Latency mon and found out my Anti Virus program defender and Avast were the cause of that program pitchin a fit about not able to render real time audio…
I think I am still getting the 99.9% Overall frametime but not as low as it was last night. but I have yet to retest DCS…
Going to reinstall Process Lasso and see what gains I can get out of that wih the Steel Nomad Benchmark… seems the Firestrike I am no where near my Legendary score there and I even tried the older nvidia drivers…
will have to do some more testing but I do not think I am going to try those tweak on this light version of Windows… back to the woodshed…
Try Bazzite Linux. I‘ve been running the Gnome edition for a few weeks now, and it‘s less work than maintaining a Windows installation.
I had to tweak fan curves. And fix a microphone issue, which comes down to my individual hardware setup. Other than that it‘s just goes out of the way so Incan start a game. Linux for gaming has come a long way!
Hey,
That does look awful tempting. I do have probally 1 or 2 concers, I own a Thrustmaster Cougar, would the software for the HOTAS work with bazzite? also I use a Reverb G2 headset I am guessing since it has STEAM Preinstalled there should be no issue with getting that to work since Oasis driver for the G2 is run off Steam??
EDIT: I am going to give it a go,
Those might be things that will give you trouble. If you have a spare ssd, why give it a go. Always good to know about the alternatives.
Well I am on my way. I think the VR Should work as I installed Steam and Chrome so far so good. now I just need to figure a few things out and I will be set…
Thank you for the reccomendation so far looks like a keeper
well my Reverb G2 will not work on Bazzite. I tried proton and all since it is a windows device it simply does not work yet… there was a way but with this distro I can not install the package… 
Well back to Win 11 it was fun tho wish I had a different VR Solution… thnx man
EDIT: I just was checking Google and it noted to use the CachyOS for the reveb G2, I may attempt it again. I will need to check the minimum size drive I need tho…
Usually you can install everything, it‘s just a question of how.
But that‘s not all, if you really need something only another distro provides, Distrobox let‘s you containerize it.
So there‘s options for everything in Bazzite. Which package did you need for the G2?
