Shopping for a new PC... and I’m kind of lost.

Hardware & Tech Questions
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A buddy of mine has a 1060, some Ryzen5, 16Gb RAM and a Rift.
He installed DCSW and invited me over (because he has no clue about flight sims and to show me VR).
Sure you play with low details, but yeah, I could fly the Su25t and the TF-51 in VR just fine, even over Tbilisi.

We played Skyrim VR and used Google Earth VR and it worked well. Much better than I thought.

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Argh… you are sneaky! I just wrote the answer and now I am looking like a moron because the question is gone. Well played! :smile: :smile:

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One thing DCS loves to eat is VRAM - so a card with only 6G would be hard pressed to recommend.

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Two things to note there:

  • 1: If the RAM can be written and read quickly, then you can get away with having less just fine.
  • 2: It cannot be that severe. I play DCSW with 3GB of VRAM. It just depends on what you expect from visual quality.

Interesting nonetheless:
@all of you who have a 2060 or better: How does your VRAM usage look like?

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VRAM is to the GPU what RAM is to the CPU and during games you should find it wont be using any shared memory across RAM because the exchange is too slow. I have not seen DCS try and go to RAM when the VRAM is full myself. My previous card was 3GB and topped out on low settings.

Normandy ~7GB
Nevada ~5.5GB
Caucusus ~5.5GB
Multiplayer any 7+GB

(only 1080p btw)

To add it also doesn’t matter what it is using now but future game enhancements generally pile on the resource requirements. I know Vulcan is the new messiah on the horizon but generally these things never turn out as good as the hype.

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That’s weird. I have the textures on high and it runs OK (not great but OK) unless there are many objects in the mission. Sure, a lag now and then and sometimes I can see it load new textures a bit slowly.
My card is a 970M so it has 3GB I think and shares another 3 with the system.

…maybe I am just easy to satisfy. :smiley: