DCS: Benchmark with old hardware on "Mid" settings (custom)

5 years ago

Just a reminder for those of us who have a rig that wasn't built in this decade (or close to it):
DCS is still playable and wondrous to look at. You don't need an i9 to play it. [Click "Show More" for Specs]

VR, 4k, Maxed our graphics might be different, but for full HD, even a 2013's medium setup should suffice, ESPECIALLY if you don't ground pound a lot...

A few specs and details and a short clip to demonstrate the graphic level achievable (showing the plane, I might later do something more extensive).

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System Specs:
i7 930 @2.80Ghz
16GB RAM DDR 3 (2*8GB)
ASUS GTX 960 4GB OC
Win 10 Pro 64Bit
Operative System is on a SSD Drive.
DCS is on a separate SSD Drive.

Settings:
DCS Version: 2.5.5.41371
Textures: High
Terrain Textures: Low
Civilian Traffic: Off
Water: Low
Visibile Range: High
Heat Blur: Off
Shadows: Flat Only
Resolution: 1920x1080
Aspect Ratio: 1.77^
Monitor: 1 Screen
Resolution of Cockpit Displays: 256
MSAA: 4x
Depth of Field: Off
Lens Effects: None
Motion Blur: Off
SSAA: Off

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Clutter/Grass: 70
Trees Visibility: 40%
Preload Radius: 150000
Chimney Smoke Density: 1
Gamma: 1.8

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Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Terrain Object Shadows: Off
Cockpit Global Illumination: Off
Messages font scale: 1

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Rain Droplets: ✓
Vsync: X
Full Screen: ✓
Scale GUI: X

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A lot of programs (browser with 10+ tabs), Video software, etc, running in the background as well.

Beware: Even recording in high quality with Shadowplay, smoothness, color depth and some quality gets lost, it really looks better than this..

ps: This is not really fine tuned, I'm just installing the modules again and testing as I go...

Filename for later reference: DCS 2019 12 29 18 18 09 04 6 18 for 38secs

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