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[TKNARMZ]

My old system ran DCS perfectly without any stutters.  I had an AMD 5900x and a 6900xt GPU.  I had 32GB of ram.  When I saw new tech coming out, like the new 4090 and hearing how its going to be extremely fast.  I figured I would dive right in and prepare myself. 

Firs the new AMD's came out so I got myself the 7900x.  In order to do that I needed a new motherboard and new memory.  I first bought the gigabyte x670 Elite.. Something like that.  Gskill DDR5 6600 running 16GB x 4.  Then I got the MSI Geforce 4090 Trio GPU.  I noticed DCS would just stutter every 30-60 seconds.  I tried everything.  I tried lowering the HZ in Steam, tried closing all other running programs.. I even tried  a clean install of windows 10.  Then I thought, ok maybe its windows 10, so I bought windows 11.  Then I thought, maybe its the motherboard since I cant put the memory into XMP mode.  So I bought a different motherboard, the MSI x670 MEG.  I spent a ton of money just to try and get the only game/sim i play to work.

It runs, you can tell it wants to run perfectly smooth.  I have everything turned up and if I dont do anything but look straight, its running at 144FPS in VR smoothly.  THe machine is a beast.  But when I turn my head, stutter, still at 144fps but that split second stutter..  I am also getting some ghosting when I turn at a high rate.   Never had that before.

I looked up everything on youtube, google search, steam forums and even here.  I noticed that even when im in the Steam home screen i get these purple bars that come up on the performance graph.  Yep, just sitting here doing nothing and I still get the purple bars which in the Steam Home screen causes the stutters.

I have a feeling they havent weeded all the issues out with the memory and CPU yet.  I feel like throwing my PC out the window!  DONT UPGRADE to the next gen yet!  Its full of bugs.

If anyone has suggestions I would appreciate it.  Maybe someone out there has a similar setup without issues or fixed these issues.  Thank you.

Everything in 2d works fine!  I can run Cyberpunk 2k everything turned up to the max no stutters.  This is a VR issue and I dont know if its the new AMD chip or the DDR5.  Watch them all try to blame someone else too.

[Zolex]

Do you still have the 6900xt to try out?
If i google "DCS stutters"  i get allot of hits. So there is an issue within the game for sure.
It also seems that some antivirus can cause stutters in this game.

[TKNARMZ]

My old PC with the 6900xt in it ran this game perfectly smooth with almost all the settings as high as they could go.  Im not joking.  Until I did a clean install of windows 10, then it started acting like my new one.  Doing the exact same thing.  

I have never even seen reprojection until I did the clean install and build my new PC.  I never knew it existed cause even if I turned the graphics up too high it used to just do a normal stutter as if it was a 2D game.  But now the world lags behind and looks like there's 3-4 of everything until it catches up to my movement.  

Sorry I took so long to respond.  I didn't see any notification anyone responded.  But its still doing the same thing.  I even reinstalled windows 10, then tried 11, then back to 10.  I bought a new VR headset, same issue, I tried all kinds of things, wasting all kinds of money.

Steam couldn't figure it out and neither could DCS.