DCS World

[slouis]

I am wondering what PC specs I would need to run this game smoothly? Currently I have a GTX 2070 graphics card, I-7 with 32 Gig Ram, Win 10.

[Undead Rufus]

If your PC is healthy, and as long as you aren't expecting 120 FPS, should be fine. Busy multiplayer missions might slow down a little.

[Hootman]

First thing to do is use the NVidia control panel, select Manage 3d Settings, Program Settings tab, scroll to find Digtal Combat Simulator, and on the setting "Max Frame Rate" set it at 60 and apply before you go in tweaking and adjusting the graphics. Or set them at 30, 40, or 50 if that FPS is acceptable.

The idea being don't let your FPS run loose with DCS, it will eat up every bit of your GPU and will bottleneck. Hold it back at 60 FPS, and you will have headroom on GPU memory to tweak the graphics.

It's also very heavy on the the CPU. Do some reading to see which settings in DCS are hard on the CPU. Each setting has a little pop up that says how hard it is on performance, but there are plenty of guides and reading materials on it also.

DCS can run acceptably on your system, you just have to decide what parts of the graphics you are willing to sacrifice to get good FPS with no stuttering.

It will take some tweaking, and lots of testing. I recommend you also use MSI Afterburner's ingame display to check your Memory, CPU, and GPU useage as you tweak the graphics settings. By using that you can slowly dial up your graphics to where its not stuttering, and shoot for 85-90% GPU useage (leaving a little GPU memory overhead for high graphics areas/smoke/explosions).

[Troll Norris]

Your system is good enough for 1920*1080 and for 2560*1440

[Gunfreak]

As long as you don't do VR it's fine.
You can do VR too but it will be a big job getting it to run smoothly

[Compdiff]

What is your I7?

Just saying I7 isn't enough. Could be 5th generation, could be 13 generation. It does matter.

[slouis]

Not sure what generation. It says I7 - 10700, 2.90 GHZ I bought the system about 2 years ago. It is Win 10. The resolution I am running is 2560-1440 which is the native resolution of my monitor (2K). Thanks to everyone for the replies.

[sbinnala64]

Pro tip: get DCS World OpenBeta. you can download mods, skins, missions, etc. You can get a 2-week free trial of almost any map or module, and plus, the OpenBeta version is where all the good servers are at.

[Compdiff]

All good. I7 - "10"700 "10" is the generation.
Mines older and runs good.
What Troll and sBinnala64 said. :)