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Start here: He also has a link for 1080ti (what I used to run). My brother has a 2070S and his looks great on a Vive Cosmos Elite (with lens mods even better)

Man! I've had nothing but crashing trying to use the Radeon software. Seems no matter what preset I try to use, it will eventually crash with some message referencing "Wattman". While DCS itself wouldn't crash, it would crash WMR, another game I play (Rocket League) and even Chrome would stop while simply reading a page or watching youtube. Often, a black screen, complete restart crash or blue screen with "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". I have since done a clean uninstall/re-install of the DRIVER only and now use MSI Afterburner to control fans, clock speeds etc. No more crashing. Welp... turns out I actually had a RAM configuration this new motherboard doesn't support. I had 4x16 DDR4 2666 running at 3600 XMP. After several mem test failures and cross checking the ASRock compatibility list, I'm back to 2x16 DDR4 same XMP profile. I think I still prefer using MSI Afterburner to handle the OC, fans etc.

I will say, there appears to be LESS horizontal jaggy-ness in the distant clouds where they meet the horizon and against hill tops.(standard and high presets). Ultra look great, but come at a performance hit of 4-6 ms in frametime. VR specifically

Agreed. Even the new one is still too cartoony for me.

Any idea why I had to redownload 3 aircraft, Supercarrier and 3 terrains? And why are they ending up in these HUGE backup folders? I just finished a complete redownload/install 5 days ago.

Whatchu talk'n bout Willis?

Works for me now... after the redo I've been through lol

At first launch they were not "listed" in the game menu. But under the module manager, they were listed as "let's install some modules" or something to that effect. At that point I exited, and copied them over from backup, restarted DCS and they were listed where expected, and under module manager the were now shown as installed. The only thing appearing to be "broken" was the Caucuses map. Which prompted the repair install. The repair install then removed (moved to backup) everything I had restored from backup.

Lately I've been fighting multiple issues attempting a DCS cleanup/repair install. The repair would run for hours only to fail with an error "Inflate (-3) incorrect data check". Contacted support and they advised it was my Antivirus...ok, but I already had the usual folders excluded, and several other attempts I had real time & cloud protection disabled. Still no joy. Eventually, I decided maybe it was time for a wipe/reload, windows, DCS, the works. Backed up my saved games and DCS install folder. Spent all of last night and into this morning doing a fresh install of DCS open beta. Rather than re-download my modules, I restored them from my previous backed up installation. Opened the game, everything seems to be there... except the textures in Caucuses are jacked up... bright magenta, pink & green pixels on most buildings... SO... once again, I run a repair install. Once it completes it reports that everything I had moved over from backup aren't "part of the vanilla install" and removes them. Is this going to be the behavior any time I need to do a simple "file integrity check?" I am logged in at start up. How does the game engine not know which modules I am "allowed" to have installed?

Strange . Assuming 21H1 plus all patches? Yep. Just completing a complete wipe/reload... had some other issues and figured it was just time.

Just tried again. Even after a few cleanup/installs this week...still causes SVR to crash.

Last I checked, the WMR beta is still broken. SteamVR beta still works fine, the world scaling too. The FOV slider does nothing without the WMR beta. (at least on my system)

So, should this recent stable release have affected a currently installed (repair installed) open beta? I was running fine last night, but now hangs at 'Wait for pooled tasks". I'm simply trying to load a replay file.

This was a first for me.

gracias That's what I thought... And, neither do I.

A little update... literally. I was experimenting with another issue involving Anisotropic filtering wherein it appeared there was no difference from 0-16X. It became evident that something was hinky with my install, so I attempted a cleanup/repair which would continually fail. Contacted ED support with a couple log files, and they responded that it was my AV(Defender) interfering. They were right, even though I had every possible folder in the exclusion list (same as always had been previously) I turned off realtime and cloud protection so the repair could finish. I can only wonder what might have gotten skipped during the last couple patches, because visual and performance wise, DCS runs better now than it has at least since 2.7 and subsequent patch were released. As far as mods go, I have so far only enabled Flat Shadow Removal and Mustangs latest, and my frametimes are staying in the mid teens over Caucuses, low flight. Even with MSAA 2x enabled and Ultra Clouds. Does anyone have an updated list of folder to exclude?

Any way I can help? Kit assembly, shipping orders (CONUS)? I know how to solder... I don't like it, but I can do it

Weird... I'm not seeing anything to close to what your right side pic shows.

So I'm playing around with settings (again)... I was trying to regain some recently lost framtimes, and while comparing the anisotropic filtering of 16x and 0x, I DID gain some pretty substantial fps. I expected to possibly lose something visually, but for the life of me I honestly don't SEE a difference. Can someone try this on their system? I cropped the 2 screen shots and spliced them together down the center... Left is 0 right is 16X Currently running at 0 anisotropic and don't see any difference, graphically. Is it broken?

I can absolutely concur with this. I am seeing shimmer now where there was none before. Even on NTTC, looking toward the shoreline along the lakes. TBH, the bouncy clouds were far less of an eyesore and performance drain than what we have now. As to the graphics system... it IS it's own bottleneck. I am barely able to scrape out anymore visual/graphical improvement with a Radeon 6900XT than my previous GTX 1080ti. Every other game is night and day in comparison and performance. I can only hope that somewhere out there in ED land, there are a few mad lads giddy with themselves after having ported DCS over to Vulkan or Unreal Engine 5. Edit: Seems my 6900XT has had a change of heart with a driver rollback. I really hadn't even noticed before but, apparently the most recent driver combined with my moderate OC preset was causing the card to run hotter than before. To verify, I reinstalled the most recent and noted it was running at 75* whilst running DCS. With the older driver, same fan settings, preset etc. I was back to 51-54* I assume it was ignoring the fan curve I had in that preset or miscalculating the max freq. I'm back to 21.41 for the record

This has been my experience... Even tried lowering textures and terrain textures from High/High to Med/Low. Ultimately, anything above standard cloud preset is a stuttering disappointment if using even 2x MSAA. With MSAA OFF, I am able to use my original settings Textures High/High, cloud standard and get very close to pre patch GPU frametime I had before, but also had to dial back the SteamVR SS from 100 to 90.

Also seeing some new jaggies along the lake shoreline in NTTC. 90% sure it was never that jaggy before.

Same: Clouds utterly horrible. And I can't imagine clouds that look this janky could be using 13GB VRAM.

With the SSAA patch?

I'm sticking with standard for now. The distant effect isn't quite as bad, as long as your not looking back toward the rising sun. This is Overcast 7 around 8 a.m. NTTC. 23k ft