Glide
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Looking at the cockpit textures usually brings down the FPS counter, especially in the F-16. The big question is does it stutter?
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With Nvidia Fast Sync and a little tweaking of the quality settings, and I am back to running smooth at 4k.
Update: I switched to MSAA, and I discovered at 4k that Anisotropic Filtering is not noticeable. I turned that off and tuned down my Preload Radius to be 3/5 of the range to match my Visib Range (High is the 3rd of 5 levels). With my hardware I don't notice a change from Preload Radius, but that seems logical to me. YMMV.
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Post snips of your DCS settings and Nvidia control panel settings.
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I would try cutting the resolution down as far as you can go. High resolutions like those in VR headsets require a lot of VRAM. My 1080Ti has 11GB, and I am finding that 1440x900 is optimal if I want max quality settings. Just watching a video on the G2, there's three places to set resolution, General, Video Application Settings, and Windows Mixed Reality. I would crank them all down to the lowest and make sure they match. Then I would work my way up form there.
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And happily for me, I took my resolution down to 1440x900 and by scaling back the amount of graphics, I could get the ultimate holy grail of all the DCS quality settings: SSLR. So, if you have 6 or 8 GB of VRAM, try these settings at 1280x1024 or 1360x768. If you have 4GB of VRAM, try the lowest three resolutions in DCS. Happy flying.
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And just to be sure I wasn't dreaming, I went dogfighting over Damascus. Given that my 1080Ti has 11GB of VRAM, if I had a card with 6 or 8 GB of VRAM I would I would try these settings at 1440 x 900. This resolution was also very nice on my "4k" monitor. TLDR, start with the lowest resolution you can tolerate then scale up the quality settings until it starts to stutter. If you can get to max settings with that resolution, bump up the resolution, and scale the quality settings again.
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It turns out that as you scale down the resolution, you can upscale the quality settings. My monitor is a 16:9 ratio, so I went from 1920x1080 down to 1600x900, and I can crank up the quality and still get 60ish pfs with FAST.
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After getting DCS Vsync working, I have a good sense of what my card and monitor are capable of, and then I switched to FAST vsync with SSAA and the same great smoothness but with nicer edges. Give my settings a try. Note that my 1080Ti has 11GB of vram, and I'm running my monitor at half (2k) it's native resolution. I'm going to try cutting the resolution in half to see if I can hit max settings.
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I started putting these guys on the Red team, and they really spice up a dogfight.
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Sorry, I don't have VR, so I might be wrong on how it affects VR, but this setting is in the Nvidia Control Panel. You also want MFAA MultiFrame AA on with MSAA, but not with SSAA.
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2 hours ago, Kjunbob said:
I have been flying Flight Sims for over 30 years, I was looking for a good combat sim that I could enjoy similar to the Falcon 4 that I enjoyed many years ago and as a diversion to regular Flight Simulation. I downloaded DCS and am trying to get through the basic training missions but I am having a very hard time just starting the engines. I was prepared to purchase several aircraft, but I am ready to just give up. It seems to me that there should just be a simple startup mode that let's one quickly learn. I haven't been even able to start the engine on the Prop. plane that comes as a default. For example, having to push three keys to get the Cockpit View to zoom seems ridiculous. I am not ready to completely give up yet, but are the instructions any better on the purchased aircrafts?
Thanks
WIN+HOME and WIN+END auto start and auto stop the aircraft by default.
The Hot Start from Batumi Instant Action Mission is a nice mission to practice with the trainer. Set prop RPM to max, set 5 degrees right rudder, pull the stick back to engage steering, taxi out and gentle throttle until you feel the tail rise letting the stick come back to center as you gain speed, then gentle throttle until you are airborne without much stick input. Gear up and reset trim once you are in controlled flight. Set your prop and engine needles in the middle of the green, and have fun!
I also recommend TrackIR PRO for looking around. Lots of youtube videos on getting that sorted out.
Thrustmaster T.16000M combo is a popular HOTAS setup that you can find in stores. I use this myself. Setup is much easier in DCS for HOTAS.
The F-16 is well documented as are quite a few of the full fidelity modules. The Viper is early access, but you will not regret sticking with it.
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If you are using MSAA, make sure you set your Antialiasing - Transparancy to MultiSample. This controls the apha textures in trees and vegetation. If you are using SuperSampling, set it to match your level of Supersampling. So, if you are using Supersampling x2 in DCS, set it to 2X (supersample).
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Without anti-skid, I believe the best strategy is to pump the brakes on and off to keep from locking up. I tap the brake key once per second thereabouts.
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Thank you @Flappie for the suggestion. I have been exploring the game performance itch that many of us have, and I have noticed that monitors these days are playing all kinds of tricks to report Hz readings. My own Asus PB287Q claims a "native" 4k resolution but only at 30 Hz, not 60 Hz. And, the onscreen info box claims the monitor is 60 Hz and 144 Hz, although Nvidia does not report this ability. This would explain why I can get a consistent 70ish FPS; perhaps they overclock it from 60 Hz to 70ish Hz and then claim double with Displayport Compression. The bottom line is that this monitor will do a solid 60 Hz at 2K with Displayport Compression disabled. With DCS Vsync ON, I get a pretty solid 60 fps on Syria and PG with my quality settings on the moderate side.
EVGA 1080Ti 6393-KR with ASUS PB287Q works great. Same card, same settings, with the Dell U2415, also great. Same card, same settings, Samsung LC27RG50RQNXZA Gsync Curved Gaming monitor, not great. I got the consistent 60ish fps, but the jagged cockpit textures and shimmery water would not go away.
This could be a long list, but in these days of scarce hardware, who can afford to make mistakes. If you have a monitor/card combo that you know works well please post. I only post my settings to show how I got DCS Vsync to work and how I fit the best quality I could into the capabilities of my video card. If you want to test, try to match my setup (or tell me where I went wrong so we are testing apples with apples.)
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Why do shadows cause such a performance hit?
in VR Bugs
Posted · Edited by glide
You can bring Visibility Range down to HIGH or MEDIUM. Set Grass/Clutter to zero. That might give you back enough to have high shadows. I personally have them on Medium and Flat.