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I welcome a shake for the added immersion inside VR, but this was not feeling realistic to me, more like a bug. But maybe it takes some time getting used to. The hog could use some love. Let's hope it gets some attention soon.

Great, thanks

There is no slider under special, but there is an option for wake turbulence under Gameplay. I always have it on, but this effects the hog's response to wake. I don't know if this would make a difference to switch this off, did not try it yet. - Tried it, Wake turbulence OFF is no factor. Still shaking.- I wanted to report it as a bug but found out it was already reported. BN informed that they are aware.

I ran the test with the full Kegetys shader mod with Albedo SS set to 0x. You are correct, Simplex vs Albedo like for like are about the same performance-wise. So in order to have Albedo to get rid of the shimmers in the cockpit we have to use the full shader mod? Or is there a way to add Albedo to Simplex as well? Cheers

Okay cheers. Will run a test without Albedo to compare performance. Did you also notice the terrible shaking of the cockpit that was introduced with the latest OB?

Since latest OB update the warning sounds in the hog sound very loud and remind me of windows3.11 warning sounds. @BIGNEWY I tried troubleshooting (as you advised on Discord), but could not find a solution on my side. Did anything change?

I thought it was my setup... It looks really bad and it makes me a bit nauseous flying with that shaking. @BIGNEWY Any ETA on the fix?

So I just tested with Simplex (Albedo SS set to 8x). I noticed the metashaders2 folder not getting populated after installing a shader mod, the fxo folder gets populated. So with my very limited technical knowledge I honestly have no idea what is going on there. Observations Currently Simplex gives about 2FPS and 0,4msec GPU frametime better performance than the full Ketegys Shaders. Currently Simplex gives about the same performance as Vanilla (no VR shaders) Conclusions The new OB update resulted in nett overall loss of about 5 FPS and 1,4msec GPU frametime, because shader mods have no impact anymore (test 95 is latest test with OB-18996). Simplex is the probably the best shader mod to use at the moment (no significant additional loading times, no significant penalty for Albedo SS, IC Pass) I hope others can confirm, or even better, find a way to get our much needed GPU performance back. (red texts are delta vs previous test)

Yeah exactly. I lost 5FPS and am not getting it back with the current shaders. They don't seem to do anything except the Albedo. Am going to test the Simplex now to see if it gets any better.. == See my test results here:

Fair point. Will also test the Simplex to see how it is doing (with the Albedo).

Okay great! Still better than nothing. Can use every GPU percent improvement we can get.

Thanks for the notice. Did you test the performance difference with/without SImplex? Will try it myself in a bit.

Yeah the OB changelog noted the improvements. I used to try and fly exactly over the waypoints trying not to miss a trigger.

Yeah no real difference with/without the shaders at the moment. I lost about 5FPS with this update because the shaders don't work anymore.

Yes it really took very long with me. I also did not gain performance afterwards it seems. So will fly without the shaders mod I guess..

Of course this is the first thing I tried, does not work. The trees pop up as I fly right over them..

@Taz1004 Any idea how to get rid of the growing trees? I am often flying low altitude and just see trees shooting out of the ground and growing as I fly over them. Have preload radius set to max. It looks really silly and I can't find a fix anywhere.

Works! Great thanks!

Tested: 8x gives me about 1FPS less and 0,1msec GPU Framerate more vs 6x. Will leave it to 8x. Thanks for the tip!

You have Albedo on 6x to negate the shimmer? Never paid attention to it before. Will put it back to 6x then.

For me it was working until the current OB update. Setting Albedo to 4x gives almost the same performance.

Using OVGME I removed the previous version, ran DCS repair, installed the new mod.

Yeah I can also not find anymore where I found it. No worries

I ran the performance test. It seems I am not getting any performance gain with your update of the shader mod. Test 95 - DCS 18996, VR Shader mod 17830 (Taz1004 IC Pass) Test 96 - DCS 21408.1, without VR Shader mod Test 97 - DCS 21408.1, VR Shader mod 17830 (Taz1004 IC Pass)+ adjusted tonemap.fx (from Astronaut) Test 98 - DCS 21408.1, VR Shader mod 21408,1 (Taz1004) Switching on NVG with the NVG Clarity mod also crashes DCS.

@Taz1004 With the latest update DCS now also crashes when I open the NVG, am using your NVG Clarity mod.