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Shadows for Reduced Frame Rate Impact now gives me a performance degradation (about 10+ FPS loss, no GPU frametime stays about the same). Are you still using it and experiencing the same? Are you still using Reshade? I have tried quite a few different versions, amongst which your 'Sharper Eye reshade' and 'Subtle' and another 'CAS Sharpen MSAA'-only version. I notice they all are quite heavy on the performance, even with default or turned down parameters. I also noticed that when Reshade is loaded, but all the effects are disabled it still takes a toll on my system performance. Fully removing it from the \bin gave me back a ton of performance (18FPS, GPU frametime stays about the same).

The full version, this is the one that give the most fps win. As far as I know the open water is the most performant one at the moment but I will install the simplex instead, to be able to quickly change mod combinations without having to wait too long. You reported just earlier the Kegetys mod is degrading performance? Did you look at the simplex version(VR Shaders 2.7.0.4625_v2.1 (Simplex))? See the first post of this thread to get the patch to make it working with the last beta. Just to be clear I follow you; you mean your 3Dmigoto patch for the last OB? (DCS VR Shaders mod patch for 2.7.7.14727 in your zipfile) Do not use the patch for my mod if you want to benchmark it. I don't understand. Why not? And I think it's best to use a real mission than a track to do testing, otherwise you may miss the real mission game context and find fps win you'll never seen when playing. If I were to fly real missions to compare it would take very long (so not feasible to do many quick tests) and I would have to turn on motion smoothing (otherwise I could not stand the visuals), which would render the testing useless because it would try to force the 45FPS. The FPSVR benchmarking via trackfiles works really well and gives me a way to 1-to-1 compare changes, even though it gives me averages and does not include everything I will encounter in a mission. When I install 3Dmigoto I keep getting the washed out hangar and night issue. (same screen as posted earlier by Sr.) I ran a DCS repair and cleaned the metashaders2 and FX shaders as well. I installed and reinstalled and tested 3Dmigoto 2 times in a row. Everytime the same issue..

Which Kegetys mod do you mean specifically? I am going to further test with the mods tonight trying to fix the night issue. I will run an A-10CII-specific trackfile to use as a benchmark so I can observe the differences in performance between the various mod combinations. Will report back my findings here as well.

Yes same here with the left one. Crackles like hell, will try cleaning it but think it is best if I just send it back for replacement, since still in warrantee period. Have the Arctis pro, which sounds much better, but is a pain to put on over the G2 and it starts hurting the top of my head after a while.

Tnx I haven't seen it anymore since last repair.

Haha so true. Same here. I don't care about the washed out hangar, but would like to get the night view fixed. Will tinker some more with it..

I had that same effect today! Plus the washed out hangar, even though the menu was clear. What did you do to fix it? Reinstall the whole bunch?

Thanks, removed the mods, did a repair. Installed 3Dmigoto clean, followed by the shaders mod and the 3Dmigoto patches. The Shift-F7 menu works now. Cheers!

Ahh. okay. Thanks, did not know. With outside I mean the outside of the hog, custom livery. Was not sure if this would interfere in one way or the other. I did not see that the current files were linked under the bold titles. Just clicked on the underlined Legacy. Oops. Installed the current version. Works fine. Thanks again.

I must have an old version. Mine reads A-10C-2019-CPT and inside Taz1004 Custom. Does it matter that I have another custom livery (outside of the hog) in a folder called A-10CII also in the Liveries folder?

Hi Lefuneste, I am trying to install 3dMigoto and follow your instructions but am having some difficulty. When I follow the steps you describe under 'installation' in the original post I get a couple of warnings. I have the Ketegys mod already installed. Install Kegetys shader mod from here I am using the VR Shaders mod for 2.7.7.14727 (clear water, IC pass) and already have it installed. If you are using a version > 2.7.7.15038 only copy in DCS installation directory the files and directories from the directory "DCS VR Shaders mod patch for 2.7.7.14727" included in the 3dmigoto mod zip file. It will fix Kegetys mod for DCS version. I get a message that it overlaps with \bazar\shaders\deferred\compose.fx, which I approve. Copy in DCS installation directory the files and directories from the directory "update Kegetys VR Shaders mod for 3Dmigoto v1.1", included in the 3dmigoto mod zip file. It overwrite some files of the Kegetys mod and so will setup defaults options compatible with the 3dmigoto mod and some shader to be driven by setup menu. I get a message to overwrite _HMD.hlsl, NVD_common.hlsl and NVD_HDR.fx. Which I approve. After this I am not getting the Shift F7 menu. How could I best proceed? The VR Shader mod really helps with the frametimes. Thanks for the help,

Hi Taz, I put the contents in my saved games folder but get no other option under Options-special in DCS. Is it still working?

Tnx. Yes, but the strange thing is that the screen door happens only inside the circle. I would assume it would be everywhere if it had something to do with SVRSS settings. Will mess around with it some more tomorrow.

I am at 80%SS. Will see what lowering it further brings me. Will this remove the screendoor you think? BTW I see you are running W11 with a Ryzen and G2? Did W11 give you any performance degradation? I am considering to upgrade, but so far only read bad news about W11 in VR on AMD's. Tnx,

So I updated OB today and now I notice a big screendoor effect inside a large circle in the middle of my screen. Please see attached. Can this have anything to do with the update in combination with the VR shaders? Never saw it before.

Thank you for the details and sharing the mod. I will take a close look at things. For me performance is way more important than the visuals. I prefer maximum smoothness over a bit more clarity. (which is why I am very interested in trying your ' little bit of all 3'. I even turn down trees and ground textures because I am flying pretty low with the hog and on our multiplayer server the frames kill me if I turn things up. I am using the G2 and turned the SS down to 80%, which is good enough for me. Will also try the Simplex again. You said it also speeds up loading right? The only thing that really bothers me now is the dumb trees growing out of nowhere.. Thanks again!

Taz could you please elaborate a bit on the configuration you have running on all 3 for sharpening? You also talk about a custom hog cockpit to remove reflections, which one is that? I find it tricky to find a good balance and remove the shimmer, which is driving me a bit nuts. Thanks

I don't know if you allready did, but try to eliminate potential sources for such issues I would say. Did you close down all the background services you don't need and stop all other applications you don't need? Did you use Process Lasso to dedicate a few cores to DCS and put all other stuff to other cores? Have Lasso open on screen when you run DCS, sort it to CPU usage for example and when the issue appears quickly look at it to see what process is using high CPU at that moment, or just do a straight and level flight on autopilot and put the headset on the desk and look at the desktop mirror besides the process manager, which makes it easier to spot.

Hi has anybody figured out a way to dim the brightness on the clock and the radio preset indicator? In night ops they shine very bright when everything else is tuned down nicely.

I guess you don't mean upside down I last time noticed a direction change of the WM A-10 taking off in the Caucasus cold&dark instant action mission, maybe has to do with a programmed weather change, which causes runway change?

Did you clean out all your shader cache? Maybe something else running in the background? Are you having the stutters in the GPU or CPU frametimes?

Thanks, you are right. Will correct.

Did you try textures M and textures terrain L? For me the sim still looks good enough in the hog while at low altitude and it gives quite a big frames gain. Also cutting down tree detail before flying low in dense areas makes a big difference, you can try that realtime. I noticed the same thing with the glass effects. Got used to it.

Yes I think I am also going to add some more settings to also adjust the lights and turn down the brightness and contrast on the MFD's, RWR etc for night ops.

For VR the MP missions are a drain. When we play with a few squads together I always notice the faster planes finishing up and jumping out of the server to debrief because my frames improve and stuttering dissapears. Also with the latest DCS updates some important mod were impacted with huge FPS loss as a result.