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So are people on Beta because it's worse for them? Or because its Better? It was a philosophical joke.... Ask Google about Beta & better... They came up with Alphabet because it was better than just Alpha

Thought I would share my findings as I see many people frustrated with 2.8 on vr setups. I have an i7-6700k, msi z270 Mobo, gtx1080 to 11gb and 32gb ram. After updating to 2.8 I noticed a drop in performance (which I understand and appreciate from more features) however reading posts on here I started to worry that it was a DCS fault.... For a couple of days I played around with settings in DCS but even with everything on low, no shadows or heat blur I was still struggling around 25fps (AJS-37 molnir response campaign) My CPU was at 30%, ram at 40% and GPU only at 50%. As many people have noticed it seems strange to be struggling for FPS when it looks like there is room to spare in the components. I looked at openXR but decided it's not needed for me (I think oculus software uses it already) After much research I settled on trying two things which I have to say gave the best improvements.... Neither will make me particularly popular here I imagine. First improvement that gave me 45fps but not consistently was... (Insert drumroll) updating all of my motherboard and graphics card drivers. Now I had updated recently but being "smart" I didn't install some of the recommended drivers as I thought they wouldn't effect it (audio, LAN type things). I used the manufacturers website only (msi and gigabyte) for the drivers and then used their specific utilities to check for updates (I had been doing it manually before) and voila a great improvement. As soon as I had rebooted I found all parts of DCS being quicker. 45fps in the cockpit was smooth but if I moved my head quickly or looked at planes it would drop into the 30s. This was still on the low settings but it felt good to have made an improvement that was noticeable. At this point I noticed that CPU and ram were as they were before but the GPU was being worked harder than before from 50% to 70% now. I added medium textures and flat shadows and found it didn't really effect the FPS or GPU usage.... At this point I found that it seemed Forrest visibility was the biggest FPS drain. Setting this to as low as it would go nearly gave me smooth 45fps. At this point I was beginning to feel like others I've seen posting on here that complain that it feels like we have to sacrifice graphics to keep the game smooth in VR as releases progress (there are people on here with much more powerful machines than me not being able to get 45fps it seems) However the next thing I did really made a leap forward for me. I was using 2x 16gb ddr4 memory cards at 2133hz I bought a couple of "Uprated" ddr4 memory cards 2x16gb ddr4 again but these are rated to 3600hz this time. When I first installed them there was no difference in performance but that was due to my motherboard continuing to run them at 2133hz. My motherboard has a "Memory Try It" feature in the bios setup which I could select 3600hz. Set it, rebooted it and noticed my PC is quicker booting, DCS loaded faster and constant 45fps in game VR. Only my opinion but I believe 45fps in VR is cool. I'm not looking for any more really. For the first time ever I have even seen 90fps in vr when pressing f7 and looking at vehicles. Interestingly after the RAM speed change my graphics card hits 100% usage now. So my experience has been that RAM speed makes a significant impact. I don't want to mention the drivers again as I almost feel embarrassed as I have read it so many times online.... Easiest check is to use Task Manager, click on Performance,then on the Memory graphic. It should then tell you your memory speed in the lower right of the window. I tried mix and matching ram... Don't if you can help it. It will only run the slowest speed 2133hz in my case. Hope this helps someone

I run Open beta on the principal that beta = better? Anyone else? Does anyone know if there is a FPS benefit to running stable over Open beta?

Life has been made better thanks to brute force. Gone from i5 6400 to i5 6700k A big difference

I replaced my motherboard and CPU today. Had to do a repair and reinstall on DCS and with a fresh start it's all working fine now

Any suggestions anyone?

video here ajs navpad not workingsssss.mp4

Video to match the last track file here also. Button pressed by autostart routine but no numbers. Is this a sanity check VID_20221221_152427[Compress].mp4

You're not kidding are you 42kb as a simple mission and start up. Thanks! Track example attached simple ajs tracktrk.trk

https://www.dropbox.com/s/32vpn370bxgj62d/ajs37navpad.trk?dl=0 this is the Autostart example After autostart is completed I press the 9 button with a keyboard shortcut and you can see it pops back up. I also tried it manually after Autostart tried it to no avail. thanks trackfile link attached is a cold start mission. I created a track file in VR 25MB, then on the desktop with VR Enabled un checked and it was 24MB thanks

Max total size: 5 MB this is what i am shown when i reply. ?

Hmmm my screen shows maximum 5MB Do I need to upgrade or something?

It's 25 mb and I didn't even take off Where do you recommend I upload it to please?

Will do so now

School boy error keybinding story Apologies for the anticlimax