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No prob. Happy to help and glad it worked. You don't have to do it every time. Right-click on the .exe and go down to Properties, then select "Compatibility" at the top. Check the checkbox to "Run this program as an administrator". Not sure, but maybe something to do with OpenBeta folder? That's honestly why I just decided to do a fresh install with this release. I was using OB since I started playing, but now that OB and ST are dead, figured I may as well just start fresh.

Try right-click the .exe and Run as Administrator.

Thats what I'm thinking too. I don't have the Kola map, yet. I could be wrong, but I think Steam only downloads the updated files too.

Have you seen the change log? There are a lot of map improvements. Also, you lose a lot of performance when your drive is near full. Time for a new larger drive.

My Steam update said 40 something GB before I did the reinstall.

Busy doing a reinstall,

@BIGNEWY Not really a bug, but the Steam properties still has the Betas entry. Also outdated (as of today) launch options,

One the first page, null

That is an impressive changelog!

It's your hardware dude. A laptop RTX 2070 is not the same as a desktop RTX2070. Laptop GPUs are in general vastly underpowered compared to desktop GPUs. You also have a 9th Gen CPU (which is also under powered compared to desktop CPUs), your RAM is probably also slower (even though you have a good amount). NVMe drives are also faster than SSDs. DCS is a demanding Sim and you basically meet the bare minimum specs for VR. Ditch the laptop and build a new Gaming PC (desktop) my friend.

Keep in mind that the first release with Vulkan won't bring much, if any, of a performance improvement. Per Wags, the initial release is to get Vulkan out in the open and shift development/maintenance in that direction. Performance improvements will follow and happen over time as it gets polished.

Agreed. Just not sure how relevant it could be to DCS's EDGE engine. But I know nothing about development or how any of that works. Would be nice to know though.

? DCS does not use UE.

I'm really hoping that the Deckard is a collaboration with HP which could bring SteamVR integration to the G2 with a firmware upgrade. Or give us G2 users a discount. Sadly I know it's very unlikely.

Looks like one of those were deprecated. I deleted both after the last patch and now only OpenXR Tools for Windows Mixed Realty shows up for me. I'm hoping we'll be able to run the Reverb G2 directly through SteamVR at some point.

I highly doubt there will be any refunds. If they do it for one, they have to do it for everyone. The money made from modules is likely already spent on overhead, to include developer compensation etc.. Some of their modules have been around for quite a while now. These are small companies with small teams on limited budgets. Hopefully they can come to a resolution and everything will be fine. I expect it will take a while though since either way, there will be lessons learned and it will likely include legal matters(contractual agreements, wording etc. etc.). For this situation and all others going forward, between all 3rd Party developers and ED. Best not to get ahead of ourselves though and let ED and Rb figure this out. It's too bad it was made public the way it was.

I think we will see another nice bump and further improvements once Vulkan API is available. Sent from my SM-S908U using Tapatalk

This seems much better now. Still a short hose, but this might be accurate to RL.

Nice update. Well done ED! Glad this was mostly a bug fix update in addition to the releases being merged. Lots of nice improvements.

I think you misunderstood. Yes, OpenXR is natively supported. But it is only enabled with MT. I don't need documentation to click "Yes" (not how it works with Steam), I just meant that documentation/release notes will provide clarity for those that have both OB and Stable installed.

Something else worth adding is that Multithreading has OpenXR enabled by default. Which is a good thing. But the last time I did a file verification with Steam, it broke OpenXR with OpenComposite. So now DCS doesn't launch in VR with ST anymore. I could go fix it, but I never play in ST.

I think this is where most of the confusion lies. Most people, if not everyone, knows that the Stable version is just an older OB. Part of the confusion (at least for me) is also that I didn't realize MT was also available in the Stable release. I thought it was exclusive to OB as a "preview" ("preview" itself implying Beta). I'm, sure ED will provide the necessary documentation and clarify everything when the time comes though.

Nope. Desktop icon (default) and the launcher from the bin-mt folder still launches ST. Also created a new shortcut from the Steam client and this too still launches ST.

I haven't checked since the last couple of patches, but the icon does not launch MT for me. I am running the Steam version. I have had to launch DCS from the Steam (with MT preview set) client in order for it to start in MT. I even tried creating a desktop shortcut of the exe from the bin-mt folder and it would still launch the ST version. Again, this may be fixed now but it was a know bug with the Steam version. I will try it in a little bit to see if this is resolved.

My guess is there will be two separate download/install options. ST and MT. If you have both installed, you'll likely have two separate executables with distinct icons. At least that would seem like the most practical approach. Especially since ST is on life support at this stage.