TFS

Lastly I just thought of it, since the last patch, did you delete metashader files and fxo files. Bunch of people in a bunch of groups had issues and when did that the game worked as usual again. Just another thought.

That's the most frustrating part, what works for this guy vs what works for me is different for you. I stopped using asw, and ovr toolkit as it hurt performance. Performance on my index also isn't the same as my quest 3. It's a puzzle and all our peices are sooo similar so it's hard to find the culprit. I wish I could fix it for you.

I'll give this a shot. You don't use the vr plug in either? You only check off openxr. You don't check off both direct x 11 AND open xr?

For anyone who has never seen the documentaries, search for Vietnam "guns a go go"

I tried this back and forth with ST and MT in VR, quest 3, non steam vr. I have a 14900k, 4090, 64gb ddr5 and running on a ssd m.2. I have DCS set to affinity p cores 1-7 currently using process lasso unparked. (still toying with 7 p cores vs 16p cores vs 32 cores, everyone says use p cores 1-4 or 1-7) I have my hmd at 72mhz, and I'm not a fan of ST, even bigger issue is the cursor in ST is black and extremely difficult to see, visuals are missing with proper rotor wash. I sustain steady performance in MT now without issue and ST seems as if it hasn't been updated or optimized in a while. Forgotten about and abandoned, while MT keeps getting smoother. You have plenty of ram, if it's ddr4, then maybe, if it's ddr5 then your cpu is probably your issue. What headset are you using, also if you get a hmd that can utilize foveated rendering that will help wonders too. That's my next step but performance currently is butter for my pc. I played with settings for countless hours though to achieve a smooth experience and I watched a disgusting amount of videos. What I learned is, what works for me will 1000% be different for you. I monitor gpu and cpu performance and I have my ram OC, my Temps never get remotely near concerning. I have the latest bios on cpu. It was not plug and play. Lastly, the biggest performance boost I ever got in vr for dcs was turning off windows gaming mode. No video I ever watched mentioned this, and it changed everything. Also not sure if it matters as I've been told it doesn't, but I have my wd screen at the lowest resolution possible. I've heard this has zero impact ok performance but I just can't imagine asking my pc to not render something in higher resolution twice. When I record through oculus mirror or stream I have 3 displays of what I see active on screen, runs fine. Probably why I think my vr videos looks lesser quality. If windows game mode is on, turn that off and life with be happier lol

I see, I wonder if I can just drop a texture and name a new file name? Idk, I really wish we could just drop the Kiowa or Gazelle pilots in this thing, would be the chefs kiss lol

Thank you for your response.

I experienced wake turbulence for the first time a few weeks ago when a friend buzzed my Kiowa in his F4, didn't know that was a thing and WOW, the effects exist fairly well. Done some testing with it since and when it's turned on, it's quite intense. Quick 14 second clip of my Kiowa from the mentioned event. *I yell kinda loud so if you're using earphones I am sorry

I wonder, even if a "SMOKE AND MIRRORS" effect, pun intended, almost like a trigger effect, where smoke, when within range of a vortex would minimize the smoke effect rather than interact with the vortex itself, thus giving the impression that the wind is affecting the smoke is possible FOR NOW? Poor mans smoke effect. Other games have smoke being affected by wind, now I'm not asking for that depth...YET lol Maybe it's not as simple as I thought, I'm no expert, but I remember having smoke effects as a mod in Arma 2 in the late 2000's on some 370 graphics cards or whatever it was at the time with whatever old engine that game used. Being picked up by helicopters in Arma 3 with smoke was always eye candy, now being on the opposite end, with such thick smoke, it's bleh. Even water rescues in DCS are sometimes almost laughable, hover IN THE SMOKE to "Winch" a pilot up, it's a pure blind hover at 30ft praying you'll be ok. Smoke should be doing something at the least.

So this is meant at the DCS current engine being incapable without a futuristic PC GPU? Otherwise there have been games for years now that have this effect added, and mods too.

Been flying it in Afghanistan non stop since the EA release. Blackhawk has been my favorite helicopter, I only fly helos. Now, could someone direct me how to change the pilot model OR reskin the pilots myself. They are the other thing about the mod that irks me, that plastic flight suit look. Unless impossible, then I'll go right back to minding myself and enjoying everything else

Totally thought I responded after I tested it, your update fixed the issue and now works flawlessly. I have not seen or noticed any other issues, I use it daily since your update. Great work!

Seems so, lots of people seem to be stuck at this step. Mostly non steam vr users too. I see the add-on I downloaded and it recognizes fine now, in the main menu it works in 2d and makes the changes immediately in my HMD on the menu screen. Now as soon as I load a mission, single player or multiplayer it is auto disabled. I got so close lol... SO CLOSE. I'm using oculus app, link cable, quest 3. I have a 4090 don't know if I would see performance impact but the user file I downloaded (Colour Grade Profile [reshade] v.3.0 (digitalcombatsimulator.com) looks AMAZING in 2d at least. https://vrtoolkit.retrolux.de/install.html this is the toolkit I used to see the add-on section which changes the reshade in my HMD, but only in the menu...

Does this allow me to take a aircraft or pilot, and add my own color or pattern in and it will populate in game. Like livery changing made easy? Or is this just sharing and managing existing liveries?

Agreed 100%, the wind sock ingame works. This is quite easy to implement with smoke effects. I'm sorry I didn't show love for the fixed wings and was selfish in my wishlist for rotorheads

So I found a addon called vr toolkit or something, it changes the vr shaders in the menu using 2d, however in a single player mission I no longer wants and it's deactivated thinking it's multi-player. So I guess I can't use it online either.

I have it working fine in 2d, while in vr and in the settings tab I do not see anything that says sync. Care to explain further please?

For CSAR this would be amazing. Now that rotorwash is added, It would be incredible if smoke interacted with rotor wash vortex. Anyone heard on this, news or plans? The little details always add such immersion. I love CSAR, always hated hovering in or above the smoke and it just lays there. Or is there a mod? Arma added this a decade ago and it was always exciting to see it work during helo extractions. https://youtu.be/HK1FB3-ugZM?si=XcJszxmoCvQgUsbF

WOAH that was close

Missed me missed nah nah nah nah poo poo.... I may have to change my underwear though....

After 2 weeks of using the Slugmouse, I made a little video getting more in depth of using it.

Synce boxes... ok so that links the openxr VR had view to the 2d changes?

same, works in 2d, using quest 3 not on steam