Wildman21265

For any Varjo Aero headset owner as of the date of this entry that has horrible distortion / warping in DCS (menus and in sim) with their Aero headset, please try switching the right and left eyes from "Top to BTM" in the Degug Tool as described in the original post at the top of this thread (no other changes were needed for me). This simple tweak solved the distortion issue for me and my Aero with DCS went from being ready to throw in the trash to working normally.

This post is only regarding the Varjo Aero distortion issue I had with DCS and what fixed it for me. Please note, I don't live in these forums so any questions you may have about this post will likely not be seen or get replies from me (sorry in advance). I primarily use VR in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and DCS. I’ve been running an Oculus Rift S in both sims with normal Rift S lack of clarity but with ZERO distortion in either sim. ZERO distortion in anything I ran on the Rift S. In fact, I didn’t even realize or know what “distortion” was until I got my Aero. I upgraded my PC in December to an I9-12900k, Nvidia 3080 and 64GB ram. I got my Aero headset last week after weeks of anticipation and the glowing reviews of clarity in sims that I’ve dreamed of for years only to find nauseating and horrible distortion in DCS. MSFS was fairly distortion free except around the edges as described by many. I found much of that edge distortion was minimized by positioning the Aero lower on my face compared to my Rift S (like riding on my nose low), but that lower position and a few hours in MSFS and all is well. In DCS however, I had HORRIBLE distortion from the opening splash and menu screens to inside the sim. It was like being in a fish bowl or a carnival house of mirrors where you can see clearly, but the image is distorted and warped as you move your head across the entire display (not just the edges). Even looking straight ahead and not moving my head the gauges were clear as could be, but like ovals rather than circles. The entire view from the cockpit would warp and distort as I turned my head. I would actually get motion sickness sitting still on the runway and just looking around the cockpit, it was that bad. I also seemed to be positioned higher than normal in the cockpit. Even when DCS was initially loading before the menu comes up was lower on the screen than normal. The distortion I had with DCS was not a level you may have read about where “you can get used to it after a few days”. It was a level of distortion and warping that make you want to throw your $2k Aero in a wood chipper and be happy you did. It was that bad. These descriptions may be a little extreme, but anyone with an Aero that sees this behavior with DCS will totally understand what I mean. If that's you, then this post might be your magic bullet like it was for me. Luckily for Varjo (and me I guess), the success I had with MSFS and the many positive Aero/DCS reviews I had seen prior to ordering let me see what the Aero could be and I thought the distortion issue I had with DCS may be driver or software related so rather than attempt to return it right away, I spent days in forums looking for an answer for DCS. THE FIX: The fix that I found was as a link from an older DCS post that was buried in a reddit Aero thread, but I had skipped over it for days because it sounded crazy at first and was regarding other headsets prior to the Aero, but another Aero user (thank you hannlbal636 in reddit whoever you are) had posted this link in that thread regarding Aero distortion in DCS so after running out of other things to try, I finally tried this fix using the DCS WMR Debug Tool and IT WORKED FOR ME! The info is in the link below. Please don’t be thrown off by the “cross eye alignment” label on the link like I was. That “cross eye alignment” label is what made me skip over trying this for days with my Aero since I didn't "believe" I had a "cross eye" issue, only to find it was exactly what fixed my Aero distortion issue. WMR DEBUG TOOL - cross eye alignment - Virtual Reality - ED Forums (eagle.ru) I my case, the one line config file didn’t exist and needed to be created as described in the doc. Once I did that and restarted DCS, the Debug tool shown in that post popped up and I simply did the steps below: -Clicked “Snap Top and BTM” button on left and right eyes (no other changes made). -Closed the debug tool and went directly to my plane from the main DCS menu and it was like MAGIC, the distortion was gone or at least totally minimized to the minor known level of Aero distortion around the extreme edges of your FOV. After that change (without clicking the save button in the tool that first time), after restarting DCS, the distortion came back and the Debug Tool popped up again when DCS started. This second time, I did the same thing again (Switch both eyes from top to btm) and saved it this time. After restarting DCS this time, the setting saved and the Debug Tool didn’t open again. I was good to go. Side tip. Even after fixing the distortion with this tweak, I still seemed seated a little higher in the cockpit with my Aero than my Rift S (P-51, Huey, and A10 that I typically fly). For this, I mapped the Cockpit View Up/Down functions in the UI Layer to two unused buttons on my joystick and this allowed me to easily adjust my seat height in the cockpit as desired. I know this was a long post, but after what I went through to find this fix, I wanted to post my full experience hoping it might save some headaches and potential returns of good headsets because people think the device is itself is bad. Hope this helps!

Thanks for the quick responses. I believe I found the .lua files I needed from the old beta 3 intall folders I had a copy of. I poked around the folders under C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C Beta\Config\Input\Aircrafts\A-10C and copied any .lua files from the beta three folders that were not in the new beta 4 folders and pasted them to the beta 4 locations and seem to have 99% of my settings back. Only had to tweek a couple buttons instead of rebuilding them all from scratch. This time I plan to make a profile copy as a backup from the options menus. Thanks again!

Hi, I had A-10c Beta 3 installed and spent alot of time setting up my Logitech G940 HOTAS commands. I downloaded Beta 4 and had a error after the update so I uninstalled A10C and then downloaded and installed the full Beta 4 successfully, but realized afterwards that I lost all my controller settings. I have a copy of my old Beta 3 installation folders (my controllers settings should be in there somewhere). Is there a way to copy my controller setting from the old folders over to my new Beta 4 installation? If so, can you tell me the location and filename/s? Any help is GREATLY appreciated!!