MurrayCod

With the summer sale in progress, it appears as though the “try before you buy” option is turned off which seems counter productive to me. Thought I might give the Chinook a (free) try but couldn’t see the option in the DCS launcher UI.

I know the VR hands can be adjusted in the x, y and z (if I remember correctly each is adjustable from minus 10 to plus 10). The location of my physical keyboard and controllers get in the way of the virtual hands in some cockpits making the virtual in-cockpit buttons unreachable. Hence I would like further axis adjustment of the VR hands if possible, whether that be from minus 20 to plus 20 or even minus 100 to plus 100. Also it would be great to rotate virtual cockpit dials by being able to grab them between the thumb and first finger and rotating the hand. That is my 5 cents worth.

Thanks to everyone who responded. You’ve given me some new things to try tweaking, plus answered my main question. Hope everyone has fun in the virtual skies.

I’m pretty new to VR, and have watched a number of YT videos and the like to try and achieve what is hopefully the optimum in-headset sharpness of image possible for my PC while maintaining smooth frame rates. I think I have adjusted settings to get the sharpest/clearest picture I can. However before a VR headset I was hoping cockpit gauges would be super crisp. Also (as an example) if flying the Spitfire in formation with the B17 in the Normandy free flight mission, I was hoping the B17 would appear to be super crisp as well. What I have been able to achieve so far is very readable but not super crisp cockpit gauges, and the B17 image is certainly not as sharply defined as it is on a monitor with TrackIR. On the plus side I can maintain a smooth 60FPS, but haven’t found a setting yet to get crisper images. My question for today is, are super crisp visuals unrealistic for my set-up as follows: Quest 3 with rendering resolution 5408 x 2912 at 90Hz, using either the Link Cable or Virtual Desktop i9-11900K @ 3.5GHZ 96 GB RAM RTX 4080 Super 16GB graphics card Win10 home 64 bit DCS settings in game settings: - pixel density 1.4 (any higher drops FPS to single figures) - Anti Aliasing DLAA - Upscaling DLSS - DLSS Perf/Quality set to Qualoty - Sharpening 1.00 - Textures High - Anisotropic filtering 16x Alternatively would using a Pima Crystal Light be the magic bullet? thanks in advance

Thanks for the testimonial. I'll add the Slugmouse to my 2025 wishlist for when the boss gives me approval to buy them. Might buy her some jewelry of her own to keep things fair

This has a high probability of making it on to my Wishlist for 2025. Does anyone have experience with using it in the Apache? I'm hoping it will be a game changer for interacting with the keyboard unit and MFDs.

Thanks Qcumber and thanks VRFGiPJP. Changing to VDXR from AUTOMATIC for the OpenXR Runtime option seems to have done the trick. I don't know what OTT or OXRTK is, or where to find them. I can now start DCS either through VD or via the AirLink cable process. I don't think it is important that DCS and IL2 don't show up under the list of Occulus games in VD, but may be they should at least appear there. Now I'm trying to assess whether DCS looks or runs better in terms of clarity and FPS under either VD or through the Link cable.

My DCS is a standalone version, not the Steam version. I have just purchased and installed the Meta Virtual Desktop today. If I am in the VD and try to launch DCS in VR then what I see in the headset is a virtual room with a computer screen on the desk, and DCS playing and fully interactive on that computer screen. I'm not getting the VR experience. Alternatively if I shut down the Meta VD and try to launch DCS in VR with Open XR toolkit running and the Occulus tray tool running, I get through to the VR experience, but it looks like it launches Steam VR at the same time and I end up with a stuttering mess. I'm hoping someone might know of a fix for this. As a side note launching IL2GB BoX in VR through Meta VD gives me no issues.

I haven't used the memcleaner, but changing the 50000/10000 parameters to 0/0 plus changing the preload radius from 50000 to 10000 seems to have done the trick. Thanks very much. I've just spent probably 15 minutes flying the Apache first, then the Phantom in SP regularly swapping between map view and cockpit view with no FPS reduction issues.

Thanks for this. Your solution created an improvement for me, but not a complete fix. I can now swap 2 or 3 times between cockpit view and map view without any loss of FPS. However after the third time the FPS falls away to 15-20 or lower, without recovering to 50+.

For what it is worth I had the same issue while hosting a MP session last night and using the Quest 3. I was happily flying along in the Hornet on the Syria map getting 50 or so FPS with cockpit view. Foolishly I pressed F10 and from then on had a maximum of 10 FPS. Yuck

I've chosen the Quest 3 mic in both Windows and within VA to be my speech recording device, but I then get the red mic symbol in the top right corner of VA that it has no signal/low signal. If I then press the key I use for push-to-talk, sometimes VA will hear and execute my command, and sometimes it won't. I've checked everything I can think of in VA, plus within Windows - Settings - Sound but can't find a way past the no signal/low signal issue. At the same time as that, I'm using voice comms in Discord with a different push to talk button for comms with friends. People can hear me clearly on Discord while using the Quest 3 mic, so I don't know why VA is registering no signal/low signal at the same time. Anyone have a possible solution?

In MP tonight the mini guns on my Huey were firing forward (as they should), but the rockets were firing sideways (see attached screenshot). Has anyone else had this happen? What is the fix?

I've got the same issue and it is caused by Norton anti virus blocking the AV8B_FM.dll file. I'm trying to find where Norton has hidden the blocked file and then create an exemption for it to get the Harrier working again.

Thanks also to BJ55 for posting the link to the Auto Protect and Behavioral protection thread. Now that I have set up the exclusions in Norton AV as described I am also back in the cockpit flying the Phantom

What is the fix / workaround for this issue please? I'm using Norton AV software. I've been using the Phantom without a problem since its release, but when I fired up DCS last night for the first time in a week it would not authorise the Phantom module and consequently disabled it. I'm struggling to figure out how to get Norton AV to accept the HeatbluJester.dll file as non-threatening.

I haven't tried VR (yet), but was wondering if the Quest 3 is used just for DCS (and IL2) do you still need to have an active Meta subscription?

Checking that box is shown in the current Sept 2023 manual (where is that rock for me to crawl under in embarrassment?) I haven't repaired/updated DCS. I'm 99% confident I had that box checked before I updated VAICOM yesterday, so I am guessing the box unchecked during the update.

Thanks MAXsenna and Tshark for your efforts in helping me out. Resetting the LUAs didn't work for me. However the missing piece of the puzzle was that I did NOT have the "Use custom DCS path" box checked within the Config tab. The box is now checked, the associated path is correct, and the Interactive Kneeboard shows up again. So glad I saw that bit of info on Discord before I went down the uninstall and reinstall path.

Tried that but it is still no good. Perhaps it is time to uninstall and reinstall Vaicom and Voice Attack.

Yep, no blank pages. The "funny" thing is the Interactive kneeboard seems to be partially working, as in my screenshot with the Hornet you can see on the kneeboard on screen that there is the option to pin pages, it has the kneeboard page count plus up and down ordering in the bottom RH corner

I'll check again, but i don't believe I have any blank pages

I thought I had updated to v2.8.6.3 correctly, but now I can't see the VaicomPro interactive kneeboard page in DCS, even after a full shutdown and restart of the PC. I can see, and flick through, all the other kneeboard pages though. I've got the ENABLE box ticked in the EX tab. Does anyone know what I might have done wrong and how to fix it? Viacom is working as I can say commands such as "inbound", "place the wheelchocks" etc and get a verbal response from DCS.

I'm occasionally using Splashtop WiredX Displaysoftware to use my iPad as a second monitor. If I host a mission without the iPad connected and that software not running, then friends can see my server in the MP list and join that server. However if I run a server but with the iPad connected and that software running, then my server is not visible on the MP page. If they try a direct connect via IP address then I believe my friends get a message that the server is offline. I'm running Norton as my anti-virus and firewall, and I believe I have all the Splashtop application files as approved programs in Norton. Would anyone have any tips on why hosting with Splashtop running for the second screen is preventing me from hosting a MP session?