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Didnt see this reported yet. When moving head in VR it seems most trees and probably quite a few other objects seem to rotate L/R and Up/Dn with head movement this is most noticeable by looking at shadows which also move as the object moves. This is with HP reverb G2 Thanks

Im having issue with the TCS and TPOD. I can set both gain and brightness but never get an image. with the TPOD I can see the overlay for range, GPS, crosshairs etc. but no image of the ground or targets just a green backdrop. I can see bomb explosions though. I am using auto start and VR. TCS and TPOD seem to work fine everywhere else. Thanks

Hello I fly the B and have always had good success launching at about 40% power and then throttling up down the cat. It seems like If I had 100% mil no AB the pilot would always black out for a sec during initial launch. Now after the last update even at way too low of power settings I get blackout and does not recover until right about the time the jet clears the ramp then its too late to power up. Im of the opinion now that I might as well just full AB and yeet. Anyone have a better idea? Thanks

Nice. This is good to hear. yes Vr is hardware but as stated by others it is a core feature and does not belong in "off topic" for many there is no difference between DCS and VR. By that i mean Vr is not a mouse or keyboard or video card or monitor.... it IS DCS. Without VR there is no DCS and unlike a mouse, keyboard, or even a gpu DCS is being updated and those updates directly effect VR on a core level to the point were it won't even load unless you make sure to read whats changed and you can then implement those changes on your end... This is never the case with typical off topic hardware. Finally unlike typical hardware VR is changing very quickly so each day you visit there is a real possiblity that something new has arrived or changed (hardware or software) no other hardware has rates of change like this.

Sure thats fine...The issue is... Im concerned about a shift in ED's attitude towards VR. They aren't going to say we are done with it but they may choose phase it out slow so VR users drop off 1 by 1 and it goes away. Now I dont know if thats what is occurring but this is a red flag that maybe indicating a shift towards that kind of attitude. The entire VR section is now stuffed in a "yeah whatever" category After the MT updates and openXr improvements I would expect VR to get a dedicated "VR" link right under "DCS WORLD 2.8" OR at least at the end of the list under "DCS World Topic" but it got this instead...Dev cost vs profit numbers are in? "off topic" is now the attitude towards VR?

Im slightly concerned that it seems like Vr is now considered a nonfactor off topic discussion. They talk about advancing Vr and ive seen improvement in Vr so why would something that I consider a significant branch of DCS end up getting tossed here? It make it feel like "yeah **** it Vr isnt worth it any more lets hide it and hope it goes away" and let people know that its off topic thing now dont discuss it.

I haven't checked recently but I observed NVG not illuminating water. I could set the gain so the terrain was well illuminated however the water (ocean) was a solid black void of nothing. This would indicate that the water was significantly less reflective than dirt. Gain could not be set high enough to get visual on the ocean. I would suspect the water would either be much brighter than the dirt or would have bright lines from wave peaks as the crest reflected back for an instant. -Gun

This is (or was) true but for me one of the biggest wins with MT was that I could now run tacview with zero observable impact on a server like TTI. Before it use to cost about 10fps now it looks like less than 1

Thats what I suspected...Maybe its just my imagination then.... I notice some other things too like the rad alt during startup is a bit different. I'll keep quite about it then. Thanks -Gun

No one wants to discuss the unmentioned improvements to the phoenix from what looks like the last patch.... Or is it just my lucky day ?

lol

Humm that's a bummer. Draconus offered some possible alternatives that would probably work okay in other situations. But the situation I provided should be the bare minimum of what a Tpod is capable of doing and by doing I mean "effectively" and by that I mean I had a 30 second window to find the tank column on the road it was unobstructed and it should have taken 15 seconds to scan and find the target and enter point track. None of that was possible the pod was zoomed in as tight as possible and was moving too slow to cover the required ground. Even a solution to ONE of those issues would have possibly made the pod marginally effective and allowed to get what I needed. People said I was a jackass for requesting adjustable mirrors and only an idiot would want that... Well here's to hoping! Thanks -Gun

Usually he does quite well but I this case the "Area" is not a patch of ground but a very specific strip that is only in one direction and can be quite long. His search pattern tends to be around an area like a box. In this case he was searching a box pattern around the marker which means half his scan is useless and the other half isn't far enough away.

The scenario is. I have a last known location of a target. The target is moving E on a main road. All I have to do is move the pod from the Steer point E along the very obvious road for perhaps a mile or two or maybe only fractions of a mile I dont know. I also appear to be incapable of doing this effectively. Its zoomed in too much or not enough depending on the range. The pod is covering maybe 40 to 80 feet a sec. I have 1000s of feet to cover. Snowplow is too coarse and causes me to fly a direction I dont want to. Thanks

In the B model I think I saw tape across them lol

Hello Most of the time Jester does a pretty good job of running the Tpod. However there are moments when I need to move it manually. I am using VR. Direct head control works but is very very slow and difficult to see while trying to turn your head to the direction you want it to move. Is there a key bind so I can just use a hat switch? Is there a way to adjust the pan speed??? Is there a way to tell jester to zoom in or out for us that i can bind to a key? Thanks!

I think the change I hear is the ambient noise from the carrier being cut out. With the engine at idle this is a very small change you have to really pay attention to notice it.

Perhaps this is the reason..... Would the same logic not apply to the f18? Would you agree the f18 is much quieter with the lid down vs the f14? Thanks!

Here they are! After looking at this a bit more. It actually does really effect world volume quite a bit. What it doesn't appear effect (much if at all) is the aircraft engine noise. 1) The engine noise drowns out the world noise 2) The canopy doesn't seem to change engine noise a noticeable amount (open vs close) 3) If the engines are running then there's very little difference between open and closed because of (1) and (2) By engine noise I mean idle on ground or taxi power. Thanks!

Hello with the canopy open or closed I cant tell a difference in world volume. This is quite profound in the f-18. Is there just no sound effect for it or is there a cooler reason? Or did i miss some option?... I dont recall it ever working. Thanks -Gun

Hello First off sorry if this is the wrong spot for this. I really did put some effort into guessing where this should go. The obvious is I need to back up my key binding and views. I did this by copying the config folder in Users>"Your PC name>Saved Games>DCS>Config> I read that this can take some effort to get running again... Is there a better way? What else should I be backing up? Im creating a disk image so I should be able to open that image with acronis and get anything I missed but maybe it wont be compatible with win 11... Just making sure. Thanks -Gun

So a question for the OP. Did it ever work right as in you were happy with how it looked? If so when was that? how long ago. When it started to look "poor" had dcs or any of your hardware / software changed?

They out... and by out I mean gone.

at least tomcats aren't bouncing all over the deck, splodn' and falling into the drink like f-18s any day online. I think what we have now is a solid compromise.

This should be simple any ideas why this doesnt work?