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Was never added for the Mig, are you thinking of adding it to the Corsair?

It’s strange because I load a flight and sometimes it doesn’t do it for a good 5-10 minutes it’s all running fine. Then it starts. So it shows it can run smoothly, there must be something that triggers it I guess. Let’s hope they look into this and can find a solution soon.

extremely strange gameplay where I can fly in VR with 45 fps in the harrier zero stutters extremely smooth. Low level, high altitude. Then all of a sudden I find FPS drop into the 20s, not flying over any built up areas, just low level. Sim is like a slide show, but if I climb above 1,300ft stutters stop, solid 45fps and smooth gameplay. Drop below 1,300ft and then severe stuttering.

Ok that’s a shame as it does work for me but I have read that for some users it does not work for them.

Seems to work if you load the mission twice not sure if you’re aware but yes it’s time it was fixed. Has anyone noticed an improvement in south Atlantic map with VR? Won’t get to my computer for a few days.

Thanks so much.

It’s awesome and I’m playing DCS so much at the moment, so pleased with the visual and performance improvements I have experienced with VR. But I have one minor wish that I would love ED to look into to just make things perfect. The new upscaling has made the anti aliasing better in VR imo but I notice only around the canopy edges they look a little rough and jagged, but only around the canopies. This is with virtually all aircraft, with maybe the exception of the F14 which I don’t notice it with. it’s particularly noticeable with the P-47 and even has a sort of wobbly defect the hovers above the canopy. It’s a minor issue and certainly isn’t taking away from my enjoyment of 2.9. Really would be nice if they could look into it though.

does anybody have a link to a tutorial to show exactly how you set up and link a drawing tablet to this and dcs to use in VR? I watched a vid and the guy said he is using a drawing pad with a stylus pen.

I’m noticing that I am having to restart my pc because dcs OB won’t load in VR. Screen just stays stuck at the loading stage on the monitor and steam VR stays on in the headset. Eventually dcs loads but in full screen not in VR. I have to restart my pc reload dcs mt and then it has been loading the 2nd time after a pc restart. Is anyone else experiencing this.

not for me it’s a huge improvement. Across the board with all modules I’m able to run with rain in VR now. Before it was unplayable. Visually it’s an improvement externally with regards anti-aliasing, maybe inside the cockpit readability is slightly worse with some modules. Spitfire cockpit for example. But regards the F14 the cockpit is much clearer now, I’m able to read labelling in the cockpit without mods, feel like this is more like the experience people using monitors get. Also feel there is far less shimmer with the new anti aliasing options. personally I feel it’s a huge improvement.

I am noticing a huge improvement with HBs F14 with VR in 2.9 MT both in terms of performance and visual quality/clarity, notably less shimmering and jaggedy lines in the cockpit. Feel like this is always how it was meant to look in VR. Thankyou ED and HB team.

Yeah I know. I didn’t say there was a problem with them and 2.9

Please could you consider an option to have VR only load when you are in the cockpit of an aircraft. There are other games that do it Assetto Corsa for example so I think it could be achievable. And it would make it so much easier to use the Mission Editor. I know I could go into the settings and unselect VR then reload the game and go in the ME, but I like to try things I am creating as I go along. I would really appreciate this feature, I’m not sure if any other VR users feel the same?

Has anyone else noticed that you can add weather now in VR and it’s playable. It maintains a steady 45fps and stays smooth. I normally don’t run mods in my open beta but I love the new Bartek Caucasus mod so much and I wanted to try it in 2.9 because of the improvements and this is like a brand new game for me I’ve never know a DCS update to make such a difference before I highly recommend people try this along with the taz 1004 better trees V3 mod and they work so well together, it looks unbelievable, looks so convincing flying low it’s like I could see the moisture hanging round the trees between the mountains I am blown away now by this update. I think the last time I flew with weather and rain effects was Flaming Cliffs days. Thank you so much ED.

When we had the opportunity to send some feedback to ED not long back I expressed my concerns with VR and how I feel it has been neglected. This update has improved the situation with VR, the upscale options have given me a notable visual improvement whilst continuing to maintain 45fps and smooth VR gameplay. I am still playing around to fine tune my settings but tried the Spitfire on the Normandy map last night and all I can say is it beautiful. Sinai was running smoothly as well. However despite an improvement with the North Atlantic map, and I noticed in the update the the built up areas have received some optimisation, there is still warping stuttering and strange effects when looking over buildings and it is in my view still unplayable. I will continue to see what settings can be changed but unfortunately that means having different settings applied depending on the map you are using. I have noticed that if you make changes to graphics in the settings despite it saying no game restart is needed you do need to restart dcs or performance is poor. I am still getting a lot of steam VR crashes with OB that I don’t tend to get with normal DCS. Not sure if anyone else is experiencing that? To think we could have further improvements with Vulkan being implemented, things are heading in the right direction. I shall stick with my 3080 for now and not invest in a costly upgrade.

Thankyou for the advice I shall have a look at your links

Wow what an update. Can’t wait to try it.

Just reading the latest OB sounds like they may have added a fix. Not sure if your on OB.

I use 1020 or whichever it is. The higher. Hope it works for you.

Load a mission in the mission editor so you’re in the cockpit. Set the tcs in the front seat and you’ll see it’s not working. Then exit the mission back into the mission editor. Reload the mission and try it again and it should work. That’s my workaround for now. Unfortunately I don’t think the quick start missions work.

I’ve read that some have a set up with their VR sets and the microphone to bring up the comms menu and then give requested commands to wingman or contact atc via the microphone with voice commands by saying the correct phrases? I would like to set this up but understand that you need a 3rd party software to perform this? Does anybody have a link to a video tutorial on how this is achieved? regards

Sorry I probably haven’t updated my status. I have a RTX 3080 i9 11900k and 64gb DDR4 Yeah sorry that’s wrong I have a RTX 3080 but I 100% agree the mods you can download for Caucasus are incredible and take it right up there as probably the most convincing map. Just want a some of the jagged edges gone and it would look so much nicer. We shall see, I run 2x msaa, 4x and it’s too much strain on the system.

It’s more the inconsistency between maps, so for example I have a preset in my settings which i find is the best compromise between looking good and smooth performance, with the reverb I find the moment it drops below 45fps the experience is not enjoyable. So maintaining 45fps is paramount. Maintaining 45fps is no problem with Normandy, Channel, Caucasus, PG, Nevada and to an extent Syria (although the draw distance with that map is off with VR, it looks blurry at distance even with high setting, I appreciate that’s not an ED remit) but the potential to add a little more anti-aliasing of some sort would be really welcome. However the same settings with Mariana’s and South Atlantic, and Sinai when flying over built up areas is completely different and is unplayable, and even if I set say the VR preset with those maps it is still unplayable. Adding units also really slows gameplay, I hoped MT would help with this but I found with MT it stopped the wobbling clouds and made them look a lot better but I have not noticed much improvement in performance. After about 8-9 years I’ve Just got to the point where I would like to see some performance gains with VR. I still love DCS though.

That’s great news. I’m really looking forward to this update. I’ve spent so much £££s over the years on VR and rigs and DCS maps and modules, just want a little more performance and things looking just a little nicer. Would be great to get some VR updates.

Will this have an effect on VR though?