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It's been delayed indefinitely now.

Good tip. I am always fighting with sunlight and have to play at night. What exactly did you buy and from where? purchased: Gila® Privacy Black Static Cling Residential DIY Window Film. EDIT: Doh, didn't even see that you have it in the description!

Confirmed: spacehamster [2024-03-18 21:58:42] Dear customer, sorry for the confusion. And yes, the KA-50 is end of life.

Has anyone had a RECENT order from Virpil to Canada from the US store? Do you still need to pay the exorbitant duties/brokerage fees that I've been reading about? I was going to get a Winwing Ka-50 collective, but missed the boat as they are no longer making them. They haven't really ever been in stock either. Total cost to me would have been less than $450 CAD. With the Virpil I'm looking at $650 CAD with shipping, not including any additional fees/taxes/duties. Also do they ship separately or wait until both parts are in stock as they never seem to have stock of one item or the other? Thanks.

I didn't even know such a thing existed. Which one?

I've been waiting to see it in stock since long before Xmas, but I found this post on reddit: Got this email from Winwing. Just want to let people know about the KA-50 Black Shark Grip end of life. News If true, that sucks as the Virpil collectives are insanely overpriced, especially so if you don't live in the US (more than double the cost of the Winwing for me in Canada). The only response I received from Winwing was a garbled reply about not knowing when they will do another production run, but that was prior to this response. They should take the product page down if they aren't going to make any more of them.

First of all, specs: 4070ti/5600X/32GB/W10, using a FASGEAR USB C to C cable, 2.5 - 2.8 GBps when I tested. Default MT, standalone, openbeta. I've been playing around with the OXR Toolkit and in-game settings. It's been a struggle, and although quite annoying having to constantly restart, I admit that I often enjoy optimizing a game more than actually playing it I've read/watched countless videos and threads now, and still don't know what I should be trying. One says use all the debug/toolkits available, the next video two weeks later revises it and says they cause more issues than they solve. From my limited testing so far, the biggest gain to smoothness/fps was the Turbo mode or DFR (I found that you can't have them both enabled at the same time as it crashes DCS). When set to DFR Quality/Wide, I don't even notice it. Are there any other DFR settings that are critical, or is it ok just to leave it at the presets? As others have stated, shadows and terrain textures seem to kill FPS the most, although it clearly depends on the map. This isn't my game PC, so I don't have screenshots of settings, but I tried MSAA 4X (2X was just horrible aliasing and shimmer) and DLAA/DLSS Quality with at least 0.5 sharpening and PD set to 1.35 in-game. I didn't see any difference setting PD through the Oculus app. The cockpit is about the same clarity either way, but DLSS does perform better, and I don't get the 'ghosting/trailing' effect at these settings. The one thing that still bothers me (other than the inconsistent performance) is the general dark, greyness about everything. I've increased the gamma and that helps a bit, but is there anything that can be done to increase the 'brightness' of the scene? Also, is the Debug tool dead now, or does it have a use in my case?

I recently sent back my Q2 and bought the Q3 instead, even though it cost more than double ($275 CAD vs $650 CAD). It's my first foray into VR. The blurriness on the Q2 was really annoying and was giving me a lot of dizziness. It's greatly reduced with the Q3, and yes, the clarity is a lot better. I didn't have any of the issues you are describing (I'm not even sure what this 'glare' is that everyone refers to?). Where are you ordering these from? Comparing it to a headset like the Pimax that costs 5 times as much (to play games ) is patently ridiculous though.

Just having a look at these as I also have a 4071ti/5600X (Quest 3) and I'm getting tired of adjusting settings already. Do you enable Turbo mode in OpenXR Toolkit? I'm most interested in gauge clarity, but also want to maximize performance too. What CPU do you have?

I'm just figuring this stuff out now, and have looked at 'Snuten's' settings on Page 15. Do these still apply with all of the recent updates? I read on one thread that you don't need to bother with anything OpenXR related (i.e. the toolkit) yet another says it's essential. Same with the 'debug tool'. I assume this is 'ODT'? I also keep seeing 'OBT'. Is this a typo? I have a Q2 and 4070ti/5600X. I'm assuming these settings should also help with the awful visuals I'm seeing?

Yah, I get all that. All I was originally asking though was if I was in the MT version by default. I'm not sure why anyone would want to run in ST now?

No kidding that you need at least one shortcut to run the game...that's pretty obvious . You said that it isn't a big hassle to have separate shortcuts and also explicitly said that you didn't know if they were required. I'm simply clarifying for anyone interested (as there is obviously still confusion) that you do not in fact need to make any other shortcuts other than the one the game automatically installs.

No idea what you're talking about. I download the open beta, it puts an icon on the desktop, I double-click it. You seem fixated on this shortcut thing. If you want to keep doing that, nobody is stopping you.

It does get a little confusing. People were having issues that they were getting ST thinking they had MT for a long time and sometime this fall they changed the default to now run MT rather than ST which confused people again (the default icon now launches MT). And depending if you had made your own icon direct to the ST.exe or MT.exe things might not have changed . So apparently the default now...no need for shortcuts.

Thanks, I will try these and I will set the refresh back to 72. I've read on other threads that the 'shimmering' is a known AA issue because of the old DCS engine. I'll try DLAA/DLSS and see if it helps. I'm asking about the MT thing on another thread so I can get it straight from ED. EDIT: This is a response I received: "Yes. When it has 'multithreading preview 2.9XXX' at the bottom right you are getting MT, so however you're doing it is working." This is in the ED graphics thread (from Nineline): "These options (upscaling) are not available for the Single Thread version of DCS." So it seems they released it to the 'default' without telling anyone?