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The performance in VR is frustrating me too, in VR I tend to run textures on high and MSAA off to try and get 45fps, in flat screen I can run in 4K with everything on ultra and MSAA x 4 and still get 80fps, it looks soo much better and is more playable on flat. I think maybe in 5 more years headset, graphics cards and DCS itself will be at a point where they compete visual with flat graphics on the same PC hardware.

I have seen this homemade 360° simulator before. https://youtu.be/UKcQrTZCghI Looks fun but dangerous. Edit:there is the commercial one but looks super expensive.

You get 72 fps in DCS VR !?? You are very lucky if you do. I have to drop the visuals a lot to get a decent 45 fps in VR. But I can get 80 FPS in 4K on flat with everything cranked up on my RTX 2060 overclocked.

Have you perhaps set AA to off in Nvidia control panel and set it to override game settings? (I'm not 100% sure that's an option).

In Caucuses map I use Medium (or high depending on the aircraft) textures , high terrain textures, shadows flat most other stuff off, VR resolution to 1.3. I use Msi after burner to put a 1000mhz over clock on the Memory and 100mhz on the core clock. In Syria I haven't finished tweaking settings to get a decent 45fps yet might have to drop to low textures

I finsd that MSAA really kills performance in VR. I have a RTX 2060 and can get 60 fps in 4K with everything cranked up high on a flat screen but in VR with Quest2 have to turn of MSAA and drop textures to medium to hold 45 fps, I don't really understand that because it is driving more pixels in 4K than VR, weird.

Have you tried it with the antialiasing turned off in NVidia? Yes it will look pretty horrible. I'm on a GTX 2060 and cannot use any AA in VR on medium textures. I was hoping that a future upgrade to a 3080 might solve this for me, but this has made me a bit sad that DCS just seems to run like a dog (and a slow one) in VR.

Yeah I cannot even put MSAA to 2X in VR, because it brings my RTX 2060 to its knees, I just have to pretend I am still in the 1990's until I can get a better GPU

I have just build a i5 11600K system but I cannot get near to maxing out the CPU because my RTX 2060 maxes out long before the CPU (I Can only run medium Texture settings and no AA in VR but in 4K flat screen can run most things maxed out and still hit 60fps) . I am going to start saving and wait until 3080's are back down to reasonable prices or try to snag a 3080Ti at MSRP when they first launch.

Anyone else having problems with SU25T TV (skval) screen being very white? There is a APC in that view somewhere buy I cannot see it! I think it is this mod causing it but haven't yet uninstall to test it.

I am building a new gaming PC this month (mainly just play DCS and Total War) and was going to get the 10th gen Intel i7 10700k for £280 but as the 11th Gen Intel i7 11700k is out this week I'm sort of tempted but it is £110 more. It is going to be paired with a my current GPU a RTX 2060 and 32GB 3600mhz RAM. Early leaked units of the i7 11700k have show shockingly similar performance to the i7 10700k and even sometime worse in some games. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16535/intel-core-i7-11700k-review-blasting-off-with-rocket-lake/16 Maybe I will wait a few weeks until someone does a DCS benchmark (but I do want my new PC now!) , it will be interesting to see how it performs!

I am not really sure why you would want S-5 rockets as they were rubbish in real live : "S-5 rockets were used extensively by Sukhoi Su-25 and Mil Mi-24 aircraft in Afghanistan in the 1980s, where their effectiveness was considered poor. Pilots described the rockets fanning out after launch "like a tulip", and that the warhead was only good for "tickling the dookhi's (mujahedeen) heels". The Russian forces have shifted to higher-calibre weapons like the S-8 rocket instead." https://military.wikia.org/wiki/S-5_rocket And they are even worse in DCS where fragmentation effects are not even properly modeled.

The Mig-21bis has nukes the effects are not modeled very well in DCS but it is nice to have them.

Thank you kind internet stranger! That worked perfectly. Now I just have to figure out why when I export it to .edm it looks like this!

What does your .lua file look like? could be this line: GT.attribute = { wsType_Ground,wsType_Tank,wsType_Gun,wsType_GenericTank, "Tanks", "Old Tanks" }; Just a stab in the dark really.

Yes think I will pull the trigger on a new PC (i7 10700K + 32GB Ram) this week and just keep my RTX 2060 for now ( I bought it for £250 a year ago and now they sell for almost £500!), I'm very excited that I might be able to get some decent FPS soon.

I just wish I could justify to myself that spending £2,000 on a graphics card is a good idea

I have got this Russian DSHK machine gun model that I made a DCS mod for 7 years ago DSHKVer43.7z (.max file is 7-ziped to fit under the 5MB size limit) But it doesn't display correctly in the newer version of DCS . I used to work at a school so had free access to 3ds max but now I would have to pay £2000 a year for it. I am going to try and learn Blender, but first need the file converting to .obj file to import into Blender. Thanks in advance.

This would be cool, in combined arms you can fire coloured smoke so re-coding that for flares doesn't sound too hard.

You could use an external program to bind the trigger to the space bar command but we shouldn't have to.

Well hopefully this is something eye tracking can help solve because the PC will only have to render in high res the direct part of the screen that the eye is looking at the rest can be lower resolution saving a lot on gpu power.

I really hope they do something about the ground unit damage model sooner rather than later. It is more that half the game for me. Some proper ballistics penetration modeling like in Arma 3 would be great.

Apple are supposed to be developing a high end headset out next year with eye tracking that is 8K resolution. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tomsguide.com/uk/amp/news/apple-ar-headset-leak-reveals-eye-tracking-and-it-looks-like-a-game-changer Its going to be a premium price between $1000-$3000, but loads of people around here seem to have RTX 3090's so money doesn't seem to be that much of an issue for some flight sim fans.

There seems to be an excessive amout of smoke effects in mission 4. (19 smoke stacks I counted!) It brings my FPS down to about 8 FPS (I have A Nvidia RTX 2060) when I am trying to attack ground targets around the airfield so I find it hard to hit targets with my gun and keep dying! 19 Smoke stack effect around the airfield. Smoke effects in DCS are not very well optimised and will always badly drop FPS. I know they are there for "atmosphere" but maybe tone it down a lot so I can actually fly the mission Other that that I am enjoying the campaign , the dialog is a bit cheesy and I hope you didn't pay too much for the English script translator!, because the English is funny sometimes (Better than my Russian though!) If you wanted a native English speaker to go thought the scripts and make it sound better I would be happy to help, but then the voicework would need re-recording as well...

I could NOT replicate the rocket flight path bug at all for the track, so either it was fixed recently or I was doing something wrong! I am pretty sure I did capture a bug where the rockets sometimes do not track the laser until you turn it off and then on again, very annoying! See track (attached), I could open another thread title is this one cannot be changed? avb8 apkws not traking laser.trk