Jacks

Does joystick gremlin create a virtual controller like TARGET does?

I have just bought the Thrustmaster TCWS throttle and I wish to use the rocker to control individual wheel braking. Unfortunately the rocker works on a single axis where as I require two axis to control wheel braking in DCS. Does anyone know if I can use TARGET to create a virtual axis then assign half of the rocker movement to one axis and half to the virtual axis then assign each axis in DCS to control individual wheel brakes? I am doing this as one of the wheel brakes has broken on my saitek rudder pedals (common problem meaning I will never buy saitek again!). Jacks

Ciribob, I have been doing some multicrew testing of srs and it works very well. I was testing in the gazelle and found a few bugs: The VHF was not synced between both players and remained on 124.000 for me while my friend changed the freq. The freqs changed in game and changed for him on his srs overlay but not for me. The co-polots intercom panel did not change the volume of the co-pilots radios in SRS. Instead the pilots intercom controlled the volume for both the pilot and co-pilot. It would be great to get this working since then one pilot could soley monitor one net while the co pilot monitors another. After testing in multicrew it would be great if the intercom could be set to a separate ptt than the radio transmit so you remain on a station ready to transmit while constantly talking to your co-pilot on the intercom or maybe have the intercom on a switch rather than a ptt so when switched on it is a live mic between both pilots ( like irl) until the switch is pressed again. If this is done then the intercom would need to be muted when the radio ptt is pressed to avoid an echo. Well done on a very impressive mod!

Does intercom support work for the gazelle and can this be set to permanently on instead of using the PTT?

VR is amazing and once you have tasted it's nectar there is no going back but you find it frustrating as DCS is very poorly optimised for DCS and vr performance is very poor. Plus no comms from the devs as the plans for vr in DCS and future optimizations makes being a vr DCS simmer incredibly frustrating and concerning that we have spent alot of money upgrading our rigs to play a game that may never be truly playable in VR.

+1 I haven't preo4dered the F-18 or Persian Gulf because of the lack of info on VR performance. I don't want to invest more money in a title that can not provide reasonable vr performance or at the very least keep its customers informed as to their plans to rectify issues.

I wish I could achieve a smooth VR experience ......

Hey guys how is the cockpit modelling going? I regularly check your Facebook page but have seen an update for a while.

Really? I would be interesting in seeing your settings as i don't think my 1080 is enough for VR

Yes 2.5. DCS is very playable for me. I have a microstutter every 3 secs which is only noticeable when flying below 200ft so I am not flying helos at the moment. I run PD at 1.5, MSSA off (FXAA On in Nvidia CP) everything high exception traffic and hear blue at low and visible range and shadows at medium. Clutter is at 1000m, trees are 100% and AF filtering is x16. I am running flat terrain shadows with cockpit illumination and deferred shading on. Preload is at max. I find that forcing ASW and 45FPS through oculus tray tool makes it a bit smoother. With these settings I get a solid 45.FPS at all time but microstutters (they don't go away if I lower settings) and the odd pause when looking a certain direction.

How is the pbr retexturing going?

VR in DCS is plagued by poor performance with players with powerful rigs running dcs at low settings with no AA. But will vulkan bring the boost in performance everyone is hoping for? I am doubtful. Benchmarks for other games show smaller than predicted improvements in FPS on Nvidia cards (~10%) and vulkan is meant to allow a game better utilise the GPU but my GPU runs at 95-100% all the time while playing vr and so I don't think it has much left to give! What are other peoples thoughts on this?

Yes I have and I have tried lots of settings to no avail. I have used the ocukus debug tool and my frames rate is like a heart beat with the same exact pattern of a tiny dip followed by a small increase in FPS every 3 seconds.

My stutter is present in VR with no AI so sounds different to yours.

Yes, I am now using the 8700k at 5.0GHz and I am seeing no discernable increase in performance. I still need to OC my RAM from 2133MHz to 3200MHz and hopefully that will help. So if you are only playing DCS then I don't see the point in upgrading yet or maybe get an 8600k but if like me you also play some multi-core games such as Star Citizen the the difference is night and day. DCS VR is pretty much GPU dependent and don't think the 1080 is quite man enough for it.

This just caucaus

I just checked my stutter and it is also exactly every three seconds and clearly visible using the oclus debug tool. I closed all unwanted programs but cannot find what is causing it.

Is anyone else finding that the frames in the gazelle are less than half any other aircraft in dcs. For me when I spawn into the gazelle in VR multiplayer the frames are normal (45) but the moment I switch the battery on the frames are half to a vomit inducing 22 FPS. This makes the gazelle completely unplayable. I can easily maintain a solid 45 fps with every other aircraft including mi-8 from the same spaen point. I have posted this in a few threads but no one at Polychop seems willing to help........

Don't expect a reply here either!

Do you have an ssd? I get the same except one every one second in VR not 2d.

I will post my settings at the weekend as I away with work this week.

Hello Polychop??

Looking good guys, keep up the good work and we appreciate these updates!

Thanks StrongHarm, I have tried all of the above (except reinstalling the rift drivers as I can work out how to do that and using razor cortex as used to used it a while ago and found no performance gains) and no improvement. I am hoping that this is a dcs issue that will get sorted rather than a wider software or hardware issue that will persist as it ruining the experience for me.

Very sad news, RIP Gos. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.