Wolf8312

The point is it reads as not working but seems to be working, for example the steam VR fps monitor reports no missed frames when AR is on turn it off however and it tanks!

I know but it seems to be running fine but if I disable ASW the frame rate goes into a juddering mess.

In game it seems to be falling below the needed 45-90- fps target, however everything seems to be running OK with very smooth head tracking and general gameplay. Also if I turn off asynchronous reprojection it turns into a judder fest which would seem to suggest its working as it should. Why then am I getting such terrible readings? It seems to hit 45 but then drop and then rise back to 45 again.

Jesus calm down!

Yeah its defo worse because I'm getting that damned grey flash much more when the level loads up right at the beggining! But it isnt unplayable for me as I just finished testing it, it works about as well as it did! I wish we had the option to go back but alas now we are stuck! VR is so frustrating! What settings are you using? Recently I've found its best to turn almost everything off except for MSSA x2 with a PD of 1.3. Why do you say its unplayable what symptoms? Its this grey flash thats driving me insane but I have to say I'm not sure its a VR problem or a DCS problem? I guess maybe the later because in some versions its a huge problem in others not much, and in others basically not at all. Could the devs leave us 1.5.5 until these things stabalize? I'm loving the cockpit labels though, and I'm sure in the end everything will be worked out! VR is really frustrating though!

Think so! Wasnt able to check the mission planner as I couldnt find it unless they mean in the mission editor. Anyhoo I managed to hit a tank or too so thats it for tonight. The thing I worry about now is whether being forced to update to 1.5.6 hasnt locked me into a more unstable version of the game for VR. Doesent seem to be a way to roll back the changes!

Lol was it a bug I've noticed now since the update there is a new green bomb on my wing that look alot more like cluster bombs!

My DCS just updated to 5.5.6 again, seems more stable but just got a big worrying crash and I'm not sure if this time we can roll back changes?

Hum how does one go about that? Not sure the public is ready for my flying!

Just did one with an altitude of 1000, air speed 700, and while keeping the jet pretty much level. Was blasted to pieces!

My attitude hahaha? My attitude is pretty darn stern!

Am I right in thinking that this kind of bombing run dosent really rely on the pipper or gunsight? Because I use it but nothing seems to happen!

Ah I saw those videos its hard to make out the details to be honest

Yeah mig 21 sorry about that. I've tried various release altitudes but the lowest was about 1000 meters, the highest to be honest perhaps 3-5, not really sure about that or how steep exactly the angle (20-5 degrees?). It kinda varies and I tend to be so fixated on lining up the pipper! What is the optimum altitude, angle and speed I should be aiming for? Another guy on another forum told me to land at the airport and change my loadout lol! Must say its getting tempting!

Guys dont know what I am doing wrong. I am playing the instant action 'ground attack' mission with mig 21 and cluster bombs but no matter what I do I cant seem to hit anything! Has become frustrating as I have to fly to the target and die again and again like its fricking groundhog day or something! I have tried coming down from a steep angle, and tried level flight but nothing seems to work, havent so much as scratched a tanks paint, but the bombs do indeed release they just miss( though I cant ever really see them)! I have of course made sure to arm the bombs before dropping them. Are there any pointers you can give me or ways to change load out? It says check mission planner but maybe because I'm playing in VR there is no mission planner unless they mean that they want me to go to the mission editor? Any pointers?

I'm getting the same problem without using the base station that is supposed to be faulty, a very occasional grey flash, really annoying now because Im not sure the basestation is even broken! If this grey flash is the result of a broken base station it would appear that both of my base stations have broken spontaneously！

Steam support have told me that I seem to have a faulty base station but it seems to be working OK for me. So does this mean we all have faulty base stations. The question I asked about this specific problem with the game does not seem to have been addressed.

One thing I find helps immensely is to map mouse buttons to HOTAS and not the mouse. Haven't really done so for some more involved modules (black shark, HOG) because there is simply no room and other functions I find more important. Mig 21 though with mouse buttons mapped to a HOTAS makes things much easier than using a mouse and is perhaps easier than a glove would be as you never need to take your hands of the HOTAS.

A few years ago I bought battle of Stalingrad an realized huh I need a joystick? Now I have the warthog, rudder pedals, track Ir and a VR headset, not to metion the many games and modules. Very expensive hobby is flight simming!

Yeah its worth it, though I bought mine before having a child so am going to need the prices of VR to drop in the future as I cant afford these prices forever! When I look at and imagine flying on a monitor now it just seems as if my FOV has been zoomed out so far that I can no longer see anything properly. And honestly people talk about poor resolution but these things begin to pale in comparison to new flaws and limitations you begin to realize non VR monitor flying/gaming has. Sure the graphics look sharper with a higher resolution on a monitor, but it all seems so far away and disconected from me the pilot!

No in my opinion because using hand controllers and a HOTAS would not be possible. Maybe you could choose one or the other but personally I'd go for Hotas every time. The keyboard thing is something you can get better at too and you can also try to map important things to buttons that are easy to find such as spacebar or buttons on the furthest corners. There will be VR gloves out one day though pretty sure of that! Funny thing is if you turn on a vive controller in a DCS cockpit a ruddy great brown boxing glove appears that does precisely nothing. It's funny though marveling at how off scale it is, and would be, if I even could use it.

As much as in pains me to say it I think it is performance related or at least dropping below the required performance threshold seems to trigger it. Did a few tests watching for missed frames and seems to happen when you do miss them (big explosions etc). So far as I can tell it seems to be working better for me now I have dropped MSSA down to 2x. As I was watching for missed frames the settings I have now seem to never drop below the 90-45 spec so I dont think its a problem. Most of all it happens just when the game is loading everything up so that seems to obviously suggest it happens when the system is working hardest but it shouldnt be happeneing in VR of all places! Who cares about a rare dropped frame. A fricking great loading screen flashing on and off when you drop one is much more distracting and in VR a terrible immersion breaker! For now though I suggest you sit down and verfify exactly what settings you all need to keep things at a constant 90-45.

Yeah I get it more on nevada (still pretty rare), almost never on 1.5.5 and got it so much on 1.5.6 that I had to go back to 1.5.5! I really hate it but thankfully its rare, although I do see it most often when my plane explodes in 1.5.5 but at that point it doesent really matter having exploded and all. Doesent seem to be solved by lowering graphics settings. I wonder though if theres something we should do as a community by way of letting the steam VR devs or DCS devs know about it. I mean its unacceptable and DCS didnt used to do this. Like we're going backwards. I might email steam about it but really what can they do. In one way its great other people are having the same problem as that means it will be eventually fixed and is not a problem with my computer, on the other hand that means there is probably no solution for the present moment. As for it being fortunate most games are no longer using steam VR, that doesent really help those of us with VIVES who have to use it!

. You still are not going to be able to max things out but I'm really not sure how long we are from a system that could play this game without even needing reprojection. I think it depends is the game you are playing now very noticeably underperforming? It probably isn't that big of a jump because a 1080 rig still needs to use reprojection as does the 970, as the tech is improving but DCs 2's technology will stay relatively static for the foreseeable future waiting will probably pay off and you can future proof DCS 2.5 at least a lot better than you will be able to if you buy now. There's never a good time to buy computers though right? How often do you buy new computers? Every 2 years maybe go for it. Every 5 then I would wait and get one that will basically be made for the game. But if I was playing DCS now and having a bad time I'd probably upgrade as it would be too frustrating and basically a waste of the VR tech that you already have. It's always frustrating to have minimum requirements even just psychologically! Its hard to say where VR is heading. The devs themselves are improving DCS VR all the time, and a new better headset could come out before we even need to upgrade our rigs. A few months ago I couldn't even bear to play DCS myself on the vive cause it was so badly optimized now I'm loving it! This wasn't cause my computer got better but due to the software so who knows.

Bit of a problem. I really want to use my HOTAS exclusively and stop using the mouse in VR and I can indeed do so and it works great, except for one thing. When I set the mouse wheel to any button on my HOG's throttle it moves painfully slowly and not like a rapid moving mouse wheel at all. Does anyone know of a way to rectify this problem? Many thanksd in advance!