twistking

Good point regarding the jet airbases. Did not really think of that. Maybe it would be acceptable to cut the "deep" Western part at least, putting the Western edge at Bremen, Bielefeld, Koblenz, Mannheim... Of course airbases near that imagined line would need further "wiggle room" of detailed area to their west. I'm from the deep West myself, but i think it would offer the least for a historic cold war DCS map (apart from some important airbases and the then capital of Bonn). Baltic coast, DDR/GDR and the alps in one map though:

That would be the most ambitious DCS map to date. Not by dimensions perhaps, but surely by population centers covered. I agree that southern Germany is way more interesting for flying from a purely scenic point of view. Having the map cover the Baltic coast AND the alps would be absolutely fantastic, but perhaps too good to be true... I will be happy already if the Fulda AO is covered with enough area around it to not accidentally stumble over the map edge in a fast jet...

I d agree. I Can't play because of the performance bug, but just looking at the screenshots it's very obvious to me that this is not "correct-as-is".

The Swiss F-5s were not able to carry Mavericks, were they?

An A variant would be relatively similar to an early C, correct?

Quad missile loadout would add a lot to the module (double the firepower for people who suck at gunfighting) for minor development cost. It would make the little fighter much more deadly and with the ME loadout restriction feature, mission builders could always prohibit quad carriage if the limited firepower is what's desired for the scenario...

Too many MFDs

@BIGNEWY i'm really disappointed that there hasn't been a hotfix. the f-5 remaster is a brand new module. i bought it for christmas and could not fly it since. it's literally unplayable for me with low single digit fps. if no solution is found, then revert back the changes from the last patch.

I see. How unfortunate!

If there's no way to "dial it back" to a 80s/90s version than i'm not that interested. With the Cold War Germany map on the horizon, why would anyone be interested in yet another 2000s aircraft...

Do they?

The presence of Mendig more or less confirms the map area to include the Fulda AO. That's good news. The houses on Neptunbrunnen are definitely weird. The area is a public square since the early seventies i believe (or whenever they built the tv tower). How can something like this end up in a trailer?

In VR you have different latency requirements and with things like motion reprojection, async space warp etc. you have more complex frame delivery pipelines. I don't know if it's supported or not, but it won't likely work with MR/ASW. Tried to google it, but didn't find good info on it... With Nvidia working on their own space warp thing (reflex?) they could probably do their own version of an ASW type pipeline, but i doubt that they have enough interest in VR...

I don't think that frame gen is supported in VR. Even if it was, wouldn't it be better to use VR specific motion reprojection?

I couldn't deal with a modern representation to be honest. Because of the German division only a historic map would make sense. We've already seen images of the inner German border, so i think we'll get a proper historic map anyway. I personally wouldn't care if it mixes elements from a few decades, but it should be pre 89, without any recognizable elements from later years.

Do we know if it's "painted on" (albedo), or a shader/pp result (f.e. normal map)? Should be easily observable when changing the angle of illumination (aka aileron rolling). I cannot test myself, since i'm still locked to sub 10fps... ps: For me it looks like exaggerated AO (ambient occlusion), but for that to be true the bevel would need to be actual geometry which i highly doubt... If it's caused by normal maps, there must be something off with the material: There's no good PBR compatible reason for the edges getting so uniformly dark...

Yes. I did not argue with that.

Maybe a hot take, but i think that accentuating the text with a light bevel is well within artistic liberties when it helps readability and still looks "realistic enough". That said, i also agree that in this case the effect is overdone. On smaller resolutions it can also lead to moiré/flickering. It should be dialed back a little bit. If it's indeed just normal mapping, then it should be a quick fix.

it's highly unlikely that it's related to shader caching. since performance normalizes on pausing of the sim and bottleneck is from main thread (NOT render thread) it is probably not a rendering issue, but a sim issue...

+1 all aircraft external lights need a rework. night flying is ridiculous with all ac ext lights vanishing after a few hundred feet...

anyone tried disabling wake turbulence? i can't test myself right now....

with the f-5E (upgrade) i now get 8 fps (where i used to get locked 60 with other modules). on sim pause it goes back to locked 60 (frame limiter). unplayable!

Unfortunately you are right. DCS still stands for Daylight Flight Simulator. Even if you could make the AI turn on nav lights, you would still not see them after a few hundreds feet. Night flying is still broken in so many ways...

I do like me some colours! You are right. There is a selectable LUT in the graphics options now, isn't it? An option to make a custom one would be very nice. I assume it's already possible with LUA, but i haven't looked into it yet. If it accepts custom LUA someone smarter than me could probably create a webapp for it. Cheers!

LUT means look-up-table and describes a definable matrix for tone-mapping/color correction. In the broader sense (and that's how i used it) it can simply mean "custom tonemapping" or more simply put: "custom color/brightness settings". The idea would be that you find a program where you can dial in a custom "LUT" (a custom set of parameters), that will change the output of a specific program (in this case DCS) in a way that is optimal for your sensibilities. For 2d there is a program called "reshade", but i'm not sure if it will work with VR as well... I think with some fiddling you could create a "LUT" that works well for you, during (DCS) day and night, while still looking good. For example you could leave the blacks and midtones where they are and only roll back the highlights. Or tint the highlights, or cut them off completely. You will need to learn a bit about color correction, but judging by the severity of your symptoms, it may be worth it (also talk to an ophthalmologist about the headaches if you haven't already). If something in DCS changes, or you get a new VR headset with a different colour response, you can just tweak your LUT again and be up in the air in no time. ps: Working visors in DCS would still be a cool feature!