RackMonkey

I should have qualified my question a bit. In 2D i'm getting 130FPS out of my 4090 and the CPU is just lopping along. When I go VR I'm down to the mid 70s and I get the message. It's pretty good and I'm not complaining, but I was curious to see if there was a machine that could do it. It's a fresh install of Win 11 so I think I'll start looking for the crap that MS installs by default and remove or at least shut it down in order to get some CPU cycles back.

I'm just curious, has anybody been able to build a computer powerful enough that it DOESN'T get the "CPU Bound" message?

All I can do is keep trying.

Thanks guys. I just got back in town and was able to try what you said. I've got VoiceAttack working now, but NeckSafer is still screwed up. I have confirmed that I have XR Necksafer beta 5b. It still does the same thing, when I look left my view point moves forward and when I look right my view point moves aft. I don't know what I can do to correct this problem.

Thanks guys, but one question I should have asked first. Do we know for sure that these two programs work with the latest version of DCS and Pimax's version of Open XR? I am running Win 11 23H2 since Microsoft has seen fit to depricate Mixed Reality in 24H2. I don't want to chase a solution that doesn't exist or if I need to change my working version of OpenXR.

I've been away for a couple of years and a lot has changed. I've got a new install of all the software but things have changed enough that I can't get NeckSafer and VoiceAttack to work correctly. I think it might be because I use a Pimax Crystal headset and PimaxVR. NeckSafer seems to work except that when I turn left everything comes closer and turning right everything move away from me. Voice attack recognises my commands but they don't seem to make it to DCS for action. If anybody has figured this out I'd appreciate a little help.

Never mind, I found it. All I had to do is ask for help and they would jump out at me. If anybody find this interesting they are the Lian Li 216.

I am looking for a case that I have only seen a review of one time. I can't remember who did the review or who the maker of the case was, but I'm hoping one of you will know. The case has two options that I want. One is that the IO opening in the back is longer than normal by one PCI slot and a second set of standoff mount holes to match it. This allows you to mount the MB one slot down in order to have more distance at the top to mount a thicker AIO. The second option is a wider case to allow the use of Corsair's RMx Shift series of PSU that have the cables plug into the side of the PSU so that the cables won't have to run over the top of a bottom mount fan. All cables can them run up the backside of the MB tray, out of site.

How much is the 5K gonna be and how long are you going to have to wait?

I thought that it would be GPU first. I just find it amazing that the 4090 could be beat up so badly with all the hype of how powerful it is. A friend let me borrow his 4090 for a week and I thought I was doing something wrong when the thing was stuck at 99% usage and my little old i5 was just jogging along without a care in the world . It's going to be hard to part with $1850 for a 4090 knowing that it's still not enough GPU to satisfy DCS.

I monitor GPU and CPU usage, and during a normal session the GPU is always at 99% usage while the 12 cores of the i5-11600 averages about 45%. This is the normal situation for both ST and MT versions of DCS. My problem understanding is that everything I have read, watched and my on instinct tells me that I should be CPU bottlenecked. And if I am CPU bottlenecked, my GPU should be far less utilized while waiting for the CPU to feed it. Looking at this without really thinking about it I would assume that I should upgrade my GPU first, but I am sure that a 4090's need for data would suck my little i5 dry like a $1000 a night Vegas hooker. Am I looking at the wrong metric for the CPU? The GPU? Is HWiNFO64 the wrong monitoring software for what I am trying to find out? Somebody please put me on the correct path to enlightenment.

I wish I could get my hands on a 7900XTX but I doubt it would be anywhere close to the 4090. It might catch up as AMD puts out FSR 3 and other driver updates. If I knew it would get closer to the 4090 it might be worth it at the lower price. Right now the only thing you can do to get the performance is to hock your first born and pay the price nVidia wants.

I just finished testing with my friends 4090 and there is no way that you could have proved to me that spending $1600 would be worth it. There is no substitute for setting down at a computer and seeing with your own eyes what a difference there is. The difference between my 6900XT and the 4090 is remarkable. My biggest test are how far out can I find and airport and at what distance can I see the carrier deck clearly in order to line up at only half a mile out. Having the 4090 in my system it also shoed me that I am not CPU bound when running in MT. The 4090 was zipping along at 99% while the CPU was averaging about 30%. That answered my question of am I going to need to upgrade my MB and CPU.

I think you have misconstrued my intent. I'm looking for people who actually live in the Las Vegas area. You can't really make a proper comparison of VR over the internet.

I had the same problem and "movement prediction" was the problem. Thanks for pin pointing that. I have another problem that may or may not be linked. When I start DCS in MT-Native OpenXR I get a "mask" in my headset. It's square and covers the bottom and right side of the display. The bottom covers most of the instrument panel when looking straight forward and bout the same amount of the right side of the cockpit. If this mask turns out to be symmetrical then it's center point is about 20 degrees left and 20 degrees up. If you haven't seen this before I'll post a new thread with it and see how many others are seeing it also.