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Hello, you are right, my mistake, everything works without problems

Hello VinntoreZ, I noticed that when activating the mod (JSGME), the front wheel control does not work, by default via LAlt+Q. Can you please check? Thank you (y)

Thank you for your mod! It works perfectly in 2D and VR, only in VR there is no mouse and you can't click, but maybe that's the basis in FC3...?

I wouldn't call my post a direct request, more like a sigh... I was really looking forward to this map, mainly because of the area of Israel and the Sinai Peninsula. I'll admit it... I'm disappointed. Overall, the map looks somewhat uninteresting, the shades of the surface textures are quite faded, the detailed textures of the rock formations are a rarity. Otherwise, the terrain is so round, uniform... This area was a challenge for the developers due to the Dead Sea... As we know, you can't model terrain below 0 sea level and I was curious to see how they deal with it. I'm aware of all the technical limitations in map development, but this was also a big disappointment. The terrain around is too flat, I could imagine that, for example, the hills and mountains around the Dead Sea will be adjusted in height so that they are highlighted, even if at the expense of their "real" altitude. I previously had one question regarding air bases. According to the available materials, it appears that at some bases the fortified stands (hangars) are below the level of the surrounding terrain, and the planes then depart from them as if "uphill". It would certainly be an interesting feature... Cities. buildings... are just geometrically arranged formations, they even repeat themselves depending on the area. I admit that I have a problem with orientation, it would be nice to add some suburbs, important buildings, landmarks, etc. Here I would plead for more variety. It is also clear to me that the goal was not to create a VFR map, but if I am comparing it with, in my opinion, probably the best current map for DCS: Syria. And let's face it, for example, the north of Israel is almost perfect, including the representation of the city of Haifa (including such a trifle as the Bahai Gardens). We are at the beginning, I believe that the future will bring many new and good things. I know the team has done a great job and I thank them for that. I don't want to provoke a difficult discussion here, I'm just giving my opinion, I think even this will be interesting for developers, if not, nothing happens. There's no need to comment, either someone has a similar feeling or just say to yourself, that guy is completely off

Hmm, I was just thinking about that. Sometimes when I jump into a mission and it takes time for the terrain textures to load, you can see the sea level somewhere deeper below the plane. And since I assume that these bases have some height above sea level, although they do have a small one, theoretically the deepening of the hangars should be modeled without disturbing the zero altitude. If that's really the case, the developers will say... I don't know the pitfalls of creating scenery, but purely theoretically it should be possible to create it, it's basically a valley like any other...

Good day, do you know if the aircraft shelters will be modeled below ground level? I know that at some Israeli airbases they seem to be embedded below ground level.... I have not found this information about the Sinai map anywhere and I don't even know if it is technically possible? Thanks

So yeah, now I've had time to do a bit of testing and tinkering with different settings. There is not much difference between OpenXR and SteamVR as far as the resulting performance is concerned, OpenXR comes out a little better. I was surprised by the stability of SteamVR, in previous versions the performance was problematic, frequent crashes, blue screens... now it is not at all. Overall, I came to the conclusion that the loss of performance in version 2.8 will probably be irreversible, the hotfix did not solve anything. I've tried different settings for DCS itself and both shadow settings and MSAA make a difference of only a few insignificant fps. Also, the weather setting has no significant impact on performance, tested both bad weather with rain and clear blue sky. But the performance graph shows high load and frame time with the new version, but I haven't figured out what's causing it. None of the DCS settings will make a significant difference, it's something hidden that the GPU struggles with and can't be seen. I agree the new version 2.8 is a feast for the eyes in 2D, a visual delight, ED really did an excellent job on this one. Unfortunately, most of those effects are not visible in VR, but a noticeable load remained. There is still the problem with the clouds, some horizontal blurred part where it looks more like Minecraft and you can have MSAA 4x but it doesn't affect it. It is what it is, I've come to terms with it... only tried in SP and some missions, all Channel map. I get mostly 45 fps, sometimes 50-60 fps.

I am on W10 and the modified weather system was the first thing that came to my mind and what is different against version 2.7. But even when I tried the same missions with completely blue and clear skies, the results were the same. Weather / clouds have only minimal impact in my case, I would almost say none..

Thank you for looking into this. It's a really big hit, as I wrote before, in my case up to 30% performance in VR. PS- I'm not sure, but from what I've read, I understand that it's mostly users of kits under WMR...? Just a feeling...

Try it, maybe it will work for you. I don't know at all what is happening and why, the fact is that everything worked without problems until the 2.8 update. I suspected the Nvidia drivers also updated on Friday night, but the only problem is again with DCS, the others (IL2, MSFS 2020) work without change. The fact that I am frustrated is a very mild expression, I think that during more thorough testing before release, someone would have pointed it out. There are simply a lot of people with similar problems.

Hi, I am confirming the issues like others... AMD 5800x, 64MB RAM, RTX 3080, HP G2... Open XR set, Open composite With the update to 2.8 performance loss, on average 25-30%, the same test mission, in some from 90 fps to 60, on a map like Syria the drop is much more noticeable. Even on Friday before the update, I was thinking how everything runs like butter, high performance, beautifully sharp, MSAA 2x, shadows and visibility medium... and it's gone. I'm getting very erratic performance, I tried switching to Steam VR and it just resulted in one crash after another and a blue screen in VR. Unfortunately, even when I went back to stable 2.7, the problem remained and I can't get the original performance with the same settings. Huge disappointment...

Hi, I will add my experience ... I have 64Mb RAM, HP Reverb G2, GPU: RTX 3080 I switched from Rift S to HP Reverb G2 and almost immediately started solving the problem of outages and failures of Steam VR. I have never experienced anything like this on an old set. Getting into the game was a simple problem. I found that it had something to do with system requirements, such as a clean map loading and flying, more complex stored missions with many units falling. Immediately after loading, there was a crash of Steam VR, restart of VR, etc. Try to reduce the graphics settings a bit, but the main problem for me was the motion smoothing settings and the pre-rendered VR images settings. In the nVidia settings tab, try deselecting allowed images from a fixed value to "by application" and try. If the problem persists, cancel forced motion smoothing in Steam VR settings and leave the app to the decision. This seems to have solved my problem, I haven't thoroughly tested it, so far it's the first findings from the last two days, but after these adjustments I'm already flying my saved complex and demanding missions. Maybe it will help someone.

Problem solved! I confirm here written, really this massive drop in fps is causing shadows to be set. Switched from "high" to "flat only" and currently on an otherwise empty board I have my 65 fps back! And now I don't know if I should rejoice or cry ... ?? : doh:

I have the same experience, a massive drop in fps when using Supercarier. Tested on a blank map. Understand, on my i5, GTX1060 6GB, 32Gb RAM, I'm usually around 70-80 fps, out of range of airports many times higher. When using nVidia 3D Vision2, the fps drops to about 50, otherwise it still holds a high value. Supercarier seems to be a really complex module and older graphics cards have a problem. As someone wrote here, yes, I belong to the absolutely insignificant minority for ED who are affected by this and which probably does not deserve attention. That is, except for all my money, purchases, all the modules. I agree that DCS was fine two days ago and everything was running smoothly on my lineup and suddenly I could throw out my computer as unsatisfactory? I know it's a demanding module, but dropping fps by -50 is a mistake.