Hotdognz

I have tested out a heap of modules in VR with the free month still on and was happy with some of them until you try a mission with AI in them, I then get very bad VR performance, the FW190A airfield attack in Normandy was the worst at around 12 fps. At this stage I wont be buying any of the modules I don't have, the Super Carrier is my last purchase (already pre purchased) as the VR performance in DCS has slowly died a death over the last 6 months to a year with me having to drop my settings to a very low set just to get 40fps with ASW on, moving to a monitor setup is really not an option as VR is the only way to play this game I will stick with what I have now, suffer through 40-20 fps with those planes and start purchasing again, once VR performance comes back up. My specs are Rift-S, i7 6700k, OC to 4635Mhz, 1080p 32GB, i know its not the best but DCS has played well in VR on this rig up until 1 year ago, where nearly every update this last 12 months has killed VR for me.

Interesting Ill try that, as the plane is a blast to fly.

I love the i16, fly it heaps in IL2 Great Battles, but after testing it yesterday for free the only thing stopping me getting this is that I need a hold a button down for a very long time to raise that landing gear, I understand its realistic but holding a button for a while gets tedious very quickly for both raising and lowering the gear and I wouldn't bother flying it for that reason alone so it would be wasted money> I think they missed a great opportunity by allowing a option for gear assist much like the rudder assist option in the games menus, it such a lovely plane and model in DCS, the developers did a great job on it for sure.

I know this is a torpedo version of the JU88, but any one think it strange they didn't allow it to have bombs also as a payload, first AI Axis bomber and we cant make AF attack missions.

Im mean running the main DCS build not the beta build

This update has tanked my FPS in VR, my testing mission for VR is Instant action F16 on the Caucus map, yesterday I was getting 40 FPS with my Oculus rift ASW 1.3 PD, custom settings in DCS, this update its down to 20 FPS with the same settings. Even using the in game VR settings as default its still at 20 FPS on the runway, it does not get to 40 FPS untill in the air and away from the airfield and then it bounces between 20 and 40 with not much in between, also looking at the sun kills the FPS to 20, it never goes below 20 though. Another bad VR update, this last year nearly every DCS update has killed my VR FPS and I have to spend hours clawing every bit of frame rate back. im so glad the SC isnt out Id hate to think how much that will kill my game. Back to tweaking again or maybe its time to go stable.

Hi all I have searched the forums but cant find the answer, I'm placing BF109 and FW 190's on a airfield on the Normandy map as static objects to be attacked in my mission I'm working on, when testing it out, I come in guns blazing to attack them but they don't take seem to take any damage on the hits or go on fire, is there a setting I'm missing. Cheers

I did a repair that has fixed it, I think it was the VR shader mod I was using had caused it (trying to get extra FPS out of the sim). Cheers

Hi guys does anyone else have missing gun tracers in VR for the F16, I have searched the forum and come up with nothing. If I use the F16 out of VR the gun tracers are working. Cheers

Hi hoping someone can help me out here as I want to get my ButtKicker working in DCS, its working really as good in IL2 after buying some software from Andre's Shop. Currently I have the following purchased and installed Simshaker Wings SimShaker Wings Option for Bass Shakers What else do I need, I saw a program called SimShaker for Aviators which I have downloaded and installed but it does not allow me to tick the Sound option for( Buttkicker and Similar device) on the service tab, and wont allow me to pick a sound card. Any help would be great Cheers

I posted this on the wish list ages ago, its a pain in the butt the way it currently is for VR

Ignore this post worked it out.

If anyone from DCS monitors this thread I would like to make a suggestion for VR uses for using the comm menu/ground menu with the mouse Currently we have 2 types of cursors that can be seen in VR, the white dot and the blue cross, both are moved with the mouse if its enabled in VR is there any chance we can have a keybinding to toggle it to either one please Currently as it stands from what I can see and tell, if you are using the blue cross to toggle switches to then get it to go to the white dot so you can use the comms menu you need to wait and keep the mouse still and then it may change to the white dot, if this cursor was able to be toggled with a keybinding it would be so much easier to use in VR. If I'm wrong in my assumption of the way this works please correct. Cheers

Im getting the same issue, plus lots longer load times and also issues with the Persian gulf map not loading at all now and just sitting with a 3/4 quarter blue loading bar, also shutting down can be problematic. Edit: The Persian gulf map only hangs in any instant action mission I want to fly the F14 in.

Using the above command lands for a server how do you know if its started or not ??, mine just sits at the DCS World screen.

Just received mine, thanks very much, a 10 min install and were up and running. :)

Just found this and ordered straight away just now, looking forward to getting this in March sometime. Cheers

Ill check this again tonight in the new update, how do we progress this bug to confirmed if it happens still ??.

Playing in multiplayer 2 pilots in the same Yak, front pilot in control and turns on smoke, rear pilot see's it turn off, front pilot turns off smoke, rear pilot see's it turn on. Not sure if this is the same for the rear pilot if he has control as we did not test it, we could duplicate this bug every time we flew together.

Sorted a repair to DCS fixed it

Is there a problem with the cheat keys for starting the engine, mine don't work even if I remap them ??, I did a search but it didnt turn up anything. Cheers

I'm flying DCS in less of a resolution than the native res of my 32" wide screen, should I be at the native res of 2560x1080 to spot enemy's easier ??, or should we should fly DCS in 640x480 or 800x600 then to see ground targets easier ??, actually I may try that tonight. I have no trouble spotting ground targets in IL2 BOS @ 2560x1080 (my monitors native res), I think the way the sim scales out the ground target models in the 1-3 km range is an issue. All my testing has been done on the Gulf map and all targets we placed on desert sand, not much ground clutter out in the desert. I also discovered in some testing that only certain units disappear at around 1.2km's and then come back into view, so far its mainly some of the WW2 assets pack that does it.

Targets also disappear, especially ground targets at around 4-1 kms they can be in sight and if you zoom in will just vanish, at 2 kms all ground vehicles should be clearly visible to the naked eye but they just vanish. and then come back at around 1 kms. There are 4 targets by the smoke, all are tracked vehicles from the WW2 assets pack The pics shown what I can see at 9 kms (no vehicles in sight) What I can see zoomed in at 4 kms (4 vehicles in sight) Target viability pic at around 1 kms, the bottom vehicle is in sight (green circle) there are 3 more vehicles in the red circle that pop in to the picture as you get past the 1 kms mark these vehicles should clearly show up. now Clearly DCS has a viability problem, makes using ground attack roles really hard especially the close in disappearing vehicles in my pics.

Hi Nineline My name on Steam is [sCu]Hotdognz I have sent you a PM Cheers

Wow the latest patch has turned my VR DCS into a slideshow for me, prior to this patch it was fantastic, is there any way to get the frames back to what we had, whats the recommended settings for a Vive on a 1080 TI, also getting lots of lag drawing in the visuals when looking around on the Vive, this never used to happen.