Jarhead0331

^yes. I understand it’s a one man operation, but at what, $200+ an order and with hundreds if not thousands of orders, like, hire some help. I went into this with eyes wide open to the fact that it would be more than the 60 days that was indicated on my pre-order, but over a year? At some point, you have to make an effort to get these things out faster. I mean, I’ve been through two VR headsets since I placed my order.

So, I don't want to complain, but I'm going to complain...I've literally been waiting for over a year at this point. Don't you think that is just a little bit excessive? I'm following on discord and its getting pretty close, but it seems like the closer it gets, the slower it gets.

That one has me scratching my head too...

Probably because your system is not effected by the problem. 35-40 is decent. The problem I had was entirely tanked frame rate…like in the 10s and teens compared to in the 50s and 60s in other modules. It was a God damn slideshow.

Yes. Made no difference for me. Only thing that worked was textures from high to medium.

This is definitely the culprit. Now ED needs to figure out why high textures cause frame rates to crash only on this module and only on certain systems, but not others. As noted earlier in the thread, I also tried the Apache on my amd 5900x Radeon 6900xt rig and those textures are on high without the frame rate loss.

Surely you are not serious. A 3080ti? With 12gb of DDR6. LoL.

Based on what I'm seeing in fpsVR, it is definitely a GPU and not a CPU issue.

Son of a gun...this seems to have been the problem. Frames back into the mid-60s. Why the hell would that be?

I noticed in FPSVR that I am dropping a ton of frames...its in the red. I am not sure exactly what that means though...it just looks bad. Anything in red looks bad!

There are a lot of settings, which ones are most relevant? I wouldn’t think settings would be needed here and that hardware would be potentially more dispositive. The problem is ONLY with the AH-64D. All other aircraft on the same map and in the same set of circumstances perform as expected. Only the frames on the Apache tank. PD is 1.1. I’ve reduced it to 1.0 and that did not help. steamvr global res is 100% as is per app setting. textures and terrain on high shadows flat clouds and water standard msaa off or x2, no real difference AA off I only run with aircraft mods, which I’ve tried removing and openVR fsr, which I have also tried removing. No change. Anything else?

Does anybody have any idea why the problem would only be with the Apache and no other modules? It is not like a slight or understandable hit to performance...it totally kills it, bringing the frame rate down into the teens. It doesn't make any sense.

It is definitely a problem with this particular rig. I ran the Apache on my AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7GHz, 64 GB RAM, AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT system with a Pimax 8KX and was getting steady frames in the 50s and 60s. What the hell could be causing the problem on my i9/3080ti rig!?!

Forgot to mention...I also removed the IHADSS monocle...no difference whatsoever.

It remains a total mystery...I've deleted the fxo and metashader folders. I removed all aircraft mods. I reinstalled openvr_fsr and even removed it altogether. I tried loading on different maps under different conditions. The frames still take a giant crap. What else can possibly be the cause of this?

The Apache absolutely tanks my frame rate. I figured there would be a hit, but this is ridiculous. I average in the 50s and 60s and in the apache its mostly in the 10s and low 20s. WTH? It's not the patch either because I loaded up a mission in the Viper and I was back to 50s and 60s. Any suggestions? It will be unplayable if the FPS stay this low. My system is an i9-12900K, RTX3080Ti and 64GB Ram installed on an SSD. What gives?

Holy <profanity>, dude...that is totally epic!

ED needs to learn how to set expectations. You can't use words like "imminent" and "gold" and then act surprised when people get annoyed or confused over still having to wait several weeks. I'm a lawyer by profession. A very important part of my job is setting my clients' expectations on the outcome of their case. I'm very honest, but sometimes a little overly conservative in giving them my assessment of success, the value of the claim, the total cost in legal fees and the length of time the case might take to reach final disposition. This way, if my opinions are on target, they aren't surprised, but if the case gets resolved earlier, at less cost and with a better outcome, I look like a hero and they are very pleased. ED is a major part of their own problem here i think. in my view, they can be a little careless and inconsistent in how they communicate. Not being critical, but I think its why we have 50 page threads on topics like this.

Are we going to get any mini-updates this weekend, or is "imminent" just the new buzz word for "two weeks"?

I'm talking about the next open beta update. The Apache release is clearly holding that up, no?

I feel bad for the people who are not actually waiting for the Apache. Now this release seems to be delaying just about everything else too.

As if we're not all feverishly banging on the refresh button in that post...

Controlling the aircraft in flight. lol

It may have just fixed itself upon reloading DCS. The inversion settings seem to be working now. Strange. For what it is worth, even with a collective, I still totally suck at flying helicopters. <sigh>

I recently got the VPC plus base with the Hawk-60 grip and for some reason I cannot get the collective to invert properly. No matter what I seem to do, raising the collective lowers it in game and lowering it raises it in game. I've tried inverting it in the tuning settings. What am I missing? Thanks.