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What’s your PC specs? TrackIR will only be smooth when the frames are locked to 120fps or 60fps. Since it’s pretty much impossible for any PC to maintain 120fps it’s best to lock the frames to 60. I have a pretty good monitor and i run it at 144hz but locked to 60fps and the TrackIR experience is perfect as my PC will run it at 60fps all day long.

If you disable ASW you might find the frame rates are still good but it’ll stutter. Certainly happens in my case. The only way to get it to run smooth was with ASW on (well, on auto) and it flicked between 40 & 80 FPS. When it ran at 40 with ASW it induced horrible artifacts and ghosting....however, and here’s the weird thing, when it flicked up to 80 FPS it then switched ASW off and it was perfect, although when I tried disabling ASW completely (ie not run it on auto) the frames were great but it stuttered like crazy. It annoyed me so much that I’m back to TrackIR. If you have any better results then I’ll be interested to hear. *I tried every method too, OTT, without OTT etc etc.* I also found it worse in the Viper because of its glass canopy. For example, when it was running ASW @ 40fps and you looked ahead and manoeuvred hard in say a dogfight, the horizon flickered and it bugged the living shit out of me. Wasn’t so bad in the Hornet because of the canopy bar that blocked a lot of it. Basically ASW is good, does what it says, but has some horrible side effects that I couldn’t live with. If anyone can tell me a way to run the Rift S @ 40fps without ASW on and still smooth then I’m all ears! In the meantime I’m enjoying DCS on my monitor and TrackIR and to be honest, it looks stunning now after all the updates. But.....I’m missing the immersion!

To disable ASW you can use CTRL + Num 1 - I think anyway. Certainly CTRL + Num 1 to 4 changes the ASW settings.

Certainly can for 2D as I limit mine to 60fps to make TrackIR smooth, but I’m not sure it works like that for VR...I’ve never tried it.

Yeah tried it with it off, forced, adaptive, you name it but it’s only smooth with ASW on auto. My mate with the 2080Ti’s is the same. If he switches ASW off the frames jump about and it’s juddery as hell. Like mine.... To be fair I’ve read a lot of posts from people who have good results without ASW but also a lot who can’t run without it . Very odd. If there was a way of locking the frames to say 60 for example, without ASW, then that’d be bang on. I’ve tried everything mate...

Performance was never an issue with mine. It ran at 40 FPS all day long and even 80 FPS a lot of the time. My friend has a rig running a 2080Ti, 32gb RAM and a CPU running nearly 5ghz and he doesn’t get any better performance than me. It’s the ASW artifacts and the general degradation of the graphics that I couldn’t live with. You certainly don’t need 32gb RAM and a 2080Ti to make VR in DCS absolutely amazing. It doesn’t matter what hardware you throw at it, you cannot run any VR headset without motion reprojection and with that comes a lot of artifacts, ghosting etc, that broke the immersion for me.

Exactly the same here mate. I’ve just gone back to TrackIR after 6 months of the Rift S. The initial wow was exactly that, wow. But, once I was used to it I started focusing on the degraded graphics, the ASW with the ghosting effect etc and I found I wasn’t enjoying the sim. Don’t get me wrong, TrackIR is a step back and I do miss the VR immersion but the sim now looks absolutely awesome on my monitor and I’m now used to TrackIR again. I nearly pulled the trigger on a Reverb but I still think, even with the increased clarity, that I’ll be in the same boat with that after a week or so...

I've just done exactly that and mothballed the Rift S and setup my TrackIR again. I'll go back to VR at some point but for now I'm happy with TrackIR.

I’d pay too. A subscription or a one off payment, I wouldn’t mind at all. :thumbup:

NTTR is ultra smooth for me too. A lot smoother than both Caucasus & PG. I’m spending more and more time on Nevada now due to how well it runs.

Does anyone know if this issue has been fixed yet?

Yeah I can confirm after testing this yesterday that it does technically work, but definitely has no performance impact whatsoever.

How do you set DCS to high priority? Process Lasso?

So after reinstalling DCS completely, Oculus and my BIOS updated it seems to have sorted it! Now on 2.5.6 and everything seems spot on....fingers crossed. Cheers for everyones help....:thumbup:

I didn’t unplug it to be fair. I’ll do that tonight and clean all the contacts, USB ports etc. I can borrow my mates Rift for a bit as he’s not using it so it’ll be interesting to see if it’s ok with that. Bloody nightmare this, I’m usually pretty good at problem solving on flight sims with stutters etc but this ones got me stumped!

Really strange one this isn’t it! I’ll get to the bottom of it. I’m dying to get the SC but I’m reluctant at the minute with this issue. Cheers for the help mate...:thumbup:

Tried this tonight and checked the connection to the Rift. All seems secure and pressed in fully. Kind of hoping I’d find it half hanging out but no such luck!

Interesting to hear that you’re having a similar issue. Only thing is I’ve got no other sims or games on my PC to try it on. It certainly sounds like an Oculus issue which is why I’m hesitant to delete DCS & Windows. Although I now have two quick test missions on NTTR setup, in the Viper, and the stutter happens in one but doesn’t in the another! Christ alive this is doing my head in!

Not sure on that one mate but I’ll give it a try. It does almost seem like a connection issue type of problem. Definitely not a usual stutter issue that we all get from time to time.

Yeah tried the Rift software but no joy. Even tried another Rift on it and it was fine after that, but then back to stuttering a couple of flights later. I can only think that due to updating the beta once or twice and reverting back to 2.5.5 a couple of times etc that it’s corrupted something. DCS repair has no effect either.

Really weird isn’t it. Tried running without the Ethernet plugged in too, made no difference. It’s going to have to be a reinstall. Firstly DCS and then complete Windows reinstall if it doesn’t fix it.

Well that was short lived, 2 flights and all was fine. Closed the PC down for a bit, back on a min ago, same mission, complete stutter fest. FFS.

Right, this is going to sound ridiculous but...……… Say my hand controller batteries were low, could this cause issues in the Rift? I had problems with the Rift connecting too but I've just changed the batteries in the hand controllers and it seems to be fine now. Connects fine and more importantly it appears there's no horrible lags and stutters....:huh:

I'll double check again tonight. Maybe worth one of the technical guys to look at a DCS log after it's been playing up? BigNewy? Help please before my PC takes a trip out the window! :helpsmilie:

I'm pretty sure I've got this already set. It definitely says this in my log. Unless I've not done this correctly? "Device hotplug disabled!". Do you have to do this after any updates or roll back of Beta etc or does it stay all the time? I must admit it certainly seems like I'm having this issue but unless I've not installed it correctly then it doesn't work for the issue I'm having.