speed-of-heat

AFAIK DCS doesn't do Frame Generation in DLSS yet...

Making the Bad Less Bad One of the things that has worked really well for me is the use of XR NeckSafer to compensate for the reduced vertical FOV here are my settings if they help: I am using the smooth settings to just give me a little more rotation as I start to look in the vertical, the setting is unchanged from my G2 in the horizontal.

Thanks I will see if I can get it in the UK Ah they are closed for Christmas

What comfort kit is that?

This is what has been said publicly: https://www.uploadvr.com/windows-mixed-reality-headset-support-end-date/ So there you have it. After 1 November 2026, you'll no longer be able to download the Mixed Reality Portal app required to use Windows MR headsets, nor the SteamVR driver, so if you have the late 2024 Windows 11 update or newer you won't be able to set up the headset.

MT binary is still required but is now the default

I actually think the blur is considerably less... on my wing tip sidewinder test, the "agitation" of the seeker head is much less like an over active sex toy and more like a momentary flicker

TLDR – It is still worth it, I would recommend it, it is a significant upgrade for G2 owners with sufficient hardware to drive it. I would also not pay too much attention to the fact that I have written as much bad/ugly as I have "Good", the Good's more than make up for any inconveniences The Good A lot has been said about, the colours and clarity so I won’t refresh them here, except in summary, it is very very good, and the best of what you have read elsewhere is true. I will add that the new “dots" work perfectly. What I wasn’t expecting was the improvement in motion smoothing, and whilst these still have artefacts they are massively improved, I mean fractional with much smoother transitions between 90/45/30. When set to automatic, this is just the best of all world’s. What floored me though, was latency, either I have become a much better pilot (of course I am the best virtual fighter pilot who has ever sat in an arm chair) or the latency is just revolutionary, for example I always struggled with the tomcat holding it on speed in the pattern, my movements on the throttle always felt… “Jagged” not any more… This for me more than the edge to edge clarity(also I can read the warning lights on the tomcat) is a huge upgrade. I always thought the tracking in the G2 was OK, the tracking in the Aero is again a massive leap forwards, I have two tracking stations, though in practice I only needed one, on two poles and is spot on, no shaking or jerking. The native software is good, simple to use, the installation very straightforward, as is Varjo Foveated by mbucchiea, once you understand what’s going on (you need to read). XrNeckSafer still works and is in my opinion essential. I was pleasantly surprised by the included in ear headphones, with built in microphone, the are comfortable and work well, the sound quality is good enough for me. The Bad OK, the elephant in the room, vertical FOV… Sigh… I miss my vertical FOV, it does make a difference… But it’s more psychological than real. Whilst in a knife fight, you could maintain eye contact with a target in your peripheral vision at the top or glance down at the bottom to instruments in the G2, at best in G2 you would have gotten an ‘impression’ of something. Whereas with the Aero you can actually see, what is there, clearly, albeit in a smaller space. I am currently playing with XrNeckSafer to see if I can use some of the vertical options available to improve my experience. Reds, the native red colour experience is bad, it is like an extra third dimension, there is a fix for this available here, with a password of 5bXDBm4h4O, which you can load a batch file to fix or the GUI available here. Power Up, there is no power button for the headset, and if you leave it powered on when the software loads from boot, it forces you to power down the headset and restart it. I have installed 3 smart plugs connected to Alexa to switch on and off the headset and trackers. It’s different, lots of delta and unlearning from WMR and the G2, we can put this into the “toughen up buttercup” class and move on. The white square, the way the Aero works is there is a square in the middle has a higher pixel density than the periphery, this square moves with your eyes meaning where ever you look is perfectly clear, however in some lighting conditions (snow or cloud) this square is quite visible, my understanding is this is a DCS only problem. I have yet to find a fix for it. I had purchased my hardware optimised for single threaded performance, (12700k) to use the eye tracking features (Varjo Foveated) you need to make sure you have enough CPU headroom, I moved most of the Varjo Processes over to the efficiency cores which were largely unused keeping only varjo base and any process that was defaulting as High CPU priority on the performance cores. I am using performance lasso for this. Whilst the inbox headphones are fine, I do miss the convenience of my G2’s, but to be honest it is a truly minor issue. The Ugly For me the worst thing is the comfort, the G2 fit my head like a glove, this was luck of facial geometry, I was not so lucky here, and I was in a lot of discomfort in dogfights looking up and the left and right, this problem was “fixed” by replacing the native pad with a small 10mm foam pad for the G2, which also pushed my eyelashes back from my lenses (I use the inserts from vropticians as I need corrective lenses).

This!

again working fine here

working fine here ? SteamVR updated today, I don't have steam VR set as my default for OpenXR ...

All working fine here Make sure the Api layer is first in the stack, make sure it's launched before dcs starts

Check your PCI speed 3 works well. Auto or 4/5 not so much

Avoiding Core 0 is pretty good practice as windows tends to run a bunch of stuff on zero The scheduler should account for this … but multicore is hard

Yes indeed thanks for the help!

If you can get a x3d that would give you better overall performance…. Nothing is really future proof…

I have, the distortion is not as bad as it was in wmr, it's still their but at much lower level.

errant space in the copy many thanks

the share password has expired?

does anyone have an updated link or password for VarjoOpticalAdjustment.zip?

not a problem i am experiencing... i have the "red" problem... not quite sure how to fix it... agree the clarity is amazing!

1) I seem to be having some performance challenges with the Aero, i assume this is because i don't really understand what is going on. I have a number of test "scenarios" and I am wondering if either i have the Aero not dialled in yet or my expectation/understanding is wrong. I have installed Varjo Foveated, and adjusted my peripheral multiplier to 0.75, I am running DLSS quality and varjo foveated lo 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: XR_APILAYER_MBUCCHIA_varjo_foveated layer (v0.2.0) is active 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Using layer: XR_APILAYER_MBUCCHIA_varjo_foveated 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Requested extension: XR_KHR_D3D11_enable 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Requested extension: XR_KHR_visibility_mask 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Requested extension: XR_EXT_hand_tracking 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Requested extension: XR_HTCX_vive_tracker_interaction 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Requested extension: XR_VARJO_quad_views 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Requesting extension: XR_VARJO_foveated_rendering 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Application: DCS World 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Using OpenXR runtime: Varjo OpenXR Runtime 3.10.3 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Using OpenXR system: AERO 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: supportsFoveatedRendering = 1 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Trying to locate configuration file at 'C:\Users\dream\AppData\Local\Varjo-Foveated\settings.cfg'... 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Found option 'peripheral_multiplier=0.75' 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Found option 'focus_multiplier=1' 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Found option 'horizontal_focus_scale=1' 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Found option 'vertical_focus_scale=1' 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Found option 'turbo_mode=1' 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Found option 'no_eye_tracking=0' 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Peripheral resolution: 1644x1410 (multiplier: 0.750) 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Focus resolution 1200x1200 (multiplier: 1.000/1.000) 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Peripheral resolution: 1644x1410 (multiplier: 0.750) 2023-12-18 18:04:22 +0000: Focus resolution 1200x1200 (multiplier: 1.000/1.000) 2023-12-18 18:04:24 +0000: Creating swapchain with resolution: 1644x1412 2023-12-18 18:04:24 +0000: Creating swapchain with resolution: 1644x1412 2023-12-18 18:04:24 +0000: Creating swapchain with resolution: 1200x1200 2023-12-18 18:04:24 +0000: Creating swapchain with resolution: 1200x1200 2023-12-18 18:04:27 +0000: Application is using Quad Views for this session. seems to be OK, but i am getting much *worse* performance than when i was running my G2, i was expecting "similar" performance? 2) There is a terrible effect on reds which makes them look shifted some how ? can anyone offer me some advice ?

Then you are off topic.

Stop trolling

i dont mind them being in the checklist or the manual, providing they note them as inoperative ... i dont mind them being in the training if they are similarly noted ...