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This seems to be the culprit. I was running the PD at 1.5 (set inside DCS options) with CV1 and my 980ti. For whatever reason the Rift s and RTX Super can't handle it or perhaps there was a change in the way DCS handles it. Anyway, i turned it down to 1.0 and then set the SS to 1.8 in the Oculus Tray Tool and that seems to have smoothed it out quite a bit. Again, not sure why I was able to run higher graphical settings with CV1, 980 ti and an ancient cpu. Perhaps the game was just better optimized for that hardware. Then again, DCS seems to be a bit of a roller coaster when it comes to optimization every time they roll out a new update. But at least it's playable. Still, If anyone out there has a similar rig, I would like to see a screenshot of your graphic settings. I'm trying to squeeze the most quality out of this thing while still maintaining serviceable frame rates. Thanks again for the help guys. Great community here.

So I was using the Rift CV1 no problems. I had nearly all the graphics set to high or medium with MSAA set to 2 and SSAA set to 1.5 and was getting very serviceable frame rates. So I decided to upgrade to the Rift s for a little better resolution. BIG MISTAKE. Micro stutter was immediately apparent, even if I lowered the settings. At the time my rig= AsRock Z68 Mobo intel 3770k Nvidia 980 ti 32 gb 3200 mhz ddr3 memory So my initial thoughts were my cpu and graphics card are dated and simply can't handle the higher resolution of the Oculus S. So I upgraded to: Asus Z490 Tuf mobo intel 10600k RTX 2080 super 32 gb 3200 mhz ddr4 memory The upgrade had ZERO affect on performance. In fact, it had the opposite affect. The micro-stuttering is so bad the game is pretty much unplayable. I tried following then usual VR tips and even Thuds VR4DCS guide and found no joy. I'm hoping that someone out there with a similar setup might be able to share a good configuration with me that may help. Honestly, any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm at my wit's end.

Once you go VR, you will never go back. It's an incredible experience that suits DCS World perfectly. My recommendation would be the Oculus Rift-S. It's a reliable headset that sits in that sweet spot between price point and quality. You don't need a super computer but I would recommend at least a 1080Ti, 2060 RTX (or the Radeon equivalent)along with a decent processor. I'm actually running an old cpu- intel i7 3770k. But, I have a 2080 RTX Super Graphics card and VR is smooth as butter for me even on the high settings. Just don't crank up the MSAA lol

I have done a lot of research on this and it looks like the Oculus S is the safest overall choice atm for DCS. The latest Vive is getting horrible reviews. The index price point is ridiculously high for the minimal gains over the Oculus S and there is some reported quality control issues. The HP Reverb is a contender but the controls are terrible and there are some major QC issues there as well. The Quest is an option but you are going to pay a lot more coupled with the $80.00 USB-C cable (there are cheaper cables but the oculus version is by far the best option) and take a slight resolution/ performance hit compared to the S. Unfortunately, the Oculus S is sold out everywhere and with this coronavirus debacle affecting production, I don't expect we will see stock replenished anytime soon.

That did the trick. Many thanks!

I tried saying "request rearming" and again i get no response from the ground crew. I looked at the voice attack window and it's picking up my phrase precisely but it says unrecognized. "Request refueling" does work however. Any idea what i need to do to get the request rearming going? Plus, if you look at the command phrase list (screenshot attached), it looks like it's messed up. It won't let me change or delete it. I'm pretty sure this is part of the problem.

Rearm & Refuel Can't seem to get this command to work with the ground crew. I have done the voice training and I'm getting 95% or better on recognition. I have tried "request rearm and refuel" " request refuel and rearm" and even just "rearm" and "refuel" independently and I get no response from the ground crew. In fact, the ONLY command I can seem to get them to respond to is for the wheel chocks. Am I saying the wrong phrase or is it just broken?

Can't seem to figure this out. I have them set to intercept. I created a trigger zone and rules. I also have them set to attack my group in the waypoint editor and the trigger rules. They activate fine but they just fly right past us and don't attack. What am I doing wrong here?? Sorry guys, I figured it out. My mistake. Test Area.miz

Once again the awesome DCS community rises to the occasion. That fixed my problem perfectly. Thank you Thank you!

I know there was recently a thread on this, but I tried all the suggestions and the MAV bar just keeps searching. I checked the TDC depress button and it is assigned properly to my Hotas. Trigger boxed, laser appears to be firing, all systems armed, just no lock. I'm sure it's something simple. Track uploaded. hopefully you guys will see what I'm missing. Mav laser lock issue.trk

That was exactly the problem. For whatever reason the dial on my throttle that controls the elevator is super sensitive. If i bump it the elevation goes either all the way up or down. i put a dead zone in the middle and that appears to help it stay centered. Unless you guys have a better suggestion?

I think it’s something I’m missing in the mission editor. But I will confirm that by selecting a cold start, pre generated mission. As for the zero line (forgive my ignorance), where would I look to see the change?

Hey guys, I put together a mission in the editor and enemy planes will not appear on my attack radar at all. I have it set at 4 bar, 8 memory and 80 degrees. I'm flying against 3 Mig 21's with pilot abilities set to good. I'm using AWACS to put them at my nose and I'm not picking up anything. Range and altitude seems to have no bearing. I'm matching the BRA intel with my alt and range on the radar and I get nothing. This is after 10 straight attempts on this mission so I don't think it's just a matter of them evading my radar. I should also mention that I haven't experienced this issue in the pre-generated missions that came with the game. Any suggestions?

Thanks for all the feedback guys. I'm going to go back and make sure my speed is under 200 knts before I go full flaps and work the trim as suggested. I'm a life long gamer and I must say this is by far the best gaming community out there. Someone always willing to lend a hand and offer up some good friendly advice. Really makes the game that much more enjoyable. Once i get a bit more experience under my belt on single player, I'm hoping to get recruited by a good squadron on here and get some good multiplayer flight time logged. Thanks again!

So I purchased the Hornet and I'm really enjoying it but I'm having a lot of difficulty pulling off a realistic landing. I flew the F-15c previously so I was accustomed to coming in with flaps on auto and at first, that's exactly what I did with the Hornet. I really didn't have much of a problem. That said, I'm trying to do this thing legit and everything I've seen says you go full flaps for landing in the F-18. This is where it all goes south. I have my speed and altitude right where it needs to be but as soon as I go full flaps, I get crazy lift and I'm literally having to push the stick all the way forward just to get this thing to the deck and it's wonky as hell. Am I missing something here? Surely this can't be right?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You guys aren't gonna believe how I fixed this. I actually stumbled on this by accident. I installed the Updater utility mod today so i could switch between VR and non VR, I had the non VR version set to max settings with a resolution of 2560 x 1440P. Somehow, the non VR settings loaded up on the VR version and BOOM!- nearly flawless. I turned down the MSAA down to 2x and set the SSAA to 1.5 and now it's smooth as butter. I'm assuming it must be something with the resolution. So if anyone else is having this issue, set your resolution to 2560 x 1440P (even in VR) and that may make the difference. i know it did for me!:pilotfly:

I hear ya on the dated CPU but it still doesn't explain why I was getting better performance with the 980ti.

Yes on the DDU and yes I have the latest drivers. 1200 watt eVGA power supply

Hey guys, recently upgraded from a 980ti to an RTX 2080 Super and to my dismay, the game runs absolutely horrible with this new card. One minute everything is fine, the next minute, my frames are down in the low 20's (single player). I don't know if it's the card optimization or the recent update. I didn't experience these issues with my 980 ti but then again, I had to update the game after I installed my new card because I had not played in about a month or so. Doesn't seem to matter if I run high or low settings, i get similar results. Turning MSAA and Anisotropic filtering completely off, and setting all other values to their lowest settings does help but I still get some frame stutter and the game is just about unplayable in VR with those settings. I have also tried turning off asynchronous spacewarp and that has zero affect. So is anyone else experiencing these issues with this card? if not, what settings are you using for VR? Any other advice would be greatly appreciated. intel 3700k @4.7 Ghz, Evga RTX 2080 Super, 32gb DDR3 Memory, Samsun SSD

Where did you find and change the privacy settings? In windows or the oculus? I'm having a similar issue

Really enjoying Vaicom Pro now that I have it figured out for the most part. The one thing I'm having trouble with is the "special" commands from the F10 menu. Specifically, I'm doing mission 2 in bear trap in which you have to direct the F-16's to attack the target. I have the option selected to import F-10 menus. I have gone through the speech recognition setup and imported to voiceattack. I confirmed the command is there in both Vaicom and the voice attack profile. In fact, the Vaicom "test" button confirmed that the verbal command is in voice attack and ready for use. The command is listed as "Action Colt 1-1 (SEAD) push" I have tried every possible way I can think of pronouncing this and I'm not getting any type of response at all. What am I doing wrong??

Thank you for the reply. i'll give that a try. Something is definitely resetting my progress though. I'll just back up every time i reach a new mission in the campaign I guess.

I'm not sure I will ever complete a campaign. Every few days or so (I'm assuming every time the game updates) it seems to knock me back to the beginning of my campaign. How do I fix this??? I'm running DCS 2.5.4. This is becoming exhausting.

Thanks. I’ll take a peek at the manual commands. I already installed the extension for chatter and it just doesn’t seem to be working. I really feel like something is wrong here because everyone is raving about this product and at this point I can’t see why. I’m having to repeat commands 3 to 5 times in most cases and many times the when I do get a response, it’s the wrong one. Im trying simple commands that should be easily recognizable and I’m getting a 50% correct response at best. The commands I’m using are as follows: Awacs: Request bogey dope (worked maybe twice) AWACS: Request vector to bandit (works about 1/10 attempts but usually cues wrong response- flight attack bandits) AWACS: request vector to bullseye (works maybe 3/5 attempts) 2: radio check (doesn’t work) 2: rejoin formation (3/5 times) 2: cover me (3/5 times) 2: pincer low (always pincers left no matter how clearly I say it) I’m using the Oculus and as I’ve said I have run the windows speech recognition over 4 times now. Is there anything else i can do to improve voice recognition?

SOOOO Frustrating! I just can't seem to get this working. I purchased the pro with chatter and the only thing I can get this thing to recognize consistently is "ATC request engine start up". This is after doing 4 rounds of the Windows speech trainer and yes I'm pausing after PTT and articulating the words clearly. Chatter doesn't seem to be working at all, I don't hear anything outside of the norm which makes me wonder if the vaicom plugin is even working at all. pressing the "0" key has no effect. Also, i noticed with the free version I would say something like "ATC", pause and hear a little beep and then proceed with my command. Now I get nothing. I tried resetting everything in Vaicom control panel and that didn't help either. This is what I get in the window on startup: 5:55:37 PM - Plugin 'VAICOM PRO 2.5' initialized. 5:55:37 PM - Ready for commands. 5:55:37 PM - Startup finished. 5:55:37 PM - The keywords database was updated: apply FINISH steps to update the VA profile. 5:55:37 PM - Alias absent from profile: Jiroft for Jiroft Airport 5:55:37 PM - Alias absent from profile: Al Ain Airport for Al Ain International Airport 5:55:37 PM - No new DCS modules to import. 5:55:37 PM - Success. 5:55:37 PM - Building master labels table... 5:55:37 PM - Success. 5:55:37 PM - Building master keywords table... 5:55:37 PM - Adding 0 imported menu commands. 5:55:37 PM - Adding 0 imported ATC aliases. 5:55:37 PM - Success. 5:55:37 PM - Loading F10 menu items... 5:55:37 PM - Success. 5:55:37 PM - Loading keywords database... 5:55:37 PM - Success. 5:55:37 PM - Updating keywords database... 5:55:37 PM - Checking VA profile. 5:55:37 PM - DCS World version 2.5 OpenBeta not found. 5:55:37 PM - 4/5 DCS-side files were updated. 5:55:37 PM - Reset: TabSheetBar.lua 5:55:37 PM - Reset: speech.lua 5:55:37 PM - Reset: RadioCommandDialogsPanel.lua 5:55:37 PM - Reset: VAICOMPRO.export.lua 5:55:37 PM - Unchanged: Export.lua 5:55:37 PM - Saved Games folder = C:\Users\Zeus\Saved Games\DCS 5:55:37 PM - DCS World installation path = C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World 5:55:37 PM - Using Registry entry for 2.5 5:55:37 PM - DCS World installation found: version 2.5 5:55:37 PM - Executing automatic lua code installation. 5:55:37 PM - License: PRO 5:55:37 PM - Plugin version 2.5.8.4 (release) 5:55:37 PM - Initializing.. 5:55:37 PM - Press LCtrl+LAlt+C for config. 5:55:37 PM - VAICOM PRO for DCS World. License: PRO 5:55:36 PM - Plugin support enabled.