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I’ve ha his as well and I agree it’s really annoying. I’ve worked out that is it to do with steam being open, so my fix is to make sure I close steam before launching dcs. My process is 1. launch steam. 2. Open wmr for steam through the steam ui. 3. close steam (wmr for steam stays open) 4. Launch dcs from the desktop. hope this helps. The g2 is a great headset but the wmr user interface is way behind oculus imo. There are many ways to get stuck and it is just no where near as intuitive. Once you get your process and routine nailed though it all will work nicely, it’s just that find in that routine often causes a few headaches!

Absolutely you can! I am using a very similar system - 2060, although AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, and it runs beautifully with the G2. I had the rift s before and the difference was huge with the upgrade in terms of clarity and resolution. I run it typically at around 70% resolution with little trouble, even at low level. There is a lot you can do in your settings, especially with the Nvidia graphics settings and through the steam settings. With a little patience and a bit of fine tuning you will certainly be able to get a good experience through this setup. It is smooth and a wonderful experience. Make sure you keep your metashaders cache clear before start and play a bit with the graphics settings but it is very doable. You will be a bit limited on some of the more detailed maps (Syria and Channel) with lots of activity and multiplayer, but if you are single player you can adjust. With that being said I have flown plenty in Syria and it works fine with steady fps. I have actually ordered a 3080 back in october and still waiting, as I do a few other things too and knew i would want to crank it up sooner or later and prices were unlikely to ever come down. There have been many negative reviews of the G2 as well as positive ones. Im sure some people did get early versions with some faults, but I have had no problems with mine and love it. I would add though, it is not always entirely obvious about how to tune all the settings to get the best experience out of it, so dont be put off by the first attempts, stick woth it and slowly and methodically adjust and fine tune settings until it works for you. What works for one, doesnt always work for another. For me basically turning off everything in the Nvidia control panel made a big difference, setting resolution to 70%, and then experiment with settings through the steam vr app. Your setup should be good to go. Then later when time and finances allow you can consider upgrades to the GPU, but I would not say this is absolutely essential to get going. Just learn the limitations. You will love the G2 when you get it all working for you!

I felt i needed to post a bit of a counter balance after much of the negative views i have been reading on here. I have to admit it very nearly put me off continuing with the AV8B. However not one to give up as the harrier was always an aircraft that held a special place in my heart, although I never actually got to fly it. A few friends I went through training with flew it both Royal Navy and RAF versions. My career however was with rotors above me instead. I always admired the harrier though for its pure tenacity. It was an act of vandalism in design in its time, but also in that vein also pure genius. The ability to operate from a FARP, FOB and any makeshift forward position as well as smaller landing ships brought a versatility and flexibility to an expeditionary force that was quite invaluable. From conversations and experiences of those who I knew who did fly it, it was certainly my understanding that it was a somewhat complicated beast at times and in this sense it is well replicated in this dcs module. I think a lot of the negative press here comes partly from the fact that many of us are used to somewhat more intuitive systems on aircraft such as the A10 or F18, whereas the AV8 was always a little less user friendly in its implementation of its suite of systems. It can be frustrating however there are plenty of good resources and tutorials around that have made the process of learning to handle it less traumatic. I am now finding myself thoroughly enjoying the process and have to give credit to RAZBAM for also having the tenacity to tackle such a tempestuous aircraft. It is not an easy one, but well worth the time invested in getting to know it. I really believe now it is one of the best modules in DCS. Being able to ripple off 10 JDAMS in one pass seems frankly unfair, but it is really quite satisfying! I cant wait now until the Falklands campaign is ready. I am sure it will be an excellent one. To all those feeling frustrated with the AV8 - stick with it. The harrier doesnt always make sense at first, but that is the way it was and certainly not alone in the area of British design, but once it starts to make sense - it really makes sense.

I am using slightly lower spec than you, having recently upgraded specifically for VR, with Ryzen 7 3850, RTX2070. I became a convert to VR about a year ago and have been using Rift S. I honestly will never go back. VR is the only way for me for realism and immersion. You shouldnt have any problem in VR with your spec. I get a steady 40 fps on my rift s and it is smooth without any jumping. I like the Rift S and it is served me well, but I bought it knowing very little about VR. It has been a great road into the world of VR simming, but I would not buy it today. The main reasoning is just that the resolution is not quite there for what i want now. I still vastly prefer it to flat screen, and would recommend it on a budget, but eventually the limits in resolution in the rift are the constraint and not the performance. For that reason alone I am now saving my pennies and will purchase the Reverb G” as soon as it is released and I have seen some realistic reviews. Based on everything I have seen so far, this should really be a huge advance in the VR realm, finally putting good resolution together with good performance into VR. I really hope that fairly soon we see a good hand tracking or glove option that allows us to replace hand controllers for actions in the cockpit. The options right now are prohibitively expensive for me, although that being said the hand controllers work absolutely fine for this purpose for now. Either way - i can only recommend jumping into VR and once in I doubt you will go back. The improvements to VR are happening fast and getting better and better. Additionally more and more sims are taking VR seriously and we know ED are aiming to use multicore eventually for the platform. This will open all sorts of new potential. For now though with a Ryzen 9, if you just overclock a little, you have more than enough performance in your system to really enjoy the experience.

Are you using Open Beta?

ED really nailed it with this and there is absolutely nothing not to love with this module. So far I havent experienced any bugs in open beta either so I would not be surprised if this is fairly quick now to be released to stable. Whilst we are all impatient and want the newest greatest modules out of ED as quickly as possible, I think this new A10C is really more justification as to why its important for ED to wait with their releases until the module is ready to go. So many of the early release projects (ED and 3rd party) have been fraught with issues that lead to so much frustration and criticism and really muddy the waters for DCS, which is in all reality and amazing product. This just shows that with a little patience and perseverance, when they get it right, they REALLY get it right! In all my years of career flying - both military and civilian, I have not experienced a simulator with this level of detail and realism. Sure the sims we use are full motion level D with all the original parts, but when it comes to visuals and flexibility of realistic mission planning they dont compete. My military days are behind me now, but i have seen that my old units are using VR training very actively now. I cant help thinking I wish I had had something like DCS available when I was a baby pilot on the squadrons!

Just downloaded and tested the new A10C II. The A10C was certainly one of my favourite modules before and in my view the most complete in DCS. This new A10C II is just fantastic and worth the wait. Set up a few missions in Syria and Caucauses to fly around and test the systems and blow a few things up! The new head mounted sighting system is pure gold and works extremely well. To be able to use the head mounted display and sight to locate and mark targets, SPI’s and slave the tgp is a huge capability improvement. It really makes this machine live up to its well earned reputation as an awesome and feared tank killer. There is no other module in dcs that is as effective at targeting and weapons deployment as the A10. Sure others are faster, go higher, land on ships - but when it comes to just putting bombs and bullets on targets effectively i cant see how anything beats the A10. I could easily bin all my other modules now and just fly this. This module alone makes DCS worthy of the title of the best combat flight sim available.

It seems like the wise advice is to wait a bit - something I am not good at!. In this case I think I will heed the advice given here and see what AMD comes up with on 8 Oct. As of now from the testing and reviews I have read, it would appear for DCS Intel has the edge on fps with a slightly stronger single core over-clocking, however at normal clocked speeds perhaps there is not such a difference making it pretty much a tie. The other aspect I am becoming more aware of is heat management required to get that apparent over-clock advantage, and here perhaps AM wins out, as unless I go in for a large cooling device, the AMD will in most circumstances perform better and is easier to manage. If the new Zen 3 is able to match or even exceed the 10700k clock speeds single core and probably ships with a cooler at a lower price point than the Intel it might be an interesting choice, however right now its still a lot of speculation. Interestingly enough I put my DCS and PC through the DCS optimization last night as posted on YT by Lukas S with the shaders mod and all the rest. WOW....that made a huge difference immediately and was so much beyond what I thought I was able to squeeze out of DCS. Straight away I was able to take out the A10C, fly low over built up areas, with fairly high settings on my Rift S with no stuttering and a massively smoother experience than I have ever had before in DCS. So if nothing else this gives me a little more patience to wait and see what comes out on the CPU front and wait it out for the Reverb G2 as well.

I hear you there brother. Most of us are in that boat. I really appreciate the tips and advice here. I certainly have budgetary constraints but trying to think longer term too and that sometimes it's better to spend a bit more now and not have to buy again for a while. Often that's the cheapest way. I have to admit in this respect amd is more appealing too with a slightly more future proof product.

Awesome. Thanks. This is sounding more and more tempting, and my hours sitting on the train on the way home from work have found themselves being whittled away with reviews of AMD vs Intel! This is starting to make sense. The price to performance of the AMD is certainly very appealing too. AMD ryzen 3800x plus a decent b550 motherboard is most definitely a leading contender now after the latest barrage of research.

What would be a good example AMD combo MOBO and CPU to consider to come in at similar price/performance point as an i7 10700k and gigabyte auros Pro motherboard?

OK.. You guys have got me listening and curious about AMD. I have always used Intel but can't ignore the respect its getting here. Excuse following dumb questions regarding AMD! I assume except the CPU, which will need to be AMD (socket type??), everything else will connect OK to the AMD motherboard. So my ssd, HD, ram can just plug in and go?

Nahh.. Nothing against AMD, but I'm just getting to grips and understanding a bit more with Intel and gonna stick with that route for now.

So after about a year of fairly heavy dcs use, solely vr, I am convinced its vr or nothing for me. My current pc works ok, but with lousy fps at times, which is becoming less and less acceptable for me. So far the game is on ssd, 64gb RAM, rtx2080, and i7 2666ghz (iirc). I now want to get this thing running smoothly and future proof myself a bit with a good upgrade. As a side note I also do a bit of video editing for other projects. The plan now is motherboard and cpu upgrade. With later upgrade of vr to reverb g2. My mouse has been hovering over the buy now button on a gigabyte auros Pro ax mobo and an Intel i9 10900k cpu with cooler. The theory is that I will be able to reep rewards by pushing the overclocking well beyond where I am now. The point I'm pondering is whether or not I actually need an i9 with 10 cores when dcs basically only uses 1, and would an i7 with 8 do just as good a job while saving a bit of cash in the process? So please shoot down my idea and offer any advice or suggestions.

I own quite a few of the dcs modules now (F18, F16, AV8B, AJS37, Spitfire, Yak, Huey, SU27) and in my opinion the A10C is the best of them and the one I enjoy the most. For me, everything just works in this module, with very few if any bugs that i have experienced. The A10 is such a mission dedicated machine, built for a limited role and purpose and it does that extremely well. The simulation, in my view, is excellent and the systems all work as well as being highly accurate. Once you get to grips with the systems it is all highly intuitive and easy to use everything it was designed to do - that is to say CAS, ground attack. As others have mentioned previously, but its worth repeating, I cannot recommend enough doing some of the qualification campaigns. The tactical quals will force you to really learn the machine, through getting into the weeds of how everything works. This will require doing some missions multiple times, a lot of google and youtube searching followed by repetition. By the end of this you will be feeling very comfortable with operating it. Once you really understand the sensors, tgp and SOI function and weapons pages and profiles (sounds more complicated than it is), I would definitely recommend using a Thrustmaster Warthog set up and matching the controls. Then just fly, fly and fly and you will certainly be rewarded with what is in my view, the best simulated module in DCS.

Quick update - problem solved!!! Thanks again for all the useful suggestions. I am not exactly sure how i solved it, but i cleared all the control bindings and started again, and then it started to work.

Thanks for all the inputs guys. Yep uncaging before slewing. I have unchecked the box in the options for realistic slew, so therefore a tdc depress should not be required. My reference to the slewing of the flir is just for the mini-stick on the throttle. I will try tomorrow and clear everything and start again with the control setup. It appears to me that the slewing action is the issue and that the maverick seeker just does not recognise the slew function whereas the flr does. I am not sure it is a tdc depress issue as this should have been removed by unchecking it. Confusion continues!

Yep absolutely. I can slew the FLIR/TPOD no problem and the axis shows to be working normally in axis tune. Its only the mav that will not slew.

I am getting thoroughly frustrated with this now. Having read just about every thread there is on the net about this issue, im lost. No matter what I try I cannot get the TDC on my TM Warthog throttle to slew the IRMAV. Unchecking realistic slew in special settings does nothing. I have watched Wags video over and over again to see if i am missing something. This is what I have - - IRMAV selected. - AG mode, master ARMED - Sensor selected is left MFD - IRMAV display It will lock onto tatgets (of its own choosing), but if i wish to slew the seeker head with the slew (mini stick) on the throttle absolutely nothing happens. I have tried assigning other buttons to the TDC depress. Tried realistic checked and unchecked. Tried adjusting the and tuning the axis saturation, deadzones curves. Nothing. No difference. The damn thing is just stuck. Everything works absolutely perfectly on the A10C and AV8B, but the F18.........Yeah I am pretty pissed at forking out the 79 dollars for the module and not being able to get full functionality. Please someone tell me I am missing something obvious and that there is a genuine fix for this?

Thanks for the reply. I will try it again today and see if i can somehow re-create it. I suppose the sniper option is possible although I think i was at about 15,000ft at the time. In hindsight I should have checked a few more details such as the aircraft number, so I will make sure I do this in the future with any confusing issues.

This is the first time i have encountered something like this and i am baffled. Mission 1 over france and engaging with enemy fighters. No damage to my aircraft, no hits but manouevring. Suddenly i am out of the cockpit watching my aircaft as if i pressed F2 and AI is now flying. Nothing i could do to jump back in to the cockpit. No matter how many times i hit F1 or checked and rechecked the controls and configurations. In the end i had to just abandon the mission as there was nothing i could do further. Anyone else seen this? Is it some sort of weird bug where AI takes over and kicks me out or what?

Ok - so it seems this is A10C specific. I did a few teaks to my system - in Nividia panel i bumped up AA there and down in game, then loaded up the SU33 with all settings to max. Totally smooth and never dropped from 40fps in the rift s.

So i have been scratching my head and my keyboard for days now trying to solve this. I have been through just about every thread on here and tried pretty much every suggestion and still no luck. I am using dcs only in VR with the rift s. At any settings from low to high the stutter is exactly the same and the fps really low. Down to about 20fps when sitting on the runway then up to a max of 40 at altitude, but often dipping well below. Mt GPU and CPU are operating at very low percentages and i have 32gb RAM which does now seem to be overloaded at all. I know oculus uses ASW that should cap it at 40-45 and its not possible to turn this off, but 20 seems way too low. As a quick check i ran it today without the rift attached and at pretty much max settings and had no problem keeping 80-100fps and zero stuttering or any issues at all. Throw the rift on and there it is - 20 fps and stuttering away. What is going on with the VR where it seems like there is no obvious bottleneck? What am i missing in the oculus settings or PC settings that is causing this huge degradation in performance as soon as the VR is attached?

Hahaha..the beauty of simulation - it can do what the real version cant yet :lol:

jcomm - yes i have used many simulators - mostly full motion FTD level 4 simulators for work. These have included - Lynx, Super Puma, S92, S76, AW169, and very soon H145. I have been instructor on 92, 76 and 169, so spent most time in those sims - both in the instructor operating station and in the pilot seat as well as of course flying normal line flying ops and instructing in the real helicopters - mostly offshore and HEMS. I have not used any other non-professional simulator software though. I am very new to DCS and am using it with VR and i have to say i am blown away by the level of realism. It way exceeded my expectations and in some ways it is better than the professional simulators we use for work. Granted it does not have the motion and the full mock-up physical cockpit, but the resolution and fields of view the VR offers over traditional screens is not to be underestimated for helicopter training. I initially was investigating VR for training potential, but found all the fun stuff as a sideline distraction ;) As far as the flight characteristics and modelling go, I have to say they are pretty damn good. I think the main limitations are actually in the controls and how u set them up. I am using the thrustmaster warthog controls and they are pretty good. I have not flown the huey in real life but i expect it is pretty close in flight characteristics. I suspect some of the interlink actions are a little over sensitive in dcs, but again that could well be a result of the controls. I have not managed to really get to grips with a decent cyclic beep-trim set-up yet as this is something we basically fly with most of the time, constantly beeping. For low work and hover/take-off/landing you would usually have the force-trim release button on the cyclic pushed in for the large movements. I havent managed to get this to work on the dcs huey yet, so am flying around with the force trim release on the console switched off. That seems to work ok. This morning i did a few circuits, take-offs and landings to an oil rig - and yes it is pretty damned good and realistic and i had no problems flying a few patterns. The hover and take-off characteristics are certainly pretty close and felt comfortable enough for me to use. It seems to be about right in stability for and old SASless helicopter. Landing back on the rig is fairly straightforward too and as long as you fly a normal stabilzed type approach, it works as it should. I really was very impressed, and never though it would be that realistic. Overall i see huge potential in this for good training for helicopter pilots as an addition to the training we already do. It cannot yet really replace the level 4 FTD for licence checking, but as a cheap way to get some really good rehearsal and more mission related training i find it extremely interesting and very much look forward to exploring all the possibilities - of which I am convinced there are many. My normal day-job these days is flying HEMS in day/night/NVG/IFR environment and I can see a lot of use in VR sims for training scenarios for this. Already from what little i have seen, the modelling and characteristics is more than sufficient. I just wish now they could get some form of H145 variant in here :thumbup: