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Even on my rig I mostly see 45fps with the occasional bump to 60-90 and sometimes less than 45. 30-45fps at 60% GPU utilization I might add. When I'm at 90fps the GPU is in the 90+% utilization range as well where it should be all the time. The sim just doesn't use hardware resources randomly for some reason. My GPU is always heavily used in non-VR mode when I fly in surround or 3D surround so the issue is solely with VR. I have made numerous posts about this issue but they always get lost in the static and nobody ever responds.

I would just be happy if the sim would actually use all of the GPU! I get 35fps in some spots and the GPU is at 60% utilization. When I'm at 90fps my GPU is at 99% so it's just random spots where the sim just poops out and won't use the GPU. I wouldn't think it was CPU lag with a 6700K at 4.6. The sim just refuses to use resources.

Still getting 60% gpu useage and 30fps in many areas in 1.5 beta in VR. There's plenty of gpu power left to throw at this sim but it won't take it.

Haven't been following much lately, has the low GPU utilization issue been acknowledged and being worked on in VR yet? I just updated to the latest builds and am seeing 50-80% GPU utilization with 45fps. Am getting dips into the 30's randomly and seeing 60% GPU utilization when that happens. At various other times am getting 70-90fps and am seeing 99% GPU utilization when that happens so when the sim does use all of the GPU the fps are excellent but there's no rhyme or reason as to when it will use it. There's plenty of GPU power to spare in my 980ti but the sim just isn't using it. What's the deal with this?

We are still waiting on accurate engine modeling and an accurate start process years later with no word in sight. I find it doubtful that any of these fixes will come. Any further Huey development is DOA in my opinion.

Anyone else getting video card underclocking with latest 2.0 alpha? Beta works fine but the alpha makes my 1080 run at 1750mhz instead of 2000mhz. Seems like a big bug but not sure it's me or everyone else? I just updated lastnight after a few weeks so this might be a documented bug by now? Also every time I hover near a switch an annoying gray box pops up with the name of that switch. Hoping that can be turned off.

This. Got a crash lastnight after about 10 minutes of play on 2.0. Never crashed a single time before on me until installing the update.

They do assuming you aren't running antivirus. My mcafee prevents any oculus software from updating. Can't install games, updates, firmware, nothing unless mcafee is disabled first. Adding an exclusion for the oculus folder does nothing either. It's a huge problem that they have still yet to fix.

Sounds like PSU or unstable overclock. You didn't give much info though so...

Haven't tried updating myself. Every release lately gets worse as far as performance and bugs so I stopped updating about a month ago once I got the one build that integrated the new VR features into 1.5 into something where most things were working again. They add new features and break 3 or 4 other things that were working well before. :/

Thanks guys! I'll check that out next time I'm in DCS.

I didn't even know that zoom was enabled now for VR. How does one setup zoom in VR now?

DCS is cpu limited. It's topped out at a 980ti for now. My 1080 gives me zero performance increase in DCS VR over my 980ti even with 1.5-2.0 PD set. The sim just won't use the extra gpu power.

Is this going to be fixed soon? It's pretty bad now.

Thank you Neil :)

I force closed OH earlier since it doesn't allow you to deny the firmware updates. I was going to wait to see if it broke anything with DCS before I updated. I assume all is well with it?

I was hoping that their notorious tech support issues would go away after they caught up with demand. Please let us know how long it takes and when they come through for you. Good luck.

Ah, I guess it's beyond time to RMA your video card at this point. Glad it works for you.

I wouldn't use the adapter for the rift. Use the adapter for your monitor and use the native hdmi port on the video card for the rift.

Anyone else having issues with the latest nvidia driver not boosting with DCS? I tried in 1.5 and 2.0 and the 368.69 driver is stuck at default non-boost speeds with my 1080 in DCS. From what I can tell so far it seems to be isolated to just DCS. I rolled back to .39 and all is well again.

I complained of this issue last week after 1.5.4 but you described it much more succinctly. Thanks.

Did the wonky VR tracking view that made it seem like everything was at an angle get fixed with this latest patch?

How do you turn off just tree and ground shadows? They look horrible anyway and are all flickery and blocky and not realistic anyway. If they save fps then that's even better. The cockpit shadows for me are a must though. I don't recall seeing an option to just turn off ground and tree shadows.

Thanks Neil, I'll try that. Is the new FM only in the L version because I didn't notice any changes in flight behavior a few days ago when I last flew the gazelle I already had placed in one of my missions.

How do you get the new update? I am running the latest 1.5.4 beta and don't see any new models?