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I have seen the same issue after the last patch with the G2. Before it was fine and could run at 45fps a lot of the time. Clouds at high or standard whack FPS and Frame times. I see mostly orange in the graph. So I am forced to run no clouds or very light clouds. I also lowered PD to .9 and kept resolution of G2 at 100% with my old settings. Doing this I can actually run MSAA at 2x in F18 PG CASE 1 and get a smooth 45fps 90% of the time. I also disabled motion smoothing in steam. Having it on was causing hitching or micro stutters I think. This last update really did a number on performance. I also made sure to rename saved game folder to start fresh to see if it was an issue there and nothing improved. I made sure that HT was disabled and then I also disabled C-states. I already hade Intel Turbo boost disabled and speed stepping off. C-state off did not make a positive or negative change but can't be sure yet.

Are you also changing CPU priority to High in task manager for DCS or steamvr?

Thinking of going to the 8kx from G2 but is there a new version set to come out? I looked on the site but I was watching a review and the guy said there was a new version coming soon. My system may be too weak to run it at 90hz I assume and may not work at all given the 90hz requires 30 series cards. My concern is running 60hz and getting strobing like I see in the G2 at 60hz. I would buy a 3090 if I could find one.

While I normally do not touch Syria since it has always been a problem for me in VR I am seeing issues with FPS now but mostly in the F16 and F14 and J17. Before the patch I could run the same instant missions and get 40+ most of the time. Now for the J17 AAR instant mission it is always below 30 with no settings changes. Also clearing FXO never does anything so I wish people would stop with that. It is just like the old steam suggestion people give to verify files. Never fixes a damn thing. I did notice that changing the cloud quality seems to make a much bigger impact to FPS now for me. I used to run it on Ultra and now have to lower it to standard or low which looks terrible. In any plane if I go into a mission with heavy cloud layers my FPS is in the toilet getting near them. Goes to a slideshow.

This is why I am not going to be an early adopter anymore...

I just went in and tested and with my settings above in MP everything is working. I did notice that when I hit my PTT buttons on my stick to tune to an airfield or tanker that I got the reload and finish buttons to light up a couple of times now so there were about 80 missing commands. I am not getting the error anymore unless I just started a new mission or instant action and tried to make a call right away. THen it will give the currently disabled error then I call again and it all works. Everything in SP works fine as well. My MP settings are not an issue since I can use PTT and it does not trigger VOIP in game or SRS because I use different buttons. After i got the new keywords to load in game it seems to be working fine overall. I may try to roll back to previous version still.

That is really odd. I assume you have done all the normal stuff like resetting everything in vaicom for lua and settings and deleting the export lua? Maybe try my settings in my post to see if it works for the MP tab and the other tabs I posted? See if it works for you at all. It does not work perfectly still but I dont have to pause it first. I am using parallel not TX mode. I am also using different buttons to trigger SRS on my throttle and my PTT for vaicom is two buttons on my stick.

So is it ever working for you? I get the errors but hit and miss. It will give error then say command again and the action executes fine.

Ya I play MP mostly as well but I do use it for a few other things. I think you may just need to reset lua, settings and keywords. Mine is mostly working but I still get that "disabled in this session" message here and there though. Still have not figured out why recognition got worse though. Check my post I made today where I posted up my settings and try them if they are different than yours. If you have no run the Test in the editor tab while in game to see if it finds missing commands for each map.

Awesome that worked for you. Ya I was using vaicom a little bit ago in game and I can get the commands to work but it can often take a couple of tries with PTT and I notice that I have to speak much more deliberate than before. Vaicom is acting different than before these two updates for sure. Not sure if it has to do with the voiceattack update causing issues. Maybe there is a way to roll back voiceattack to previous version? I have not checked that yet. I reset lua, and keywords earlier then I had issues with the auto import theater I think. I had to load into Syria and run the Test function in vaicom to find the missing commands since when I would say the airfield for Incirlik I would hear the confirmation beep then say select and it would tune the proper freq but when I called inbound it was a caucasus airfield. I had to do the test function on PG map as well. Seems voice rec is messed up after the update with vaicom. If I use commands just for Baileys F18 profile in voiceattack though everything reacts just fine. Also with the profile I made for other commands like re-centering VR view and bringing up FPS counter.

Sounds like you are running more than one monitor and it is opening outside the desktop view. You should be able to see it if you hit Alt Tab. If so then try disconnecting you other monitors then opening vaicom again. That happens to me sometimes and that is the only way I get it back. There is a way in windows to get it back without disconnecting the monitors but it never works for me. Also check your displays by doing right click on the desktop the screen resolution to view your res and which monitor is the main one. See if they are out of alignment. I run VR and before I disabled the virtual monitors all three monitors would be out of alignment. One would be higher than the other etc.

Ya I noticed the F18's radar wasn't working very well...then I remembered I had to turn it on. All good now.

Ultra does give FPS hit that is bad enough to not use it so then the High setting gives back some smoothness to the FPS but I see shimmer in distant clouds regardless of cloud setting in my G2.

Yes they should have the Launch bar, Hook bypass, fuel dump and APU switch to default to a 2 position switch in the lua without having to modify it after every update. This has been asked for many times before and ignored for some reason. If we can modify it to be 2 position then they can do it by default without any issues I would think. This goes for other aircraft as well. I think there are a few int eh tomcat that need this by default but cant remember which ones.

Flyable tanker would be the Shizz! I am all for it.

I never really took notice of the F-111 since back in 86 when I saw Top Gun I was smitten with the Tomcat. I never understood what the F-111 was capable of or the role they played. After spending the last week learning about it and listening to the pilots who flew them and the stories they have, I have to say it was a pretty badass plane. I could not imagine flying at 900kts so close to the ground. Jeff Guinns story of flying past an EA-6 and the shock wave rolled it over going past it around 900kts is pretty amazing. The F-111's always had to take off last to not get on target too early before everyone else. Most of the time they were going twice as fast as any other fighter. The F-111 F was a monster. That said I am a fan of the A-6 as well. It would be a great plane to have in game. But if the F-111 F was modeled properly with the TFR and multicrew, I would likely convert to flying it all the time since it would be a really fun mission always being on the deck going like stink.

Yes it is the same in the G1 and G2. There is far too much glow or light bloom in VR. The ball gets lost between the datums at greater than a quarter mile away. Same goes for aircraft lights. Been this way for a long time. It has been brought up many many time and nothing has been done about it. Honestly VR is an afterthought for ED and just about every other game dev due to so few people using it still. I am sure it is not easy to calibrate lights for both pancake and 3D so they look equally correct. The other issue is not seeing tanker lights until within half a mile at night. Makes joining up a major pain unless you turn gamma up to max which is not realistic at all.

Not sure if these videos have been posted before but if you are an A6 nerd, Periscope has some great videos.

Yup just had this happen is the Hoggit Georgia at war server. I drove around on the deck for about 10 minutes before cat 4 finally let met on it

I have not been seeing the black box as much but still happens with that update unfortunately. I was flying last night with others in my group and a couple said they see this issue as well with Reverb G2 and Rift

Ya I am sick of dancing clouds messing with my eyes.

It is not just you or the AMD chip. I have seen my frametimes spike up to about 20+ a lot of the time in MP with a lot of red and orange spikes. Before 2.7 It was normally solid green and frametimes stayed below 20 but now they go above 20 a lot. I have tried a lot of tweaks. Reduced in game settings and also turned off dynamictickrate in windows and disabled HPET HAGS etc. Nothing helps. My system is a 9900KS at 5.1ghz 2080ti FTW3 32gb ram and I allocated paging file size of 32gb to 64gb range. I mean it is a new beta version and betas are not final I get that but the major variation in performance people get even with similar specs is odd. Also they should look at ways of optimizing for the majority that have lessor hardware. This should not be a game meant only for the elite range systems.

did you ever find a solution? i have not

OK so in VR I noticed I can only use the mouse to click the buttons when I deselect "use mouse" in the VR tab. Then the blue cross is present but you have to look right at the buttons and get the blue cross over them then click the mouse. Pretty weird. Honestly I am guessing ED doesn't really focus on VR interaction outside of the plane with the rest of the environment.

I was having major issues with 2.7 and then worse with the forced update to win 20H2. After removing (KB5001330 I am seeing more stable performance. Seems smoother. I am running a G2 at 100% SS and in game AF at 8x with no MSAA, shadows low textures high and cockpit 1024 no civ traffic, water medium. System is 9900ks at 5.1gigglehurtz and 2080ti FTW3 OC'd and Paging file at 32gb to 64gb with 32gb of RAM. It still not 100% smooth but a vast improvement from what it was. Heavy clouds still hammer FPS