night time flying looks like dust everywhere

Can someone provide screenshots of the differences, please?

I posted my registry export to this topic on the second page. Looks all good. Still cannot see any difference.

Are you all using the oculus core 2.0 beta or not? This might have an impact on this option.

It doesnt work for me, too.

Win7-64, GTX1080Ti

I analyzed a screenshot, which i made at night and checked the colors.

The darkest color value I found (in the night sky), is:

R 4

G 4

B 4

With an ingame gamma of 2.0.

So, DCS has NO 100% blacks in the rendered image.

And thats why, we all have this red/green/grey haze.

The Oculus pushes these low values a bit, that we are able to see low values. But this makes this haze in DCS.

So, if the DCS render engine image output would be re-offsetted, we all would have a great night VR flight experience. Or just the whole range from zero should be used.

Like in the loading screen, where u have a 100% black environment and NO haze, while loading and moving the head around. Noone has haze there.

It's up to the DEVS to fix this RGB "offset".

Either the gamma calcualtion is incorrect, or they shift the picture before applying the gamma curve.

A gamma curve keeps zero values untouched. If the values would be 100% black before applying the gamma, they stay 100% black.

If u pull down the gamma as much as possible, the haze dissappears.

Is there a way to adjust RGB-curves for the oculus output? Or what the Oculus receives?

Regards

Vannipo

Even a Screenshot made in 2D shows the offseted luminance.

It's not pushed by the oculus itself. Maybe an NVidia Problem? Or just the render-engine of DCS.

Sadly, no reaction from ED about this?

Hopefully ED recognizes that...

The solution is quite simple.

+1 up

Off the web:

This works I tried it. EDIT: this is not correct it is a problem with Oculus not DCS It's a problem with DCS, I don't need to do this fix for similar environments in other games.

But because night flying graphics are so poor in 2.5 I don't bother flying at night. I read DCS is working on the night flight issues.

It seems since the last update when looking into darkness I see a fine film of what looks like dust particles [see attachment].

I read an online article:

"the need to disable "SPUD" (Oled Mura)"

1- Disable OVRService from Task manager (Services tab)

2- Open Regedit.exe and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software

3- Right click on the Software folder > New > Key and name the new folder "Oculus"

4- Right click on the Oculus folder > New > DWORD 32bit Value and name it UseSpud

5- Set the value to 0

6- Start OVRService again and put on your headset

7- (Probably) be amazed at how everything looks clean and black

Is this still the fix?

Is this still the fix?

Back along time ago when I first created the registry entry it helped around 80%. It is still installed and seemingly working as it did.

Back along time ago when I first created the registry entry it helped around 80%. It is still installed and seemingly working as it did.

Tx! Pitch BLACK! :thumbup::thumbup:

:(No effect for me

:(No effect for me

Did you make sure to disable first the ovrservice and did exactly as mentioned then restart the ovrservice?

Yes, but at least a restart of the whole system would fix that, I think.

I heard from other guys, that its not working for them, too.

Yes, but at least a restart of the whole system would fix that, I think.

I heard from other guys, that its not working for them, too.

Interesting that for some it works well and others not. In the registry there isn't more than the 1 entry, the one you created?

What's your gamma setting?

Did you make sure to disable first the ovrservice and did exactly as mentioned then restart the ovrservice?

I don't have OVRservice on my rig.

I have OVR service launcher and OVRserver#######

I don't have OVRservice on my rig.

 

I have OVR service launcher and OVRserver#######

Yes, this is what I was referring to.

If the DCS gamma is set too high it will exacerbate the issue.

I analyzed a screenshot, which i made at night and checked the colors.

The darkest color value I found (in the night sky), is:

R 4

G 4

B 4

With an ingame gamma of 2.0.

So, DCS has NO 100% blacks in the rendered image.

And thats why, we all have this red/green/grey haze.

The Oculus pushes these low values a bit, that we are able to see low values. But this makes this haze in DCS.

So, if the DCS render engine image output would be re-offsetted, we all would have a great night VR flight experience. Or just the whole range from zero should be used.

Like in the loading screen, where u have a 100% black environment and NO haze, while loading and moving the head around. Noone has haze there.

It's up to the DEVS to fix this RGB "offset".

Either the gamma calcualtion is incorrect, or they shift the picture before applying the gamma curve.

A gamma curve keeps zero values untouched. If the values would be 100% black before applying the gamma, they stay 100% black.

If u pull down the gamma as much as possible, the haze dissappears.

Is there a way to adjust RGB-curves for the oculus output? Or what the Oculus receives?

Regards

Vannipo

Even a Screenshot made in 2D shows the offseted luminance.

It's not pushed by the oculus itself. Maybe an NVidia Problem? Or just the render-engine of DCS.

BTW,

this issue could be fixed within 10 minutes, if u know, where to tweak which values. ED...

Interesting, I've seen this problem with other apps from the Oculus store so I concluded this issue wasn't with DCS alone but with Oculus...if it's not with the Rift then the other apps have the same issue as DCS.

I analyzed a screenshot, which i made at night and checked the colors.

The darkest color value I found (in the night sky), is:

 

R 4

G 4

B 4

 

 

With an ingame gamma of 2.0.

 

So, DCS has NO 100% blacks in the rendered image.

 

And thats why, we all have this red/green/grey haze.

The Oculus pushes these low values a bit, that we are able to see low values. But this makes this haze in DCS.

 

So, if the DCS render engine image output would be re-offsetted, we all would have a great night VR flight experience. Or just the whole range from zero should be used.

 

Like in the loading screen, where u have a 100% black environment and NO haze, while loading and moving the head around. Noone has haze there.

 

It's up to the DEVS to fix this RGB "offset".

Either the gamma calcualtion is incorrect, or they shift the picture before applying the gamma curve.

A gamma curve keeps zero values untouched. If the values would be 100% black before applying the gamma, they stay 100% black.

 

If u pull down the gamma as much as possible, the haze dissappears.

 

Is there a way to adjust RGB-curves for the oculus output? Or what the Oculus receives?

 

Regards

Vannipo

 

 

Even a Screenshot made in 2D shows the offseted luminance.

It's not pushed by the oculus itself. Maybe an NVidia Problem? Or just the render-engine of DCS.

 

'If u pull down the gamma as much as possible, the haze disappears'... but so does much of the ground light etc.

Yes, a bit. But this is no solution.

If u know, what gamma is doing, it just a curved multiplier. So, to get it black, u need to multiply it by 0. But, this not done by a gamma curve.

You have to keep in mind:

The Loading screen has NO haze. Why? There we all have 100% blacks. It's only in the game engine, which pushes (maybe just by a post tonemapping) the values up to 4 minimum.

I and some others have been able to eliminate the issue with the Oculus reg hack. I must also add no matter what app I'm using there is still a very fine micro screen affect [not the normal screen that we all have] that moves with your head so you always have it in your view. However most of the dust affect is gone from all the apps including DCS.

Like I said, if it's not with the Rift then the other apps have the same issue as DCS.

The UseSpud registry entry seems to have stopped working for me. Is it still working for anyone else?