Oculus Rift with DCS World Discussion

[Snails161]

I bought a brand new all singing MSI system, 1070 graphics card, 16gb ram and a nice new oculus rift to throw myself into VR flying and initially it was great..... but now I seem to spend more time trying to balance everything to get a nice decent stable framework than I do flying! Don't get me wrong it's immersive until it starts juddering and slowing down. Anything other than a simple mission is like watching a slideshow...I hope I nice big VR fix is coming our way with 2.5 or I feel my days of VR flying are over:(

[=DECOY=]

I bought a brand new all singing MSI system, 1070 graphics card, 16gb ram and a nice new oculus rift to throw myself into VR flying and initially it was great..... but now I seem to spend more time trying to balance everything to get a nice decent stable framework than I do flying! Don't get me wrong it's immersive until it starts juddering and slowing down. Anything other than a simple mission is like watching a slideshow...I hope I nice big VR fix is coming our way with 2.5 or I feel my days of VR flying are over:(

what settings / pd are you use .

 

maybe we can help out.

[Snails161]

I'm running a pd of 1.6 and I think I've tried every combination of settings under the sun, any tips or advice is most welcome.

[dburne]

I'm running a pd of 1.6 and I think I've tried every combination of settings under the sun, any tips or advice is most welcome.

 

That is odd, I would think you should be able to run pretty smoothly - but I don't know the rest of your system specs either...

You might also list your graphics settings - are you setting them in game or using Nvidia control panel?

[boedha68]

I'm running a pd of 1.6 and I think I've tried every combination of settings under the sun, any tips or advice is most welcome.

 

Drop all settings too a minimum. I mean ALL! Then test! After that you can crank up a little bit.

 

The minimum settings are crucial!:D

 

Running a SSD drive?

 

euhm...dcs 2.0 alpha is more VR friendly then 1.5.6.

Edited March 17, 2017 by boedha68

[diceman]

I just clicked the "VR" setting, and turned off "Field of View", put water to LOW and shadows to flat.....runs real nice and good frame rates just flying or in combat.

[Snails161]

Thanks guys, I'll keep plodding on. It's too good to give up on. One last thing though what PD are most of you settling with?

[dburne]

Thanks guys, I'll keep plodding on. It's too good to give up on. One last thing though what PD are most of you settling with?

 

I run at 1.5 PD, I have found it best for me - anything above I can see very little difference at a larger performance hit.

[Snails161]

[crowebar]

Snails161, if you also check posts by fitness88 he recommends setting the graphics settings for the Rift HDMI port to Nvidia controlled & and Vibrance setting within the nvidia control panel to 70 - 80 ish.

[Snails161]

Guys thanks for all the help, much appreciated, however....and this is the weirdest thing...in my last session using the f5e module, free flight as a benchmark I noticed large frame rate drops near the dam, all this was water on low along with most other things, but for some reason I thought I'd go the other way and stuck visibility to high...problem solved 45fpm steady. Not only that I found that I can run with detail and ground textures on high as well???

So In in a nutshell

 

Detail high

Ground high

Water high

Visibility ultra

Shadows low

Dirt off

Flare on

MSA x4

HDR on

Cockpit 256( can't see a difference to 1024)

Of 1.5

Antrascopic filter x16

V sink off

Terrain shadows flat

 

45fps with asw on, the only drop being over Vegas( but still flyable)

[freehand]

The engine is a strange beast I have a very moderate system gtx 970 card and the more work I give it the better performance in return but not to much.

[hansangb]

Guys thanks for all the help, much appreciated, however....and this is the weirdest thing...in my last session using the f5e module, free flight as a benchmark I noticed large frame rate drops near the dam, all this was water on low along with most other things, but for some reason I thought I'd go the other way and stuck visibility to high...problem solved 45fpm steady. Not only that I found that I can run with detail and ground textures on high as well???

So In in a nutshell

 

Detail high

Ground high

Water high

Visibility ultra

Shadows low

Dirt off

Flare on

MSA x4

HDR on

Cockpit 256( can't see a difference to 1024)

Of 1.5

Antrascopic filter x16

V sink off

Terrain shadows flat

 

45fps with asw on, the only drop being over Vegas( but still flyable)

 

 

It helps if you post your HW spec so people can compare the performance.

[dogbite]

Guys thanks for all the help, much appreciated, however....and this is the weirdest thing...in my last session using the f5e module, free flight as a benchmark I noticed large frame rate drops near the dam, all this was water on low along with most other things, but for some reason I thought I'd go the other way and stuck visibility to high...problem solved 45fpm steady. Not only that I found that I can run with detail and ground textures on high as well???

So In in a nutshell

 

Detail high

Ground high

Water high

Visibility ultra

Shadows low

Dirt off

Flare on

MSA x4

HDR on

Cockpit 256( can't see a difference to 1024)

Of 1.5

Antrascopic filter x16

V sink off

Terrain shadows flat

 

45fps with asw on, the only drop being over Vegas( but still flyable)

 

 

Dial everything back and slowly turn up until you start to feel judder.The difference between low and high is not that big if you can't get a good Pixel Density (above 1.5 is not that big a change).. Turn off AA as at VR res with PD you won't really notice it. In normal VR titles the gpu is king. DCS, being an older engine only recently to be ported to DX11 and VR is way more cpu (clock) intensive. If you haven't, OC to at least 4.2 gigahertz if you can. That said, don't expect RoboRecall graphics quality out of this old beast.

Edited March 20, 2017 by dogbite

[Shack]

Click through Oculus pointer

 

How does one use the Oculus pointer to click on cockpit switches ?

[RUS38]

How does one use the Oculus pointer to click on cockpit switches ?

 

I map my mouse buttons to x55 throttle rocker switch(down - left click, up - right click) works pretty well, then point with my head where I need to click. Although I do keep mouse enabled cause I still use it to navigate the \ menu and I like how this way the pointer disappears when not in use. The only inconvenience is that I have to bring the pointer back to the center of view when I finish using the mouse.

Edited March 20, 2017 by RUS38

[Shack]

Thanks

[ebenitez]

Hello everybody.

I have recently got an Oculus rift CV1, and while is working perfectly with DCS World 1.5, I can't set VR in 2.0.

As soon as I start 2.0, the Steam VR client opens an error message saying is unable to recognize any VR device and DCS World starts in normal mode (not VR) in my monitor. This is a very wierd behaviour as whenever I start 1.5, the VR mode is set automatically and it never calls for Steam VR client, always uses Oculus client.

For some time until now I thought this issue would be another effect of my usual problems with Visual C++ runtime utilities, but after following the great guide for fixing 2.0 installs by Bignewy, I can fly again in Nevada, but not in VR.

Could anybody help me to fix this, please? I'm dying for flying over Las Vegas's Casinos and streets.

[freehand]

I do not own the steam version of dcs but I know NTTR is not compatible with steam version.

[Gruman]

Just make sure you are launching DCS 2.0 Open Alpha directly and not via Steam. SteamVR shouldnt even care about DCS. Make sure you disable any steam Services in the DCS 2.0 (Steam Overlay etc).

 

There are some start parameters you can force VR mode.

dcs.exe --force_enable_VR

dcs.exe --force_disable_VR

[ebenitez]

One thing i forgot to mention in my last post is I don't have any steam version of DCS World, both 1.5 and alpha 2.0 are non steam versiones.

Thank you for your comments, i will give a try tonight

 

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[ebenitez]

Thank you very much swissMAG, I modified dcs.exe and now it's working in VR. Couldn't test framerates through Las Vegas as I just made a quick test but at McCarran International airport's runway I have solid 45 fps with my system. Graphics settings are VR, with Terrain Textures at low and visibility to medium. PD is set to 1.2.

[Gruman]

Glad to help. :)

[dogbite]

Thank you very much swissMAG, I modified dcs.exe and now it's working in VR. Couldn't test framerates through Las Vegas as I just made a quick test but at McCarran International airport's runway I have solid 45 fps with my system. Graphics settings are VR, with Terrain Textures at low and visibility to medium. PD is set to 1.2.

 

 

You might be able to kick up a couple of settings if you overclock that 4770k. DCS does perform better at higher cpu clock, especially up through 4.2.

Oh, and Welcome to VR.

[ebenitez]

Thanks dogbite, i will give it a try after making some research on it. I have never overclocked CPUs nor GPUs.

 

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