So how well does Asynchronous Space Warp work in DCS?

[johnco61]

This has worked great for me I can't believe the difference!!! I had the graphic settings so it was acceptable but could only fly missions from Batumi or Mozdak on the Caucasus map with shadows off. Now I can put most of the setting on high shadows medium and it's as smooth as butter unbelievable, this opens up a lot more of the map for me for creating missions it's great. If I spent around £500.00 on a new graphics card and it made this amount of difference I would have said the money was well spent.

I am using this with DCS World Beta, I can't seem to get it to work with DCS World but this could be me, I'm going to look into this today.

[Neurowork]

I guess it is great for lower end systems.

 

It is no silver bullet though, at least for me. It introduces a lot of artifacts. For instance, if you fly relatively low and look left at the tip of your ECM pod (on standard loadouts), you'll notice the tip change shape as it blends with the background. You won't notice in tense combat situations but it is pretty noticeable when flying into/out of the AO.

 

Plus, I have a pretty high end system (i7 6700k, Nvidia 1080, 16go DDR4) and run at 1.8x to make everything more legible.

I am still plagued with micro stutters even with ASW on. It is most noticeable when flying a low altitude a looking down right to the ground. The ground texture should fly by smoothly but it doesn't. The effect is even worse with ASW on.

 

Dunno if you guys experience the same effect.

[johnco61]

I don't notice too many artifact issues, if I fly in areas that are to demanding I get wobble on the graphics so I avoid areas like that. It may not be perfect but it's night and day for me, my system isn't too bad i7 4790 @ 4.8g 1070 GTX, 1TB SSD, but it struggled, I couldn't have shadows on at all but now I can have shadows on medium and it looks and runs great. I also seem to be able to fly from most airfields with out any problem, I couldn't do that before.

The only time I get micro stutter as you described was when I had the pixel density to high or flying over wooded areas, i have tree shadows turned off and use 1.8 PD and don't seem to get stutter

[RoyMi6]

That seems to be the consensus. Windows 8+ is now listed for the minimum hardware requirement. I don't know if it's dx12 related.

 

It's pretty frustrating. First I'm forced to upgrade my GFX card after being lied to that the GTX970 is 'VR Ready'. Now I'm forced to upgrade to Win10 just to get ASW which is supposed to help the first problem. Pretty idiotic.

 

Sorry, why isn't the GTX970 VR ready? The min spec has recently just been lowered to the GTX960 because of ASW.

 

Every game available via the Oculus Store will run fine on your GTX970. Just like with anything on the PC however some games will take advantage of other graphic card and OS dependant features.

 

You also don't need to update to Windows 10. Just Windows 8. Pedantic, yes, but really what's actually holding you back from updating to 10 anyway - especially when it was free for so long.

[eaglecash867]

u also don't need to update to Windows 10. Just Windows 8. Pedantic, yes, but really what's actually holding you back from updating to 10 anyway - especially when it was free for so long.

 

Not to mention the fact that Windows 10 is leaps and bounds ahead of Windows 8. Its definitely worth upgrading. If he has Windows 7, Windows 10 is pretty close to it in how it operates, and opens up a whole new set of possibilities. An OEM version of Windows 10 Pro 64-bit can be had from several legitimate on-line retailers for about 140 bucks now. Microsoft is still offering the free upgrade to people who use assistive technology on their current system. Not sure what, if anything, is required to qualify for that, but that could be an option as well. For anybody upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10, sometimes you might have card readers stop working due to lack of drivers, but there is a solution for that. After a lot of frustration and brain damage, I found that Windows 8.1 drivers work with Windows 10 for my card reader.

 

Sorry to go a little OT, this is meant to help the guys who are on the fence about upgrading their OS. :D

[DerekSpeare]

I'm sticking with Win7 :(

[dogbite]

I just moved from Win 7 to 10. ASW was worth the effort (for me anyway). DCS much smoother. Elite Dangerous great improvement. Have been able to move PD up a couple of notches. Oculus rocks.

[Chivas]

This is new tech, and it should be obvious to anyone that things will improve and change fast. Complaining about minimum spec changes is quite frankly ridiculous.

[Frusheen]

I avoided the free move to Windows 10. Like Derek I'd prefer to keep Windows 7 but this feature has me tempted.

[Typhoon880]

hey all, any chance the dcs world could be shrunk down, the file is 10gb to download, this is Typhoon from Flaming Cliffs

Edited October 8, 2016 by Typhoon880
typo

[johnco61]

I avoided the free move to Windows 10. Like Derek I'd prefer to keep Windows 7 but this feature has me tempted.

 

If you like windows 7 you can run windows 10 almost the same as 7, if you install the windows 7 start menu app and use the 7 style desktop you'll never know the difference

[Frusheen]

If you like windows 7 you can run windows 10 almost the same as 7, if you install the windows 7 start menu app and use the 7 style desktop you'll never know the difference

 

Thanks johnco. I'll look into it.

[hansangb]

I loved Win7 as well. But I like Win10 better. Can't wait to try the new warp feature out.

[whitav8]

One option you can try with regard to Win 7 and Win10 is to have a dual boot system which is the way I operate. It allows me to make sure I can test out Win10 for all my desired applications before I finally turn Win7 off. It did require that I use my older/smaller SSD (just 128gb) for win10. Someone around you probably has the Win10 install on a flash drive.

[Frusheen]

Well I bit the bullet and just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7. I've created a Windows disc and I am now performing a clean install. My drives were due a clean up anyway. It's going to be a long day installing software but I hated the idea of moving to a new OS and not having it clean.

 

Anyone got any tips or things I should address which may boost performance of the new OS? Please pm me if you wish to avoid derailing this thread.

[hansangb]

Just a quick impression. I hope to test later today a bit more thoroughly. But first impression is WOW! I jacked up my settings to HIGH (default) but used flat shadows. And it was extremely smooth in Vegas tour quick mission.

 

I'll test later today (I hope) and will report back.

[hannibal]

I bumped my pixel density to 2.5 not bad at all via VR preset with flat shadows..

 

going to try high later.

[fulcrum_64th]

stupid question

 

I tried to follow the instructions to enable asw (

)

 

.4 right click it and select "merge"

 

I don't see that option available when I right click (i'm logged in as an admin)

Thanks for your help

Best

Fulcrum

[Chief Instructor]

stupid question

 

I tried to follow the instructions to enable asw (

)

 

.4 right click it and select "merge"

 

I don't see that option available when I right click (i'm logged in as an admin)

Thanks for your help

Best

Fulcrum

 

Make sure you rename the downloaded file with a .reg extension.

[fulcrum_64th]

Make sure you rename the downloaded file with a .reg extension.

 

I did. but he still shows like a txt file :cry:

 

edit: problem solved. I saved in "*.reg" using all file in the txt editor

 

Thanks a lot

 

Best

Edited October 9, 2016 by fulcrum_64th

[DerekSpeare]

Well I bit the bullet and just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7. I've created a Windows disc and I am now performing a clean install. My drives were due a clean up anyway. It's going to be a long day installing software but I hated the idea of moving to a new OS and not having it clean.

 

Anyone got any tips or things I should address which may boost performance of the new OS? Please pm me if you wish to avoid derailing this thread.

 

Barnacules has a great video on W10:

 

 

Back OT (sort of): I'm hoping to get someone from Oculus to respond here:

 

https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/43625/asw-and-windows-7-users-are-we-out-of-luck#latest

 

Anyone else who wants to stick with W7 should give it a reply and say so ;)

[hannibal]

people on the reddit forums were talking about supersampling via the oculus debug tool from the SDK, and getting better image quality instead of using in game graphic settings.. on elite dangerous,

 

im just wondering if anyone has messed around for DCS..

[hellking]

Anybody else having wobbling effects with ASW on? The frame update rate seems to go up to 45 as it should in heavy graphics (Vegas for example), but frames update in bursts and they are not uniform. So objects don't flow smoothly, they wobble.. I don't mind the standard ASW effects such as ghosts etc. but wobbling makes it even with how it was before.. I tried updating my graphics card drivers but it didn't help.. I also tried to turn on/off VSYNC and fullscreen. I also maximized/minimized DCS window to no effect. Any experiences?

[dogbite]

people on the reddit forums were talking about supersampling via the oculus debug tool from the SDK, and getting better image quality instead of using in game graphic settings.. on elite dangerous,

 

im just wondering if anyone has messed around for DCS..

 

DCS has a pixel density slider under options/vr. You don't need to use the debug tool.

[hansangb]

So I just tried flying the Vegas tour with settings set to "High" reduced the tree clutter to 1,000, set it to Flat Shadows, and I think I set AA to 8, maybe 16.

 

With the ASW setting, it was buttery smooth. When I look around, at Tropicana, or Mirage, it was super smooth. After Mirage, I turned right (over the neighborhood) and landed.

 

With ASW off, there was a lot of judder. Enough to make you sick, if you're susceptible. Over the neighborhood, there as a *LOT* of judder.

 

So bottom line is that ASW is a KILLER feature. I used to fly mostly 1.5 because it was so much smoother than 2.0/NTTR. With ASW, it is *soooo* much smoother.

 

Thank you Oculus!