So how well does Asynchronous Space Warp work in DCS?

[RoyMi6]

ASW works well with DCS. It makes a positive difference for me. Results vary from sim to sim. I don't recommend it when you can sustain frame rates >90; there's no reason for it then.

 

ASW is specifically designed to only kick in when you drop below 90fps.

 

If you can easily sustain above 90fps ASW will cause no ill effect and will likely never kick in - there's no reason to disable it, quite the opposite in fact.

 

ASW kicks in is when your Antivirus starts up for half a second in the background to check when it did it's last security scan and the frametime for your game suddenly spikes and ASW generates one frame that you don't even notice.

 

That's what ATW and ASW are designed to do, cope with missing frames when, for an uncontrollable reason, your framerate drops below 90fps.

 

With DCS we're using it almost exclusively because (as has been known for years) there's optimisations for DCS that we sorely need so no one is able to get 90FPS without dropping everything to low.

 

Don't disable ASW if you're not using it, keep it on - because if you're not using it then your system is running fine and can cope well with any overhead it's causing and will likely help you out every now and then.

[Badger633]

I can deactivate ASW when in oculus home by using contr +1on the num pad. However this does not work when in DCS and when DCS is started it resets ASW to automatic even if I start oculus home first and set it to off.

 

Anybody who can deactivate ASW whilst in DCS and if so how ?

 

Thanks

[Badger633]

Found out how to do it with DCS running. Just bring forward the oculus home app with Left alt and tab. Then change ASW off with the left cntrl 1 or on with left cntrl 4. Then make DCS the focus app by using Left alt and tab again. You cannot control the aircraft when oculus home app is the focus. I did it all with voice commands allows you to change without looking for key when in the rift.

[Rocky49]

Found out how to do it with DCS running. Just bring forward the oculus home app with Left alt and tab. Then change ASW off with the left cntrl 1 or on with left cntrl 4. Then make DCS the focus app by using Left alt and tab again. You cannot control the aircraft when oculus home app is the focus. I did it all with voice commands allows you to change without looking for key when in the rift.

 

 

this doesn't seem to seem to work for me

[=DECOY=]

this doesn't seem to seem to work for me

 

 

Nor me,

 

i have tried editing the registry, and changing back to sdk 1.9/1.8 and still cant get more then 20fps on low settings.

 

So frustrating..

[Goblin]

Nor me,

 

i have tried editing the registry, and changing back to sdk 1.9/1.8 and still cant get more then 20fps on low settings.

 

So frustrating..

 

 

Which DCS version?

2.0.4 that released on friday has a bug that kills the FPS in VR.

It's been reported and the devs are working on it.

[Verde]

Hey guys, new to rift here! How to you measure fps while you are in your cv1 and do someone know how to enable asw using rx 480? Or maybe someone can tell how to do that registry hack everyone is talking about?

[hansangb]

Verde, I recall reading that ASW is not yet available on Radeon/AMD cards yet.

 

FPS is somewhat personal. I do just fine cranking things to high with minor tweaks (water to med, flat shadows, 2X MSAA for example). You'll just have to play around. There is a VR preset, so start from there and experiment.

[Goblin]

ASW is enabled since Oculus 1.10, but I don't think for Radeons, yet. Could be wrong.

Win8 and above is also needed.

I don't remember the FPS command, but it's in the DCS controls, under general, I think.

[Cruachan]

For what its worth, I believe the default for viewing FPS is ctrl-pause.