Need VR gunsite help and have a couple of VR tips

[fiddlinjim]

When flying the Spitfire in VR I have a secondary gun site image that continually stretches and distorts making accurate shooting uncomfortable. I am hoping it is related to prop reflection?

Also flying the BF109 VR I find it difficult to focus on the gun site using both eyes,

Interested to hear from players if this is my rig or if these situations have been encountered by others.

 

FYI: I have eliminated all end of game crashes in 2.1 Normandy by turning off Deferred Shading in the VR options page.

Also occasionally I get a freeze when trying to start VR flying in both 1.5 and 2.1, after selecting the mission. When I get a freeze in that situation I close the Briefing, hit ESC and select Resume. Not always needed but works every time when required.

 

My rig: Win 10, i7-7700K CPU. 32 GB, GTX 1080Ti, 1000W PSU, 1TB SSD, 4TB HDD, TM Warthog,

Saitek Pedals, Oculus Rift CV1

[dburne]

RE: The gun-sight in the Spit in VR,

 

That is an anomaly from ASW kicking in for your Rift. When frames drop much below 90 fps it will reduce framerate to 45 fps and interpolate the frames to give an end result of 90 fps. It allows one to get very smooth performance between 45-90 fps by using ASW. However can cause things like this, and also blurriness of the planes as they fly past.

You can read about ASW here:

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/asynchronous-spacewarp/

 

You have a nice rig there, you might try disabling ASW for your Rift and see how it does for you. I run DCS now with ASW disabled and even when frames drop down it still seems pretty smooth to me and I don't get those graphic anomalies. You can disable it I believe with ctrl+numpad 1 if you want to try it. I use the Oculus Tray Tool to set my ASW settings per game. Great tool, you can get it here:

https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/47247/oculus-traytool-supersampling-profiles-hmd-disconnect-fixes-hopefully/p1

[some1]

As dburne said, the gunsight anomaly is caused by ASW, which usually improves things (at least for me), but it doesn't work well with heavily flickering objects like Spitfire prop. The prop effect in the spitfire is very bad compared to other WWII planes, but it's been already reported about half a year ago and nothing was fixed.

 

The difference between ASW on or off, is that without ASW if your FPS gets below 90, then the image will blur especially when you look around quickly in the cockpit. With ASW on, the image will stay sharp and smooth, but you will get occasional visual artifacts like the gunsight issue.

 

The gunsight in the Bf 109 is fine, it is meant to be looked through with you right eye only, the same way you look through a collimator sight in a handgun.