DCS and Pimax

[Gladman]

Launched DCS from desktop icon no problem. SteamVR stays off. Gained about 10fps, maybe a little less. GPU still at 65% with the default evga software setting

[Naruto]

Launched DCS from desktop icon no problem. SteamVR stays off. Gained about 10fps, maybe a little less. GPU still at 65% with the default evga software setting

 

Can confirm, launching DCS.exe directly and not thru pitools works without any errors and get slight increase about 10 FPS too. Just make sure you uncheck steam auto start in developer tab of steamvr settings. Pitools render quality set to 1 and DCS PD set to 2.0 and getting between 55 to 60 FPS.

[Gladman]

Holy, I am not a 2.0 PD and I'm at about 50 FPS in multiplayer. What usage percentage is your GPU?

[Naruto]

Holy, I am not a 2.0 PD and I'm at about 50 FPS in multiplayer. What usage percentage is your GPU?

 

Not sure since fpsvr is a steam app and only running DCS fps monitor. This us also F18 on cauc map free flight.

[Gladman]

What altitude?

[Naruto]

What altitude?

 

Whatever you start with in the fee flight instant mission. I can do swevivers trick and get 70 - 80 fps on my 5K+ but the image flickers really bad.

[ShaDowz]

Can confirm, launching DCS.exe directly and not thru pitools works without any errors and get slight increase about 10 FPS too. Just make sure you uncheck steam auto start in developer tab of steamvr settings. Pitools render quality set to 1 and DCS PD set to 2.0 and getting between 55 to 60 FPS.

 

wow 2.0? I have a rtx 2080ti and i9 processor, 32gig s of ram and im struggeling at PD 1.0. I also run it without steamvr and pitool render at 1.0. I get maybe around 50 fps. It's not a very good experience, got some ghosting going on. Really struggeling with pimax overall, even with smart smoothing on i get ghosting and studders. I do have msaa on 2x, all shadows turned off, only have terrain and textures on high.

[ShaDowz]

So it tired all graphics settings as low as you can go and everything turned off. with PD 1.5 i get 20 fps in free flight with F18 on caucasus. Don't even have parallel projections checked. field of view is normal, refresh rate is 90.

[Naruto]

I think I know why I got so high a FPS. Even though I ran DCS.EXS directly and nt through SteamVR, SteamVR was running in the background in Task Manager and I had had the SS set to 20% with Pitool at 1.0 and DCS at 2.0. When I increased SS to 150% SteamVR to play another game, going back to DCS without SteamVR, the FPS was in the 20s. So try setting steam SS to 20% since is still runs in the background when running DCS directly. It still looks great.

[Gladman]

I might just uninstall Steam VR to ensure its gone.

[ShaDowz]

I think I know why I got so high a FPS. Even though I ran DCS.EXS directly and nt through SteamVR, SteamVR was running in the background in Task Manager and I had had the SS set to 20% with Pitool at 1.0 and DCS at 2.0. When I increased SS to 150% SteamVR to play another game, going back to DCS without SteamVR, the FPS was in the 20s. So try setting steam SS to 20% since is still runs in the background when running DCS directly. It still looks great.

 

hehe that makes more sense. Started to thing there was something seriously wrong with my computer =)

[ShaDowz]

I might just uninstall Steam VR to ensure its gone.

 

Let me know what happens when un uninstall steam =) would be very nice if that's possible so we don't have to use parallel projection to gain a few fps

[Buckeye]

I might just uninstall Steam VR to ensure its gone.

 

Don't bother trying, DCS won't launch in VR that way.

[Naruto]

Don't bother trying, DCS won't launch in VR that way.

 

Yes it wont launch without SteamVR being installed and goes to flat screen monitor unless you import the dcs.exe to pitool but then I get other handling errors when launching thru pitools unless I disable all of my modules with serial numbers.

[Highwayman-Ed]

I get other handling errors when launching thru pitools unless I disable all of my modules with serial numbers.

 

Same here, SweViver says they went away after a while, but they're damned annoying when every module presents this error;

 

 

It takes me 5 minutes to launch DCS this way and when I do the GUI is so small, only shows the DCS logo...

[Naruto]

Same here, SweViver says they went away after a while, but they're damned annoying when every module presents this error;

 

 

It takes me 5 minutes to launch DCS this way and when I do the GUI is so small, only shows the DCS logo...

 

Yes that's what I get. They go away because it cycles thru the modules with keys one at at time after you hit the ok button and it takes a while depending on how many modules with keys you have installed. If you go to saved game log folder, in the log.txt file, you will see a failure on the modules with serial numbers for security keys. Go to the Installed tab in DCS UI and disable them and the start up error goes away. Unfortunately only non key modules will work.

Edited May 23, 2019 by Naruto

[Gladman]

Lol, yeah you were all correct. Waste of time.

[fiddlinjim]

I made a complete Pitool setup along with Steam VR when I first received my Pimax 5K+, to play I start Pitool, launch DCS from the Icon and steam VR starts in background. Every thing starts and flies well, no problems at all.

 

i7-7700, 32 GB, GTX 1080Ti, Water Cooled, Thrustmaster Warthog Hotas, MFG Crosswind Pedals,

Pimax 5k+

[Gladman]

I made a complete Pitool setup along with Steam VR when I first received my Pimax 5K+, to play I start Pitool, launch DCS from the Icon and steam VR starts in background. Every thing starts and flies well, no problems at all.

 

i7-7700, 32 GB, GTX 1080Ti, Water Cooled, Thrustmaster Warthog Hotas, MFG Crosswind Pedals,

Pimax 5k+

 

There's never been an issue for most of us getting it to fly well. All we're trying to do with removing SteamVR and etc from the equation is to get more FPS.

[SneakyBastd]

I'm starting DCS from desktop, as usual. Pitool running, no steamvr. In flight, each time I click default on evga precisionx and I see the fps increase immediately. But then it goes right back to the normal fps again. It won't hold for some reason.

If I click default more than 7 or 8 times it lowers my fps to 10 and I have to restart everything to get it going properly again.

Here's hoping nvidia get wind of this and fix it in their drivers.

[ShaDowz]

I got i working today, i first went in to dcs and unchecked all my modules except F18. Then started it through pitools, didn't get any fatal error messages and it started within 10 seconds. Did the trick with PrecisionX, it worked but i got some kind of weird ghosting effect on my right Eye. It was not very enjoyable, but i got 20-30 frames more and my gpu went up to 99%.

[SneakyBastd]

Shadowz, did you re-tick Smart Smoothing to eliminate the ghosting in one eye?

[ShaDowz]

Shadowz, did you re-tick Smart Smoothing to eliminate the ghosting in one eye?

 

oh, think i missed that part, ill try again =)

[Pinello]

Pimax must up their game:

 

 

 

 

Bring on the full 8K version(and hardware to support it..)!

[Euan Emblin]

Pimax must up their game:

 

 

 

 

Bring on the full 8K version(and hardware to support it..)!

 

 

 

 

 

Remember that the Reverb does not sport as wide a FOV as Pimax. It's strength is concentrated in 1st gen FOV and very high resolution.

 

 

Swings and roundabouts.:thumbup: