2.2.0 Shader Bug in VR?

[Cruachan]

Ok guys, I need professional help here. I sure hope this isn't a bug everyone knows about and that I've missed something. Oh, and for the guys that say, 'hey, it's alpha'... ya, I know.

 

I've never quite been happy with the experience I get in 2.X but recently re-doubled my efforts to try and figure out if it was my problem. And yes, I'm happy to have someone tell me it is my problem... cause I could fix it!

 

Here is the issue:

1. Launch DCS (2.2.0.12448) in VR (Oculus) and do instant action, A-10 Cold Start.

2. Without doing anything else, exit the mission. DCS Crashes.

3. If I load the map and go back to my cockpit, it seems like a shade is set.. it gets real dark. Watch the video below to see this happen, and why it goes away.

4. Again, exit mission and DCS crashes.

 

However, without running in VR, I have no problems at all. So, I've captured my logs here from a clean run without VR and two runs where I launch in VR, do almost nothing, and the system crashes. Of course, if I view the map and go back to the cockpit, the lighting is all messed up until it recalculates.

 

When I run beyond compare against the logs, I see differences pretty clearly, like this screenshot:

 

 

Last weekend, I did a complete uninstall, removed the saved games folder and tried to remove the registry stuff; although after the uninstall I didn't find much. I only installed the A-10C mod, NTTR and Normandy. The issue pops up on Normandy too, and regardless of which model I load. Also, I tried to update every driver that I could, from BIOS to NVidia and Oculus. I know that updating NVidia isn't always the best idea, but I had this issue before updating it too.

 

Here is a video showing this strange behavior (specs are in the video, and game settings are in the video at ~7:35):

 

Had an issue embedding the video, there is the link:

 

Here are my specs:

Windows 10 64bit

i7-6700 3.40Ghz

16mb ram

NVidia GTX 1070FE

Oculus CV1

NVMe Samsung SSD 960

 

Also, I've attached a collection of dumps from the crashes along with a clean log file too. Is there anyone much smarter than me who might be able to figure out the issue?

 

I'd love to fly more in 2.0, but something seems seriously wrong. Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

-Cru

CrashFiles.zip

Edited December 20, 2017 by Cruachan
Youtube link busted

[lemoen]

The darker shade thing happens to me and others too. This doesn't cause a crash for me though, when I move my plane a bit the darker shade goes away.

 

THe crashes on mission exit sounds like the SceneVR.lua problem. Find that file in the Scripts\DemoScenes folder and delete it. The crashes occur when:

 

1. You use VR

2. You used F10 map during a mission

3. You exit the mission

 

Crash occurs on mission exit.

[Falcaw]

I had this same problem....deleted SceneVR.lua and all good. No more crashes....thanks lemoen!

[Cruachan]

Lemoen! That fixed it for me too!

 

Not only did it fix the issue with crashing when I exited, but it also fixed the color issue when returning from the map.

 

Cheers!

 

-Cru

[Jabbers_]

Both of these issues are reported already