New to VR

[Quekel]

Just got the Rift yesterday and did some quick missions, and i gotta say how am I ever be able to play without from now on?? what a game changer!

 

 

I have some questions though:

 

 

What is currently the best way to go regarding performance and readability of the gauges?

 

 

I have a zotac 1080 AMP Xtreme with an i7 4790K @ 4Ghz

 

 

Is the debug tray tool a must have ? Or are there other ways to get the performance

[dburne]

:thumbup:

 

Congrats!!

 

For clarity of gauges Pixel Density helps, not sure how much you will be able to run but you could try starting out around 1.2 and inch up toward 1.5 and see if that helps.

 

I use and like the Oculus Tray Tool myself, great utility.

 

Make all your graphics settings in game, Nvidia Control Panel will not really effect VR. Do set power management in NVCP to " prefer maximum performance".

Just start fairly low on the graphics settings and work up a little at a time from there. I would turn all shadows off.

 

Also I prefer running with ASW set to off - I set a profile in Oculus Tray Tool for DCS.exe to turn ASW off.

 

Best of luck and have fun! ( trust me you will never go back to monitor).

[eaglecash867]

MSAA and Pixel Density help with the readability of the gauges. I'm running both Open Beta and Stable and use the Stable most. In that, I have Pixel Density set at 2.0, and MSAA set for 8X. I also noticed a difference in the clarity of the gauges when I checked the "Force IPD" option and set it for my own IPD of 70mm. I was only able to turn things up that high recently though, and although I'm not sure where the greatest improvement came from, I turned off indexing on my SSD that has my programs like DCS on it, cleaned spyware from my machine, and I close anything in the system tray that gives me an "exit" option. All of that has dramatically boosted performance, with consistent results.

 

For VR, the video card is the biggest key to good performance, so what you've got in your machine is definitely going to help you squeeze every possible bit of performance and detail out of it. Also, setting shadows to low or off is good for performance. The high setting for shadows is borked anyway and looks terrible. Low shadows actually look fairly decent.

Edited June 29, 2018 by eaglecash867

[BigDuke6ixx]

Configure VR Zoom in the UI later on the control settings. Close one eye when using it if it makes you feel queer.