VR Shaders mod for better VR experience

[SPAS79]

Are we still alive?

[StarLightPL]

These days I myself use only 3dmigoto mod for haze removal and a bit of sharpening + simplex mod which is now ancient. But to be honest, vanilla DCS is pretty ok right now with a 3080. YMMV. Sadly 3dmigoto currently is not (yet) fully compatible with multithreading.

Edited March 12, 2023 by StarLightPL

[zildac]

There appears to be very little if any benefit to running this mod any more. Albedo SS hasn't worked for some time, which was the main hook for me. Canopy glass, and haze reduction can all be achieved using separate mods now and without the looooong initial compile time. I haven't actually re-enabled this mod since the latest OB. As others have mentioned, 3DMigoto seems to be a great substitute, but one I’ve yet to play with to any great extent.

[StarLightPL]

1 hour ago, zildac said:

Canopy glass, and haze reduction can all be achieved using separate mods now

You can even disable canopy/mfd reflections from DCS Special menu now for F18 and F16.

[SPAS79]

I have been using them together for a while. Time to send SIMPLEX to rest? 

[WipeUout]

For haze reduction, I lower gamma slider to 1.4 and crank up backlit in the HMD.  Not as efficient as 3DMigoto mod but good enough for me.

Reducing glass reflection is also achievable with TAZ0004's "clear glass" trick, post here:

 

 

[KCOOL]

Taz1004 mods are a must to have for every DCS player.

Thank you Taz1004!

[Hammer1-1]

so whats the latest mod of this useful mod? its been a while since I last fired up DCS and since the F4 and F-15E are incoming, I want it up and running again.

[Hammer1-1]

nobody? nothing?

[SPAS79]

2 hours ago, Hammer1-1 said:

nobody? nothing?

I have no fn idea. I'm using SIMPLEX 2.7.0.4625 (I keep the original bloom.fx shaders as I like it overdone as ED has made it) + 3dMigoto latest (21.3 as of this writing) and am living quite happy. No big change in performance or quality from the original shaders tho. 

[WipeUout]

17 hours ago, Hammer1-1 said:

nobody? nothing?

What do you want to use it for?  VR Shader no longer provide added performance and for the other stuff such as haze reduction, there are alternatives as indicated above. 

[Hammer1-1]

so the whole performance shader thing is discontinued?

[WipeUout]

20 minutes ago, Hammer1-1 said:

so the whole performance shader thing is discontinued?

Yup.  With the last iteration I was seeing no more that 0.5ms of frame time improvement and that was with 2.7.18.

[Hammer1-1]

So OpenXR is the way from here on out. I tried out MT in VR a few days ago and I didnt have a good experience out of it until I went back to all my previous settings, so its like nothing changed. Guess Vulkan will be the next light in the tunnel.

[WipeUout]

Well OXR is pretty good performance wise but very unstable with a Pimax, I have to turn on OXRTK turbo mode and limit FPS at my refresh rate to get rid of wobbles and stutters and still very unstable.  OpenVR is working well but only in ST, MT is good but not possible to use Reshade with it.  We are at the early stages of MT implementation... Looking forward to get DLSS implemented, I think this will come before Vulkan.  

[jeni1976]

Greetings!
I would like to see your work on shader matching in stable version 2.8
Please

[Laci836]

Haze reduce

DCS World\Bazar\shaders\enlight\atmPrecompute.fx

atmPrecompute.fx

line 310

    uNu  = floor(ids.x / Number(SKY_RADIANCE_TEXTURE_DIST_SIZE)) / SCATTERING_TEXTURE_SIZE.x;
    uDist = fmod(ids.x, Number(SKY_RADIANCE_TEXTURE_DIST_SIZE)) / SCATTERING_TEXTURE_SIZE.y*0.6;
    uMu  = ids.y / (SCATTERING_TEXTURE_SIZE.z-1);
    uR   = ids.z / (SCATTERING_TEXTURE_SIZE.w-1)*0.6;

 

original

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[lefuneste01]

Hello. You can also have a look here

 

Edited August 20, 2024 by lefuneste01