VR Shaders mod for better VR experience

[whisky.actual]

without knowing your hardware or settings thats a problematic question, try my settings and see. MSAA will not make things clearer ... it will deliberately blur them ...

Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz, 16 gig DDR3, GTX 1070 and I have windows and DCS installed on SSD. VR is an Odyssey +

 

Quite a old rig, planning to upgrade, but I'll need to change most of the PC.

[Taz1004]

Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz, 16 gig DDR3, GTX 1070 and I have windows and DCS installed on SSD. VR is an Odyssey +

 

Quite a old rig, planning to upgrade, but I'll need to change most of the PC.

 

In _HMD.hlsl, you want all the first section (optimisations) turned on (1). And all second section (improvements) turned off (0)

 

MSAA and Shadows are biggest FPS hog. Turn them off. Set in-game PD to 1 and increase SteamSS gradually to acceptable FPS.

 

Sounds like you are aware your system is below recommended spec for VR so you can't afford to have some of the luxury settings. And if you're planning to upgrade soon, I'd OC the heck out of your CPU. I don't mean be reckless, but carefully push it to its limit. Your GPU may have some OC headroom too.

 

But if you want more advice on your system, make separate thread on Hardware section. Don't want to hijack this thread.

Edited October 3, 2020 by Taz1004

[whisky.actual]

In _HMD.hlsl, you want all the first section (optimisations) turned on (1). And all second section (improvements) turned off (0)

 

MSAA and Shadows are biggest FPS hog. Turn them off. Set in-game PD to 1 and increase SteamSS gradually to acceptable FPS.

 

Sounds like you are aware your system is below recommended spec for VR so you can't afford to have some of the luxury settings. And if you're planning to upgrade soon, I'd OC the heck out of your CPU. I don't mean be reckless, but carefully push it to its limit. Your GPU may have some OC headroom too.

 

But if you want more advice on your system, make separate thread on Hardware section. Don't want to hijack this thread.

Unfortunately this in a locked CPU, therefore I can't OC it. I plan to upgrade soon but my concern is that objects outside the cockpit will always be choppy and blurry. I can run the game, I've tried almost all the tricks, but post 2.5.6 nothing is helping anymore. I used to be able to run with 150% Steam SS, but now I can't go over 120%.

[Eaglewings]

Unfortunately this in a locked CPU, therefore I can't OC it. I plan to upgrade soon but my concern is that objects outside the cockpit will always be choppy and blurry. I can run the game, I've tried almost all the tricks, but post 2.5.6 nothing is helping anymore. I used to be able to run with 150% Steam SS, but now I can't go over 120%.

O+ here too with almost similar rig setup. Correct on blurry and pixelated image of object outside the cockpit post 2.5.6. This is with or without the shaders mod. Same rig used to do quite well visually in far distance in 2.5.5

 

What does help for me is setting dcs PD to like 1.2-1.3 and steamvr SS to 120%. Image a sharper and fps is in mid 30s.

 

A hardware upgrade is in line for me too, just waiting for the dust to settle with all the new line of cpu/gpu introduction.

[whisky.actual]

O+ here too with almost similar rig setup. Correct on blurry and pixelated image of object outside the cockpit post 2.5.6. This is with or without the shaders mod. Same rig used to do quite well visually in far distance in 2.5.5

 

What does help for me is setting dcs PD to like 1.2-1.3 and steamvr SS to 120%. Image a sharper and fps is in mid 30s.

 

A hardware upgrade is in line for me too, just waiting for the dust to settle with all the new line of cpu/gpu introduction.

I hear you brother! Got my B550 already, now waiting on those new Ryzen chip to drop!

[ohyeah2389]

EDIT: I'm dumb. If you are as dumb as I am, and also have this issue, turn ENABLE_SIMPLE_CANOPY off in _HMD.hlsl.

 

 

 

I'm sorry if this has been answered already, but when using this mod with the latest version of DCS (I tried speed-of-heat's version too) the gauges in the A-10C II (and maybe other aircraft) have turned a milky white. Also, all baked in reflections are much more visible. Any idea which file is causing this? And yes, I made sure to delete my fxo and metashaders2 folders every time I made a change. Pics for comparison below.

Edited October 9, 2020 by ohyeah2389

[Adam]

What does help for me is setting dcs PD to like 1.2-1.3 and steamvr SS to 120%. Image a sharper and fps is in mid 30s.

 

Just curious why you set it in 2 different locations? I was under the impression that these two settings were identical as far as what is done behind the scenes (ie, upping SS to 160 and leaving PD at 0, or increasing PD by a decimal and leaving SS at 0 would be the same as what you're doing above.

 

Or is there something special about mixing the two in that I'm not aware of?

[Eaglewings]

Just curious why you set it in 2 different locations? I was under the impression that these two settings were identical as far as what is done behind the scenes (ie, upping SS to 160 and leaving PD at 0, or increasing PD by a decimal and leaving SS at 0 would be the same as what you're doing above.

 

Or is there something special about mixing the two in that I'm not aware of?

Strangely enough, increasing steam SS doesn't seems to do much for me since updating to dcs world 2.5.6, distant object are so washed-out so I use a combination of both to get less pixelated images both on menu screen and in the 3d world.

Just what works for me at this time.

[ibotyson]

Heyy Guys

 

i hope someone can help me. I get bad stutters in DCS. With every stutter the sound lags too. I noticed that the cpu utilization drops with every stutter. No difference between singleplayer or multiplayer. I tried to lower all settings but no difference in stutters.

I disabled hotplug and game dvr.

 

I play only in VR and with the VR preset settings i got 80fps locked for my rift-s with no ASW.

 

My System:

Zotac RTX 3080

Ryzen 3700x

32gb RAM 2400MHz.

NVMe 1Tb

 

thank you

[speed-of-heat]

I don't really know much about Ryzan CPU's you might want to create a separate thread:

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=445

 

to see if someone can help you diagnose these problems.

[ibotyson]

Do you think RAM speed makes a difference in DCS?

[speed-of-heat]

this is not the thread for that discussion

[Deadboss]

YOU ARE GODS AMONGST MEN! THANK YOU!!! :D

[=Pedro=]

Hi,

 

I Haven't tried this mod for a couple of months. I was wondering what is the gain of using it these days. 3 - 5 FPS?

 

Thanks in advance.

[speed-of-heat]

Not really how it works, normally I see a reduction in gpu frame time of between 2 and 3ms depending on your system and settings ymmv.

 

Typically for me this means keeping a stable 45fps under wider circumstances

[Roger01]

Great work! This shader runs my DCS at 30-40fps withou fps drop. But .. no mp :( any other shader how work on mp do you have? thx!

[speed-of-heat]

Great work! This shader runs my DCS at 30-40fps withou fps drop. But .. no mp :( any other shader how work on mp do you have? thx!

 

it's difficult to be precise without any detail on your system but, MP is more taxing on the CPU and RAM than single player ... if you haven't got 32MB of RAM then MP is going to hurt

[Roger01]

 

it's difficult to be precise without any detail on your system but, MP is more taxing on the CPU and RAM than single player ... if you haven't got 32MB of RAM then MP is going to hurt

 

Thx for the details, I have 32GB of Ram, but I mean this (1st post) shader won't work in MP (won't pass the integrity check).

For me, the FPS drop in VR are from the "frog" on the canopy (like the JF-17 in high altitude).

 

With this shader = no shader (et no fog) on the canopy so the fps are stable.

[speed-of-heat]

@Roger01 Check my signature file for an IC pass version

[Roger01]

Nice! Thank you! I test that as soon as possible.

[Roger01]

So, I test your IC pass version but the fog on canopy still here.

 

18~ fps in the cockpit and 40~ fps outside, and 40~ without the canopy :

 

(the FPS meter is too small on screenshots)

 

 

 

 

[speed-of-heat]

sorry not sure what you are asking ?

[Taz1004]

sorry not sure what you are asking ?

 

Sounds like he wants to know how to enable simple canopy.

[speed-of-heat]

 

Sounds like he wants to know how to enable simple canopy.

 

yeah but if he has taken my IC Pass variant that's enabled by default...

 

go into the file _HMD.hlsl and make sure this is set as below:

#define ENABLE_SIMPLE_CANOPY  1 // Simplified canopy glass

[Roger01]

#define ENABLE_SIMPLE_CANOPY is already on "1" into the file _HMD.hlsl

 

I have delete fxo and metashaders2 (and the shaders folder before making a repair), past your IC pass variant et launch the game.

I launch JF-17, 35-40 fps in canopy at low altitude.

If I go up at high altitude (15000+), there's fog on the canopy and got a fps drop (18 fps~) in the cockpit only because there's fog/mist/steam/condense (buée en français, sorry don't know the real translation) on the window of the canopy.

 

I got fps drop because of that.

 

I thing the shader of the autor of this thread (1st post of the 1page), delete the window of the canopy entirely, so no fps drop, but no IC pass... :

http://junk.kegetys.fi/DCS%20VR%20Sh....5.6.50321.zip

Edited October 21, 2020 by Roger01