A-10C Sidewinder “shimmer”

[GTFreeFlyer]

I’m using the Rift and flying the A-10C with most graphics options turned up to the max, mostly through NVIDIA’s options.

 

I’m not sure how exactly to describe it, but everything looks really great (and frame rate is solid at 45) except for the tips of the sidewinders when I look off to my right side. They seem to shimmer, or be slightly translucent. The edges sort of flicker. I can’t pin down which setting to play with to fix this. If you do offer a suggestion, please let me know if you’ve actually experienced the same thing or are simply taking your best guess. Both options are welcome, but I’ll obviously try one out before the other.

 

Perhaps it’s not even a setting, perhaps it is a bug or just simply because the Sidewinders were not created for VR and there’s no fix for this yet.

 

I’m clueless. Again, it seems to be only the tips of those weapons; all else looks great and is easy to see and read. Thanks in advance.

[GTFreeFlyer]

These are my settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel:

Anisotropic filtering: 16x

AA-FXAA: On

AA - Gamma correction: On

AA - Mode: Override any application setting

AA - Setting: 8x

AA - Transparency: 4x (supersample)

Max pre-rendered frames: 4

Multi-frame sampled AA (MFAA): On

Shader cache: On

Vertical sync: On

VR pre-rendered frames: 1

 

 

My DCS in-game settings are (some items are off because they should be overridden by the above settings, correct?)

 

Textures: high

Terrain textures: high

civ. traffic: high

water: high

visb. range: extreme

heat blur: high

shadows: high

msaa: off

depth of field: off

lens effects: dirt+flare

motion blur: on

ssaa: off

clutter/grass: currently half way, but I had it maxed out. Did not notice difference.

trees visibility: 100%

preload radius: maxed out

chimney smoke density: maxed out

gamma: 1.5 (I like this look the best when in VR)

Anisotropic filtering: off

terrain object shadows: flat

cockpit global illumination: on

rain droplets: on

disable aero interface: off

vsync: off

full screen: off

scale gui: on

VR pixel density: 1.3

[Harlikwin]

Id try turning of fxaa on it makes things blurrier. Try msaa 2x or 4x if you can. And up PD if you can.

[GTFreeFlyer]

Id try turning of fxaa on it makes things blurrier. Try msaa 2x or 4x if you can. And up PD if you can.

 

 

Ok, turning FXAA off for the next attempt.

 

 

Which one is MSAA? That's not listed anywhere unless it's known as something else. See my list above, which I copied from the options I was presented with.

 

 

Thanks for the reply.

[freehand]

Ok, turning FXAA off for the next attempt.

 

 

Which one is MSAA? That's not listed anywhere unless it's known as something else. See my list above, which I copied from the options I was presented with.

 

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

 

5th from the bottom left :D

[GTFreeFlyer]

So I put MSAA at 4x and I as getting around 32 FPS. Reduced to 2x and back up to 45.

 

Tried increasing PD from 1.3 to 1.5, but it killed the frame rate again, so I started eliminating trees and grass, but still couldn’t get 45 FPS. Tried 1.4 but it still didn’t do it. Back to 1.3 and it’s smooth. Low level flying at tree tops knocks FPS down to mid 30’s

 

 

I went even lower with PD to 1.2 and didn’t notice much difference in clarity, but frame rate is great for VR even at tree top level.

 

I couldn’t fix the shimmer with any option. It’s mostly when I’m flying low and there is background moving quickly behind the forward fins of the sidewinder where I see the issues. I’m just going to leave it alone for now. Tired of testing.

 

Question though, should I be using the Nvidia settings to override game settings, or use in-game settings only? Is antialiasing different whether enable in game vs through nvidia?

[Werewolf_fs]

ASW OFF is the solution, but this can lead to strange effects in the cabin if you have less than 45 fps, at least for me...

 

Use left control + numpad 1, 2, 3 or 4, for desactive, limit to 45fps asw out or limit 45fps wint asw on or asw in automatic mode, respectively.

Edited February 11, 2019 by Werewolf_fs

[freehand]

ASW OFF is the solution, but this can lead to strange effects in the cabin if you have less than 45 fps, at least for me...

 

Use left control + numpad 1, 2 or 3 for desactive, limit to 45 or active asw

 

100% ASW will cause shimmering I never touched Nivida setting when I had VR.

Edited February 10, 2019 by freehand

[GTFreeFlyer]

Will try it soon. Thanks for all the suggestions. I’ll likely take a break from VR today. My brain needs it. I was in VR for too many hours yesterday.