DCS World Patch Notes Discussion Thread

[Hiob]

20 minutes ago, unlikely_spider said:

i never do that - what's the latest guidance on deleting shaders?

you don‘t necessarily have to do that, but it is often suggested to do - mainly in the VR-context.

I usually don‘t bother, but if I had issues, I‘d give a try...

 

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

22 minutes ago, ShaunX said:

 

Was that in VR with the G2 ? How's the performance ?

I didn't see any performance impact on my machine that's due to clouds (I put them on ULTRA for now but DCS crashed before I could test the other presets _ I doubt you can tell the difference between ULTRA and HIGH or even STANDARD in VR anyway but it needs testing). I also turned on SSAO which looks incredible.

The problem is though, as mentioned in the Known Issues, the entire cloud layer dances up and down (not just distant clouds but everywhere). This is incredibly annoying and I hope this will be fixed in the very short term...
 

[Morrov]

 

Gonna tease you a bit more in the meantime lol

Just now, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

I didn't see any performance impact on my machine that's due to clouds (I put them on ULTRA for now but DCS crashed before I could test the other presets _ I doubt you can tell the difference between ULTRA and HIGH or even STANDARD in VR anyway but it needs testing). I also turned on SSAO which looks incredible.

The problem is though, as mentioned in the Known Issues, the entire cloud layer dances up and down (not just distant clouds but everywhere). This is incredibly annoying and I hope this will be fixed in the very short term...
 

 

The clouds on "standard" get some weird artifacts/patterns on them. It's all gone on ultra, with no noticable performance hit.

 

Got a few crashes too, but it's all good.

[zildac]

So there is a definite impact on performance in VR as it stands currently. My GPU frametimes are up about 4ms and my CPU frametimes are up, well I never even bothered looking at my CPU frametime before tbh. This is with clouds on "standard" on "high" it's even more noticeable.

[FZG_Immel]

2 hours ago, Morrov said:

 

Gonna tease you a bit more in the meantime lol

 

The clouds on "standard" get some weird artifacts/patterns on them. It's all gone on ultra, with no noticable performance hit.

 

Got a few crashes too, but it's all good.

 

your CPU/GPU/RAM ?

[Morrov]

Just now, FZG_Immel said:

 

your CPU/GPU/RAM ?

 

i5-8400, RTX 2060, 24GB RAM.

Running on mostly high, 1080p, no VR.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

4 minutes ago, Morrov said:

The clouds on "standard" get some weird artifacts/patterns on them.

Hmm... I saw weird artifacts on ULTRA as well, especially on the edges where they intersect with terrain.

[zildac]

1 minute ago, FZG_Immel said:

 

your CPU/GPU/RAM ?

And a VR user?

[Morrov]

2 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

Hmm... I saw weird artifacts on ULTRA as well, especially on the edges where they intersect with terrain.

 

What I saw on standard, rain preset was some diagonal lines on the base of one cloud, forming a weird triangle. Very obvious and noticable.

They seem to be fine on ultra.

Edited April 14, 2021 by Morrov

[JayRoc]

Yeah same for me. On Standart they look like minecraft and on ultra its fine. Its also nice to see that they limited the area that is rendered in VR like these shader-Mod.

[71st_Mastiff]

Ultra, with dot abbreviated on causes issues, with the labels.

 

ultra clouds looks like minecraft. lol

 

on high I get dancing clouds.

 

on standard they are fine.

 

 

 

 

[imacken]

8 minutes ago, zildac said:

So there is a definite impact on performance in VR as it stands currently. My GPU frametimes are up about 4ms and my CPU frametimes are up, well I never even bothered looking at my CPU frametime before tbh. This is with clouds on "standard" on "high" it's even more noticeable.

Hmm, when it's not crashing - 4 so far - I'm not seeing any hit in VR at all.  Very pleasantly surprised so far.

[=4c=Nikola]

30% fps decrease is just too much. Hope they will optimize it.

[JayRoc]

The clouds are supossed to cover heat signatures now?

[FZG_Immel]

1 hour ago, JayRoc said:

The clouds are supossed to cover heat signatures now?

 

 

not yet. not affecting AI or sensors ATM

[Sr.]

Downloading

 

 

[Blinde]

I gotta say, these new clouds look mighty fine, even on standard.

 

Thank you, ED!

[SparxOne]

My expectations are met, it looks beautiful and this screenshot was taken not later than 3 minutes after takeoff.

 

Good job ED, i'm really glad and happy to have this upgrade !

 

Edited April 14, 2021 by SparxOne

[JayRoc]

 

Looks like optimised VR shaders... *thumbsup*

Edited April 14, 2021 by JayRoc

[SERGIOABRAZ]

Downloaded and tested, one word: Spectacular, not only did the clouds feel a considerable improvement in textures and brightness.
Thanks ED, it was only worth the nearly 20 years that I have been with them.
Uninstalling the MSFS2020 and buying Tomcat

Edited April 14, 2021 by SERGIOABRAZ

[zildac]

Hmm, when it's not crashing - 4 so far - I'm not seeing any hit in VR at all.  Very pleasantly surprised so far.

I think I got lucky it seems stable (only flown for ten minutes) but a little disappointed with the performance decrease. I guess its the first pass at VR so hopefully tweaks will come.

[Lenux]

wow 

they look awesome 

What about the dynamic weather /ME ? 

What about the presets? 

I just can't wait to get home 

Thank you, guys 

[pimp]

1 minute ago, Lenux said:

wow 

they look awesome 

What about the dynamic weather /ME ? 

What about the presets? 

I just can't wait to get home 

Thank you, guys 

check here:

 

[=4c=Nikola]

Why it's so bright now? I need to lower gamma to 1.3 to be playable.

[dburne]

1 hour ago, ShaunX said:

 

Was that in VR with the G2 ? How's the performance ?

 

Seems about the same to me. I don't even display fps counter, but I noticed no degradation in performance.