HTC Vive Console app

[Sr.]

I have a Vive Cosmos Elite. Today I was poking around settings (again), and came across this under the Vive console, video settings.

 

It's called "Motion Compensation". I assume this is their version of "Motion Smoothing" found under SteamVR?

 

 

 

I can honestly say, I've never personally seen any improvement or difference really enabling SteamVR motion smoothing (Per application DCS)

I do know the "Global default" is "Not supported.

 

Reading further, I am finding questions (mostly complaints) from Vive users to HTC asking why Motion Smoothing is not supported in SteamVR.

 

SO

 

I enabled the Vive console Motion Compensation, started DCS with my usual settings (I typically get a decently steady 45 fps in Caucuses) with 1.0 PD and can mostly read what I need to in the pit. I immediately noticed the strange, occasional liquidy artifacting...not horrible, but noticeable. Then I notice the in game fps counter was about half what I normally see, but it was steady. 

 

Then I started banking, diving looking around (things that might normally cause the frames to stutter)... there was NONE, no stuttering and I swear things look less blurry.

 

So I decided o move my PD slider up to 1.4 (in the past, this would bring DCS to a stuttering crawl for me). Restarted, launched Take off in Caucuses... and HOLY CRAP! The instruments are SO much clearer, I'm still showing th3 mid 20's FPS but again, NO jitter, stuttering or blur.

 

 

I guess my questions would be:

 

DO Vive headsets support Motion Smoothing in SteamVR?

Has any other Vive users played around with this "feature" and how do YOU like it?

I can almost get past the liquid looking artifacting for the increased clarity and completely eliminating the stutters.