VR Shaders for IC Pass, Clear Water and Texture fixes

[zildac]

@speed-of-heat Get chopping. Just tried Kegetys vanilla 2.7 compatible MOD and it works great. Any chance of @Taz1004 integrating his fixes into yours as before?

[speed-of-heat]

depends on @Taz1004, i'm working off the native mod at present

[speed-of-heat]

Clearwater version is up 

[speed-of-heat]

IC Pass version is now up

[zildac]

8 minutes ago, speed-of-heat said:

IC Pass version is now up

Thankyou sir!!

[Krenth]

On 4/15/2021 at 1:53 PM, speed-of-heat said:

IC Pass version is now up

@speed-of-heat It seems to hang indefinitely at splash screen for me. Without the shaders, it launches fine. Then I use OVGME to install it, and it starts doing the hanging. And there's 0.3MB file to repair whenever I remove it with OVGME. Let me know if you need any logs or such. Yeah it stopped doing that now. Thanks!

Edited April 18, 2021 by Krenth

[speed-of-heat]

nope it works fine , you just have to leave it alone for a long time ... 

[The Highlander]

Clearwater version works fantastic, i have my frames back ,,

thank you speed of heat for your swift work and kegetys obviouslly

Edited April 15, 2021 by The Highlander

[GrapeFruiT]

You are genious guys. Will try both version out. Thanks a lot to you people helping us to get more fps in VR. Such a great work. Thanks to Keygetys, Speed of Heat, woona, taz1004 to everyone wojtas/lukas and all helpfull vr shader mod optimize guys. THANKS

[GrapeFruiT]

 

Hey guys there had been a new mini updater update. Both shader versions doesn't work right now, at least for me. I had this error dissapearing trying to start DCS.

 

[speed-of-heat]

Im just did the mini updater update , and it seems to work OK ?

[GrapeFruiT]

okay, guys both versions work now, i had to repair my dcs, after a new try with JSMGE it works.

[Hive]

How is your experience with the shaders and 2.7? Still a performance improvement? I built a new PC and have a lot of configuration work to do, before I can test myself, but I am curious. I will share my experience later. 

Edited April 19, 2021 by Hive

[speed-of-heat]

yes - not a massive improvement but it is still there 

 

Edited April 19, 2021 by speed-of-heat

[speed-of-heat]

Following up on @Hivequestion and with some prompting from @ShaunXhere are the numbers from a non exhaustive set of testing, this is a reduction of GPU frame times in ms compared with 2.7 native, the CPU frametime variation was margin of error, i was testing with AA turned on and motion smoothing turned off:

 

Kegetys               reduction of 1.598ms

Clear Water         reduction of 1.526ms

IC Pass                reduction of 0.854ms

 

 

I hope that helps

[zildac]

6 minutes ago, speed-of-heat said:

Following up on @Hivequestion and with some prompting from @ShaunXhere are the numbers from a non exhaustive set of testing, this is a reduction of GPU frame times in ms compared with 2.7 native, the CPU frametime variation was margin of error, i was testing with AA turned on and motion smoothing turned off:

 

Kegetys               reduction of 1.598ms

Clear Water         reduction of 1.526ms

IC Pass                reduction of 0.854ms

 

 

I hope that helps

Useful info, thanks SOH I'm still running the native Kegetys version and can concur I'm seeing on avg around 1.5ms decrease in GPU frametimes with the mod enabled.

[Hive]

Just did a quick test with the A-10c II (Instant Action, Caucasus, Take Off, on the ground and flying around). I disabled the simplified canopy glass as I don't like it. And I just looked at FPS.

In VR there was no change or occasionaly one frame more at best. In 2D however it jumped from 100 FPS up to 120. So huge change there. Everything worked fine.

[speed-of-heat]

Also still working in the latest release

[FupDuck]

Hi! First of all, thanks for doing this work you guys! 

 

I just want to double check something. I currently have the latest 2.7 version of the kegetys mod installed. If I want to use the shader on this thread, do I need to disable the kegetys version first? 

 

Also, can I use this in conjunction with the reshader mod described in this thread:

 

Thanks! 

 

[speed-of-heat]

@Sandmonkee 

 

If you want to use my version of Kegteys, yes you need to disable Kegetys mod first.  I would use a MOD manager I use modmanfx.

 

yep the universal shader mod works in conjunction with either Kegetys or my varients of his mod.

 

 

 

 

[zildac]

21 minutes ago, Sandmonkee said:

Hi! First of all, thanks for doing this work you guys! 

 

I just want to double check something. I currently have the latest 2.7 version of the kegetys mod installed. If I want to use the shader on this thread, do I need to disable the kegetys version first? 

 

Also, can I use this in conjunction with the reshader mod described in this thread:

 

Thanks! 

 

Yes, these variants are all mods to the base Kegetys shader MOD, so they are mutually exclusive. You can flip between versions using a MOD manager, just bear in mind the initial long shader rebuild time will appear as though DCS has hung.

 

@speed-of-heat beat me to it

 

I misread, yes universal shader mod (reshade) works with any of the variants.

Edited April 24, 2021 by zildac

[speed-of-heat]

lol thanks @zildac

[FupDuck]

Thanks for the quick response you guys! I am using OVGME so yes it's easy to switch. Well, other than the wait for the shaders to recompile!

[FupDuck]

Quick update just to say this works great! Definitely an upgrade to the kegetys version, I love the clear water, I really noticed it flying along the Normandy beaches. Beautiful! 

[zildac]

@Taz1004 Is there anything you can add to this version in a similar fashion to your tweaked version for 2.5.6?

Edited April 27, 2021 by zildac