NEW: Universal VR shader

[Pride37]

Thanks @Brainfreeze and @speed-of-heat, your explaination is perfectly clear, I got it now.

[kybinec]

3 hours ago, Pride37 said:

Спасибо @Brainfreeze и @speed-of-heat, ваше объяснение совершенно ясно, теперь я его понял.

Many thanks to the author of the mod. This mod is fantastic. Unfortunately, I have a Rift-s headset and I have to run Steam VR and Oculus Home together, which greatly reduces the fps. Dear SR Maybe there are plans to make a version of the mod for working with the Oculus without Steam VR?

[Sr.]

1 hour ago, kybinec said:

Many thanks to the author of the mod. This mod is fantastic. Unfortunately, I have a Rift-s headset and I have to run Steam VR and Oculus Home together, which greatly reduces the fps. Dear SR Maybe there are plans to make a version of the mod for working with the Oculus without Steam VR?

I didn't create the mod. The author goes by fholger, frequents reddit.

Hit him up about the Oculus.

[Flyingfish]

17 hours ago, kybinec said:

Many thanks to the author of the mod. This mod is fantastic. Unfortunately, I have a Rift-s headset and I have to run Steam VR and Oculus Home together, which greatly reduces the fps. Dear SR Maybe there are plans to make a version of the mod for working with the Oculus without Steam VR?

Hi Kybinec,

Have you tried using open composite? It does something magic which allows you to bypass steam vr so it shouldn't affect your frame rates.

[kraszus]

This looks promising. I downloaded the Reshade zip and it seems to work quite well. Howver, I uninstalled it by deleting the the reshade-shaders folder, reshade.ini and reshadepreset.ini. Should I also delete the dxgi.dll?? (Not sure if this file was added and overwrote an original dxgi.dll or whether it is proprietary to Reshade only)

[speed-of-heat]

always use a mod manager to install or uninstall mods... 

[Lt_Jaeger]

But make a copy of the .ini....doesn't get saved by uninstalling with OVGME

[Supmua]

1 hour ago, kraszus said:

This looks promising. I downloaded the Reshade zip and it seems to work quite well. Howver, I uninstalled it by deleting the the reshade-shaders folder, reshade.ini and reshadepreset.ini. Should I also delete the dxgi.dll?? (Not sure if this file was added and overwrote an original dxgi.dll or whether it is proprietary to Reshade only)

yes delete dxgi.dll, it’s part of Reshade.  You can always run a DCS repair if there is an issue. 

Edited May 7, 2021 by Supmua

[imacken]

Basic question, how do I change the Home and End key bindings?

[Brainfreeze]

30 minutes ago, imacken said:

Basic question, how do I change the Home and End key bindings?

they are defined in the Reshade.ini file.  you can change the keycode there.

INPUT]
ForceShortcutModifiers=1
InputProcessing=2
KeyEffects=35,0,0,0
KeyNextPreset=0,0,0,0
KeyOverlay=36,0,0,0
KeyPerformanceMode=0,0,0,0
KeyPreviousPreset=0,0,0,0
KeyReload=0,0,0,0
KeyScreenshot=44,0,0,0 

 

Pretty sure reshade also allows you to redefine keybinds from within the UI menu

 

Edited May 9, 2021 by Brainfreeze

[speed-of-heat]

you can also change them through the UI, by going to the settings page, and then double click on the key you want to change home and then pressing the key you want to replace it with 

[imacken]

Thanks guys, do you know, after all this time, I have never even noticed the settings tab in the UI! Duh!

[speed-of-heat]

consider yourself derided appropriately

[Taz1004]

Any of you tried combining this with the full ReShade?  I combined FXAA and while not as good as MSAA, it's definite improvement at very little performance hit.  Definitely reduces the shimmer that comes with sharpen.

You can use it with MSAA too.  There are GIF artifacts in the shots below but they're close to how it looks in VR.

 

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Packaged as a mod.  I believe first time running, you need to open "Home" menu and check FXAA on.

Setting of course can be changed in the "Home" menu.  Above shots are taken with default FXAA setting.

 

VR sharpen FXAA.zip

Edited May 15, 2021 by Taz1004

[Sr.]

1 hour ago, Taz1004 said:

Any of you tried combining this with the full ReShade?  I combined FXAA and while not as good as MSAA, it's definite improvement at very little performance hit.  Definitely reduces the shimmer that comes with sharpen.

I didn't use MSAA in these shots for comparison but you can use it with MSAA.  There are GIF artifacts in the shots below but they're close to how it looks in VR.

 

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Enlarged 200%

 

 

Packaged as a mod.  I believe first time running, you need to open "Home" menu and check FXAA on.

Setting of course can be changed in the "Home" menu.  Above shots are taken with default FXAA setting.

 

VR sharpen FXAA.zip 1.72 MB · 3 downloads

 

Trying it now.

Edited May 15, 2021 by Sr.
update

[Sr.]

Wow. Definitely see a reduction in jaggies, especially on the horizontal edge of the A-10 HUD. And certainly reduces the slight flickering of the sharpen mod.

 

 

 

Nice find brother.

Edited May 15, 2021 by Sr.

[speed-of-heat]

2 hours ago, Taz1004 said:

Any of you tried combining this with the full ReShade?  I combined FXAA and while not as good as MSAA, it's definite improvement at very little performance hit.  Definitely reduces the shimmer that comes with sharpen.

You can use it with MSAA too.  There are GIF artifacts in the shots below but they're close to how it looks in VR.

 

100%

 

Enlarged 200%

 

 

Packaged as a mod.  I believe first time running, you need to open "Home" menu and check FXAA on.

Setting of course can be changed in the "Home" menu.  Above shots are taken with default FXAA setting.

 

VR sharpen FXAA.zip 1.72 MB · 6 downloads

 

Thanks for doing the package work on this! Does FXAA need to be turned on in nvidia menu as well or just leave it to managed by application? I will try it later this morning!

[Taz1004]

1 minute ago, speed-of-heat said:

Thanks for doing the package work on this! Does FXAA need to be turned on in nvidia menu as well or just leave it to managed by application? I will try it later this morning!

 

Just default managed by application.

[speed-of-heat]

Some test results to help:

 

			Frametime in ms		Delta From Baseline
Ver	Test	Baseline	GPU	CPU	GPU	CPU	Changes
2.7.0.5118	26	Test 21	10.70	7.39			Shadows Reduced Frame Rate Impact MOD
2.7.0.5118	33	Test 21	11.51	7.70	-0.77	-0.39	Sharper Eye Reshade 1.2/0.800
2.7.0.5118	34	Test 21	11.51	7.59	-0.81	-0.20	Sharper Eye Reshade Performance Mode
2.7.0.5690	50	Test 26	12.19	7.53	-1.49	-0.14	VR Reshade Sharpen with FXAA

 

The GPU performance impact is doubled over the previous Sharper Eye version of the Reshade mod but the CPU impact is halved.

 

Visually at least to my eye the shimmering is much reduced, to a level personally i find acceptable for me, and i find the hud/instruments "cleaner"... as well.

 

N.B. my test 26 also has MSAA turned on going to try it with out and see 

 

Edited May 15, 2021 by speed-of-heat

[zildac]

This looks good, just had a quick try. Thanks for pulling it together @Taz1004

[speed-of-heat]

Turning off MSAA reduces the GPU frametime cost to be about that of the sharper eye cost... the shimmering is worse but still manageable, and the jaggies are still reduced

 

[Taz1004]

Still trying to find optimal setting.  It's definitely better than Nvidia FXAA.  At least very customizable between performance and quality.  Some detailed information about each settings if you open FXAA.fxh with Notepad++

[speed-of-heat]

thanks @Taz1004 let us know what you find!  AFAIKT the Nvidia FXAA does absolutely nothing in VR ... 

[Taz1004]

I seem to be getting better quality with SMAA.  AA quality is quite good but without getting as blurry as FXAA.  Still testing performance.

You can just drop these two files in /bin/reshade-shaders/Shaders/ and choose SMAA in Home menu.

 

SMAA.fxSMAA.fxh

 

You can't use both FXAA and SMAA.  FXAA will override SMAA.

 

Edit:  You need to install the Mod version I posted earlier before applying SMAA and other ReShade filters.

VR Sharpen FXAA

 

Edited May 15, 2021 by Taz1004

[Sr.]

Nice. My system (and perception) prefer the SMAA. And unless fpsVR is lying to me, I'm seeing between 1-1.2 GPU frametime improvement with it enable.

 

FXAA seems darken more to "hide" the aliasing.

Edited May 15, 2021 by Sr.