Divide the "Textures" option into at least two separate settings: Textures (Cockpit), Textures (External)

[Tuuvas]

Having the ability to individually set cockpit textures and external model textures would be a godsend for VR users on 8GB or less GPUs.  Currently the difference in VRAM usage is pretty significant between Low and High, especially on heavily populated servers with a bunch of different types of aircraft.  For heavily populated servers, I tend to set Textures to Low to avoid choking my VRAM, but the tradeoff is incredibly blurry cockpit labels.  See below:

So my suggestion is to break Textures into two separate options:

1. Textures (Cockpit)
2. Textures (External)

 

Edited March 7, 2022 by Tuuvas

[Fisherman82]

+1 I have been thinking about this myself

[Taxman]

This would be great for VR users I think.

[examors]

+1 this would be a massive improvement for VR.

[draconus]

Yes, been asked for many times before, not only for VR.

Edited April 19, 2021 by draconus

[Woona]

With VRAM being a sacred resource for many running DCS, being able to get the sharp cockpit without the VRAM usage of subjectively negligible ground texture differences would be a super help - not the least for those not lucky enough to have a ReBAR-capable card or one with large VRAM capacity/bandwidth. Great idea. 

Edited April 19, 2021 by Woona

[Fercyful]

+1 great idea

[diamond26]

It would be nice!

[sirrah]

+1

 

and while at it, do the same for shadows please

[HoneyBadger]

+1

 

This is something ED should have added years ago.

[Northstar98]

+1

[XCNuse]

This and cockpit-only shadows would be absolutely tremendous in terms of performance gains for a lot of people.

[Krippz]

Agreed.

[Nomatic]

+1

6 hours ago, XCNuse said:

This and cockpit-only shadows would be absolutely tremendous in terms of performance gains for a lot of people.

I like this. Super crisp pit shadows and lower level ground shadows. Would be nice. 

[sirrah]

2 hours ago, RenegadeSkip said:

+1

I like this. Super crisp pit shadows and lower level ground shadows. Would be nice. 

 

 

First of all, let me be clear, this needs to be implemented to the core game.

 

 

 

So I'm not turning my back on this wish, but to those who can't wait for ED to implement this, check out this sollution from @Motomouse in the meanwhile:

 

 

This will break IC though... So only interesting for SP

[lemoen]

+1   The situation is getting pretty desperate in VR.