Another win for Fholger

[DucS2r]

I started with RC1 last night and wondered what I had done wrong. Switched to the alpha and I get the performance improvement without much of an increase in shimmering, but enough of a degradation in clarity that I went back to just Kegety’s and the Reshade mod. Thanks for the tip, Sr. I’ll try those settings later today. 

[javelina1]

there's a RC2 made available hours ago, anyone tried that?

[speed-of-heat]

Yes, it fixes a bug in rc1 that basically was too bright in dcs.

[javelina1]

50 minutes ago, speed-of-heat said:

Yes, it fixes a bug in rc1 that basically was too bright in dcs.

RC2 working pretty good for me in that other sim...  will try it out in DCS later today.

[Sr.]

1 hour ago, javelina1 said:

there's a RC2 made available hours ago, anyone tried that?

I tried it briefly, the jiggedy MFDs were too much for me.

[speed-of-heat]

you should bug it on the github, he seems pretty responsive 

[Sr.]

2 minutes ago, speed-of-heat said:

you should bug it on the github, he seems pretty responsive 

I hit him up on Reddit

[speed-of-heat]

Release version 1.0 is now published

[The LT]

Release version 1.0 is now published

Seems to work fine.

[javelina1]

cool beans, going to grab the release.  thanks!

[zildac]

Still not had a chance to try this (Release 1.0), any opinions/experience on shimmer more/less than with Reshade? Hopefully get some time to fiddle again soon.

[speed-of-heat]

V 1.1 release

 

FidelityFX SuperResolution for SteamVR games v1.1

Repository: fholger/openvr_fsr · Tag: fsr_v1.1 · Commit: 885ebc2 · Released by: fholger

Changelog:

• Fixed projection center for the radius application of FSR. The radius where FSR is applied should now give proper stereo overlap on all headsets.
• Added a debugMode option that, when enabled, visualizes the FSR radius and also periodically logs the GPU cost of the FSR application.
• Be a bit more conservative when overriding sampler LOD bias. Might (or might not) prevent some rendering issues when applyMipBias is enabled.

On 7/28/2021 at 9:04 PM, zildac said:

Still not had a chance to try this (Release 1.0), any opinions/experience on shimmer more/less than with Reshade? Hopefully get some time to fiddle again soon.

I literally turn off the sharpening ... and just use the FSR component 

[Sr.]

3 hours ago, speed-of-heat said:

V 1.1 release

 

FidelityFX SuperResolution for SteamVR games v1.1

Repository: fholger/openvr_fsr · Tag: fsr_v1.1 · Commit: 885ebc2 · Released by: fholger

Changelog:

• Fixed projection center for the radius application of FSR. The radius where FSR is applied should now give proper stereo overlap on all headsets.
• Added a debugMode option that, when enabled, visualizes the FSR radius and also periodically logs the GPU cost of the FSR application.
• Be a bit more conservative when overriding sampler LOD bias. Might (or might not) prevent some rendering issues when applyMipBias is enabled.

I literally turn off the sharpening ... and just use the FSR component 

"I literally turn off the sharpening ... and just use the FSR component "

Same

[Sr.]

On 7/28/2021 at 3:04 PM, zildac said:

Still not had a chance to try this (Release 1.0), any opinions/experience on shimmer more/less than with Reshade? Hopefully get some time to fiddle again soon.

I turn the FSR sharpen off, the frametime gain allows me to run 4x MSAA depending on the cloud layer involved, I've run it at 2x and it looks fine too.

[Digitalvole]

Does one need to turn up the msaa in order to get a decent image? And if so does that gobble up the FPS gains of the mod? 

[speed-of-heat]

i run at MSAAx2  image looks good to me

, i also turn off the sharpening (set it to 1.0) in config.  but it it takes about 5 mins to test.

[Digitalvole]

Cool thanks, haven’t had a chance to “fly” since last week. Maybe I will tonight, if so I’ll check it out. 

[j9murphy]

so is this complementary to or does it replace this...

 

https://github.com/fholger/reshade/releases/tag/openvr_alpha2

 

from the thread 

 

 

[speed-of-heat]

completely different... 

though there is some sharpening done 

[Munkwolf]

3 hours ago, j9murphy said:

so is this complementary to or does it replace this...

 

https://github.com/fholger/reshade/releases/tag/openvr_alpha2

 

from the thread 

 

 

 

I use both. I like the color and contrast options available via the reshade plugin, but then have FSR going as well for a little upscaling (renderScale = 1.1). I use the sharpening in both (openvr_mod.cfg sharpness = .75, then the LumaSharpen reshade filter on top of that) as the extra contrast helps me with spotting, especially ground targets.

Edited August 16, 2021 by Munkwolf

[j9murphy]

9 minutes ago, Munkwolf said:

 

I use both. I like the color and contrast options available via the reshade plugin, but then have FSR going as well for a little upscaling (renderScale = 1.1). I use the sharpening in both (openvr_mod.cfg sharpness = .75, then the LumaSharpen reshade filter on top of that) as the extra contrast helps me with spotting, especially ground targets.

 

 

Thanks, I'll have to try a higher renderScale,  .77 was worse than not using it at all.

 

What value do you use for your reshade sharpen?

[Munkwolf]

4 hours ago, j9murphy said:

 

Thanks, I'll have to try a higher renderScale,  .77 was worse than not using it at all.

 

What value do you use for your reshade sharpen?

 

I've got FakeHDR and LumaSharpen running at default values, then in color adjustments of VR_CAS_Color I've got 1.02 for contrast and brightness, and 1.2 for saturation

[davidp57]

On 8/16/2021 at 10:27 PM, Munkwolf said:

 

I use both. I like the color and contrast options available via the reshade plugin, but then have FSR going as well for a little upscaling (renderScale = 1.1). I use the sharpening in both (openvr_mod.cfg sharpness = .75, then the LumaSharpen reshade filter on top of that) as the extra contrast helps me with spotting, especially ground targets.

 

 

On 8/16/2021 at 10:38 PM, j9murphy said:

 

Thanks, I'll have to try a higher renderScale,  .77 was worse than not using it at all.

 

What value do you use for your reshade sharpen?

 

If I understand correctly how this magical tool from fholger works, it downscales the image to the value specified in the config (*renderScale*) then upscales it back to 1.0 using AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution algorithm (only in a defined radius around the center, the rest is upscaled with the good old linear algorithm).

So, setting *renderScale* to 1.0 effectively disables the AMDFSR magic, and setting it to more than 1.0 is pretty useless, or maybe even detrimental.

But please correct me, I may be wrong.

[Digitalvole]

Oh this one is a conundrum, at first I was really impressed. The perf boost is great but I do not like what it does to the mfds or the clouds (set to standard, ultra is fine but then I lose the performance boost.) Everything else looks fine but those two things are a bit of a dealbreaker for me.

 

But I can see this being great for warbird flying so I’m going to keep it for that.

 

just my 2 pence worth.

[lefuneste01]

On 8/22/2021 at 11:06 AM, Digitalvole said:

The perf boost is great but I do not like what it does to the mfds or the clouds (set to standard, ultra is fine but then I lose the performance boost.)

Hello.

What this library is doing is simple : give a lower than steamVR resolution target to the game, then upscale game ouput to steamVR resolution target and apply sharpen filter to the whole image, because upscaling process mqy create a slight blurr.

Why do you win fps ? Because DCS will compute its output at lower resolution than without this library.

Will you loose details ? Yes if the resolution given to DCS by the library is lower than your HMD resolution.

Will it increase shimmering ? Yes because sharpen filter is prone to create shimmering, and it will be applyed on whole image.

When should I not use it ? If you are not using SS do bot use it, because DCS will compute at lower resolution and you will loose details.

Should I use SS with this library ? Yes, it's the main pupose : "low cost SS", because it's done after game rendering, by aglobal image processing.

Should I use reshade with this library ? No if you are using sharpen only, because it incluses on sharpen filter.

Is it compatible with VRneckSafer that includes also a openVR library ? Yes, you just have to overwrite the one of DCS, not the one of VRNeckSafer.

 

Personally, I prefer to not use this library sharpen filter (option set to 0) and use my mod sharpen, because I can set up diferent settings for MFD, HUD, cockpit, external.

 

 

Edited August 26, 2021 by lefuneste01