New: FSR support for SteamVR via mod

[mhe]

So the same guy who made our vision within VR finally sharp (via the reshade mod) now injects experimental AMD FSR support into SteamVR. I'll have to check that out:

 

https://github.com/fholger/openvr_fsr

 

AMD FSR should work on Nvidia cards as well mind you, so can't go wrong with that one. Hope you'll enjoy and please share your findings, gotta go and play with that myself now.

 

[Mr_sukebe]

Now that's interesting.  Would love to see ED have a go at this.

 

[Werewolf_fs]

 

[mhe]

4 minutes ago, Werewolf_fs said:

 

Nevermind then, I'll have a look there, thanks, didn't see that one. 

[RackMonkey]

I've tried the RC2 version and it's killed something. When I start DCS SteamVR ALWAYS shuts down with a critical error. No information so your left holding your joystick wandering what happened. I tried reverting to the original DLL and deleted the RC2 files. Same thing. I'm still tring to figure out how to get DCS back to just SteamVR and DCS. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling SteamVR and running a full on repair of DCS but it doesn't seem to do any good. X-Plane seem to run fine under SteamVR and DCS runs fine when not in VR mode but there is something screwed up when I try to run DCS in VR mode.
I also noticed that NeckSafer is also screwed up but I havent gotten to trouble shooting that one yet.

[SPAS79]

I am trying to get DCS to start in SteamVR mode (I'm running a Rift S) but find it extremely difficult to. It ALWAYS starts with the Oculus API, even if I select the SteamVR API in Skatezilla's... Any ideas? 

[The_Nephilim]

1 hour ago, SPAS79 said:

I am trying to get DCS to start in SteamVR mode (I'm running a Rift S) but find it extremely difficult to. It ALWAYS starts with the Oculus API, even if I select the SteamVR API in Skatezilla's... Any ideas? 

Put the following in the DCS Shortcut Target Line:    DCS.exe" --force_steam_VR

 

I have a Rift S and this is how I get Steam Vr to work..   

[SPAS79]

Seems the solution was twofold: 
1) Re-enable SteamVR as OpenVR Renderer (it's in settings->developer)

2) Start DCS via the "VR ON" button on Skatezilla's DCS GUI config utility, that worked. 

I can now use VRNeckSafer and the OpenVR AMD FSR "hack", so I can be a happy man. I think I will still end up playing in native Oculus API, but it's nice to have choices. 

[Sirbum]

so before this i was running DCS at .5 PD inside DCS and 230% resolution in SteamVR and was getting about 16.2-17.8 Frames per mili Second on the ground at an airport.

 

with this put in, and leaving it at the .77 and everything else default i went down to 14.2-15 FPMS, which really is a big differance. Being that anything about 19 starting becoming jittery.

 

So because of this i was able to up my SteamVR resolution to 400% which is like 4K being DCS was down to .5 and on the ground i am getting 16-17 FPMS and up in the air it drops to 14-15FPMS.

 

So this really helped alot. all this is on the Reverb G2

 

with my system being

 

I-7 10700

RTX 2070 no overclock

32 Gigs of 3200 corsair vengence ram

Nvme disk

 

 

EDIT: so just to add a little more to this, i just now finished playing a two hour stint in the harrier, do the training missions and man was it fun.

like I said on the ground i was averaging about 17MS in the one i was doing, but it was smooth with the FPS locked at 45 with motion smoothing.

and being that I just went from the Rift S to the Reverb G2 on this same system, man was that just nice looking.

 

The mission I was in actually had a helio come flying in and land and for the first time I was actually able to see the Red and Green lights blinking

lol. Sounds mondain but you just don't get the colors like that in the Rift S.

 

Only thing i wish i could get rid of now is the damn Shimmering. I get a fair amount of that, but no matter what i have tried nothing really seems

to make that go away. maybe if i went higher with the SS% but I don't want to get to a point where i start getting ghosting while on the ground.

So I think I can live with it.

Edited August 11, 2021 by Sirbum

[VirusAM]

Put the following in the DCS Shortcut Target Line:    DCS.exe" --force_steam_VR
 
I have a Rift S and this is how I get Steam Vr to work..   

Does this work with open composite as well?

[The_Nephilim]

On 8/14/2021 at 11:44 AM, VirusAM said:

Does this work with open composite as well?

well I am not sure best bet is to try it and see if it works?

[VirusAM]

well I am not sure best bet is to try it and see if it works?

I will as the temperature will allow me to seat near a pc too much heat here right now

[5ephir0th]

On 8/14/2021 at 5:44 PM, VirusAM said:

Does this work with open composite as well?

 

No, the DLL file that you must to overwrite is the same for OpenComposite and FSR, so our best bet is to someone take the OpenComposite DLL and mod it, adding the code needed for FSR

[MorrisTheCat]

On 7/9/2021 at 2:27 AM, mhe said:

AMD FSR should work on Nvidia cards as well mind you, so can't go wrong with that one. Hope you'll enjoy and please share your findings, gotta go and play with that myself now.

mhe, how did it work for you?  I got it working, I think.  It seems there is a decent uplift in performance and at Ultra Performance I don't see much of an impact on quality.  I haven't done a lot of testing so would like to hear thoughts from others!

[mhe]

On 8/17/2021 at 8:01 AM, MorrisTheCat said:

mhe, how did it work for you?  I got it working, I think.  It seems there is a decent uplift in performance and at Ultra Performance I don't see much of an impact on quality.  I haven't done a lot of testing so would like to hear thoughts from others!

Works for me and gives a bit of a performance boost but I do get really bad shimmering with it for some reason, so I don't use it at the  moment.