The big VR decision

[Robsterios]

Awesome feedback guys...you've certainly convinced me and I'm pretty excited to get into it.. probably go the G2 for now. I do realize that I'll be optimizing for ever.. 

Can you imagine a day when the hardware will just not be an issue, might not be too far into the future although I do realize I'm going down the rabbit hole and will be forever upgrading.

We're in perpetual lockdown here so got to spend the money on something...!! 

 

Edited September 16, 2021 by Robsterios

[The LT]

awesome
 
could we see your DCS settings ? you play large fov ? thanks

Normal FOV, 100% SS, PD 1.0, fsr about 0.68 iirc. Gets me to 75 fps on most non-complex missions like duels and instant actions. MP is another story, but I get high 60s most of the time. I hate reprojection with a passion though. DCS settings are medium/high, as is usual with VR, pretty standard. 3090 is undervolted and capped to 1840 on the core freq. CPU is at 4.8.

[dburne]

6 hours ago, The LT said:

18 hours ago, dureiken said:

awesome
 
could we see your DCS settings ? you play large fov ? thanks

Normal FOV, 100% SS, PD 1.0, fsr about 0.68 iirc. Gets me to 75 fps on most non-complex missions like duels and instant actions. MP is another story, but I get high 60s most of the time. I hate reprojection with a passion though. DCS settings are medium/high, as is usual with VR, pretty standard. 3090 is undervolted and capped to 1840 on the core freq. CPU is at 4.8.

 

Just out of curiosity, why hold back the GPU?

[speed-of-heat]

temp management most likely, i both undervolt and overclock my GPU 

[DirtyMike0330]

I don't know if this applies to you, but for me - I CANNOT race or drive fast in VR. To this day, I can fly for hours and hours, or play any other kind of VR game (Beat Saber, shooters, etc) and be absolutely fine. However, if I drive like 10 feet in VR I get overwhelmed with motion sickness. 

[Baldrick33]

I too suffered badly from my first experience (DK2 with Project Cars) to the extent I was convinced VR probably wasn’t for me. A few days later I tried again for 10 mins or so until I started to feel a bit nauseous. Then I tried again and again extending the time until it didn’t effect me at all, took a couple of weeks as I recall.

 

The important thing is not to try an push through feeling nauseous, it will just get worse and take longer to recover. You have to train your brain to cope with the mismatch in what you can see and feel through the inner ear, the brain believes you are poisoned and wants to make you sick.

 

Some people won’t be able to ever get over the motion sickness but fortunately most can. I still can’t do motion stuff like first person shooters with locomotion but seated stuff is fine.

[Robsterios]

Strange about the driving issue but it certainly threw me to point I felt it the next day... 

I'm sure with practice and patience, i'll be fine...

I do have a dumb VR question though... so like track IR, where it tracks your movement forward and backward and all axis, does the VR headset do the same...? I assume it does but how does it track this movement..?  

[dburne]

6 minutes ago, Robsterios said:

Strange about the driving issue but it certainly threw me to point I felt it the next day... 

I'm sure with practice and patience, i'll be fine...

I do have a dumb VR question though... so like track IR, where it tracks your movement forward and backward and all axis, does the VR headset do the same...? I assume it does but how does it track this movement..?  

 

Tracks your head movement 1:1.

Edited September 16, 2021 by dburne

[=475FG= Dawger]

22 hours ago, speed-of-heat said:

and way more expensive!

 

VR headsets are much less costly than a similar resolution monitor of decent size. 
 

The real money is in the machine to drive it and the peripherals to fly with but we are already pouring money into that stuff, VR or not. 
 

In fact, I got into VR on accident because, after I built a new gaming rig, the Rift CV1 at $400 was one-third the price of a good gaming monitor. 

Edited September 16, 2021 by =475FG= Dawger

[The LT]

temp management most likely, i both undervolt and overclock my GPU 

Temps were fine even on air, I now run a EK 3090FE fullcover waterblock, but for some bizarre reason FPS is more consistent and fluid with an undervolted card. There is almost zero reason to go with big core/mem clocks in DCS. Undervolting, while reducing max fps by a couple of frames, significantly reduces the min/max fps delta and makes no-repro annoying things like ground jitter much less apparent. YMMV, of course. Many people prefer reprojection.