Quest 2 and ground texture distance

[atledreier]

I'm VERY happy with my Q2 image quality and performance. 

Dials and MFDs are very readable and up close detail is great.

 

However, ground textures and detail go blurry very quickly. What is the "cheapest" way (performance wise) to improve this rendering detail?

 

Also, I currently have the OTT set to 1,5 times supersampling, and 1,3 in game. Is the 1.3 overriding the tray tool, or would it be better to set the tray tool to 1.8 and ingame to 1.0?  

[Hoirtel]

In short the detail in the distance is harder to get, its a physical limitation of the resolution of any of the VR headset, with the possible exception of the varjo aero (yet to try it). As per other threads preferable performance and quality is to raise the resolution in the oculus software device settings before doing anything in OTT, ODT or DCS (in-game). This will give  you the best native detail, before you go multiplying it. Sounds like at the moment you are multiplying a lower base resolution. 

Worth remembering that the latter three controls (OTT and ODT work the same control) are multipliers of each other and ultimately of the resolution you set in the main oculus software. I run high settings at max resolution and my 3090 will  not take any super sampling at all. The visuals are very good.

Don't bother changing ingame PD. Not really worth it.

For ref: ODT = oculus debug tool

Edited January 17, 2022 by Hoirtel

[atledreier]

I've got the OTT default SS set to 1,5, the Oculus software is set to 1.0, and pixel density in DCS is set to 1,3.

Where should I set the supersampling once and for all? Is there somewhere that will set it "globally" for all games?, DCS in particular?

[Hoirtel]

Oculus software is base resolution not supersampling. 1.0 means you are under sampling. Ignore the 1.X values here, they are irrelevant and I'm sure oculus just did this to confuse people. 

Leave DCS pixel density and OTT at default and set software as high as you can first

Then if you want you can use ODT to multiply (supersample) it. But it is a percentage of your base so the larger the base is the larger increases ODT will create. I don't supersample at all on a 3090 as max is enough. 

 

[edmuss]

If it's blurry textures then what is your anisotropic and terrain texture set to? Also play with any texture filtering options in the GPU control panel.

Higher resolution will reduce aliasing jaggies and shimmer in the distance but not improve muddy/blurry textures.

Edited January 18, 2022 by edmuss

[atledreier]

4 hours ago, edmuss said:

If it's blurry textures then what is your anisotropic and terrain texture set to? Also play with any texture filtering options in the GPU control panel.

Higher resolution will reduce aliasing jaggies and shimmer in the distance but not improve muddy/blurry textures.

 

I had draw distance set to medium. Set it to whatever if above high, and all is well.
Performance is smooth with a very occational hiccup (2-3 times in a flight), so that's my current settings done.

I'll experiment more with getting my resolutions sorted as @Hoirtel suggested. 

Thanks guys!

[diamond26]

I  just want to reiterate what @Hoirtel said about DCS PD set to 1.0 and mainly use Oculus resolution. Anything else does more damage than good.

[Hoirtel]

6 hours ago, edmuss said:

If it's blurry textures then what is your anisotropic and terrain texture set to? Also play with any texture filtering options in the GPU control panel.

Higher resolution will reduce aliasing jaggies and shimmer in the distance but not improve muddy/blurry textures.

 

Higher anisotropic filtering values are most noticeable from cockpit when sat on a runway/taxiway. 16x looks great, I also don't find this has much perf impact so I wouldn't go lower than 8x but I would have thought 16x would be fine for most people.

Texture filtering in the Nvidia control panel is best at high performance, regardless of system. You likely won't see any quality difference but this has lower latency, its a small gain but helps ease those ground stutters.

"Higher resolution will reduce aliasing jaggies and shimmer in the distance but not improve muddy/blurry textures". - Bearing in mind that the thread was about improving distant detail,  using a Q2 at low res with 1.3/1.4 supersampling looks sharp close and bad far away.