reported earlier Does anyone at ED fly with display exports to secondary monitors, at night?

[Floyd1212]

Like the title says:

Does anyone at ED fly with display exports to secondary monitors?

Then the follow-up question would be:

What is the workaround to be able to use display exports on night missions?

[Scaley]

1 hour ago, Floyd1212 said:

Like the title says:

Does anyone at ED fly with display exports to secondary monitors?

Then the follow-up question would be:

What is the workaround to be able to use display exports on night missions?

ReShade is the workaround. The fact that ALL the ED in-house developed modules have had bugged exports at night for years, and none of the the third party ones do probably answers the first question...

[LeCuvier]

Please explain: what's ReShade?

[MAXsenna]

2 hours ago, LeCuvier said:

Please explain: what's ReShade?

 

https://reshade.me/

[LeCuvier]

DCS World is not on the compatibility list. Somebody using it? Does it pas IC?
Do you start the program before launching DCS World, or is it running permanently in the background?
 

[MAXsenna]

33 minutes ago, LeCuvier said:

DCS World is not on the compatibility list. Somebody using it? Does it pas IC?
Do you start the program before launching DCS World, or is it running permanently in the background?
 

I don't run it anymore. Too much hassle for my low-end computer.
it passes IC. Has "nothing" to do with DCS in general. DCS doesn't "know" about it. It just put filters/shaders between the GPU and screen if I sort of understand it correctly.

From video linked below. The video is 10 minutes long.

"How to make DCS look better without affecting Frame Rate!! Keep in mind, this does NOT affect your image resolution/anti aliasing/graphical power. This merely filters the image coming out. All the Graphic power anti aliasing/resolution/frame rate is controlled by your GPU/CPU. ReShade"

 

 

[Hiob]

1 hour ago, LeCuvier said:

DCS World is not on the compatibility list. Somebody using it? Does it pas IC?
Do you start the program before launching DCS World, or is it running permanently in the background?
 

Reshade is very commonly used. It works well with DCS. It is just a post processing shader, where you can adjust brightness, gamma, sharpness, colour and so on or even add fancy effects like cell-shading. It comes with a fps penalty though.

I use it only for a little sharpening and color correction. Kind of lifts the grey haze from DCS.

The Installation is simple. Just Install and follow the instructions. You just point manually to the position of the DCS/bin folder during the installation process.

If you stay light on the effects you use, the fps impact is minor. (about 2% for me)

The nice thing with Reshade is, you can switch it on and off anytime instantaneous by a button press during gameplay and observe the effects on visuals and fps in real time.

Edited August 5, 2022 by Hiob

[Floyd1212]

I use ReShade to brighten the displays for daytime missions, and it works great.  In fact, here is a post in another thread where I explain how to use UI Mask to only apply the shader correction to the exported display regions.  If you use exported displays, and aren't using ReShade to correct them, I highly recommend it.

 

 

But that is not a fix for night missions.  Or maybe someone can share their shader settings they use to accomplish this satisfactorily?

This is what I get without ReShade correcting the exported displays below my main display.  Way too dark.

This is what I get after applying the shaders to the exported display regions.  Exported displays look perfect, but the cockpit displays are giving me a headache.

This is what I get after reducing the VID brightness knob to where the displays look normal in the cockpit.  The exported displays are now useless, and no amount of shader adjustment (that I have discovered) can overcome this, as there is not enough information there to enhance with gamma adjustments.

 

So I'm curious what the trick is the folks at ED use to get this working properly for flying night missions?

[LeCuvier]

Thanks guys! I've installed it and it certainly is an improvement in "crispness)". I have only selected curve and sharpen, and I see no drop in FPS.

[Hiob]

On 8/5/2022 at 7:26 PM, LeCuvier said:

Thanks guys! I've installed it and it certainly is an improvement in "crispness)". I have only selected curve and sharpen, and I see no drop in FPS.

As I said, the cost is minor if you keep it light. It heavily depends on the kind of effect you apply. E.g. you can add anti aliasing by reshade too. There is a ton of other effects (some very useless, but kind of cool). Unless you are intentionally measuring your fps (and not just eyeballing) you won’t notice the fps-loss.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi this has already been reported to the team, but there is no easy solution currently and I have no progress to share 
Originally posted here

We have testers who export and Wags also has a winwing setup with exported displays.

I mostly use VR now days my exporting display days have passed