DCS Newsletter discussion 29th September 2023 - DCS 2.9 Sneak Peak | Multiplayer Development Progress | B-17G Livery Contest Winners

[BIGNEWY]

5 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Ok, after all this years is sad to see this still pending.

before we can consider animations of troops inside helicopters or vehicles, we need to move forward with Vulkan, we have to consider performance impact and the Vulkan API will hopefully help in this regard. 

[Stratos]

Rgr, have no idea of what that Vulkan is, but will keep an eye on this.

[IR.Clutch]

@BIGNEWY Will MT OpenVR support be included in version 2.9? I'd really like to see it. Thank you.

[Hiob]

18 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Rgr, have no idea of what that Vulkan is, but will keep an eye on this.

Vulkan is a alternative to DirectX. A software interface that enables applications (application layer) to „talk“ to the hardware in a standardized way without actually addressing it directly. Vulkan is supposed to have less overhead and being „faster“.

DCS is a DirectX11 Application. Re-composing it for Vulkan is quite a task and ED is working on it for some time now. 

Edited October 2, 2023 by Hiob

[BIGNEWY]

1 minute ago, IR.Clutch said:

@BIGNEWY Will MT OpenVR support be included in version 2.9? I'd really like to see it. Thank you.

No sorry, we are only using openXR. 

 

[Stratos]

7 minutes ago, Hiob said:

Vulkan is a alternative to DirectX. A software interface that enables applications (application layer) to „talk“ to the hardware in a standardized way without actually addressing it directly. Vulkan is supposed to have less overhead and being „faster“.

DCS is a DirectX11 Application. Re-composing it for Vulkan is quite a task and ED is working on it for some time now. 

 

Thanks for explaining!

[Zebra1-1]

43 minutes ago, IR.Clutch said:

@BIGNEWY Will MT OpenVR support be included in version 2.9? I'd really like to see it. Thank you.

OpenVR is old and for the most part being replaced by OpenXR. 

[Silver_Dragon]

2 hours ago, Stratos said:

Thanks for explaining!

For more info, check here:
https://www.vulkan.org/

Has the "core" over any graphic engine on the entretainment market.

[IR.Clutch]

В 02.10.2023 в 17:59, BIGNEWY сказал:

No sorry, we are only using openXR. 

I'd like to get this a bit clearer. Will there be no OpenVR at all or not yet? Wouldn't there be any post-processing capabilities with DLSS or Vulkan? Reshade gives the ability to make the picture much sharper than OpenXR toolkit. Especially for people with not so good eyesight. Thanks

Edited October 6, 2023 by IR.Clutch

[BIGNEWY]

1 minute ago, IR.Clutch said:

I'd like to get this a bit clearer. Will there be no OpenVR at all or not yet? Wouldn't there be any post-processing capabilities with DLSS or Vulkan? Reshade gives the ability to make the picture much sharper than the OpenXR toolkit. Especially for people with not so good eyesight. Thanks

We have no plans to use openVR, openXR is the way forward for VR in DCS. 

I would wait a little and see what options DLSS and other features bring to DCS settings that could help.  

[giullep]

We can have an idea about when the next OB possibly it will be released..next week prhaps?

[St4rgun]

2 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

I would wait a little and see what options DLSS and other features bring to DCS settings that could help.  

We're ALL eagerly waiting to see those options... Keep up the good work, we're counting the days. If only next week would be THAT week of 2.9, hmm....