Patch notes discussion October 2023 - DCS 2.9

[westr]

Wow what an update. Can’t wait to try it. 

[Tazer83]

I think this is going to take some playing around to get that balance with the new settings. I'm on a 4070 card and I just don't know what option to use. FPS has increased massively on all options but DLSS looks blury. Do we have to turn any options off on the NVIDIA control panel ?

[Rudel_chw]

15 minutes ago, Hammer1-1 said:

ove the new splash screen

 

+1 ... yes, I loved it too:

 

 

[Gun Jam]

doesn't run reliably in Vr with hp reverb g2.

Im using MT.

Mixed reality portal shuts down usually after 30 seconds of play time offline. Will keep testing some things.

[twistking]

53 minutes ago, travissgrey said:

I'm trying to use the new comms system, i created a new empty mission in the editor with the AH64, both the options in the Audio settings tab are enabled, i have the key for showing the VoiceChat window in game, but it seems that i'm unable to open the thing, and the window is simply not showing. What i'm doing wrong here?

you must be in a mp environment. just host your test mission locally from the mp menu...

38 minutes ago, Hammer1-1 said:

love the new splash screen [...]

regarding the new splash screen i'm not sure. i think it's a bit much, isn't it? i liked the old one better... it was kinda serene.

the new steam header on the other hand looks just really bad. makes it look like a cheap arcade game and is just not a good image. seems crowded and badly unbalanced. also some really rough transitions: carrier deck to explosion looks terrible.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/223750/DCS_World_Steam_Edition/

Edited October 19, 2023 by twistking

[Hiob]

Okay, from an initial flight in a very demanding environment it runs and looks great (tested with dlaa). Low fps almost doubled. (That may include sinai map improvements)

[kotor633]

Hey, great. The manuals for the A-10C Tank Killer (from 695 pages to 814 pages) and the Apache also received an update today.

 

 

Unfortunately there is still no manual for the Mi-24...

Edited October 19, 2023 by kotor633

[Mootmoot]

Ok ....for me this update is just a crap!!!

In MT version i got the felling to fly in some "after party vomit": everytiing is blurry and shimmering...and i've tried all the different setting

and if i use the Non-MT version there is no more SSAA option ....so the aliasing is awfull

i have an rtx 3060ti and the game was very nice untill now on my computer....so it means i have to buy a new computer to use DCS now

[Hiob]

3 minutes ago, Mootmoot said:

Ok ....for me this update is just a crap!!!

In MT version i got the felling to fly in some "after party vomit": everytiing is blurry and shimmering...and i've tried all the different setting

and if i use the Non-MT version there is no more SSAA option ....so the aliasing is awfull

i have an rtx 3060ti and the game was very nice untill now on my computer....so it means i have to buy a new computer to use DCS now

Have you activated any of the Anti-Aliasing options? (preferably DLAA) 

Because by default when I started the new version for the first time, AA was completely disabled.

[twistking]

5 minutes ago, Mootmoot said:

Ok ....for me this update is just a crap!!!

In MT version i got the felling to fly in some "after party vomit": everytiing is blurry and shimmering...and i've tried all the different setting

and if i use the Non-MT version there is no more SSAA option ....so the aliasing is awfull

i have an rtx 3060ti and the game was very nice untill now on my computer....so it means i have to buy a new computer to use DCS now

have you tried DLAA (not DLSS) and verified that it is actually working?

Edited October 19, 2023 by twistking

[Mustang]

Impressive update, look forward to more flying thanks.

[Mainstay]

Where can i find the new B-1 model in the modelviewer?

[gdoggyc]

Regarding MT - have things improved on new intel chips using 16 e-cores?  I could never get MT in VR to reliably start (i9 13900K) - about 70% of the time my pc would freeze loading a mission…and yes i waited AND WAITED…so i finally bit the bullet and disabled all e-cores.  Now it works and loads up missions…every time.  Any work done in this area?  I’ll keep flying without e-cores but i sure would like to w them on. Will be testing things out when i get back home in a couple hours…

[twistking]

meanwhile all the stable branch peasantry (me included) is waiting on @Silver_Dragon's updated 3d assets post...

[Rudel_chw]

Just tried the new Track replay ... on the F-15E and at the South Atlantic map, the track file replays exactly as the original flight went ... really amazing, I wasnt expecting much but at least on this short test it blew me away 

F-15E - Test.trk

Edited October 19, 2023 by Rudel_chw

[twistking]

37 minutes ago, twistking said:

[...] regarding the new splash screen i'm not sure. i think it's a bit much, isn't it? i liked the old one better... it was kinda serene.

the new steam header on the other hand looks just really bad. makes it look like a cheap arcade game and is just not a good image. seems crowded and badly unbalanced. also some really rough transitions: carrier deck to explosion looks terrible.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/223750/DCS_World_Steam_Edition/

the smaller "mini-header" looks a bit better, but still not as clean as the old steam headers:

Edited October 19, 2023 by twistking

[MAXsenna]

Finally home, speed is good. Can't wait to try. Now, I'll read the change log.

 

[Canada_Moose]

Are there any recommendations on the scaler options when enabling FSR2? It defaults to 0.66

 

[Snappy]

30 minutes ago, Hiob said:

Okay, from an initial flight in a very demanding environment it runs and looks great (tested with dlaa). Low fps almost doubled. (That may include sinai map improvements)

Not sure I follow. I thought DLAA improved image quality at a slight performance hit and did not improve fps?

 

[Willdass]

Anyone else have insanly long load time when starting the game? Took me about 10minutes to get into the main menu. When ingame the missions load a lot faster than before though. Tried restarting now to see if it got better after first start, no change.
DLAA looked amazing though! Very excited about this update

[twistking]

4 minutes ago, Snappy said:

Not sure I follow. I thought DLAA improved image quality at a slight performance hit and did not improve fps?

that is, if you do not use any other form of AA. DLAA should run much faster than MSAA and should look better doing so.

Edited October 19, 2023 by twistking

[Hiob]

1 minute ago, Snappy said:

Not sure I follow. I thought DLAA improved image quality at a slight performance hit and did not improve fps?

 

Compared too no AA it hits performance, but in comparison to MSAA it is better and faster.

[Skyhammer]

vor 19 Minuten schrieb twistking:

have you tried DLAA (not DLSS) and verified that it is actually working?

 

HUDs are still blurry with DLAA

[j0nx]

DLAA without DLSS puts it back visually to the way it was but runs like it did too before the update. All DLSS does from what I can see here is vastly lower visual quality in exchange for better fps. I can do that myself by turning down sliders or resolution. Trying to figure out what was done here with DLSS since no other games that I have make such a drastic downgrade in visuals when it is enabled. I'm running a 5800X3D and a 4090 so not really a hardware issue on my part. They've got some work to do as it looks to be a pretty crudely implemented DLSS addon. I'm sure  it will get better with time. Progress is slow with these guys but ultimately usually happens. Eventually.

[HoBGoBLiNzx3]

This update is incredible..