Reshade VR Enhancer Mod (VREM)

[BadDad]

Hi, I have installed and configured everything according to the instructions. But nothing happens when I press the Home button. Neither in the headset nor on the monitor. I use a Pimax Crystal. Is this a known problem? Thanks.

[PawlaczGMD]

4 hours ago, lefuneste01 said:

Haze in 2D is working on my machine with your .ini file. The "haze" shader is identified at the beginning of game session but not in the cockpit view...It should !
So something is making it different, I can not define what. Did you have some mods installed ?

I only have reshade and Echo19 sounds installed, I can't imagine it breaks the shader.

Should I have something like 'haze.fx' in my "DCS World\bin\reshade-shaders\Shaders\VREM" dir?

It looks like this:null

Edited March 13 by PawlaczGMD

[lefuneste01]

7 hours ago, PawlaczGMD said:

I only have reshade and Echo19 sounds installed, I can't imagine it breaks the shader.

Should I have something like 'haze.fx' in my "DCS World\bin\reshade-shaders\Shaders\VREM" dir?

It looks like this:null

 

Reshade technique are not changing game shaders. Just in case of, could you try to do a full repair of the game ? What are your graphics driver settings (nvidia) ?

Edited March 14 by lefuneste01

[lefuneste01]

9 hours ago, BadDad said:

But nothing happens when I press the Home button.

You should not have installed reshade with addon support as explained in the first post. check at first all things in 2D.

[BadDad]

3 hours ago, lefuneste01 said:

You should not have installed reshade with addon support as explained in the first post. check at first all things in 2D.

I installed the add-on support version. But I ignored this part: "Reshade must be installed for each version of DCS (ST or MT) you are using."
For anyone else having this problem - you have to run the Reshade installation twice - regardless of which version you are using. Once in the bin and again in the bin-mt folder.

[lefuneste01]

1 hour ago, BadDad said:

I installed the add-on support version. But I ignored this part: "Reshade must be installed for each version of DCS (ST or MT) you are using."
For anyone else having this problem - you have to run the Reshade installation twice - regardless of which version you are using. Once in the bin and again in the bin-mt folder.

Not really. You should just install it for the version you are using. But it may be tricks to know which folder is used if you did not setup dcs shortcuts...

[PawlaczGMD]

10 hours ago, lefuneste01 said:

Reshade technique are not changing game shaders. Just in case of, could you try to do a full repair of the game ? What are your graphics driver settings (nvidia) ?

I've already tried the repair, it didn't help.

I'm on AMD though. I have all the additional graphics options like upscaling, anti lag, etc. disabled.

[lefuneste01]

23 hours ago, PawlaczGMD said:

I've already tried the repair, it didn't help.

I'm on AMD though. I have all the additional graphics options like upscaling, anti lag, etc. disabled.

In the folder where DCS.exe is : could you : rename reshade DCS VREM.addon64 into reshade DCS VREM.addon64.bak, unzip shaderhunter.zip in the folder (it should create ShaderHunter.addon64), launch the game, go to cockpit, press F1 and share the reshade.log here  ? (it will be huge).

ShaderHunter.zip

On 3/14/2025 at 10:54 AM, BadDad said:

I installed the add-on support version. But I ignored this part: "Reshade must be installed for each version of DCS (ST or MT) you are using."
For anyone else having this problem - you have to run the Reshade installation twice - regardless of which version you are using. Once in the bin and again in the bin-mt folder.

As you are Pimax user, could you report here if everything is working as expected , especially for haze control ? PawlaczGMD is also Pimax user and he has some strange issue with shaders. I'd like to be sure this is not something related to Pimax (even if he has issue in 2D too).

[Sr.]

ED...why not just give us a haze slider FFS?

[GPatricks]

16 hours ago, Sr. said:

ED...why not just give us a haze slider FFS?

Yep, been preaching that since first seeing the sim with Haze turned off. To me it looks much better.

[lefuneste01]

2025/03/18 for DCS version DCS  DCS 2.9.13.6818.2  => version 8.1

• option to disable effect for 2D and keep them for VR only restored. Small optimization for techniques.

Edited March 18 by lefuneste01

[lBlackMambal]

Am 18.3.2025 um 16:02 schrieb lefuneste01:

2025/03/18 for DCS version DCS  DCS 2.9.13.6818.2  => version 8.1

• option to disable effect for 2D and keep them for VR only restored. Small optimization for techniques.

The description on Github says:
Removed VR only for technique as it is making game crashing

As my game is crashing during launch I just want to be sure that it's because of the different DCS version (DCS 2.9.14.8394) and not because I forgot to activate/deactivate something that goes along with "technique"?

I followed the instructions and it works as long as I'm in 2D. Once I launch the game in VR (via Virtual Desktop, OpenXR Runtime VDXR) I always get a crash.

[lBlackMambal]

vor 11 Minuten schrieb lBlackMambal:

The description on Github says:
Removed VR only for technique as it is making game crashing

As my game is crashing during launch I just want to be sure that it's because of the different DCS version (DCS 2.9.14.8394) and not because I forgot to activate/deactivate something that goes along with "technique"?

I followed the instructions and it works as long as I'm in 2D. Once I launch the game in VR (via Virtual Desktop, OpenXR Runtime VDXR) I always get a crash.

It turns out I had to turn off that VR technique - now it's working fine.
Thanks a lot for that great mod.

[lefuneste01]

41 minutes ago, lBlackMambal said:

It turns out I had to turn off that VR technique - now it's working fine.
Thanks a lot for that great mod.

Could you explain more in detail what was creating your issue and how you get out of it ? Are you able to use VREM technique ?

[lBlackMambal]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb lefuneste01:

Could you explain more in detail what was creating your issue and how you get out of it ? Are you able to use VREM technique ?

Yeah, I'm able to use it. The issue comes up whenever I start the game in VR and have the "Activate reshade Techniques in VR" setting activated.
If I leave it unchecked, the game is launching in VR and I can access VREM and the settings I'm interested in (mainly helicopter).

I'm using a Quest 3 without Quadviews option. As rendering method I have DLAA/DLSS/Performance selected. Via nvidia profileinspector I manually set the global DLSS profile to "K".

 

If you want, I can share the crash logs with you.

 

btw, could it be that "Disable left eye in IHADSS" is currently not always working like intended? Whenever I activate that option in VREM, the IHADSS completely gets removed - for any global IHADSS visualization mode, i.e. both eyes, right or left eye.

[lefuneste01]

16 hours ago, lBlackMambal said:

btw, could it be that "Disable left eye in IHADSS" is currently not always working like intended? Whenever I activate that option in VREM, the IHADSS completely gets removed - for any global IHADSS visualization mode, i.e. both eyes, right or left eye.

Could you just activate "debug message in log" in "debug options", restart game, go to AH64 cockpit (without "technique in VR"), save reshade.log file somewhere, do the same with "technique in VR" activated and post both reshade.log here ?

[lBlackMambal]

vor 13 Stunden schrieb lefuneste01:

Could you just activate "debug message in log" in "debug options", restart game, go to AH64 cockpit (without "technique in VR"), save reshade.log file somewhere, do the same with "technique in VR" activated and post both reshade.log here ?

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[GPatricks]

Have the latest DCS Updates broken some (or all) of VREM? I only use the Haze reduction and it seems to have no effect now. 

[lefuneste01]

1 minute ago, GPatricks said:

Have the latest DCS Updates broken some (or all) of VREM? I only use the Haze reduction and it seems to have no effect now. 

I checked with the previous one it was OK, I'll do it again. But they are planning a new patch...

[GPatricks]

3 minutes ago, lefuneste01 said:

I checked with the previous one it was OK, I'll do it again. But they are planning a new patch...

I could try a new Reshade\VREM re-install, but i'll wait for the patch.. Thanks!

 

[lefuneste01]

On 4/23/2025 at 11:05 AM, GPatricks said:

I could try a new Reshade\VREM re-install, but i'll wait for the patch.. Thanks!

 

Haze control is working OK for me with No MSAA or MSAA2x with the last patch...

[GPatricks]

21 hours ago, lefuneste01 said:

Haze control is working OK for me with No MSAA or MSAA2x with the last patch...

Weird. Uninstalled ReShade, deleted all the shader folders, reinstalled ReShade (just DX11\12) to both bin and bin-mt exe's, Dropped the latest VREM 8.1 folders in place, disabled all but VREM, enabled the Haze function, slider to 0, no effect. MSAA set to 2x. Going to go find the config file you had way back (options.lua?), try with it..

EDIT: I 'think' I had Bloom = true and BlurFlatShashadows = 1, changed them to false\0 (and like an idiot didn't save the orig to compare).. It works perfectly again.

Edited April 25 by GPatricks

[MVS-Viper]

On 4/24/2025 at 11:05 AM, lefuneste01 said:

Haze control is working OK for me with No MSAA or MSAA2x with the last patch...

Same here.  Working fine.

[Xerno]

Can't get any effects to work, doesn't show in 2d or vr. 

Tried repair and clean install

[lefuneste01]

45 minutes ago, Xerno said:

Can't get any effects to work, doesn't show in 2d or vr. 

Tried repair and clean install

did you get the option in reshade addon when you press "home" key ? Did you ensure your graphics settings are compliant with the ones of the first post ?