Improved Spotting Dots - Unable to turn them OFF

[Parkour]

After patch 2.9.8.1107, trying to disable Improved Spotting Dots no longer works in OPTIONS > GAMEPLAY > Improved Spotting Dots. When the setting it turned OFF, the "Improved Spotting Dots" still occur making it possible to see targets 40nm away with a blue box around them. Close targets are worse as they look like large black squares.

Ensuring to click OK, restarting DCS, selecting different missions, restarting the PC and VR make no difference. You get the same horrible "Improved Spotting Dots" if the option in GAMEPLAY is set to OFF or ON.

Please fix as soon as possible as this is horrible looking in VR. Below are images of it with it On and Off in the F/A-18 1v1 mission:

[Turbonix]

Yes, same for me! These new and according to the change log "improved" spotting dots technology is just terrible and absolutely breaking immersion in VR! 

And it doesn´t make any difference to enable or disable the option for "improved spotting dots" in the main menu.
I played around with different resolutions settings, DLSS, DLAA but nothing seems to improve this mess.

AMD 7800X3D
RTX4080
64GB RAM 6000Mhz
Quest 3
OpenXR 
Win11

[Wild_Child]

I certainly understand what ED is trying to do with this, but for goodness sake, let us turn this option off!  It is like playing an old Atari 2600 with the huge squares in the middle of an otherwise realistic view.  VR is all about immersion and with this change on the new patch, the immersion is gone.  Can't believe the step backwards on this one.

 

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[Q3ark]

They are terrible, when the ai ejects you get huge black squares pooping out of the aircraft, it looks ridiculous.

[edudix]

Hey Guys. The same for me since the new Monday (30 October) update.

VR playing META QUEST 3 headset.

It happens to me not only with the aircrafts but with ground vehicles too.

It seems that the spot ON/OFF does not work has no effect. I had this issue in the past and it was solved but now I´m suffering the same issue. I believe is more aggressive than before.

I´ve tried in DSLL/DLAA and MSAAx4 and although in MSAA is less perceptible, the effect is still there.

Does anyone posted or find any solution?

[VirKoV]

Same here. Horrible square dots everywhere.

[TCKnight]

Same here...another time.. this solution don't work. VR g2 with 4080... vr player the last of the last....

 

 

 

[Gav]

Same. Pimax Crystal user. Can't turn the spotting dots off. I'm not wasting time on this game until this is fixed.

 

BTW. This has been just another chain of bugs that has kept my RIO and I from getting any practice at all for about a month now. Can we please get some quality assurance from ED before pushing patches? Having game or emersion breaking bugs piled on us each patch is really making it look like ED doesn't have a single developer who has ever worked on a commercial product before. 

[Phantom_Mark]

Same here, Quest 3, they are horrendous !!

[some1]

Yep, they also look very bad on Quest Pro. The spotting dots CAN be turned off in 2D:

 Improved Spotting Dots off:

 Improved Spotting Dots on:

But they CAN NOT be turned off in VR:

Improved Spotting Dots off:

 Improved Spotting Dots on:

No difference in VR.

[RLTick]

Adding in that I'm also experiencing this. Had to roll back to an old version to get rid of them

[Panthir]

Same here Quest 3 and 3080ti

[GumidekCZ]

Same issue still present - thats horrible! It ruins the game immersion!