Does everyone have this stutter bug too?

[AceMcPlane]

Every 20 minutes to an hour the frame times shoot up and the FPS drop to 6 while playing this on a Quest 3 over the link cable. It turns into an unplayable slideshow and it doesn’t matter how low I make my settings. I could be getting a full 72 FPS while my system isn’t working hard at all and this still happens. It’s totally random.

I’ve been through weeks of troubleshooting following everyone’s suggestions and nothing is doing anything to fix this. Played with every setting in the debug tool, tried openxr tools companion, tried turbo mode, tried lowest graphics settings, tried repairing DCS, tried ASW on and off, tried every single thing any forum post about this said. Nothing. No change.

is this just DCS being borked?

it used to get periodic stutter problems when I was using an HP reverb G2, but with the Quest you almost always have to quit the game and start over your mission to get it to go away. This is brutal. I can’t get through a single mission now.

Is everyone else getting the same problem?  

system specs: rtx 3070 9900k 32GB ram quest 3

Edited October 18, 2024 by AceMcPlane

[AceMcPlane]

Update: I got through a session tonight. I’m not confident it’s fixed yet, but I reset my nvidia control panel and the DCS program settings in the Nvidia control panel to defaults, I enabled the MSAA mask and checked crop to rectangle in the vr settings in DCS. I turned off turbo mode in OpenXR tools inside the game in the CTRL-F2 menu (this stopped it from crashing whenever I took off the headset for even a second) and most importantly I set my desktop to 1440p to match my in game resolution so my mouse can’t leave the screen. I had it set to confine the cursor to the window but something tells me that it could be a bug that happens when the mouse is just over the edge anyways. It’s a long shot, but I’ll update this later if any of this works or doesn’t.

[AceMcPlane]

Confirmed. It was not having my windows resolution set to the same resolution as DCS. I’ve been playing for days with no issues. I was able to increase my graphics settings too. I did discover a new problem where a line ends up in the bottom of your vision in the eye you have DCS set to make the window. You just have to turn off HDR in windows for that.

so before you start every time you play:

.set your windows resolution to the same as the game so it’s actually fullscreen.

.Turn off HDR.

And the problem is solved

[Slippa]

Lucky you. I hope it stays ok for ya.

I’ve had this screen impediment since ED introduced it a few updates back. It stutters and freezes frequently and is often unplayable.

Multi-player servers have a lot of people getting the same problems with rigs ranging from potatoes to all the bells and whistles machines.

Since there have been at least three updates since this started I’m beginning to think it isn’t gonna get any better. I’ve tried everything I’ve read here to improve it too and I’m not in VR or trying to push any settings up. It gets worse if there’s more air traffic and doesn’t seem to like too many choppers at times. Some suspect the Chinook but I think it started just before that was released.

Fingers crossed for a fix.

Edited October 21, 2024 by Slippa

[AceMcPlane]

14 hours ago, Slippa said:

Lucky you. I hope it stays ok for ya.

I’ve had this screen impediment since ED introduced it a few updates back. It stutters and freezes frequently and is often unplayable.

Multi-player servers have a lot of people getting the same problems with rigs ranging from potatoes to all the bells and whistles machines.

Since there have been at least three updates since this started I’m beginning to think it isn’t gonna get any better. I’ve tried everything I’ve read here to improve it too and I’m not in VR or trying to push any settings up. It gets worse if there’s more air traffic and doesn’t seem to like too many choppers at times. Some suspect the Chinook but I think it started just before that was released.

Fingers crossed for a fix.

 

That sucks. Here’s a picture of my settings from after I got the problem to go away. I reset everything to defaults beforehand some maybe that helped too. I was able to increase most of the graphics settings after this, but it’s a good baseline.

Edited October 21, 2024 by AceMcPlane

[AceMcPlane]

Update: the stutter is still gone but the white transparent bar in the lower side of my right eye came back so that wasn’t HDR that caused it. I have my screen resolution set to the right eye for the window to capture it so I’m thinking it’s something in windows not in the game settings if it’s not connected to the landing lights or position lights or something. I did have them on while it happened. Changing views around with F2, F3 and alt-tabbing etc fixes it temporarily for now but it likes to keep coming back. I’ll update this again if I ever figure out what’s causing it.

[AceMcPlane]

The stutter came back
You have to restart to get rid of it still too. All of this troubleshooting still reduced the frequency of the problem by a lot, but OMG I hate this bug. I hope Eagle Dynamics is working on fixing it all together. 

[AceMcPlane]

Update: I tried Virtual Desktop, bought the recommended 6e Router for it and the problem still keeps happening. Sometimes it even happens when I’m not even in a mission in the map editor or settings window. 
 

*** maxing out the VR Bitrate in the Streaming settings on Virtual Desktop changed the behaviour of the bug. Now it does the same thing my HP Reverb does when the bug hits. It’s not as bad and the frame rate isn’t as low and frame times aren’t as high when it’s happening. It’s still pretty bad, but this is information. The problem affects all VR headsets. Using the Quest over a link cable or without increasing the VR bitrate with Virtual Desktop just causes the problem to be a lot worse while it’s happening.

Edited November 25, 2024 by AceMcPlane