Pimax Play Sharpness On & OFF in DCS on the Pimax Crystal Super

[Vera_Pi]

With Pimax Play Sharpness, DCS looks sharper.

See the effect in DCS here: Pimax Play Sharpness On & OFF in DCS on the Pimax Crystal Super

[oCMANo]

Agreed.  Updated my post on the sharpness.  PImax did a good job on their implementation in the last Pimax Play software update.

[Nedum]

yep, one of my favorite features right now.

[jnr4817]

Are you using any DCS sharpness with PP?

Edited Monday at 04:54 PM by jnr4817

[miguelaco]

Actually, depending on your configuration, there are now 3 places to setup sharpness:

• Pimax Play: it works only in VR and it's applied to the entire fov
• DCS: it works both in VR and 2D and also applied to the entire fov
• mbucchia's Quadviews Foveated: it works only in VR and it is only applied to the foveated region

I would like to do some tests, but my feeling is that if you enable it in PP, it's not a good practice to enable it in DCS at the same time. I have my doubts with mbucchia's QV. Any thoughts or recommendations on where should we set sharpness to achieve better quality or performance?

 

Edited Monday at 06:10 PM by miguelaco

[oCMANo]

4 hours ago, miguelaco said:

Actually, depending on your configuration, there are now 3 places to setup sharpness:

• Pimax Play: it works only in VR and it's applied to the entire fov
• DCS: it works both in VR and 2D and also applied to the entire fov
• mbucchia's Quadviews Foveated: it works only in VR and it is only applied to the foveated region

I would like to do some tests, but my feeling is that if you enable it in PP, it's not a good practice to enable it in DCS at the same time. I have my doubts with mbucchia's QV. Any thoughts or recommendations on where should we set sharpness to achieve better quality or performance?

 

I ONLY have sharpness set in Pimax Play.  I turned it to 0 in DCS and in mbucchia's QV.  Seems to work great that way.

[Nedum]

7 hours ago, oCMANo said:

I ONLY have sharpness set in Pimax Play.  I turned it to 0 in DCS and in mbucchia's QV.  Seems to work great that way.

Same.

[Papamiraculi]

In Pimax' Crystal Super settings guide for DCS they recommend using the sharpening  of NVidia GPU upscaling.

https://pimax.com/de/pages/pimax-crystal-super-the-ultimate-dcs-setup-guide?_s=_s-l-f

Does the sharpness slider in Pimax Play replace, override or mirror the sharpness slider of the GPU upscaling settings in Nvidia Control Panel? 

[Nedum]

On 9/9/2025 at 9:48 AM, Papamiraculi said:

In Pimax' Crystal Super settings guide for DCS they recommend using the sharpening  of NVidia GPU upscaling.

https://pimax.com/de/pages/pimax-crystal-super-the-ultimate-dcs-setup-guide?_s=_s-l-f

Does the sharpness slider in Pimax Play replace, override or mirror the sharpness slider of the GPU upscaling settings in Nvidia Control Panel? 

The "PIMAX" settings you talk about are by 100 % the ones from Tally Mouse guide. Even the not necessary "Eye Tracking Switch" is enabled, who only causes issues with XRNeckSafer and does nothing for the Eye Tracking.

There is no need for the Nvidia sharpening.