After a lot of flying around I’ve found that raw numbers on the FPS counter aren’t everything. Yeah I’m stuck at 36fps, sometimes going down to 30 or even 28, but everything is so smooth! It also looks like we finally got proper NVG monocles in VR!
These are screengrabs from OBS recordings of my VR flights.
Yes. Yes! That’s me exactly.
I am fortunate to have experienced the Quest 3 before DCS 2.9 came out. Otherwise I could only blame all this craziness on the headset. But I saw it work really well with 2.8. For me, 2.9 is a mess. Practically unplayable.
Same here. I also noticed that the dcs updater launches in MT preview even though its pointed to ST.
Need to investigate more.
I’m currently switching back to 2.8.8.43704 (latest beta before 2.9) and see how it runs.
Bummer! Not what I wanted to hear, haha.
Thanks for the warning though. I’m hoping to get to play with it tonight.
I can’t find this file. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Oh…and my 2.9 criticism above is based on the “VR” preset in settings with no changes to the preset. I’ve also tried both DLAA and DLSS with otherwise preset settings. Neither made much difference in regards to the unplayable-ness.
@smokinhole instead of the dcs.openbeta, just try the DCS folder.
My open beta has nothing in it for a while now.
However i only run the openbeta and i havent run stbale in a few years now.
Thanks! Yeah, I’m like you. I don’t even have the non-beta installed. So no joy on the autoexec.cfg. Game’s unplayable anyway. Weird grey squares is the least of my DCS problems.
Hey Clutch, would you mind dropping g a screenshot of your settings here? I’m curious as to how they compare with mine, also pretty smooth in VR.
So after going back to previous beta - 2.8.8.43704, game runs silky smooth. I guess the 2.9 doesn’t like my setup…
Is 2.9 multithread only, or is it like in 2.8x, that you can chose? If so, did you try single vs. multi in 2.9?
So I finally got a chance to check out the update. I may be misunderstanding the upscaling. In general it seemed to make everything worse. Things became fuzzy and lots of artifacts. Went back to my old settings and everything runs fine now. Kind of a wash for me on performance.
I did discover the low gpu setting for the strike eagle and that helped… even though I don’t have a low gpu lol
2.9 has both executables - I tried both, same deal with ST and MT.
Gief! NAO!
So i just ran another mission in 2.9 this time i launched from the ST .exe Smooth as can be. The same mission launched in MT was bad, freezing and stuttering.
For whatever reason my DCS_updater .exe is now launching the MT exe per 2.9 it launched the ST exe. Its weird but ST works great for me.
it’s not there by default, it’s a user created cfg file that overwrites specific settings during DCS launch.
When did it get an 8 Blade System??.. lol.
