Since I mostly fly in VR, but occasionally fall back to 2D to capture screenshots video, I tried this version of Reshade discussed in the video above. IMO, the results are excellent, the fine tuning of which being a matter of personal taste. But there is no doubt that it is easy to get beautiful screens and video with minimal mouse clicks.
Since @fearlessfrog made us aware of FSR/NIS upscaling for SteamVR, which also allows sharpening of the image, while gaining a substantial performance gain, I’ve stopped using the Reshade for VR, that we’ve also discussed here. It’s output is closer to Reshade above, but without the performance gain.
Are you confused yet? I know that I had to read everything five times before it was absorbed. Just to summarize, we’ve discussed 3 tweaks here, Reshade (2D), Reshade for VR, and FSR/NIS for SteamVR games. The first two are for image enhancement and the last is for performance improvement via upscaling.
But just because the kids went to bed early tonight I tried to see if Reshade and Reshade for VR would play well together, but couldn’t get them to coexist. In reality, if you fly VR and weigh the image improvement of Reshade VR over the performance gain and sharpening of FSR/NIS, you might as well just install Reshade for VR, because it also seems to work in 2D.
To reach my happy place in DCS, I installed the original Reshade from the video above and then FSR/NIS for SteamVR. That gives me fantastic images in 2D and great VR performance.
Unedited screens of 2D mode with the regular Reshade.
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