A small desk fan aimed at your face helps a bit too.
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Definitely this! I always have a fan blowing at me when I am in VR. Aside form the VR Sickness thing, it also helps keep lens fogging to a minimum.
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I am honestly surprised that there is still something that can make you nauseous!
@schurem yes the fan does wonders!
Pineapple on pizza does it for me. 
Everybody gets nauseous from flying. The only thing that keeps it at bay is recent experience and proper breathing. I have about two hours of total acro this year. So I am way out of shape. Catch me on a solid week and I can do four flights a day and feel pretty great.
But back to the experience where I puked. If any of you are scuba divers and have had the experience where you tried to conserve air so that you wouldn’t be the first loser to ascend, you can relate. During the drive home at 1300 it was all I could do just to stay awake. I laid down on the couch and slept until five. How could a 25 minute flight leave me so whipped? I think it was a lack of oxygen, both from poor tightening during the negative stuff and insufficient breathing. It takes a middle aged brain a long time to recover from improper treatment.
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Concur. I am still recovering from my son’s wedding reception this past weekend … not a joke. 
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Congratulations!
…and condolences.
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No, I never wore my TrackIr hat in public. But a few months ago I sat down at my computer with another hat on and the TrackIr was not responding At All! I thought, oh poop, theres $150 I was not expecting to have to spend. I did not notice my TrackIr hat until about 20 minutes later… Did I feel stupid, or what?
Is anybody using corrective lens inserts with their VR headset?
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I have WidmoVR lens inserts for my Rift S. I also used VR Lenslab lenses with my Rift CV1. Well worth the investment IMHO.
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Funny because whenever I put on a VR headset (whether it was the Rift, O+, or Reverb) I always start feeling sleepy. I think it is really soothing to be in VR…plus, being an oddly scheduled air ambulance guy, I often come home at like 10 or 11AM and plop into bed, pulling on one of those girly eye-masks to block out the light. I think the pressure over my eyes makes my body think (after 20+ years of this crazy schedule) that I’m supposed to go to sleep. LOL…
I usually wear this one…
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Update:
I didn’t play yesterday. But the dizziness faded away in the evening, around 24 hours after the combat mission that presumably caused it.
Tonight I’ll try again, and I got me some support:
I already made some ginger tea (tasty both warm and cold). I will drink a cup before flying.
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Good luck buddy!
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@Aginor i totally forgot to mention but its really important for VR comfort to learn how to wear it best (for image clarity and comfort) and tweak it just so when it comes to IPD. Get that measured at the glasses shop.
Experiment with all related software settings. Get that scale right. See the il2 dev news thread for some discussion and stuff.
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Soooooo…
I don’t know whether it was the ginger tea, or maybe that I was flying like an old granny or @BeachAV8R but I am only very slightly dizzy.
First I did a cold start in the C-101EB, then flew around around in the Caucasus for a bit more than an hour, doing some sightseeing, some radio navigation, an ILS approach (didn’t land), a bit of pattern work, and a landing.
I felt completely fine after that.
Then I tested some settings using the instant action mission “free flight”, also with the C-101EB over the Caucasus. I flew low and over Tbilisi and some forest areas to tweak my settings a bit. I think I overdid it slightly but that’s when I instantly stopped.
Related: Do y’all have any tips for the settings?
These are mine right now, which work quite smoothly 95% of the time so far. But I haven’t tested any complex missions with many planes.
Observations so far:
Textures don’t seem to impact frame rate at all, nor does anisotropic filtering.
MSAA does impact framerate, and so does pixel density.
If I have to choose, what should be the most important things? Should I lower the settings for textures and the like and increase pixel density? Or do you spot some other settings that hardly impact visual quality but affect performance a lot? Or vice versa?
Also: Anything important settings to make in the nVidia control panel or so?
(I vaguely remember a thread about it but at the moment I cannot find it…)
And one last point: the frame rate counter says 40 all the time, which is weird because the sim seems to be running perfectly smooth. Only forests make it drop below 40, to 36 or so sometimes, and then I can see micro stutters.
EDIT: Forgot something:
Can (and if yes: should) I turn off the DCS window on my normal screen? It is still rendered I guess so it might impact performance.
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My guess is you are seeing 40 because your headset (Rift S) has an 80hz refresh rate. If you are not getting those 80 frames it is cutting them in half and filling in the rest with Asynchronous Spacewarp which is software that fills in the frames for lack of a better term to get you up to 80. As for the reprojection on your main monitor, as far as I know it cannot be disabled but it also does not impact your performance either.
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Ok, that’s cool, seems to work well.
I’ll put the game on minimum settings tonight, just out of curiosity to see how it looks if I can reach 80.
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I have smoke and civ traffic fairly low. Smoke because that’s about where Iike it. Civ traffic because I figure most civilians stay at home when there is a war on. 
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I see civilians on a mission to mission basis. In war I turn it off, but when I just fly around I like the cities to have traffic. 
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