DCS 2.9 Optimization Guide in 2D and VR (Quest 2)

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I spent the last 2 month getting DCS to run smooth on my new laptop in 2D and in VR using my new Quest 2. It finally does, while looking absolutely amazing. I collected everything I wish I knew right from the start.
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0:00 - Intro & Specs
1:07 - Hardware
1:37 - Windows Settings
2:58 - NVIDIA Settings
3:16 - FPS Godzilla
3:32 - DCS Settings for 2D
4:43 - DCS Settings for VR
6:32 - Oculus app
6:44 - Oculus Tray Tool
8:08 - OpenXR

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  • @bencates986
    @bencates9864 ай бұрын

    This video has somehow solved literally every issue 2.9 gave me. The stuttering being the main issue, I am absolutely delighted that this has been solved. Someone get this on an ED thread and elevate the suffering 2.9 has caused for hundreds. I am now having an out of body experience. Complete elation. Thank you so much ReflectedSimulations.

  • @gnr2871
    @gnr28715 ай бұрын

    This new update was a complete game changer for me. The DLSS in VR took my graphics from potato quality to amazing and drastically improved my performance. I’m seeing details I didn’t even know existed before.

  • @yungcaco1443
    @yungcaco14437 ай бұрын

    Hey man I just wanna say thank you for making this vid. Un Parking the CPU cores really is a game changer. I’m now finally able to run Op Cerberus North without stuttering. You Sir are a legend 👍🏻 Cheers 🍻

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    I’m happy it helped

  • @thebiggestoneyouveverhad
    @thebiggestoneyouveverhad7 ай бұрын

    Liked and subscribed. Some of the windows/pc setup stuff I had never heard of before. Will definitely be trying it out.

  • @shippr30
    @shippr306 ай бұрын

    You're my hero! VR is so much better with these settings! Thanks, man!

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    6 ай бұрын

    Glad it helped

  • @antonioarezzo4549
    @antonioarezzo45497 ай бұрын

    I follow you with interest and you are very kind to share your knowledge with us. Thank you

  • @ZZCheetahZZ
    @ZZCheetahZZ7 ай бұрын

    Will definitely check it out today

  • @Jakes_1-1
    @Jakes_1-14 ай бұрын

    I have been struggling for over a week with horrendous lag and frame drops.... Thanks to this video and Quick CPU I am sorted, I have my beloved DCS back and flyable!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @FastJetPerformance
    @FastJetPerformance6 ай бұрын

    Thanks Reflected, good knowledge buddy!

  • @karldot
    @karldot6 ай бұрын

    You are a legend buddy.....thanks for your effort and research....my jets are running smooth awesome video go well sir❤

  • @Zolbat
    @Zolbat7 ай бұрын

    Something that worked well for me in VR is setting ingame vr resolution scaling as small as possible (0.5) and setting resolution scaling in steamvr (or the oculus app, but I haven't tested that) to 200% (or the corresponding value you had before, so 130% becomes 260%, also experiment with what is enough for you). Though it might do the opposite for you, so your milage may vary. My headset is a pico neo 3 link

  • @jenslundinbyh8845
    @jenslundinbyh88455 ай бұрын

    Hi you legend and thanks a million for this top tips. I have followed alot of other guides for my Quest 3 and Nvidia 3060Ti (slightly overclocked) set up but nothing has really worked, until this one. This one did the trick, I don't know exactly what it was I just followed it to the point exept the XR tool turbo mode that never seem to work for me. But all other worked and I am now getting a stable 72 FPS with good graphics on my mediocre set up. Thanks!!

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    5 ай бұрын

    Happy to hear that

  • @shadweigand6692
    @shadweigand66927 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this!

  • @bicholover0781
    @bicholover07815 күн бұрын

    i had a problem with de fov multiplier, this solved it, tysm

  • @MrMike6519
    @MrMike65194 ай бұрын

    Awesome, cheers mate!

  • @benbowen2198
    @benbowen21983 ай бұрын

    Love to see people repping the 180th stingers. thanks for the tips

  • @ReflectedSimulations
    @ReflectedSimulations7 ай бұрын

    Sorry folks, the first version was taken down because of the music so I had to change it and reupload. In the meantime I got a great piece of advice: If you use even a little bit of the Fixed Foveated Rendering in OpenXR, you get enough FPS boost so that you can further bump your resolution in the Oculus app and still get the same performance. While Turbo Mode should disable ASW, somehow I found that through the Oculus Tray Tool I can still force ASW modes, and that's how I get the smoothest experience. EDIT: News came in from ED, apparently running DCS as an admin is not such a good idea after all. Experiment at your own risk.

  • @yuanjiang8767

    @yuanjiang8767

    7 ай бұрын

    Lol was took down when I was watching. Good work really appreciate

  • @CakePrincessCelestia

    @CakePrincessCelestia

    7 ай бұрын

    Had me wondering why you re-upped the video. I'm glad the Foveated Rendering thing helped increasing your performance and therefor the headroom for a higher resolution setting.

  • @thesouloftheinternet4829

    @thesouloftheinternet4829

    7 ай бұрын

    sorry to crash the comment with a question but i can't add to my graphics list. any tips?

  • @howellkilian5602

    @howellkilian5602

    4 ай бұрын

    Hi Reflected, thanks. The part about ED suggesting DCS is not run as admin... this I find puzzling...do you have an answer/explanation why ED would make this recommendation? I enjoy your channel, thanks.

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    4 ай бұрын

    @@howellkilian5602 yes, ED is right

  • @x-manx-man6666
    @x-manx-man66665 ай бұрын

    Great tutorial and work thanks man.I wanna ask you about mirror eye you are using one eye setup I am using BOTH EYES is it effect Quality and FPS?

  • @MCP2002
    @MCP20022 күн бұрын

    Change "Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias" to "Clamp". It will reduce any shimmering and has no impact on performance. :)

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    Күн бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @MCP2002

    @MCP2002

    Күн бұрын

    @@ReflectedSimulations No problem! :)

  • @Joejoe-vd2do
    @Joejoe-vd2do7 ай бұрын

    Hey Reflected, I really appreciate the tips! The Nvidia setting didn't work for me unfortunately. It slowed my computer to a crawl:) Unparking CPU seems to help quite a bit.

  • @tomaszwota1465
    @tomaszwota14657 ай бұрын

    YT is such a friendly platform... ;)

  • @CakePrincessCelestia

    @CakePrincessCelestia

    7 ай бұрын

    Totally... "Google is your friend", they said. "Don't be evil.", they said... :D

  • @unclejacksimulations9423
    @unclejacksimulations94237 ай бұрын

    OpenXR was killing DCS from the main menu for me. All other settings + the Tray Tool settings really saved my entire VR experience, thank you!

  • @kon1351

    @kon1351

    7 ай бұрын

    Reset OpenXR to default .see how you get on , I think there was a bug .

  • @OperatorPuski

    @OperatorPuski

    5 ай бұрын

    If you have turbo mode ON try turning that to OFF. DCS through steam doesn’t typically play nice with turbo mode. Having that in within steam will make things stutter a bit

  • @Bato1109
    @Bato11094 ай бұрын

    Thank you!!!!!!

  • @b0zz1ll4
    @b0zz1ll47 ай бұрын

    You sir, are my saviour. I was getting massive fps drops and stutters when landing on carriers but you managed to fix it! Also, is it really worth it to keep Wake Turbulence on? I do a lot of aar, that's why I'm asking

  • @ChrisPBacon-my7yt

    @ChrisPBacon-my7yt

    7 ай бұрын

    I would like to keep it on for realism, but I prefer having a good performance over anything so its going to be shut off for me.

  • @outlaw_fury1869
    @outlaw_fury18697 ай бұрын

    Thank you and amazing per usual, Reflected!! I did all these settings listed in the video but for some reason I can not read what any of the knobs, switches, text on the MFD's. Cant make out the HSD and it's radar contacts. Every thing is a bit blurry and I have to VR-Zoom to read anything. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Oculus Quest 2 256MB, 3080ti, 64GB RAM, i-7-9700

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah quest 2 is not very crisp. You'll need to bump up the resolution in the Oculus app but careful, that costs FPS.

  • @Jasonmoofang
    @Jasonmoofang7 ай бұрын

    Hey Reflected, thanks for this! I asked in the first upload as well but, wondering if you're experiencing any VRAM issues. I note you have a lower VRAM card (8GB I think?), but are running high terrain textures at pretty good resolution. For me when VRAM fills up it freezes and then resumes with degraded performance thence.

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    Yes I have those sometimes. But low terrain textures are just too ugly. I hope ED optimized the VRAM usage soon

  • @ghostskills_dcs
    @ghostskills_dcs3 ай бұрын

    Got quiet different settings but i'm also using a different vr headset. settings depend from which kind of vr headset you're using.

  • @HH_Badger
    @HH_Badger7 ай бұрын

    Another question about unparking the cores. Is that the same as using project lasso to set the affinity of cores that are maxing out?

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    No I don’t think it is

  • @edeltraudengel8388
    @edeltraudengel83887 ай бұрын

    thx

  • @spitzy1963
    @spitzy19635 ай бұрын

    Hey reflected simulations! Great vid. I need some help, I am using a quest 2 with a 7900xtx gaming pc. The game runs great in non vr mode. But when I’m in vr mode my fps is capped at half of my quests refresh rate (36 fps when set at 72hz) do you know a way to get around this problem? Thanks!

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    5 ай бұрын

    You have asw turned on.

  • @OperatorPuski
    @OperatorPuski5 ай бұрын

    From what I understand on the Parking/unparking core thing is this was an early on issue in windows 11 when upgrading from windows 10. Win11 wasn’t properly identifying game mode to utilize the performance cores for gaming and therefore leaving performance on the table. I thought this has since been resolved but you still see just as many tutorials out there telling users to Park 1/2 their cores as you do tutorials telling users to unpark the cores. Can get quite confusing especially if windows thinks DCS is a sim and not a game. 😂

  • @wsd810
    @wsd8107 ай бұрын

    @ReflectedSimulations I was getting great results on 2.9 before the latest update. Now I can’t even get the menu screen to run smoothly in VR. I’ve tried all of your suggestions. No luck. Did you have this problem before you adjusted settings? Any one else?

  • @CakePrincessCelestia

    @CakePrincessCelestia

    7 ай бұрын

    If you're running OpenXR Toolkit, try disabling Turbo Mode in it and see if it helps. When I tried to optimize my settings I ran across some occasions where that setting would make my rig choke a lot, just can't remember in which cases that was happening.

  • @wsd810

    @wsd810

    7 ай бұрын

    @@CakePrincessCelestia this worked!! Thank you. I wonder why it started doing this all of the sudden.

  • @justinball2250
    @justinball22502 ай бұрын

    How do you make openxr on dcs 2.9

  • @PeteV80
    @PeteV807 ай бұрын

    Tray tool made my dcs constantly crash. It's conflicting with something. Was running open xr.

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    Interesting. And if you reinstall? Are you running OTT and Oculus as admin?

  • @kon1351
    @kon13517 ай бұрын

    I would use CAS in the openXR tool kit . See how you get on .

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    But I already use DLSS upscaling. Would it make sense to use 2 different ones at the same time?

  • @kon1351

    @kon1351

    7 ай бұрын

    isnt this to do with sharpness and clarity

  • @midnight7297
    @midnight72977 ай бұрын

    While never tried against DCS, but at the time of my new PC when Cyberpunk was new out, Armory Crate was causing huge fps loss for me, on a brand new machine. Had to remove all the asus bloat which fnally fixed the issues

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    Was it a laptop? I read everywhere that with laptops AC is needed to get the max performance. I uninstalled all the extra bloatware though, like Aura

  • @midnight7297

    @midnight7297

    7 ай бұрын

    @@ReflectedSimulations In my case a desktop asus mobo, 5600x new build with a 3080 at the time. CP being brand new was the benchmark for fiddling about with, and had no end of headaches until I stripped back all the drivers and put them on one by one until worked out it was Armory crate (and some others - I forget exactly which tho prob have it saved in a forum post on overclockers site). Obv a different game, but it was the difference in ray traced settings maxed out etc of being in the region of 60fps vs 40fps. That being said, there may have likely been early bios issues on top of that, as Windows 11 was unusable too (would miss occasional keyboard presses and mouse clicks - thought they were broken) so went back to W10. The main armory issues were with w10. Hopefully whatever the issue back then was fixed though with armory etc, but for obvious reasons I've been reluctant to try :)

  • @midnight7297

    @midnight7297

    7 ай бұрын

    @@ReflectedSimulationsI just did some digging and found some of my old posts on it. In short, it was Asus AI Suite that caused most of the problems. And had found other reports of other people with the same issues, resulting in the need to reinstall windows over the top of itself to fix without installing that POS. ccleaner, asus folders, services tweaking etc no undoing could get rid of the problems it caused. People managed to replicate every time the issue being introduced once AI Suite was on (I think armory crate might have been part of that). Another note at the time too, was turn off SVM and Hyper-V unless you absolutely need it on for virtualization, as when I was testing with that and Cinebench that being enabled also hurt performance, with many reporting it can reduce the bus clock

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    @@midnight7297 thanks! I uninstalled all the “extras” from asus except AC. I also have virtualization off in the bios

  • @trxpiin4727
    @trxpiin47274 ай бұрын

    My frames are Trailing Behind everything when Im in motion like a hacked computer with multiple tabs opening i cant figure out why. Does anyone have an answer?

  • @m0llyxo14

    @m0llyxo14

    2 ай бұрын

    Turn off DLSS/FSR. It causes ghosting in some scenarios in my experience

  • @SkyriderOfficial
    @SkyriderOfficial3 ай бұрын

    Awesome settings

  • @anubis2k24
    @anubis2k247 ай бұрын

    u missed sme of the nvidia settings at the top,,,

  • @mytubehkjt
    @mytubehkjt7 ай бұрын

    I'm getting stuttering in 2.9 that is making the game unplayable no matter how low the settings are. Nothing I've tried (internet) has helped.

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    when it happens check your cpu useage in the task manager. If there is one core that is maxed out, disable it.

  • @void1968able
    @void1968able3 ай бұрын

    Doesnt work, unparked all (started with admin rights) Cores, parking index at 100%, apply... still 10 enabled, 10 parked cores.

  • @bricktopperheadon5490
    @bricktopperheadon54906 ай бұрын

    DCS vr for me is unusable as far as dogfighting is concerned. I can get the cockpit to look great, but anything beyond my wingtips is a blurry, shimmering, semi-transparent mess. I can't distinguish any aircraft type until they are very close, like 300 meters/yards away. At 3/4 of a mile (1.2km) an aircraft appears as a perfect little black square!? I can get 45-90 fps, 5-10ms frametimes, but nothing so far makes any difference to the quality of other aircraft appearance. I've spent more than 30 hours trying different settings and guides over the past 6 months. I have : I9-11900k / 3080ti / 32mg 3600 ram / reverb G2 / 1tb ssd / open XR + toolkit Does anyone have any advice ? Thanks in advance.

  • @Urria110
    @Urria1104 ай бұрын

    Hello one question I play pc/vr and yesterday I had an idea is it possible to put better resolution in your dominant eye and lower one in your non dominant, I think it would work because most of what you see comes from the dominant eye, so lowering the non dominant eye quality would be pretty much unnoticeable but it would leave more pc power for better resolution for the other eye

  • @bruennlein
    @bruennlein7 ай бұрын

    Recommendation for VR: Reduce screen-resolution from 1920x1080 to the lowest possible, unless you need a good image-quality on your 2D screen. One question from my side: why run DCS as admin? I don´t understand what this should do in terms of performance.

  • @ReflectedSimulations

    @ReflectedSimulations

    7 ай бұрын

    Thanks, will try this! It only affects the 2d screen right? The admin part is not such a good idea, see pinned comment

  • @bruennlein

    @bruennlein

    7 ай бұрын

    @@ReflectedSimulations Exactly. Your 2D-screen shows a mirror of what you see in your headset. If you don´t need this in hi-res, you might save some performance, when reducing the resolution here.

  • @OperatorPuski

    @OperatorPuski

    5 ай бұрын

    The mirrored image is exactly that. Just a mirrored image. The GPU hasn’t expended any resources to render that to the monitor. It’s no different than a static open browser window. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I prefer to set it smaller than my native monitor just to have the screen space.

  • @dernbuy
    @dernbuy6 ай бұрын

    Without tray tool its a terrible frame rate. With tray tool i not only get a bad frame rate but also tears and shudders across the screen

  • @EagleFulcrum1
    @EagleFulcrum1Ай бұрын

    Hello Reflected Simulations, i've watched this video but my graphics is still not ok, especially with the clouds. I have HORRIBLE clouds effects, especially if i look to the horizon far away from me, or when the clouds are touching the mountains, or at dawn or dusk, which is the worst of the worst. The effect is TERRIBLE. The clouds appear with too many pixels, squared and not detailed like yours in your videos (even in a daylight). In your videos, they're looking real! I'm sorry for my bad english. I have a very good pc, made expecially for DCS: ASUS RTX 4070ti with 12 GB 64 GB of RAM AMD RYZEN 7 7700X, 8 CORE with 5,4 GHz of boost NVME as archiviation MSI MPG B650 Carbon ATX as Motherboard Every setting is at maximun performance in DCS. So, whats happening to me? On my pc, DCS is always running with 165 fps in basically every wheater conditions. Is there a way to solve this? I didn't expect this, with such a good hardware

  • @karlhungus545
    @karlhungus5455 ай бұрын

    Turning off Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling with a 4000 series Nvidia card is a bad idea. 64GB RAM is a waste of cash unless you play a lot on MP servers (90% of players don't). A 'good' SSD is plenty good enough. I've swapped SSD's several times when upgrading and reinstalling DCS and it never makes any difference. There is a thread on the ED forums regarding 'max performance power setting, and it makes no difference from the 'normal' setting. A lot of your stuttering issues are likely because you've using a 3070 laptop...so a little less than 3060 desktop performance. It also looks like the Multithreading has moved to Openbeta and it isn't necessary to run the separate .exe now.

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