Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable

[AKIron]

There is an asymmetric thrust override in the F-14B. Gonna try launching from the cat with just one AB to see what happens.

[AKIron]

Not gonna do that again.

[CptTrips]

 

Not gonna do that again.

[edge12674]

I sure would like to see a resurgence of this kind of hardware.  Combined with VR and haptic seat pads this is the next step.

[AKIron]

A few years ago someone was working on motion sensing through an earphone. Sound to create motion sensation. Never heard anymore about it.

[Eagler]

Looked at dcs again last night for a bit

Channel map b17 interception...

In vr the bombers are very blurry brown smears until they are almost in firing range..

It was too blurry to enjoy

It that normal in vr?

Noticed my head can still poke out past the cockpit and you get the wind noise...that normal still?

Is that the best I can expect with a system like mine?

Eagler

[AKIron]

There are hundreds of videos on tweaking VR for DCS. If you have a 4090 and a Pimax Crystal it can be clear as a bell and very smooth. What headset do you have?

One of the biggest impacting variables is the pixel density.

Just saw you have a Vive pro. With your other hardware you should be able to achieve a reasonably detailed clear screen with 40-50 FPS.

[AKIron]

Start with all antialiasing off. DLAA and DLSS off. Be sure you are running in multithreaded mode. If you don't have the option to turn on DLAA and DLSS then you are in singlethreaded mode. Turn off SSAO and SSLR. Set motion blur to lowest setting, depth of field off. On the VR tab increase the pixel density a point or two at a time until you get the clarity you want. Then adjust the detail of other aspects for speed. Without the most powerful hardware it's all a compromise of course. Try different settings until you find what you like.

Each map has it's own performance impact. Caucasus is probably the least demanding.

Regarding DLAA and DLSS. I meant try turning one of them on. You can't turn both on at the same time. If both are off and you can't turn either on then you are in singlethreaded mode. Run the DCS.exe from the bin-mt folder instead of the bin folder.

[hazmatt]

Not gonna do that again.

It looks like you almost pulled it off. I seem to recall something about using only rudder and watching your AOA and staying away from the ailerons in this situation in the Tomcat.

It would be cool to figure out a way to pull it off. NATOPs probably says to go to military power I'm guessing.

[AKIron]

It's a shame they shredded all those Tomcats when they retired them. I bet they kept a few. The rest were destroyed to keep the parts out of Iran.

[AKIron]

It looks like you almost pulled it off. I seem to recall something about using only rudder and watching your AOA and staying away from the ailerons in this situation in the Tomcat.

It would be cool to figure out a way to pull it off. NATOPs probably says to go to military power I'm guessing.

If I had reduced to full mil after that first "recovery" I would have been okay I think. I was screaming like a little girl. 

[edge12674]

Looked at dcs again last night for a bit

Channel map b17 interception...

In vr the bombers are very blurry brown smears until they are almost in firing range..

It was too blurry to enjoy

It that normal in vr?

Noticed my head can still poke out past the cockpit and you get the wind noise...that normal still?

Is that the best I can expect with a system like mine?

Eagler

Still using the Vive Pro?

Here is a link to some settings other use for the Vive Pro in DCS.
https://forum.dcs.world/topic/272106-vive-pro-2/page/23/

You might also check this tutorial and play with these setting.


DCS allows more tweaking for VR than AH does.  The downside of that is that it takes some more fiddling to get it right for you.

The best way to approach this is to pick one mission that is your benchmark. For me I use the f-18, coldstart, supercarrier launch, in the Persian Gulf.  I don't start anything, just look around and watch the two hornets take off in front of me.  Checking for smoothness and clarity.

[CptTrips]

If I had reduced to full mil after that first "recovery" I would have been okay I think. I was screaming like a little girl. 

Sounded like me hitting VRS.

[Animl-AW]

<yawn>

So sad.

[hazmatt]

It's a shame they shredded all those Tomcats when they retired them. I bet they kept a few. The rest were destroyed to keep the parts out of Iran.

Seems to me that Iran could (with a little Russian help) probably reverse engineer  a new Tomcat if they wanted. I wonder what happened to all those phoenix missiles. I'm pretty sure that all that taxpayer money got wasted as it usually is with the government. I think it would have been cool to see the phoenix rise again on a new airframe, Maybe an "escort" version of the B1?