General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Grayeagle on June 29, 2026, 10:40:21 AM
Title: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Grayeagle on June 29, 2026, 10:40:21 AM
Hiyadoin! Been away for a minute.
Coupla months ago my wife Kathy allowed me to delve into VR, wandered over to the Damned on Discord and Ren pointed me at DCS and there I found the P-51.
The *only* things missing from meatspace are the G-forces and the smell of AVgas and baked tarmac. I keep wanting to rest my arm on the canopy rail on taxi. Holodeck .. check!
Been flyin outta Biggin Hill at dawn, February, 1944. Loaded for bear with mk82's and HVAR's. I grab alt while headed over to Dunkirk to give the railyards there some lovin then strafe the nearby airfield and radar sites till I am outta everything then scoot back across the Channel for home.
When I figure out how to post screenshots yer in for some eye-candy. Presently learning the bird. Figure to spend a few months in Mustang then the Spit, Me-109, Jug, Wulf,etc. eventually to the jets. -LOL- Yanno .. I spent years on the flightline werkin the F-4 .. got into the Heat Blur F4 in DCS and did not remember how to fire it up! -shakes head-
Enjoyin every minute of it :) (https://i.postimg.cc/gxdhPDhP/Digital-Combat-Simulator-Black-Shark-Screenshot-2026-06-23-23-47-43-19.png) (https://postimg.cc/gxdhPDhP)
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Animl-AW on June 29, 2026, 10:49:58 AM
Always good to hear from you.
I saw your fascination with DCS 51. Especially since you actually flew one.
Not fond of DCS and technical learning curve and the co$t for full detail and performance.
It’s still said AH VR is top shelf, the game looks so different.
Glad to cya check in tho, have fun.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 10:59:35 AM
The Phantom II delivers.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Grayeagle on June 29, 2026, 11:10:53 AM
LOL, thx dood :) Dweeb alert: How the heck do ya post an image? Got a nice .jpeg, 477kb in 800x320 .. ? hmm .. hyperlink prolly best? -off to figure it out- .. wandering, again :)
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 11:14:06 AM
I use this to upload and then use the forum link created there.
https://postimages.org/
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Grayeagle on June 29, 2026, 11:20:51 AM
https://postimg.cc/gxdhPDhP (https://postimg.cc/gxdhPDhP) THANKS!! -grin- AK you rock dood :)
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Animl-AW on June 29, 2026, 11:22:39 AM
Flood gates open
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 11:24:44 AM
You can paste a thumbnail or the pic directly in the forum if you want.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 11:25:27 AM
BTW, this place does have a junkyard dog. He barks a lot but can't bite.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Animl-AW on June 29, 2026, 11:29:54 AM
You get what you beg for.
In person you’d say nothing.
The biggest bbs troll and 2nd most on ignore list.
GE obviously doesn’t know better.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 11:33:53 AM
I'll save ya some time GE, he barks at everything here not AH. DCS, IL-2, etc... are not prohibited here no matter what he says.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Animl-AW on June 29, 2026, 11:35:56 AM
BYW GE knows me better than you do
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Animl-AW on June 29, 2026, 11:43:38 AM
He is a class act former player. He doesn’t post another sim in over 2009 threads. Ma diff in former player types.
It nver was about not posting other sims, it was about how you guys did it, AKIron
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Grayeagle on June 29, 2026, 11:46:40 AM
https://postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6 (https://postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6) -grin- Enjoy the day doods .. they *are* numbered. (https://i.postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6/fpw-dcs-p51D12.png) (https://postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6)
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Animl-AW on June 29, 2026, 11:50:10 AM
https://postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6 (https://postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6) -grin- Enjoy the day doods .. they *are* numbered. (https://i.postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6/fpw-dcs-p51D12.png) (https://postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6)
You’ve always had that eye for good scenes. Made your paintings rock. Great eye and pic.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Grayeagle on June 29, 2026, 11:57:18 AM
Not fond of DCS and technical learning curve and the co$t for full detail and performance.
Yassir! It's taken me a minute or two to wade thru the video's, gearin up and playin with alla buttons. WORTH IT!! I will post what I have learned in the VR section :)
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 12:04:45 PM
One thing many encounter in DCS, still, micro stutters. Turn off the dynamic USB detection. I do it in the game autoexec.cfg but it can be done in the controls config page too which is easier.
On the controls config page at the bottom. If it reads disable hot plug click it. It will then say enable. That disables checking for USB devices while the game is running so have everything turned on before you start the game.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 12:24:21 PM
Don't know what headset you have GE but if Pimax then Quad Foveated Rendering is well worthwhile. My brother sees about 20% performance improvement with no visual degradation. It uses eye tracking and sharpens the res where you are looking and less res where you are not.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Grayeagle on June 29, 2026, 12:30:58 PM
Posted cockpit setup and settings I began with in VR forum here :) Still a dweeb :)
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 12:53:55 PM
Got it.
Not sure if the Pimax Crystal Light can do foveated rendering or not. Seeing mixed comments on that. You don't need a lot of help with that 5090 anyhow. :)
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 01:07:50 PM
There seems to be some disparity in DCS between the clouds in VR vs non VR. I think they look great on my 2K monitor. Brother says they could look better in his Pimax Crystal. He has a 4090 and runs pretty high settings. He won't play without VR.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 01:11:02 PM
BTW, the guy who made the pointctrl stopped making them. You'll need some way to interact with the cockpit beyond HOTAS.
https://pointctrl.com/
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: CptTrips on June 29, 2026, 02:05:09 PM
Yassir! It's taken me a minute or two to wade thru the video's, gearin up and playin with alla buttons. WORTH IT!! I will post what I have learned in the VR section :)
Spit is a dream too if you can pick it up on sale.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 02:13:18 PM
Some of the WWII DCS modules are 15+ years old and though most of those have been reworked it still shows. The newer ones like the P-47, F4U, and LA7 are better graphically.
Maybe not 15+, 10+ anyhow.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: CptTrips on June 29, 2026, 02:15:06 PM
Some of the WWII DCS modules are 15+ years old and though most of those have been reworked it still shows. The newer ones like the P-47, F4U, and LA7 are better graphically.
Like the Huey. I luv it to death, but it seriously needs a update.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 29, 2026, 02:24:28 PM
https://postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6 (https://postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6) -grin- Enjoy the day doods .. they *are* numbered. (https://i.postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6/fpw-dcs-p51D12.png) (https://postimg.cc/JtrJgKj6)
Amen. And great to see you still having fun.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: RichardDarkwood on June 29, 2026, 07:48:15 PM
Like the Huey. I luv it to death, but it seriously needs a update.
Blaspheme
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: AKIron on June 30, 2026, 08:58:27 AM
The flight model of the Huey is well done, the graphics are dated. Brother (who flew the Huey in the Army) put me through some rigorous training and he thought it realistic. The most enjoyable for me is doing auto rotates simulating power failure. Simulating a control failure in the tail rotor not so much.
Any new module I enjoy learning the avionics and practicing some extreme situations. Ignore my erroneous use of glide path instead of localizer.
Title: Re: VR/DCS and the P-51D
Post by: Hajo on July 01, 2026, 07:22:59 AM