MrYenko posted:My buddy got his Reverb G2 yesterday and is stoked to get motion sick as gently caress at 15fps in DCS since neither of us has been able to score a 30xx card yet. (He still has a loving 970.) No problem, that game's engine is like 25 years old so it should run just fine.
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 00:28 |
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Shine posted:No problem, that game's engine is like 25 years old so it should run just fine. VR performance is inversely proportional to how new the game is. This was kind of meant as a joke but also the more I think about it the more it’s vaguely true because it seems like not-originally VR games really need a lot of attention to not suck rear end in VR performance wise.
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 02:00 |
Anime Store Adventure posted:VR performance is inversely proportional to how new the game is. I know what you mean; X-Wing Alliance has a VR mod, but it's a struggle to get it running well because the engine is all software rendering. DCS gets on my nerves because the game, even outside VR, seems to run worse and worse as time goes on. Like, they're probably to make the engine do stuff that they just can't optimize it to do well, so it gets proportionally slower and shittier over time. I can't think of any other game I have where I think "man, this seemed to run better 8 years ago."
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 03:11 |
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kojei posted:The VR stuff is in the stable branch, so wherever you own the game, if your account is flagged for VR, you have access to it. That said, you're not going to be playing it on your Index. Not yet, anyway.
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 14:08 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:The second wave of VR beta testers includes non-WMR headsets, IIRC. Hence the "yet".
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 19:11 |
Anime Store Adventure posted:VR performance is inversely proportional to how new the game is. As far as race sims go iracing is by far the best VR experience and not only is it 11 years old itself, but its codebase has its roots in Grand Prix Legends (1998) and may actually still include some code from NASCAR Racing 2003. Probably an exception to the rule, though, because otherwise I think your observation mostly holds up. Theris fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Nov 20, 2020 |
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 03:29 |
Yeah, I've never had issues with iRacing in VR. Runs way better for me than, say, Project Cars 2.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 04:11 |
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kojei posted:Hence the "yet".
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 08:55 |
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Best VR game for me stays Warm Thunder, at least when I last played it. Ran smooth like silk on a gtx970.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 13:15 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:I thought they sent out the invites, as per their dev update? Ah, so they did. Still, considering he was asking if the Index will work instead of playing the game, the answer is still "not yet."
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 15:52 |
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Awesome, after months of not having issues, I've suddenly developed the gamecrash when loading approach bug.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 17:00 |
Lord Stimperor posted:Best VR game for me stays Warm Thunder, at least when I last played it. Ran smooth like silk on a gtx970. Yeah, War Thunder runs very well in VR, though I've not tried it since the Biggest Update Ever thingy they pushed out. Biggest issue is the UI, which has scaling issues in VR that you have to fix by messing with the non-VR window resolution. I wish you could put bots in both tanks and planes in private games. I'd love to do some combined arms PvE with my friends.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:12 |
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Shine posted:Yeah, War Thunder runs very well in VR, though I've not tried it since the Biggest Update Ever thingy they pushed out. Biggest issue is the UI, which has scaling issues in VR that you have to fix by messing with the non-VR window resolution. Same, that's why I used to play almost exclusively Enduring Confrontation. Usually there were plenty of AI ground targets, and often the game would also spawn AI air targets. I don't like competitive sim flying, it's 90 minuts of waiting and 2 seconds of fighting before being shot down from someone who circled in the sun at 26,000ft and sniped you from three kilometers away. Anyhow, I've for the first time flown a complete flight with the a320neo in MSFS2020. I watched a tutorial before on YouTube and took about 7 A5 pages of note on how to configure the plane for the various phases, plus spent a good tme creating my own flight briefing at simbrief.com. Having the plane do an entire trip at the push of a button was really satisying, purely as a learning experience. Not so fun is trying to negotiate with the ATC, who tells me to climb to 12,000ft when I'm 5 miles from the runway with my gear out. Oh well. Small victories. Best thing: you can actually have little simulation people load baggage and catering in your plane, and watch the trolleys and truck disappear into the cargo hold. That's super dorky and cute.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 23:24 |
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The FlyByWire mod for the A320 is quite impressive and I'm having a blast flying it lately. Their team is pretty impressive, a pretty active discord server with something like a dozen IRL A320 pilots who are contributing their knowledge to the devs. They just showed off a prototype of a system that lets you import a simbrief plan directly into the MCDU instead of manually typing everything in.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 23:36 |
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Is icing bugged in MSFS for anybody else? I just lawn-darted a C172 into part of Canada despite having it set to "visual only" because I went vaguely near a cloud and immediately froze solid. I can find people online complaining that icing set to "on" is having no effect, but nobody with the opposite problem like I've got. Similarly, is in-game v-sync totally broken? It seems to target double whatever I set the frame limiter to (ie. the game caps at 60 fps with the limiter at 30) until I pop out a Garmin screen, at which point the fps increases up above the frame cap. Playing with the v-sync settings in Nvidia control panel had no effect, so I've switched them all back to their default off setting.
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# ? Nov 22, 2020 00:18 |
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Can someone explain how to get what I assume is True Air Speed using this gauge? I'm pretty sure you need to twist the knob as you gain in altitude, but I can't really see what should be where. In this picture I'm at 10,000 feet. What would my TAS be?
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# ? Nov 22, 2020 00:52 |
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Would you twist it until the number 10(000) lines up with the outside air temperature?
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# ? Nov 22, 2020 01:43 |
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Almost, but you need to know your pressure altitude, not your indicated altitude. Find your pressure altitude by setting 29.92 on the altimeter and reading the value that comes up. Get your outside air temperature from the wing root thermometer at the upper corner of the windshield (or wherever it is). Set those two values opposite each other at the top of the gauge, then read your TAS from the position of the needle against the white sector at the lower left of the gauge. Don't forget to set your altimeter back to its proper value afterwards. Right now it is set for a standard day at sea level, with 15C opposite 0 feet, which is why your IAS and TAS are indicated equal.
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jammyozzy posted:Is icing bugged in MSFS for anybody else? I just lawn-darted a C172 into part of Canada despite having it set to "visual only" because I went vaguely near a cloud and immediately froze solid. Yep. I'm in New England and I can't fly with real weather on most days unless the plane has de-icing stuff in it.
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# ? Nov 22, 2020 01:50 |
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Sagebrush posted:Almost, but you need to know your pressure altitude, not your indicated altitude. Perfect, thanks for the explanation!
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# ? Nov 22, 2020 02:20 |
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Strongly considering to buy the Mooney from the shop. It's got classic VOR navigation equipment, seats a group, and is fast. That must make for cool trips.
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Bedurndurn posted:Yep. I'm in New England and I can't fly with real weather on most days unless the plane has de-icing stuff in it. That's disappointing, I was having a good time flying in some moody cloudy weather.
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# ? Nov 22, 2020 23:39 |
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I haven't played in a couple of months, but I've found it ices up if the drone goes through clouds, instantly full ices up if you look away, etc.
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 01:52 |
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tbf the exact same fatal lawn-dart thing happened to somebody up in I think Buffalo? very recently icing will gently caress you up
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 02:59 |
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Sapozhnik posted:tbf the exact same fatal lawn-dart thing happened to somebody up in I think Buffalo? very recently It was 2009 and icing was not the primary probable cause for that accident. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/AAR1001.aspx American Eagle 4184 in 1994 was the last major fatal crash attributed to icing. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/AAR9601.aspx i am kiss u now fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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Sapozhnik posted:tbf the exact same fatal lawn-dart thing happened to somebody up in I think Buffalo? very recently Sure, and if I was playing as a try-hard sim grognard I wouldn't mind. I'm just buzzing around with a 360 controller checking out the scenery and miffed that the game is ignoring some menu settings. I.never got v-sync or the frame limiter working either. I'm tempted to try re-installing but I'm not convinced that will achieve anything.
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 08:20 |
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There's another sale going on at the DCS store (Steam coming later apparently, but lol), until December 7th. Also there's another mission this weekend: Operation Thousand Words Syrian Democractic Forces have rallied in Aleppo. ISIL has consolidated in Raqqa and the surrounding area, including the airfield at Tabqa. Our coalition is preparing to dislodge ISIL and assist the SDF in moving the fight to Raqqa. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Grz7yEp70GOFfjch3zD1mp2TpDStdapDdqNVTAOu6c/edit#gid=0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcj8yJk87cs&t=17s
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 17:18 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjY-9lkgzVs Trailer for an Ace Combat-esque campaign for DCS. Fictional countries with real planes, voice-acting, music from the guy that does the Ace Combat games, etc. Looks super cool!
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 18:00 |
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Project Wingman is coming out in ~ a week too.
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 18:16 |
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Trillhouse posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjY-9lkgzVs Is that the DEMON? How is that possible? :| I like what they're going for but lmao this voice acting is so loving bad. It really does feel like a cheap imitation.
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 22:22 |
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M.... multi flap drifting?!?!
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 23:12 |
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Shine posted:No problem, that game's engine is like 25 years old so it should run just fine. Got my G2 yesterday. Running it with a 1080, DCS is absolutely loving stunning in VR. I mean, it’s a jittery, unplayable puke-fest while you’re sitting still on the deck, but the slideshow is absolutely breathtaking. My 3090 comes on Friday.
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 23:24 |
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Is that the DEMON? How is that possible? :| Actually I could use a campaign that's super cheesy but oozes enthusiasm and fun. Might motivate me to get back into DCS and re-learn the F18. (I just remembered that my Throttle died and how horrible it is to set up dozens of control binding in a sim so I'm in fact probably not playing that campaign)
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MrYenko posted:Got my G2 yesterday. Running it with a 1080, DCS is absolutely loving stunning in VR. I mean, it’s a jittery, unplayable puke-fest while you’re sitting still on the deck, but the slideshow is absolutely breathtaking. That's Sicky I wish you all the best. Going from a 970 to a 2070 did lots for my experience.
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 23:47 |
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JayKay posted:Eh, only issue I've run into buying on Steam vs Windows Marketplace is that the Navigraph beta only supports Windows Marketplace at the moment. It's supported the Steam version since like the second update.
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# ? Nov 24, 2020 02:05 |
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Kilonum posted:It's supported the Steam version since like the second update. Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Well that takes care of one of my gripes with MSFS2020. Edit: Updating now with the beta, thanks!
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# ? Nov 24, 2020 02:11 |
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For anyone on the fence about FS 2020 due to lower end hardware, I'm enjoying autopilot hurling my plane groundward at a much higher subjective performance than expected with a 2 gig gtx960 and 46xx i5. It feels smoother than full detail FSX most of the time. Using 70% render scaling with TAA wizardry looks great at 2560x1080 with low/medium settings at 40fps. The autopilot randomly deciding that FL100 means FL0 on activation is a little offputting though.
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# ? Nov 24, 2020 13:58 |
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What’s your autopilot workflow? What are you pressing in what order
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Speaking of FS2020, looks like the USA world update just dropped along with 1.11.6.0. Photogrammetry loading optimized, autogen buildings and bridges improved, miscellaneous bugfixes. I see a lot of airports being patched - 48 according to a splash screen. Elevation data updated, 1m resolution in some places. New discovery flight - East Coast USA. 4 new bespoke airports (Atlanta, New York Stewart, Dallas/Fort Worth, Friday Harbor). 50 new POIs, looks like Washington DC got a makeover. Tiny Steam update, 12.75 MB updater download with a lot of small files patched. 4.24 GB from the marketplace for the USA update.
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# ? Nov 24, 2020 18:34 |