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Thanks fellas. This should help. Much obliged.

I've been away from the WW2 planes in DCS for a few years. Back now trying to fly the Dora. I'm using Saitek pedals for the Dora's rudder, but no matter how I fiddle with the Axis tuning, the plane pulls hard to the left. I can't even get to the runway from the ramp, let alone down it to take off. It's essentially unflyable. What am I doing wrong? I realize the prop does initially cause drift in direction, but this is ridiculous. The pedals have very little effect.

Many thanks draconus. Yes, I found that video about a week ago. The Grim Reapers' vids are very good. I'm just baffled that DCS spent so little time on the CA instruction manual. It's a great sim. CA gets treated like the illegitimate child of Arma 3 and an F-15.

How do you removed the CAS option?

I've been playing DCS since the beginning, but only very recently started trying out Combined Arms. It looks and feels terrific, but I'm new at it with some basic questions. I'm driving the Merkava IV tank, and I can't figure out why I can lock a target sometimes, but not others. The other Merkavas in my platoon seem to lock and fire much earlier than I can. Is it a range limitation? What's the firing sequence of orders: rangefinder on, lock target, fire? Do I need to use the laser? When do I turn on target tracking? Do I need to use the increase range command? And what's the difference between rangefinder and rangefinder combat? Sorry for the newbie questions. Any help much appreciated. The manual is less than helpful.

Fellas, I'm the guy who started this sad thread nearly a year ago. In frustration, I kept but mothballed my G2, and then my work interrupted any VR attempts in the interim until now. Recall that I have an AMD 570 board, 6800XT card, and 32 gigs RAM. So 10 days ago I decided to take another run at using my G2. I know the workarounds to get it functioning in an AMD environment, and it looks great playing various games. But it will not play nice with standalone DCS -- and I've spent somewhere north of 60 or 70 hours since I bought it crawling through Reddit, watching videos, etc. hoping to get it to work. WMR is a real disappointment and nothing but hassles. I know others have had a happier experience, and I'm glad for them. But short of taking my G2 to Lourdes for a miracle cure, I've concluded that nothing will work. I want to actually enjoy a headset and not constantly rage at it. Last week I bought an Oculus Quest 2, and despite one initial hiccup, it's been flawless and very easy to use. With the graphics properly tuned and tweaked (thank you, YouTube), resolution is excellent and DCS play is very smooth. So I'm sticking with the Quest 2.

Thanks fellas. The fix for me was a "duh" moment. I open the Oculus app on my PC. Then I open the DCS shortcut on my PC. Then I put on my Quest 2 headset with PC Link enabled. DCS opens and runs automatically. No need to import it into my Oculus library -- which I had been doing with my Rift.

I had an Oculus Rift a couple of years ago, imported DCS and ran it without complication. I then switched to a G2 Reverb and had a year of 20 percent joy, 80 percent tech hassles. Fell off VR for awhile due to work. Now back, and just bought a Quest 2 with PC Link. Works great . . . except for DCS. Every time I try to start DCS I get this error message: Error ovr25027186. Has anyone else had this problem? Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Not using any shader mods. Thanks though. Any other thoughts? I've run Repair DCS. No effect.

I'm flying the F-15C at the moment in WMR with an HP G2. For no apparent reason, the cockpit and exterior plane textures have simply disappeared every time I boot DCS up in VR. The MFD, HUD, and radar screen show up as green lights in an otherwise transparent aircraft. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggested solutions?

Your counsel is really excellent Frappie, I've been tracking your posts. But for some reason I've still got my stuttering. Frustrating.

Thanks but no, that doesn't help. I've been playing DCS, on and off, for more than 15 years, and this is unusually frustrating. As an added bonus, the sim doesn't seem to remember or use the profile I input.

By glitching I mean stuttering or hiccups during play. I've attached a quick and very sloppy runway track. But you'll see what I mean. test.trk

Earlier this year I upgraded my computer to an Alienware Aurora Ryzen. Windows 10, 64 bit home edition. Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 6 core. Grafix card: AMD Radeon 6800XT, 16 gigs video RAM 32 gigs RAM. I also routinely use Process Lasso. My frustration is this: I've got double the video RAM, a faster processor, and double my normal RAM, and Im getting more glitching in DCS than I did before. Any suggestions to help uncover what's causing this nonsense??

Thanks fellas. My AMD 570 board does not seem to be the problem. My headset works fine, every time, using a powered USB 3.0 brick. I'm convinced it's a chronic software/driver mix. I've updated everything -- Windows, Steam, and all my AMD drivers. The various elements of software just don't play nice together. My frustration is that I now have a $600 piece of plastic that's effectively useless and has already eaten days of my time trying to simply make it work. Technology should make things easier, not worse. I'll give it another day of trying. Then it's adios HP.

Thanks guys, yes, I Dl'd the WMR program for Steam and have used it since the gitgo. When the combo works, things look great. But it mostly doesn't work. The integration of WMR with Steam and Windows 10 seems to be whacked genetically.

Fellas, I did six weeks of research on the various possible headsets when I retired my Oculus Rift original. I settled on the G2 ($600). I did it knowing that my 570 AMD board (32 gig RAM, 6800XT grafix card) posed a problem, but that was resolved pretty quickly with workarounds. I've now had the G2 for two months, and I've had nothing but constant hassles with Windows and Radeon software updates, and endless failures of WMR to recognize and play any Steam game (yes, I've tried both SteamVR and Steam VR beta, crawled through the various forums, etc.). I've been video gaming for 40 years (no joke), so a newbie I'm not. The G2/WMR combo is a complicated mishmash that seems to work great for some players, but for me it's been a nightmare of time-vampire software issues. The cost in time and aggravation is not worth it. Comradely advice: If you don't want to spend dozens of hours trying to figure out WTF is wrong with your system, do not go the G2/WMR route. I've had it. Unless someone has some magic cure you can share, I'm going with the Quest 2 this weekend.

Circling back on this since I started the discussion. Overall I'm very pleased (so far) with the Reverb G2. It takes some getting used to, since WMR is a different creature from the Oculus Rift. I also had the standard aggravations trying to get it to work with my Aurora 10 Ryzen; AMD and the G2 do not yet play nice together. But it now works fine with a separately powered USB block of plugs. Weirdly though, it's very picky about which of the USB plugs it chooses to work with. No idea why. Downloaded Revive, and I can play all my Oculus titles, and of course SteamVR for Steam titles. So: so far, so good.

Thanks for all this fellas. I ordered the G2 in the end. Arriving March 17. Will let you know my thoughts after a couple days.

This is what I'm really nervous about. I do NOT want to drop $600 on a dead piece of equipment. So I'm still really ambivalent.

Thanks Vampire. That settles it.

As I was getting ready to pull the trigger and buy the Reverb G2, I found a bunch of complaints from AMD users saying that the G2 has compatibility issues with the 6800xt gpu. Has that been addressed? Is that now fixed?

I'm using a Ryzen 5 5600 with a 6800XT GPU. My original Oculus Rift has gone to its eternal reward. I've been combing through published and YouTube VR reviews. The Index is brutally expensive and seems prone to too many problems after the first 10 or 12 months. The HTC Vive variants seem a bit tech dated and don't stand out, given their price tag. At the moment I'm leaning toward the Quest 2 or the HP Reverb G2. My main focus is DCS, but the grandkids and I also play other Oculus and Steam games. Tactical Pascale has a pretty high opinion of the Quest 2 for DCS. His videos are very positive. Is that a common experience? The Reverb G2 has some clear advantages, but can it play Oculus and Steam titles? Any guidance, much appreciated. I'll probably need to live with the consequences of this choice for awhile.

This is really useful guys. Much obliged. Will probably go with the Index.

I currently use the Oculus Rift, and it's good, but I'm itching to upgrade. At this juncture I'd rather not dump my motherboard and CPU. So that knocks out the Index. I'm willing to upgrade my graphics card -- currently an AMD Radeon 390x. Given those parameters, what's the best move? Rift S? Quest 2? I know the Rift S is being discontinued, and that it had complaints about its audio. But does that kill it as a sensible upgrade? What's the DCS performance like with the Quest 2 and PC link? Thanks for any help.