VR Shaders mod for better VR experience

Something is simply broken in this game. Every time I play it I get wildly different performance visuals requiring another set of HOURS to find the cure. Then its play musical chairs with hundreds of settings ad nauseum until I can find that one good temp setting... From reading all of these threads I can see one thing. There is no cure for any two different people.

 

I see people with far less hardware saying they get good results with this game in VR.

 

On my 8700k/2080/32ddr4/eidehd Im running almost everything full low and it still stutters badly in high g turns.

 

I play American Truck Sim, Project Cars and IL2 and all run perfectly fine as expected. Not this. Frustration level 98%....

The EIDE hard drive isn't helping the situation. Also, nobody knows what VR headset you're using or any other important detail that would help us help you.

Hey guys,

I am new to all of this modding. I do notice that my version of beta is 2.5.6.45317 and will the current latest shader mod work this version?

thanks

Yes

I have a problem. Renamed the shader-folders to .old but after launch and exit DCS there is no new DCS folder with the new compiled shaders in it?

This is expected behaviour. The folders don’t get regenerated, the files get regenerated in fxo and metashaders2, in your dcs saved games directory,... the folders don’t ...this has been asked several times...

...this has been asked several times...

Thanks for the quick answer and sorry, but here are more than 100 pages, i doesent have read them all. :-)

search is your friend...

I've tried this on standalone 2.5.5 but upon launching DCS I got this error message

Any ideas?

you have to use the latest 2.5.5 mod with version 2.5.5

you have to use the latest 2.5.5 mod with version 2.5.5

Ok thanks. I'll try with that one then

you will need to uninstall the 2.5.6 mod first!

Installed this shader mod last night and I gotta say this has improved my framerate immensely! Thank you!!!!

Is it possible to make this mod work for multiplayer?

yes

To make your own IC compliant version of the MOD do the following:

1) install the MOD using OvGME or JGSME. and the other installation steps as per the readme file

2) go to multiplayer in game and see which files are causing an IC failure and note them down

3) uninstall the MOD

4) remove those specific files from the MOD

5) reapply the MOD

6) repeat steps 2 - 5 as required.

This mod seems to work on 2.5.6.45915, but performance is terrible. The game also crashes for me on the second time playing any mission (i.e. play the mission once, return to the mission editor, fix something, try to play again and it crashes.)

Moving back to 2.5.6.45317, performance was great on this version.

Is it possible to modify this mod so we don't lose the tracers on the Viper gun?

performance is terrible

Delete all shader files in:

C:\Users\<your username>\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\fxo

C:\Users\<your username>\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\metashaders2

C:\Users\<your username>\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\metashaders\metafx

And let the sim rebuild them (will take some time). Has helped in the past.

Delete all shader files in:

 

C:\Users\<your username>\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\fxo

C:\Users\<your username>\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\metashaders2

C:\Users\<your username>\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\metashaders\metafx

 

And let the sim rebuild them (will take some time). Has helped in the past.

I dont have, nor do I remember ever seeing this folder.

it might be just DCS not DCS.openbeta

ever seeing this folder

Oh yeah, if you're running stable then the folder name is just "DCS".

Shader Mod causing CTD

This mod seems to work on 2.5.6.45915, but performance is terrible. The game also crashes for me on the second time playing any mission (i.e. play the mission once, return to the mission editor, fix something, try to play again and it crashes.)

 

Moving back to 2.5.6.45317, performance was great on this version.

I'm still getting good performance, however whenever I re-load a mission, it will CTD. this has been reported in the "Game performance" section.

I have Uninstalled the mod and confirmed the CTD is no longer present.

Re-installed mod and crash returns.

(note: i would rather crash 12 times a day rather than uninstall this mod.)

Attached crash log

dcs.log-20200403-004957.zip

This mod seems to work on 2.5.6.45915, but performance is terrible. The game also crashes for me on the second time playing any mission (i.e. play the mission once, return to the mission editor, fix something, try to play again and it crashes.)

 

Moving back to 2.5.6.45317, performance was great on this version.

I had problem only with Spitfire modul, with F/A 18 no problem

I tried the mod with the last version. Correct install with purge of metashader, fxo, renaming of dcs for all maps.

no pfs gain at all on harrier "ready on the ramp" quick mission

crash when trying to launch a second mission.

I added an updated version in the first post that hopefully fixes the crash since last DCS version, and includes a few other shader changes that came in the last patches.