Flew 5 sorties tonight...I'm really impressed with this update

[AuburnAlumni]

I've got an 8700k, 1080Ti Oculus Rift S setup.

 

Using MSAA, SS at 1.4 on Oculus Tray Tool and using Open Composite.  I'm blown away by this update, both in the lighting and performance.  Started with a P-38 dogfight against some 109s.  The cockpit of the P-38 with the new lighting looked absolutely phenomenal.  My FPS was a rock solid 80 FPS the entire fight....not one stutter..not one drop with 8 aircraft in the sky.

 

Flew another one on Arras in a Spad vs Albatross, took down the Albatross then went on a few strafing runs of some German convoys.  Yet again...rock solid FPS the entire flight...down low near the ground and trees..up high..didn't matter.

 

Flew another one as a FW190 A-8 attacking 2 flights of B-25s.  16 aircraft on Rheinland Summer...80 FPS the whole way.  I don't know what they did, but I am super impressed.  Visuals are oustanding and FPS is dream like.  

 

Well done IL-2 team.

Edited May 21, 2020 by AuburnAlumni

[SR-F_Winger]

My warranty replaced index should hopefully soon be on its way so i can try out this new update, Simply cannot go back to 2d monitors after VR only once. Hope i can find the same performance gains.
Thanks for your impression.

[dburne]

6 hours ago, AuburnAlumni said:

I've got an 8700k, 1080Ti Oculus Rift S setup.

 

Using MSAA, SS at 1.4 on Oculus Tray Tool and using Open Composite.  I'm blown away by this update, both in the lighting and performance.  Started with a P-38 dogfight against some 109s.  The cockpit of the P-38 with the new lighting looked absolutely phenomenal.  My FPS was a rock solid 80 FPS the entire fight....not one stutter..not one drop with 8 aircraft in the sky.

 

Flew another one on Arras in a Spad vs Albatross, took down the Albatross then went on a few strafing runs of some German convoys.  Yet again...rock solid FPS the entire flight...down low near the ground and trees..up high..didn't matter.

 

Flew another one as a FW190 A-8 attacking 2 flights of B-25s.  16 aircraft on Rheinland Summer...80 FPS the whole way.  I don't know what they did, but I am super impressed.  Visuals are oustanding and FPS is dream like.  

 

Well done IL-2 team.

 

Fully agree, I am seeing the same in my PWCG Campaign.

[firdimigdi]

8 hours ago, AuburnAlumni said:

I've got an 8700k, 1080Ti Oculus Rift S setup.

 

Using MSAA, SS at 1.4 on Oculus Tray Tool and using Open Composite.  I'm blown away by this update, both in the lighting and performance.  Started with a P-38 dogfight against some 109s.  The cockpit of the P-38 with the new lighting looked absolutely phenomenal.  My FPS was a rock solid 80 FPS the entire fight....not one stutter..not one drop with 8 aircraft in the sky.

 

Flew another one on Arras in a Spad vs Albatross, took down the Albatross then went on a few strafing runs of some German convoys.  Yet again...rock solid FPS the entire flight...down low near the ground and trees..up high..didn't matter.

 

Flew another one as a FW190 A-8 attacking 2 flights of B-25s.  16 aircraft on Rheinland Summer...80 FPS the whole way.  I don't know what they did, but I am super impressed.  Visuals are oustanding and FPS is dream like.  

 

Well done IL-2 team.

 

Would you mind sharing your startup.cfg settings?

 

As a sidenote, is there any difference to setting SS in OTT instead of using an opencomposite.ini with supersampleRatio=1.4 in it?

[kuk111]

Also super impressed been beautiful flying and solid FPS :)

 

Auburn you and i have the same PC setup can you show me your game settings for comparison? My 8700k is set to 4.7 on all cores  and no AVX offset (light i know, but i like stable)  Day one with the update went with 4x MSAA and no Super Sampling. Looked amazing and smooth but would like to tinker around today after work. I use OpenC and all that jazz. 

 

[KEY = graphics]
    3dhud = 0
    adapter = 0
    bloom_enable = 0
    canopy_ref = 0
    desktop_center = 1
    detail_rt_res = 1024
    draw_distance = 0.54500
    far_blocks = 0
    fps_counter = 0
    fps_limit = 0
    full_height = 768
    full_width = 1024
    fullscreen = 0
    gamma = 0.80000
    grass_distance = 0.00000
    hdr_enable = 0
    land_anisotropy = 2
    land_tex_lods = 1
    max_cache_res = 1
    max_clouds_quality = 2
    mgpu_compatible = 0
    mirrors = 1
    msaa = 1
    multisampling = 2
    or_ca = 0.00000
    or_dummy = 0
    or_enable = 1
    or_height = 1776
    or_hud_rad = 1.50000
    or_hud_size = 0.75000
    or_ipd = 0.06600
    or_sipdc = 0.00000
    or_width = 1648
    post_sharpen = 1
    preset = 2
    prop_blur_max_rpm_for_vr = 155
    rescale_target = 1.00000
    shadows_quality = 0
    ssao_enable = 0
    stereo_dof = 5.00000
    vsync = 0
    win_height = 1080
    win_width = 1920
[END]

[Alonzo]

1 hour ago, Firdimigdi said:

As a sidenote, is there any difference to setting SS in OTT instead of using an opencomposite.ini with supersampleRatio=1.4 in it?

 

Unsure. Because there are so many moving parts, I tend to use OTT "HUD" set to "show pixel density" if I have been messing with supersample, just to make sure I got the result I really wanted. There was a time when SteamVR and OTT applied stacking multipliers, that was fun (game looked amazing but performed like shit at pixel density 2.0!).

[dburne]

1 hour ago, Firdimigdi said:

 

Would you mind sharing your startup.cfg settings?

 

As a sidenote, is there any difference to setting SS in OTT instead of using an opencomposite.ini with supersampleRatio=1.4 in it?

 

I too just use the OTT for my SS on Rift S.

I have been using Open Composite for quite some time and was not even aware one could adjust SS with it.

[kuk111]

7 minutes ago, dburne said:

 

I too just use the OTT for my SS on Rift S.

I have been using Open Composite for quite some time and was not even aware one could adjust SS with it.

Haha same here. Learn something new everyday on the road to tweaking VR     So you could have up to 3 programs running SS at same time. Glorious!

[AuburnAlumni]

7 hours ago, kuk111 said:

Also super impressed been beautiful flying and solid FPS

 

Auburn you and i have the same PC setup can you show me your game settings for comparison? My 8700k is set to 4.7 on all cores  and no AVX offset (light i know, but i like stable)  Day one with the update went with 4x MSAA and no Super Sampling. Looked amazing and smooth but would like to tinker around today after work. I use OpenC and all that jazz. 

 

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Below screenshot is what I'm using.

 

I flew 2 quick mission dogfights today on my lunch...both with 2 full flights on either side (P51s/P47s vs 109s/FW190s) on Rheinland Summer and kept my FPS ticker on the entire time.  I'd say in both, 95% of the time the ticker stayed at 79 or 80.  On initial contact with the enemy flights engaging...it dipped down to 63 for about 2 seconds then shot back up to 77-79.  Even with several of the aircraft burning, smoke plumes, etc...FPS never took that typical tank I experience where it drops to 43, 38, etc.  That's with 16 planes on screen.  In 1 on 1 or 4 on 4 I haven't seen any dips at all past maybe less than a second.

Edited May 21, 2020 by AuburnAlumni

[Talon_]

This cfg is shadows completely off? Is that not thoroughly immersion breaking?

[kuk111]

2 hours ago, Talon_ said:

This cfg is shadows completely off? Is that not thoroughly immersion breaking?

 

Day one of a large update like this I add features one at a time to gauge FPS effects. But I can tell you the game is still beautiful and immersive even off haha

[HunDread]

13 hours ago, Talon_ said:

This cfg is shadows completely off? Is that not thoroughly immersion breaking?

It's not bad. I've been playing with shadows off for years now as they are quite FPS hungry. I don't feel anything is missing at all. If I had been playing with shadows and had to turn them off now probably that would be different.