Career mode in VR

[Slotermeyer]

Hi guys I'm new to the forums und relatively new to the game, as I bought it years ago but then focused mostly on DCS, but came back with the new clouds update (they look awesome) and tried the career mode for the first time. Before I only played around with simple and small quick missions and never had any performance issues.

But the first mission, escort 6 bombers with my squadron of 7 planes and all the enemy fighters on top I experience massive stutter and framerate drops constantly through the whole mission, and would consider this unplayable in VR. My question would be: is there a way with a certain decent graphics setup to get at least the 40 frames that provide smooth playing or should I simply forget about career mode in VR and focus on smaller missions?

 

By the way this is the same with DCS, where I almost exclusively concentrate on making my own small missions with the mission editor instead of bothering around with huge missions and multiplayer because of massive framedrops.

 

My specs: RTX3080, i7 8700 3.7ghz, 32 GB RAM. with Oculus Rift S

[firdimigdi]

It's mostly a CPU usage issue unfortunately. Reducing the frontline activity and difficulty setting both reduce the amount of AI-controlled units and provide for a smoother framerate.

[Slotermeyer]

Ok, thanks. I will give it a try. Maybe this upscaler-thing does the job, but I guess I shouldn't expect a wonder 

[Slotermeyer]

Sooo, I fiddled for hours with every setting in this open vr mod and ingame graphics settings, and I will give up now. Other than quick missions with not too many AI units I´m just not able to find a setting that provides a satisfactory performance in campaigns or career mode. I get 80 fps when nothing´s going on, but when meeting with other squadrons of bombers or fighters the fps switches to 39 and I get horrible stutters all the time, especially when getting near other planes, even with lowest graphic settings.

Don´t know, maybe CPU is really the bottleneck here.

 

Strange notice: Quick missions with nearly identical number of planes like in career mode mission and full range of ground units seems to perform slightly better.

So sadly this whole game boils down to some little variety in quick missions. Maybe I try my luck with a mission editor

[Marvel]

Hi, I play usually in career mode and occasionally in QC and I have usually 60-50 fps. Sometimes game go jerky but are very short while. For the most of the time game run fine.

Here my graphic settings:

 

 

You can see my rig specs in my signature.

Ciao!

 

M

Edited December 21, 2021 by Marvel

[paul_leonard]

You are CPU bound.  Try Balanced at best.  You have a very good GPU but your system is out of balance for VR.

[Hartigan]

You said you get 39 FPS when something happens or appears on sight? That means reprojection kicks in If you get half frames from 80hz ? You should be able to stay 80fps If reprojection/motion smoothing is unchecked

Edited December 22, 2021 by Hartigan

[firdimigdi]

Also it might be worth a shot to use OpenComposite - in theory you should be able to install it system-wide and then have the fsr/nis mod locally in the game's folder.

[BBAS_Tiki_Joe]

Looking at your specs, you CPU is holding you back. Not only in this game but pretty much anything else you play that is heavily reliant on CPU, your really getting bottle-necked by it when compared to the other hardware you are rocking. I've got the same PC except with a better CPU and have my graphics settings Maxed out and hold 60fps in career mode. Though I do not play with the density above Medium or difficulty above medium, anything over that is too intensive with way too many planes, even on even a good 2D setup and will slow the game down in my experience, especially with bomber missions. Anything in this game with more than 20 ai planes in the sky especially bombers really drags performance down.  I'd also recommend looking at (PWCG) Pat Willsons campaign generator here on the forums, I've found that running a career through his third party tool builds missions that are just as fun but less performance heavy.

 

Edited December 22, 2021 by BBAS_Tiki_Joe
removed wrong info