Night Flying VR

[Comrade_Weng]

I have just been on Combat Box flying a night (very early morning mission) before sunrise and had terrible graphics. I'm running a HP G2 which normally gives great performance however the visuals at night were a chromatic flickering nightmare like a 8 bit video game from the 90s.The canopy reflections were a rainbow mess and clouds were flickering between purple and black. Once the sun rose the visuals looked fantastic as they usually do. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm pretty sure when I've flown night missions previously theyve never been this bad. Has anything changed or can anyone suggest what's going on please? A search yields no results. 

[[CPT]Crunch]

If you've adjusted the visuals for normal day time using the Opencomposite toolkit it can throw the night stuff out of wack, even though the day looks better.  And the G-2 screens in general are never going to look good in a dark environment, they simply don't do black color, only washed out gray.  Night and early dawn look like crap as well on mine, just something I have to live with, no way I'm messing my day visuals just for an occasional few minutes of night, they're too good, and it took to long to get them there.

[Comrade_Weng]

Thanks. I was very surprised with how bad the dark was considering that in a section of half life alyx where you have no navigate in the pitch black with a torch it was extremely immersive on the G2.

 

I've not changed anything that I would have thought would affect the situation in il2 in the xr toolkit but will have a play when I get time. I wonder whether it's anything to do with the CAS that I use? 

 

 

Edited February 22, 2024 by Comrade_Weng

[firdimigdi]

On 2/21/2024 at 3:06 PM, Comrade_Weng said:

I have just been on Combat Box flying a night (very early morning mission) before sunrise and had terrible graphics. I'm running a HP G2 which normally gives great performance however the visuals at night were a chromatic flickering nightmare like a 8 bit video game from the 90s.The canopy reflections were a rainbow mess and clouds were flickering between purple and black. Once the sun rose the visuals looked fantastic as they usually do. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm pretty sure when I've flown night missions previously theyve never been this bad. Has anything changed or can anyone suggest what's going on please? A search yields no results. 

 

If you are using motion smoothing/reprojection with nvidia optical flow it completely loses its marbles with dark scenes.

[Comrade_Weng]

I'm not using motion smoothing or reproduction.

 

I've had a little play with settings and increasing the super sampling, turning off MSAA in favour of FXAA and changing upscaling from CAS to FSR in the open xr toolkit seems to have helped slightly. Although as has been pointed out I think the HP g2 contrast might be a limiting factor. Seems to be less purple now.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

1 hour ago, Comrade_Weng said:

I'm not using motion smoothing or reproduction.

 

I've had a little play with settings and increasing the super sampling, turning off MSAA in favour of FXAA and changing upscaling from CAS to FSR in the open xr toolkit seems to have helped slightly. Although as has been pointed out I think the HP g2 contrast might be a limiting factor. Seems to be less purple now.

Try the dark post filter in openxr toolkit.

Edited March 7, 2024 by =DW=_Drewm3i-VR

[Hartigan]

I had the same issue and it turned out that openxr toolkit FSR sharpening caused it. CAS works fine . I do not use any upscaling ,just custom resolution so CAS gives me all I need.