Depth of Field - Yes or Not?

[FamouZ_PT]

Hello pilots :)

Guys, one question, are you using Depth of Field?
It makes the game looks beauty or .. ?

[Insônia]

External view only.

If you want to record videos and take screenshots then yes. And you need carefully manage your game camera because you cant adjust focal length and other camera param stuff in DCS.
other than that gameplay wise it looks very bad and not worth the performance lost.

DOF algorithm is costy and very hard to recreate that authentic optical feeling, aka looks fake or bad. Most game only apply Traditional DOF model in carefully constructed cutscenes. Actual DOF stuff involve path find/ray tracing, almost no game ever do in such way.

In DCS
"Bokeh" is just blur post effect based on Z depth info, it may create image artifact. But slight less fps impact than "simple".

[[ATP]Flo]

I am not using it because it reduces visability. It does look good though when you record videos.

[geistXIII]

DoF and motion blur are in any game the first thing I deactivate. It just eats ressources and as Troll said, it's purely cinematic, therefore (for me) immersion breaking.

[XIII]

Not using it, its a nonsensical effect in games where you need to spot at distance. The blurriness is just ugly if you have to focus on it.

[CMDR Sweeper]

I never use DOF in any game...
Simply I do not want to pay extra in performance get a blurry distant background and I let my eyes naturally do that pending on where I am focused with my eyes.