help with pc specs and VR

[Adolfo Bisi]

Guys, a friend of mine tested DCS in vr in my rig, and now he wants to buy one.
For the price, he could buy a quest2, but he's not sure it the pc could handle it
He has an i5 10400f, 32gb ddr4, 3060.
Does anybody know if he could run it, even in lower graphic settings?

[Khaziir Everflight]

i use a ryzen 7 5800X, and a rtx 3060 myself, and i think it should just about run. definitely lower settings tho. my cpu is a bit better than your friend's cpu, but other than that i pretty much use the same stuff, and can mostyl play it with playable fps, even if not perfect. at least when i played a year or so ago, and i'd sure hope they increased optimization a bunch since then.

[Adolfo Bisi]

wonderful, thanks for the reply

[Gracey Face]

I got playable framerates in single player with a much worse rig than what you're using (3770k and a 980Ti running on an index) but the framerates in multiplayer were generally not playable.

With your rig you should be able to play it with mostly lower graphical settings. As long as you're willing to dial down the pixel density enough and/or use fixed foviated rendering you could run it on a potato theoretically, but at that point it is an issue of what graphical quality you can accept.

[Ho Chi]

similar experiences as the guys above .....

my old setup was i7 8700k , 32 gb ram and GTX 1080 paired with a quest 2 .... lower graphics settings and resolution it was very playable.

Edit to add ... i use the occulus tray tool also to further tweak the settings on headset.

[sergio.e.samayoa]

New rig?

Rob a bank and brought the best you can:

At least i5 14th gen,
32G RAM is OK,
A good m2 gen 4, look for the best read speed (Samsung EVO perhaps?)
GPU: 4070+

I currently have i7 11770k, 64G RAM, installed DCS in m2 disk but no gen 4, 4070 "plain".
To be honest I cannot see the difference between high settings vs low settings, perhaps because the Quest 2 but in multiplayer I must set most settings on low.

Don forget to use OpenXR Toolkit!

What about the stick, HOTAS and pedals?

[sergio.e.samayoa]

Originally posted by Ho Chi:

similar experiences as the guys above .....

my old setup was i7 8700k , 32 gb ram and GTX 1080 paired with a quest 2 .... lower graphics settings and resolution it was very playable.

Edit to add ... i use the occulus tray tool also to further tweak the settings on headset.

I just upgrade from GTX 1080 ti to RTX 4070:
latter is 50% better according to user benchmarks but , IMHO, the real advantage of 4070 over 1080 is LDAA.

[Adolfo Bisi]

Thanks for all the replies

[bingbean]

I thing this i pretty subjective thing. For someone the performance and visual can look acceptable for other one the same performance and visual is unplayable.
For me RTX 3060 is definitely not a GPU for VR playing.

[Flockers Design]

myself i am running:
I7 12900K
RTX 3060
32gb RAM
Game installed on the KC3000 PCIE 4.0 m.2

and almost run everything Maxed out with some exceptions

-Grass cludder off (This is the biggest FPS killer in the game after doing a lot of testing
-DLSS (Quality)
-Sharpening 53%

plus using a wireless VR connection
using VDXR without any other programs
Results down below (still am testing some settings)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3oyll47Ejw&t=1s

[Randy Lahey]

Originally posted by Mythic:

myself i am running:
I7 12900K
RTX 3060
32gb RAM
Game installed on the KC3000 PCIE 4.0 m.2

and almost run everything Maxed out with some exceptions

I'd like to see your in-game settings and what you're setting in OpenXR toolkit to be able to 'max out' DCS with a 3060?! I can't run it with a 4070ti 'maxed out' , nor can anyone with a 4090 from what I've seen here and everywhere else online.

EDIT: Your suggestion to turn grass clutter to zero was a good one. I would just turn the grass up and down and see no difference, but never off. When I switched it to 0 in-fight, it immediately smoothed the small micro-stutters I was getting on the Syria free flight. It's ridiculous that grass would have such a large effect when you're 5,000 ft above the ground. Poor coding. I also switched my max fps to 300 (from 90...not sure why I had it set at that), but I don't know if it made a difference, will test today.

[Randy Lahey]

Originally posted by bingbean:

I thing this i pretty subjective thing. For someone the performance and visual can look acceptable for other one the same performance and visual is unplayable.
For me RTX 3060 is definitely not a GPU for VR playing.

Yes, I had the quest 2 (bought it new in November because it was so cheap...my first VR headset) but I returned it and go a Q3 about two weeks ago. It's a night and day difference in DCS, and pretty much everything else. I just couldn't handle the blurriness of the Q2. It was fine for the standalone games, but I couldn't get the gauges even close to clear in DCS.

[Flockers Design]

Originally posted by Randy Lahey:

Originally posted by Mythic:

myself i am running:
I7 12900K
RTX 3060
32gb RAM
Game installed on the KC3000 PCIE 4.0 m.2

and almost run everything Maxed out with some exceptions

I'd like to see your in-game settings and what you're setting in OpenXR toolkit to be able to 'max out' DCS with a 3060?! I can't run it with a 4070ti 'maxed out' , nor can anyone with a 4090 from what I've seen here and everywhere else online.

EDIT: Your suggestion to turn grass clutter to zero was a good one. I would just turn the grass up and down and see no difference, but never off. When I switched it to 0 in-fight, it immediately smoothed the small micro-stutters I was getting on the Syria free flight. It's ridiculous that grass would have such a large effect when you're 5,000 ft above the ground. Poor coding. I also switched my max fps to 300 (from 90...not sure why I had it set at that), but I don't know if it made a difference, will test today.

i will make a video on this no problem
also i dont use any thirst party software other then Virtual desktop
also i have it almost maxed out not fully

and its not poor coding this is totaly normal because the have the grass in the landscape material so this makes it so it always spawns not you can change the reneder distance but i dont think the have this implemented for the grass so this will already eleminate the biggest issue plus VR is still not there to handle all of this

now for me its not hard to find things like this i mean it has bin my job for over 11 years XD

[Gracey Face]

Originally posted by Randy Lahey:

I can't run it with a 4070ti 'maxed out' , nor can anyone with a 4090 from what I've seen here and everywhere else online.

I only have a 3090ti but I can max DCS out in VR on both an index and a quest 3 (with 100% pixel density). On the index I'd occasionally drop to 60fps in multiplayer and the quest 3 I occasionally drop into the low 50's but that's fine by me. I prefer the better graphics over maintaining a consistent 72fps. A 4070Ti if I remember correctly should be marginally more powerful than a 3090Ti so you should be able to get better performance. When you say maxed out are you meaning keep a steady framerate?

[Flockers Design]

Originally posted by Gracey Face:

Originally posted by Randy Lahey:

I can't run it with a 4070ti 'maxed out' , nor can anyone with a 4090 from what I've seen here and everywhere else online.

I only have a 3090ti but I can max DCS out in VR on both an index and a quest 3 (with 100% pixel density). On the index I'd occasionally drop to 60fps in multiplayer and the quest 3 I occasionally drop into the low 50's but that's fine by me. I prefer the better graphics over maintaining a consistent 72fps. A 4070Ti if I remember correctly should be marginally more powerful than a 3090Ti so you should be able to get better performance. When you say maxed out are you meaning keep a steady framerate?

if you look at my message again it also stated

(and almost run everything Maxed out with some exceptions)

Here is a Forum post i just published
after more people asked me for it

https://steamcommunity.com/app/223750/discussions/0/4209245188602505603/

[Randy Lahey]

Originally posted by Gracey Face:

I only have a 3090ti but I can max DCS out in VR on both an index and a quest 3 (with 100% pixel density). On the index I'd occasionally drop to 60fps in multiplayer and the quest 3 I occasionally drop into the low 50's but that's fine by me. I prefer the better graphics over maintaining a consistent 72fps. A 4070Ti if I remember correctly should be marginally more powerful than a 3090Ti so you should be able to get better performance. When you say maxed out are you meaning keep a steady framerate?

I have the PD set to 1.35 in-game (Quest 3). With DLAA/DLSS on though, you need to bump it up (and increase sharpening) otherwise the gauges are way too blurry. I don't want any stuttering, that drives me crazy. And he said maxed out, I didn't 😉