DCS VR | Dynamic Foveated Rendering continues to impress me

[@Sandboxcode]

Well this sucks my headset settings changed to 72hz during this video. Was wondering why I was capped at 72hz. Just changed it back to 90hz (after making this video)

[@British_Dragon-4K-Simulations]

Since I switched off Almalense and the license ran out, my OpenXR Mirror capture has looked much better. It’s strange as Almalense was causing huge chromatic abaration in the video capture but not in my actual Crystal lenses.

[@BrixxGamez]

Nice video mate!

[@Sandboxcode]

Thanks I appreciate it!

[@scht-sg]

I had tried the same outcome. similar as your setup i have 13900 and 4090 and pimax cystal and OBS studio. I did max out all the setting on DCS and enable DLSS and DFR. my framerate in game during capture is similar as your. just a touch below 90FPS. however i also suffer the same quaility cockpit capture issue. the cockpit recording look like a 720p lower resolution (cant read words off the MCPD) even though DCS system resolution was set 4k and recording from 4K to 4K and my VR view is way better than the recording. i have been trying to understand how to improved that. in my setup OBS was set to capture DCS.exe instead of pimax mirror though.

[@Sandboxcode]

Good to know its not just me!!! I didnt even notice the quality was so poor til it was too late!! Yeah give Pimax Mirror a go. Tell OBS to record that window instead. Just zoom into the window like 2.1x times in OBS. Lmk if you have any issue. Trying to make better recordings...

[@British_Dragon-4K-Simulations]

⁠If you record DCS with a Window capture you will be capturing the lowest resolution that you set in DFR. Such as 10% of your resolution or whatever you have the outside resolution set to. Almalense will make the capture look worse as well. Not that it matters anymore. You can try putting DLSS on balanced or performance and put the outside resolution to 50% to get a reasonably good capture. But it will never be the clarity of 4K unless the outside resolution is 100%, which would make DFR pointless. The best way to capture in 4K is OpenXR Mirror through OBS so at least the middle of where your eyes are looking is captured in 4K with the built in eye tracking.

[@Sandboxcode]

@@British_Dragon-4K-Simulations Couldnt get OpenXR Mirror to work with DCS-MT (I got a black screen). So instead I captured the footage from PimaxXR Mirror which seems just as good as far as I can tell. OpenXR-Layer only supports dx11. DCS-MT uses DX12 for multithreaded rendering. OpenXR-layer Mirror works great with MSFS 2020 though. I do think OpenXR Layer prob works with DCS-ST though since that's prob still using dx11. But I'm using DX12-DCS-MT

[@scht-sg]

@@British_Dragon-4K-Simulations thanks for the tip. I will look Into openXR mirror. I was watching jabber video but he mentioned something different. I might like to also cross refer to his video too

[@British_Dragon-4K-Simulations]

@@scht-sg It was Jabber that told me this and I tested it after and he was right. I set the outside resolution to 50% and the captured window looked much better.