DCS World - VR Streaming/Recording using 4K Desktop Mirror

How I getting a very high quality picture on my twitch stream and when I record using OBS and NVidia Display Scaling and the Oculus Rift
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[@D31TCJG]

This video is still relevant today! Helped me get started recording DCS in VR. Thank you!

[@Red-Magic]

Nuclear powered PC...

[@TrakDah]

Very good idd. Thanks a lot. Also, you only need to do this on the monitor where the DCS window ends up.

[@Greenlightmike33]

Man can’t believe this is so old yet worked perfectly for me! Beats using VR capture plug-in in OBS! Thanks

[@roastedpotato1487]

I'm not sure if this is still relevant. In the DCS VR settings you can now make it output to your whole screen without any warping and just use whatever to capture that screen. You can still use nvidia to oversample your monitor and use the downscalling in the monitor to get a higher resolution. But you don't need to crop and scale your screen like you're doing here if you do this correctly.

[@SnorreSelmer]

testing this on my GTX 970 ASAP!

[@Jabbers]

Snorre Selmer lemme know how it works out

[@thedemonlord8685]

its all the GPUs since the 700 series allow Super sampling

[@glutiusgaming]

I cant get this working on my 49" ultra wide. any suggestions?

[@vrcade915]

Thank you Jabbers for this informative instructions how to do it .I been trying to find a solution to get better recording quality and streaming solution for VR mainly i also subbed your channel my setup is similar i hope :) Windows 10 Home-HE (64bit) Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K Processor 4-Cores, 8MB Cache, Turbo Boost 2.0, Overclocked up to 4.4GHz on all four cores 850W PSU Liquid Cooled Chassis 16GB HyperX(TM) FURY DDR4 XMP at 2667MHz NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX FE OC 1080 Ti with 11GB GDDR5X 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD (Boot) + 2T B 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage) Radiators Water cooling added and water block for gpu ill be getting my channel up and running for my vr experiences soon and will test this thank you again.

[@Jabbers]

Awesome, glad to help. One thing I've failed to mention in the video is that you need to have a Pixel Density in DCS of 1.4 or greater, or the window in 4k will not fill the screen.

[@vrcade915]

Thank you very much Jabber :) ill test this method today go for video with obs and NVidia later tonight. I have 1 question will this method work for any vr game or pc live streaming and recording. And again thank you for quick reply.

[@Jabbers]

I cant really speak for all games, but its worth a shot.

[@vrcade915]

Ok cool ill beta test it then gonna do alot of VR this week ciao ;)

[@vrcade915]

Hi Jabbers i got My new channel up gonna try to do 2 videos a day please subscribe and check out the videos thank you. Just uploaded a new one

[@plaiskool64]

Nice background ;)

[@SimDeck]

Can you explain how you record in VR. I can only record the monitor output and not full screen?

[@Jabbers]

Last subject in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZfSgaB3fLWefdE

[@SimDeck]

Sorry I found your other VR videos. Thanks very much all sorted.

[@SCAND4LE]

Hey Jabbers, quick question, how do you manage to capture DCS with a proper aspect ratio. I'm using Shadowplay and always get distorted captures. Thanks!

[@Jabbers]

Obs, and stretch the source till it fits on both ends and then center it, check out my all things VR video

[@SCAND4LE]

@@Jabbers Thanks mate. I'm currently using Shadowplay, dunno which one is less taxing on ressources. Will check your vids. Thanks!

[@SCAND4LE]

@@Jabbers So I've tried all the things you put out, it works perfectly. Thanks again. Now the only thing bugging me out is that when my headset goes in standby, it reverts my desktop resolution to the recommended setting. I'm using WMR and a G2 btw. If I close WMR I have to restart the computer as the headset will show as not connected because of those resolution changes. Have you experienced the same thing? If not I'll try and find a solution anyways. Thanks again anyways, your videos were very usefull.

[@sjr1792]

I cant seem to figure out how to get dcs world to fit my screen without being stretched while streaming in 1080p. I'v tried fixing it obs but im probably not doing it the right way, i'v tried almost everything.

[@Jabbers]

+seditioN see here kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZfSgaB3fLWefdE

[@snafuedem]

I have an ultrawide monitor. resolution 3440x1440. If I do the 4k version of that it should be 3840x1600, but when I test the custom res it says test failed. Any advice?

[@Jabbers]

Sorry none, i dont have an ultra-wide so not entirely sure what the problem would be.

[@Mago_5994]

@@Jabbers Reduce the Hz to 60! That at least let me pass the test. When selecting it afterwards though it throughs me back to the nativ resolution after about 1 second. Any ideas what this could be caused by? I´m running a 1080ti as well. Thank you very much for the video! If it works, this is awesome!

[@Ready.A-10C]

Did you manage to fix this? Have an ultrawide as well and wondering. tnx

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

4:15 Clicks DCS 4:36 Loaded up Takes almost 3 minutes for me on a SATA3 SSD... now I'm jealous! Actually, most of the time, I could watch in the process monitor that DCS is loading up something at rates like 200KB/s until it actually gets going after ages. I wonder why...

[@Jabbers]

The more modules the longer it takes to load, mine loads in about the same as yours

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@Jabbers Good to know, so everything is OK on my side :)

[@Jabbers]

Most likely yes

[@MauriceColontonio]

I can't get my center monitor to take the custom resolution. It is 16:9. Running two monitors, the center or main monitor will not take the custom res, it goes back to 1920 every time. Side monitor takes it just fine. Any ideas?

[@Jabbers]

Not sure sorry

[@theVRpilot]

@@Jabbers Yeah same thing for me on my laptop.

[@Hatredy11]

What OBS bitrate do you use? Is OBS set to 1080?

[@Jabbers]

6k

[@spirosdelistavros2970]

ive got a 20 inch monitor max resoluton 1600x900 do i kill my gamecard if i set to the custom reslotion?

[@Jabbers]

I don't think so, but the resolution has to be some aspect of 16:9 not just directly 4k. Also it may not work with all cards and monitors

[@VELCRO666]

I have a gtx 970 after i test, all fine, theres no option to apply or it doesnt show in the box like yours does, works fine with dsr tho

[@Jabbers]

+DAMIAN ya I've had some mixed results, but with windows 10 you can just change the resolution to 4K and nvidia will downscale to 1080p, then just turn the scaling up in windows, this also works fine

[@Bearfight]

If anyone can help. I get the just of using OBS to record and i have great settings on DCS, but for some reason, when i watch the play back of my recordings it still shows the stupid vertical version of the DCS window in the playback or when i am editing. And when i use the oculus mirror it shows the crappy black edging clipping or whatever you want to call it, borders.

[@Jabbers]

Just stretch it so the top and bottom go out of view, look at my all things vr video, I go over how to do it in there

[@Bearfight]

@@Jabbers ive watched that one too. I'll try it out again. Hopefully it works. I just dont understand why in OBS while im recording it looks good. But when I watch the recording it is vertical window.

[@Jabbers]

I’d have to see your settings and setup

[@wotever99ninynine]

but isnt supersampling the same thing? and when i use obs to record vr it still looks the same as if i had supersampling on. supersampling is basically the same as nvidia dsr is it not?

[@Jabbers]

This just increases your desktop resolution so the mirror will be larger giving you more pixels for obs to play with, SS or PD affect the resolution size of the mirror but if your desktop is 1080p then the mirror will only ever be 1080, they work together.

[@wotever99ninynine]

@@Jabbers ah, i see. i have a 4k tv as my desktop though, and my recordings are still blurry 1080p. ah, but then again, i think i may have it set at 1080p when using vr because i have to unplug monitor from main hdmi for the vr headset and use a display port to hdmi adapter for tv/ monitro which can only do 4k at 30hz. so i think i have it defaulting to 1080p 60hz instead. which means using your technique should work for me.yay. im definitely going to try this out next time im recording then. thanks yo!

[@OhItsThat]

How the heck do you simply play in VR while the monitor shows a normal image...not stretched out?

[@Jabbers]

Not possible

[@Jabbers]

Try the last 1/3 of this video, i go over how to setup the recording a bit more detailed kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZfSgaB3fLWefdE&lc=UgyxZ_pPwuA9aR6jP7V4AaABAg

[@PaulSvk84]

Where did you get that Wallpaper?

[@Jabbers]

+PaulSvk84 I think someone in my discord linked it

[@skotabig9563]

I cant get it full screen, no matter what I do. I can't stream this and it's frustrating. Alt enter does nothing

[@Jabbers]

They have done a lot of changes lately, not sure this method will work anymore.

[@foxmaner2071]

What soundmod do you use?

[@Jabbers]

Foxmaner I use a variety that can be found in this pack.. www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/5cgo5u/moltars_mods_v5_now_working_in_155/

[@Zarma4074]

Which texture mod are you using ?

[@Jabbers]

Bartek GTM 10

[@Zarma4074]

Tried it. Found harder to spot things with the FLIR/TGP than Starway's or stock textures.

[@Jabbers]

Yup it sux for that, but its so green! I love it for everything else.

[@Zarma4074]

I do understand you ;c)

[@weltensegLA]

Even worse than starway's for TGP? I still use starway's but tgp IS bad with it. In the GTM10 the fields are too contrasty and too green overall.

[@user-zj2st3sm6g]

Whats the wallpaper?

[@Flame78]

I will talk to oculus guys to send you any new samples for test :)

[@TheSuperNick1134]

I followed this guide to the letter and mine still looks like crap. The only difference is that I have a vive, and you use an occulus.

[@Jabbers]

Shouldn’t matter, did your monitor resolution go up to 4k? I also have a video called All things VR that explains how to do this as well in a bit more detail

[@TheSuperNick1134]

Yep. The resolution went up to 4k, didn't do anything for my recordings. The quality is still nothing like yours. I also watched the second video you mentioned aswell. Did not work for me.

[@Jabbers]

Not sure man, gotta be a missed step, works for a lot of people. If you wanna hop in my discord we can trade screenshots and perhaps figure out what is missing. Discord link should be in the description to any of my videos, just PM me.

[@Pimps-R-us]

Really, you know how old this tech is. I've been doing this for a long time. You guys really need to learn you computers! P.S. same as on amd I have rx 480 and run it in 4K

[@Jabbers]

+Larry rosser ya but the desktop mirror is not suppose to do this, I knew you could do the 4K downsampled to 1080p, but under certain scenarios this doesn't change the mirror from rendering the native resolution of the HMD. So before you go saying we need to learn our PCs you should learn the new tech we are working with. I'll give you an example, on a 4K native resolution monitor you can't do this, the desktop mirror renders 1080x1200, so no one realized that this would work when it's faked.

[@annicaluukkonen9025]

Playing DCS in 4K will kill your fps. I play on 1366/773

[@Jabbers]

Not true, You cannot change the native resolution of the Oculus, setting it in DCS does nothing. I suspect what happens is the mirror is showing the unscaled version of the Pixel Density you choose, in my case 1.5. So that would be 1800x1620. I noticed no difference in fps doing this, and Ive had reports from others stating the same.