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If you are running SteamVR then it should still work.

Ha Ha - Yep, to get some spacing I had to move my head close to the wall and reset VR centre, then walk back, reset centre. That is why I couldn't get far from the sides of the chopper - my room wasn't wide enough.

…. or a very small head

Yeah, real pilots don't have the option of turning shadows on and off :)

Its doable but not great. Honestly getting into simulators like this is pretty expensive just wait until you have alot of money for a decent setup before trying it. War Thunder is fun in the meanwhile

his gamma is too low also

Someone just suggested recently to turn gamma back higher, brighter for using the TPOD in DCS World.

Thanks!

Funnily enough, others have commented that it's too low! I guess it shows the complexities of integrating all the different settings.

the highter the gamma the darker the image.... id recommend you install reshade as well... but i agree with that your gamma is way too high, should be between 1.8and 2.2.@@yarra01

Great point! I’d turned my gamma down after I turned shadows off as it looked too bright.

You missed the point. My video is not about gaining an advantage to cheat. If I cannot see on a server I am unable to fly on it. Maybe you can understand this: th-cam.com/video/XgWfQrejCzI/w-d-xo.html BTW - I have over 4000 hours in DCS (since Lock On), so I am someone who regularly flies on DCS.

@@yarra01 based on the video you posted, you've got some serious issues with your setup. Shadows on doesn't even remotely look that horrid on my system and it's not even current gen hardware. Idk what settings you have but something is definitely not right at all. Clearly shadows off helps in your specific case, but it shouldn't have to come to that just to make the terrain viewable.

@@Birdrunner54 please note that it only occurs when weather is added to a map. Without clouds or rain, as detailed in this video, shadows are fine.

@@yarra01 So if it's weather dependent, at least you're narrowing down exactly what specifically causes the visually quality drop. I'm guessing you've experimented with various weather settings and GPU tweaks so I'm not gonna dig into that. All I'll say is it's damn odd that weather causes that much degradation combined with shadows on your system. I've never seen this kind of visual loss with the 2 combined before. I can run Spudknockers graphical settings with a few minor personal preference tweaks on every server online and never see anything nearly this bad.

@@Birdrunner54 Its a known problem: forum.dcs.world/topic/268020-overly-dark-when-flying-in-shade-under-a-cloud/ Try flying on Enigma's Cold War Server - which is where I had the issue, and is where my example comes from. If you have the f5, try the single player instant mission for ground targets, and try the shadows setting.

Or you can just turn off shadows: th-cam.com/video/XgWfQrejCzI/w-d-xo.html

@@yarra01 That smiley indicates an "ironic" comment... If you switch of shadows, it simply removes the cloud shadows. Which makes the whole environment look like an old game, rather than a simulation. P.S.: the "Depth of Field" effect is interended for video creation and "beauty screenshots". It is fps killer. If you want decent frame rates, I highly(!) recommend to switch that off. Oh, and it blurrs(!) scene in the foreground and background of the distance you look at, making it harder to spot vehicles behind or in front of the center of your screen...

@@shagrat47 appreciate the information - I always wondered about the blurring - thanks.

My point is that for colourblind people like me, turning off shadows means I can actually see stuff. When dog fighting, if the other player is masked by the ground with shadows on they become invisible. Also, I've found on a busy Multiplayer server attacking ground targets becomes a race to find them. Those that see them first get to destroy them.

I am not trying to emulate real life. I am trying to play a video game... and generally speaking I prefer performance / smooth FPS over graphical fidelity.

@@yarra01 this is an unfortunate omission in the video then (which you have already rectified but elsewhere?) leading to false but also very understandable (for reasons, for very good and very unfortunate reasons) reactions - you should have lead with the premise (beyond ambiguity and even intentional misunderstanding by viewers) of that specific condition that you have found a setting that positively affects your cellular situation of colour-blindness. Because the actual topic is that Eagle Dynamics as the franchise curator has (among oh so many things) not adressed the issue of segment compatability by offering no centralized, fixed solution for colour-blindness. None. Not in UI, not in collimation, not in rendering, not even for basic menus. As a shared playfield, as a simulation - players subjected to this condition are not at all "niche" or "discardable" - as the product (for now, no one can tell for how much longer, and the product-provider-side signs and behaviours are worrying) attracts a different type or consumer than "broken bratva peace lighnting sound" (although there is some cross segment mobility naturally, in the good and also in the very bad sense by attributes). Admonishing this shortcoming of DCS (which is neither a complicated addition nor in any way budget- or time-intensive to be rectified client- and serverside) in a professional way would go a long way to not only enhance the experience and ease the access of those affected by this condition and prevent follow-up issues (which most of the reactions are centered about) while also fixing absurd problems with the product as a shared-playfield capable simulation, it would also show product-esteem and professionality (and let us best leave it at that when looking at Eagle Dynamics) - and also encourage many other hesitant consumers of completely different segments to participate in the product, thus keeping median and average player attributes somewhat in the right place.

yeah... a topic that has been debated in Warthunder forums for many years. I never cared though. I wanted it to be immersive so I kept all settings as high as possible, even though other with low settings could snipe me from miles away...

Maybe this will explain it better for you: th-cam.com/video/XgWfQrejCzI/w-d-xo.html

@@yarra01 I'm sorry if you got my comment wrong and interpreted it as any kind of accusation. It was to be seen as a general rant about people using this for personal gain in the matches in some games. And WT specifically might have a different user base than DCS of course...

@@matsadona Thank you. And I probably take every comment way too personally! 😊

​@@matsadonaWT has a very different player base to DCS. You can't just jump in a jet and expect to be able to fly it, there's a lot more involved. :)

Maybe this will explain it better for you: th-cam.com/video/XgWfQrejCzI/w-d-xo.html

Agreed.

If you want the most realistic experience flying a fighter jet you can have outside of flying an actual fighter, get DCS World. If you want an arcadey slop of easy shit maybe you should stick with Ace Combat, because the realism and technical difficulty is literally the entire point of a combat SIMULATOR. If you have to have so much of the game spoonfed to you why waste so much money on super realistic full fidelity modules?

Thanks. I didn’t realise you can use track files on MP

@@yarra01 yeah, they're saved in saved games/dcs/tracks/multiplayer automatically

Shadows in DCS look like shit regardless. DCS needs an entire engine overhaul.

​@@Munky332so does your mom . Be happy this company is doing so much work . Unfratefull shit

Realism<actually being able to see Sorry I'm not a 20/20 vision person, I'm nearly blind in one eye lol. Everyone knows it's "More realistic" with shadows on, Idk why you found the need to point it out

you get a lot of time to admire the scenery while you're parachuting down, aye

It's not only matter of realism. With shadows off DCS looks like 15 yo game. It's ugly as hell

This shows it much better: th-cam.com/video/XgWfQrejCzI/w-d-xo.html

What about the new Color grading setting? I havent tried to use a reshade since upgrading card, maybe I'm missing out. I got used to shadows off last couple years. Shadows on seems to flicker more, because of the clouds..