The Rift and NVIDIA Cards thread for ED

SlackR · Dec 17, 2014

Hope this gives everyone the boost they are looking for!

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/347.09/347.09-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf

SlackR · Dec 17, 2014

Might be best to hold off...

Someone reporting it causing DK2 double rendering issues

neXib · Dec 17, 2014

Always worth a shot, but is it not verified yet? Doesn't show up in NVIDIA GeForce Experience.

Arbanax · Dec 17, 2014

Always wait to see if it will improve performance or not, often at first its not that great. But hope to be proved wrong.

Thx

Ab

StarJim · Dec 17, 2014

It is not working with DK2. Have just tried it and must roll back.

B1ackEagle · Dec 17, 2014

This driver really breaks VR? come on NVIDIA sort it out.............

Dinbar · Dec 17, 2014

neXib said:
Always worth a shot, but is it not verified yet? Doesn't show up in NVIDIA GeForce Experience.

It was experience that downloaded it for me. Must of checked that beta box somewhere

lee_ars · Dec 17, 2014

Latest drivers totally broke the Rift for me in extended mode. Starting the game up resulted in nothing on the rift except a white strobing, and then Elite would show up in 3d mode on my primary monitor even though "Secondary" was clearly selected. Rolled back the drivers in Device Manager and now it works again.

Stay away.

EdMoon · Dec 17, 2014

B1ackEagle said:
This driver really breaks VR? come on NVIDIA sort it out.............

Been struggling for the past couple of hours with this

I guess they really tried to upgrade. The nvidia driver now supports oculus as a 3dStereoscopic display, witch could be totally cool even for all the other games aswell. But cant seem to make that happen in ED

it says it recognizes, but with stereo enabled menus on ED wont show, without 3dStereo enabled splits the rift.

Any ideas on to configure?... Should the roll-back and wait for further non-beta versions? Actually could be a great upgrade

Juanlo · Dec 17, 2014

Yes, it totally broke DK2 support in Elite Dangerous. The game is forcing the highest refresh rate available (now 120 Hz) instead of using the refresh rate we have manually set using Windows desktop configuration (75 Hz). To make things worse, all refresh settings are disabled inside Elite Dangerous when using Oculus Rift mode, so we can't manually fix what the game automatically does wrong.

Please Frontier, let us choose refresh rate to avoid that kind of problems in the future.

Midnight_Sun323 · Dec 17, 2014

Got a split image now... I was so excited too.

Dinbar · Dec 17, 2014

Midnight_Sun323 said:
Got a split image now... .

Yep thats what I got too. I might downgrade as it was working before.

Angus Thermopyle · Dec 17, 2014

Has anyone tried pausing the oculus service? I get a split image when launching alien isolation if the service isn't paused.

Dinbar · Dec 17, 2014

Angus Thermopyle said:
Has anyone tried pausing the oculus service? I get a split image when launching alien isolation if the service isn't paused.

No. I'll admit to being to knackered to do this now ( Bed for me ) but it might work. Backwards step in my view though.

Maybe worth a try in the morning for me.

Midnight_Sun323 · Dec 18, 2014

Yeah I tried it before rolling back drivers, had no effect.

Brun · Dec 18, 2014

No rift here, but these drivers haven't done me any favours with 780s in SLI. Aside from the common stutter in SC around planets and stars, I previously had 60fps constant even in stations. Now I'm often seeing <30fps in stations and hangers.

Can't remember if I'd had to do anything with nvidia inspector before, but I'll try reinstalling 344.75 tomorrow and see if things are any better.

SlackR · Dec 18, 2014

Stopping the OR service didnt work for me...
The issue seems to be that it is rendering both images only in the right eye... My left eye is completely blank.
At this point I am happy to roll back and get on with the playing the game and wait for NVIDIA to sort it, but I'm wondering now if moving the sliders inside ED may reposition the images correctly? I doubt it but it might be worth taking a look. I'm already rolled back so can't test it myself. Besides which is very awkward trying to see anything in the Rift when it is set up this way.

Midnight_Sun323 · Dec 18, 2014

SlackR said:
Stopping the OR service didnt work for me...
The issue seems to be that it is rendering both images only in the right eye... My left eye is completely blank.
At this point I am happy to roll back and get on with the playing the game and wait for NVIDIA to sort it, but I'm wondering now if moving the sliders inside ED may reposition the images correctly? I doubt it but it might be worth taking a look. I'm already rolled back so can't test it myself. Besides which is very awkward trying to see anything in the Rift when it is set up this way.

Nah I tried all that, played with resolutions too, no good. Driver is broken for Dk2.

Roscoe · Dec 18, 2014

Thanks guys.. saw this post and I've just un-ticked the install beta drivers in Experience. I guess you guys have saved me a heap of time re-installing drivers.
I'll buy you a Lavian Brandy when I see you around!

Midnight_Sun323 · Dec 18, 2014

Roscoe said:
Thanks guys.. saw this post and I've just un-ticked the install beta drivers in Experience. I guess you guys have saved me a heap of time re-installing drivers.
I'll buy you a Lavian Brandy when I see you around!

No problem! Rolling back is super easy, though. The NVIDIA experience thing doesn't delete the old drivers so it only takes about 30 seconds to undo it.