My blacks seem fine, but actual blacks are fairly rare. A lot of the time, there are visible dust clouds, but you can tell they are there on purpose. But there are areas of space that are truly black.
The Oculus Rift CV1 General Discussion Thread
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I don't have the store yet but I would think your GraphicsConfiguration.xml should be in the Products folder of what ever directory you installed the game in. You could try searching for this file? using Windows explore search feature on whatever drive Oculus home is installed on
Hi Everyone, I'm new to the forum.. Recently picked up Elite again due to getting a CV1 Rift. I hadn't played much since the beta 
Elite is really really amazing with the Rift.. I love flying over a planet or close to a starport, the scale of things is just so cool. Even the cockpit feels so much more spacious than it looks in 2D (using mouselook).
I don't have any 'black smearing' problems, and very little 'god rays'. Be aware though that Elite introduces some god rays as part of the artwork (the 'terminal' display holograms have this a little bit even viewing on a normal 2D screen!). But I do get it a bit in the corners of the view, not a big problem though, I don't even notice it anymore.
One thing that bothers me a bit is the resetting of the viewpoint (suddenly I 'sit' 20cms lower or more forward etc), easily fixed by using the HMD Viewpoint Reset button but it's just annoying and immersion-breaking. And the galaxy view is very hard to use in 3D because you can't click on anything. I mapped a lot of its functions to the joystick but I still need some more.
But really this game is THE game for the Rift for me at the moment. It's so beautiful. Love the way I can step forward and see the nose of my ship (which can't normally be seen even with mouselook).
Elite is really really amazing with the Rift.. I love flying over a planet or close to a starport, the scale of things is just so cool. Even the cockpit feels so much more spacious than it looks in 2D (using mouselook).
I don't have any 'black smearing' problems, and very little 'god rays'. Be aware though that Elite introduces some god rays as part of the artwork (the 'terminal' display holograms have this a little bit even viewing on a normal 2D screen!). But I do get it a bit in the corners of the view, not a big problem though, I don't even notice it anymore.
One thing that bothers me a bit is the resetting of the viewpoint (suddenly I 'sit' 20cms lower or more forward etc), easily fixed by using the HMD Viewpoint Reset button but it's just annoying and immersion-breaking. And the galaxy view is very hard to use in 3D because you can't click on anything. I mapped a lot of its functions to the joystick but I still need some more.
But really this game is THE game for the Rift for me at the moment. It's so beautiful. Love the way I can step forward and see the nose of my ship (which can't normally be seen even with mouselook).
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Hi Everyone, I'm new to the forum.. Recently picked up Elite again due to getting a CV1 Rift. I hadn't played much since the beta
Elite is really really amazing with the Rift.. I love flying over a planet or close to a starport, the scale of things is just so cool. Even the cockpit feels so much more spacious than it looks in 2D (using mouselook).
I don't have any 'black smearing' problems, and very little 'god rays'. Be aware though that Elite introduces some god rays as part of the artwork (the 'terminal' display holograms have this a little bit even viewing on a normal 2D screen!). But I do get it a bit in the corners of the view, not a big problem though, I don't even notice it anymore.
One thing that bothers me a bit is the resetting of the viewpoint (suddenly I 'sit' 20cms lower or more forward etc), easily fixed by using the HMD Viewpoint Reset button but it's just annoying and immersion-breaking. And the galaxy view is very hard to use in 3D because you can't click on anything. I mapped a lot of its functions to the joystick but I still need some more.
But really this game is THE game for the Rift for me at the moment. It's so beautiful. Love the way I can step forward and see the nose of my ship (which can't normally be seen even with mouselook).
Another happy CV1 owner. It makes me so happy I ordered one. The re-center thing is also an annoyance with Trackir as well. Many have been complaining about the position shift as it occurs a lot while changing speed with your ship. Frontier put it in for those with static screens as some sort of movement effect I think but as many Trackir owners have requested a way to turn this off and now that VR is also finding it dam annoying I hope Frontier will finally get off their collective butts and give us a toggle for this. I find it a particular pain while fuel scooping. Congrats on getting your Rift .
FRONTIER ARE YOU READING THIS? Give us a way to turn this off. It hurts your VR poster child's immersion
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Thanks for the suggestion. I could have sworn I used search before, but I guess not. I ended up finding it at C:\Program Files\Oculus\Software\frontier-developments-plc-elite-dangerous\Products\elite-dangerous-64\GraphicsConfiguration.xml
Thats a lot of visible dust clouds and they are new also as where I am docked I could blow through the mailslot into the perfect blackness of space with a beautiful ringed planet right there just 30 seconds away to action packed high RES now it looks like they turned lose a couple of kindergardners with grey crayons and a nice blurry purple crayon and told them to draw
After reading some more it seems that the Rift has more visible/noticable "God Rays" than the Vive due to having a higher contrast screen output.
So the obvious question from me is: Is it possible to dial down contrast/brightness on the Rift? Is there a settings UI for the Rift with sliders and what not?
So the obvious question from me is: Is it possible to dial down contrast/brightness on the Rift? Is there a settings UI for the Rift with sliders and what not?
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the godrays are due to the lenses... if anyything i believe the VIVE has the higher contrast screen.... the vive lens has circular lens flairs, circular because they have fewer fresnel ridges... the rift has many more, which is why you see the continual ray effect.***
*** this is my jo average understanding, am sure there will be a more accurate explanation somewhere.
Maybe so, but that still doesn't answer my question.
Is there a UI for brightness and contrast on the Rift?Maybe so, but that still doesn't answer my question.
Short answer: NO!
would love if oculus or frontier introduced these adjustments for us to use!
Surprised and disappointed to learn that's not disabled when using a HMD, I thought all "camera movement" had been disabled for VR. Presumably this has been raised in the Suggestions section on more than one occasion?
got this message yesterday without the yellow text.... money has been removed from my better halve's account so expect in the the next week.. or so
Regarding god rays et' al it would seem the best way to get better results is to reduce the gamma/contrast and campaign for FDev to allow the 'player' to change these simple things 'in game' - A user workaround could be using Nvidia / display settings and customising the colour our leaders gave us to be more harmonious with each person's preference.. but hey... god rays are a feature of ED at present, it would seem
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I think I wasn't clear - it's not that gradual motion shifting that you get in 2D. That's definitely turned off in VR (and luckily so because it would mean instant motion sickness
)The effect I'm seeing is a sudden 'jump' in standard position. As if I was pressing the HMD recenter button except it happens automatically randomly. For example, if I happen to be looking to the left, the left is suddenly 'straight ahead' so if I turn my head forward I'm looking to the right. It's just immersion breaking, and it seems to be a bug or a break in the tracking or something.
But yeah I think the CV1 is totally worth it. Even though I didn't pay for it (I was an original kickstarter backer) but I would have ordered one and I would have been happy with it. Elite is really well made for it, the attention of detail in the cockpits is amazing. They're so much nicer in VR. For example: I don't like the Lakon cockpits in 2D due to the basic flat dashboard, but they are amazing in VR with the super wide view with glass everywhere. I also love the spaceport and planet detail. I noticed the planet textures are a bit low-res in 2D but because the Rift is lower in resolution itself you don't really notice this as much, which is really great. I think this is a big improvement point in the current beta anyway.
No that's definitely disabled!! Gradual motion shifts not initiated by the user are extremely sickening with the rift so it would not be playable if this hadn't been disabled.
The 'Jumps' I'm seeing are not so bad in terms of motion sickness but they are just a bit disconcerting. It breaks immersion (by realising you're not in this cool spaceship)
I have to say though that my system is a bit slow for the rift and it constantly reminds me that I'm not meeting specs (I have a GTX970 but my CPU is one generation older than the one they require). Perhaps that is the reason.
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