ED and the Oculus Rift Developers Kit 2 (DK2) Discussion Thread

kyoseki · Sep 30, 2014

Susscon said:
time to upgrade

I remember playing the original Elite on a machine that looked very similar to that.

Warrior · Sep 30, 2014

Introducing myself as another DK2 / x52 user. I also had the DK1 but sold it when the news of the DK2 release came out.

Mark D · Sep 30, 2014

Coolts said:
Anyone got a dk2 in the past week? It seems to have gone quiet after the 25th.

Lol very quiet! The post above yours mentioned this being the 'EPIC THREAD OF DOOOM" and our's feels the 'EPIC LIST OF DOOOM'

It appears OCVR used a batch delivery system which was inherently a bit clunky. To start with it was to the USA and EUROPE regions advantage as they raced ahead. Around the date you mentioned those regions ground to a halt as others caught up (in some cases went ahead).

I'm a bit disappointed OCVR missed the deadline they set themselves for mine but I guess it will all come out in the wash. With Crescent Bay being such a big improvement I did briefly consider cancelling. But if I can get 6 months of Elite out of it (maybe more) for me personally it would still be worth it.

This weekend the USA orders appeared to have started to flow again (I've seen July 26th) which gives some hope for EUROPE over the next 48 hours

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01/07/2014 @ 09:42 PDT - Baton
01/07/2014 @ 16:12 PDT - Anthony Jones
04/07/2014 @ 02:54 PDT - Juniper
11/07/2014 @ 02:00 PDT - brumster
16/07/2014 @ 14:31 PDT - CMDR Pham Nuwen
23/07/2014 @ 12:28 PDT - Jhondidfool
25/07/2014 @ 02:38 PDT - Technotica
27/07/2014 @ 01:54 PDT - Mark D
28/07/2014 @ 03:31 PDT - Mumrah
02/08/2014 @ 12:15 PDT - RaistlinUK
05/08/2014 @ 05:33 PDT - Viajero
05/08/2014 @ 05:59 PDT - Mikevet
06/08/2014 @ 04:53 PDT - Hadron42/Cmdr Jonathan E
06/08/2014 @ 07:33 PDT - Coolts
08/08/2014 @ 04:07 PDT - Tomas
08/08/2014 @ 14:13 PDT - Ceud
16/08/2014 @ 12:56 PDT - Ref Minor
17/08/2014 @ 12:42 PDT - Pannad
19/08/2014 @ 06:36 PDT - KickahasTier
23/08/2014 @ 02:44 PDT - si77
24/08/2014 @ 06:40 PDT - Carcharodon
26/08/2014 @ 06:16 PDT - Dooguk
28/08/2014 @ 02:07 PDT - Jim Chapman / CMDR Turnip
29/08/2014 @ 12:51 PDT - MadMossy / CMDR MadMossy
31/08/2014 @ 12.10 PDT - Kroenen

brumster · Sep 30, 2014

The fact that I'm still black in that list is a little disappointing!

Ref Minor · Sep 30, 2014

brumster said:
The fact that I'm still black in that list is a little disappointing!

I will swap spots with you if it helps

Tony Spaniels · Sep 30, 2014

Im going to give a friend in work my DK1 to use in Elite D.

Before I do, does anyone know if the DK1 still works? And can he use the latest driver with it? All straight forward to set up?

Thanks!

Nomadski · Sep 30, 2014

Just added my order to the list

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01/07/2014 @ 09:42 PDT - Baton
01/07/2014 @ 16:12 PDT - Anthony Jones
04/07/2014 @ 02:54 PDT - Juniper
11/07/2014 @ 02:00 PDT - brumster
16/07/2014 @ 14:31 PDT - CMDR Pham Nuwen
23/07/2014 @ 12:28 PDT - Jhondidfool
25/07/2014 @ 02:38 PDT - Technotica
27/07/2014 @ 01:54 PDT - Mark D
28/07/2014 @ 03:31 PDT - Mumrah
02/08/2014 @ 12:15 PDT - RaistlinUK
05/08/2014 @ 05:33 PDT - Viajero
05/08/2014 @ 05:59 PDT - Mikevet
06/08/2014 @ 04:53 PDT - Hadron42/Cmdr Jonathan E
06/08/2014 @ 07:33 PDT - Coolts
08/08/2014 @ 04:07 PDT - Tomas
08/08/2014 @ 14:13 PDT - Ceud
16/08/2014 @ 12:56 PDT - Ref Minor
17/08/2014 @ 12:42 PDT - Pannad
19/08/2014 @ 06:36 PDT - KickahasTier
22/08/2014 @ 07:57 PDT - Nomadski
23/08/2014 @ 02:44 PDT - si77
24/08/2014 @ 06:40 PDT - Carcharodon
26/08/2014 @ 06:16 PDT - Dooguk
28/08/2014 @ 02:07 PDT - Jim Chapman / CMDR Turnip
29/08/2014 @ 12:51 PDT - MadMossy / CMDR MadMossy
31/08/2014 @ 12.10 PDT - Kroenen

mumrah · Sep 30, 2014

Boo.. September is nearly over and very little movement this past week or so..

I wouldn't be moaning normally but I'm out of the country for 3 months in November, so hoping to get as much time in as I can with Elite and DK2 before I go.

Obsidian Ant · Sep 30, 2014

Tony Spaniels said:
Im going to give a friend in work my DK1 to use in Elite D.

Before I do, does anyone know if the DK1 still works? And can he use the latest driver with it? All straight forward to set up?

Thanks!

DK1 works "out of the box". Just install the SDK runtimes.

(Hopefully it still works in Beta 2)

Susscon · Sep 30, 2014

Tony Spaniels said:
does anyone know if the DK1 still works?

Soon as its updated to the Beta2 i shall try my DK1 and let you know ok dude

Raxxla · Oct 1, 2014

kyoseki said:
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it, they're back ordered at the moment, so it'll be a while before they show up, but I'm getting one of them through EVGA's step up program (lets you upgrade any time in the first 90 days, I bought my 780 GTX like 85 days ago), so I'm only having to pay for the second one thankfully.

Glad I invested in a 1300W power supply when I rebuilt my rig earlier this year, I'm fully expecting the neighborhood to suffer brown outs any time I turn this thing on.

Just so you know, the 980 GTX runs (165w) 85 watts lower than the 780 GTX (250w). So you're getting more speed with a lot less power consumed. So you'll be perfectly fine with that 1300W power supply with two cards running in SLI.

But just be aware that Oculus hasn't implemented SLI or Crossfire compatibility for the Rift yet... the 980 and 970 is your best bet for when they do finally implement the functionality.

kyoseki · Oct 1, 2014

Raxxla said:
Just so you know, the 980 GTX runs (165w) 85 watts lower than the 780 GTX (250w). So you're getting more speed with a lot less power consumed. So you'll be perfectly fine with that 1300W power supply with two cards running in SLI.

Ah yes, I completely forgot about that, well, hopefully it'll put out a lot less heat too, my PC room is already getting a little toasty at times.

Raxxla said:
But just be aware that Oculus hasn't implemented SLI or Crossfire compatibility for the Rift yet... the 980 and 970 is your best bet for when they do finally implement the functionality.

Well, they'll be showing up individually anyway, they're not ordered as a pair, so hopefully by the time I have both of them, the Rift will have proper SLI support.

kyoseki · Oct 1, 2014

Hmm, actually, this would seem to indicate that the Rift does handle 9xx SLI now;
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/40204...ulus-rift-with-geforce-gtx-980-sli/index.html

Whether Elite has support for it or not I have no idea, I don't know what's involved on the game side.

Raxxla · Oct 1, 2014

kyoseki said:
Well, they'll be showing up individually anyway, they're not ordered as a pair, so hopefully by the time I have both of them, the Rift will have proper SLI support.

Yeah, I hope they implement it soon, currently there have been latency drawing issues with SLI and Crossfire. But the new GTX 980 and 970 are handling SLI differently and are suppose to be more optimized for Oculus/VR rendering by having each card render to each eye.

tresch · Oct 1, 2014

I hope they do soon, also! I have two 970s, and used a hack to make SLI work with elite. I can run high detail and the cards are only running something like 70% utilized wth perfect 75hz and no jutter (thought the latency from the sli is inconsistent and awful) there should be enough overhead hopefully to even do a little supersampling or something to that effect.

cherbert · Oct 1, 2014

So Direct Mode is working.

Some strange lagging (watery?) effect when moving my head.

Apart from that - I can see evidence of massive improvement in quality. Hope this head tracking lag can be easily fixed.

Mazhurg · Oct 1, 2014

cherbert said:
So Direct Mode is working.

Some strange lagging (watery?) effect when moving my head.

Apart from that - I can see evidence of massive improvement in quality. Hope this head tracking lag can be easily fixed.

Yes, it is working BUT!!!

I am unable to set Hz in higher than 60Hz in the config screen. As a matter of fact the ED config menu lets me choose the OR in the 3D section, but not in the monitors sections (only my standard screens show there).

In addition, I am getting an clone image (both eyes) on my main display.

The way it currently is, while the graphics are much better and text easily readable, I am getting a lots of judder and tearing on the DK 2.

Now, I need to get the render to output 75Hz on the OR display.

Pham Nuwen · Oct 1, 2014

How did you get direct mode working? It just renders to my monitor and my rift doesn't even come on. The oculus demo scene works as it should though so i know direct mode and my rift are working properly.

mumrah · Oct 1, 2014

Is anyone else with a dk1 not seeing Oculus Rift mode in the menu anymore? I am only seeing options for side by side or anaglyph

soylentcola · Oct 1, 2014

Pham Nuwen said:
How did you get direct mode working? It just renders to my monitor and my rift doesn't even come on. The oculus demo scene works as it should though so i know direct mode and my rift are working properly.

I've got the same issue. Demo scene works fine in Direct Mode but when I start Elite it shows the Rift doubled view with head tracking and everything...just on my regular monitor. The only option is "primary monitor" in the game.