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

Jones

Jones
because the servers seem to be down since 2.01, i started flying the wolf pack tutorial in this crazyass ice asteroid belt! damn that's looking impressive, this is like starwars on steroids:eek:
i have to disable all shadows and ambient occlusion though to get a real smooth ride in my dk2 with my i5 and gtx970.. as soon as i enable shadows, even on low, it starts stuttering.. but honestly i hardly see any difference..
 

Adam Lusardi

A
Mad Mike said:
i believe some have said the system map is bugged in the rift ATM.

certainly i cant figure out how to use it.

in other VR news....

I am trying to decide how best to control the galaxy map.

I fly with an X55 but am currently using an xbox pad for the map. does anyone have any better suggestions on how they use the map in vr?

taaa
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I don't suppose you would share those key bindings for the Galaxy map.
I use a HOTAS + xbox controller and it would save me so much hassle to have some basic bindings.
 

Wolfox

Wolfox
I can't believe it after 2.02 came out the Oculus is not working anymore!!
And I can't change the settings to single screen! everything is stuck!!

I hate all this!
 

IsaacS

IsaacS
cherbert said:
My problem was that the 3D Seperation Mode had defaulted to OFF. Had forgotten all about that setting since I normally have it permanent set!

Is anyone else feeling a bit queezy (or a little eye strain) after 10 minutes or so? I could spend hours in Beta 1 but there is something not quite right with Beta 2. I can see a shimmer/ghosting effect when you move your head. Most noticeable if you look at displays or the starport wording in front of you when docked. As you turn your head you get a ghosting effect. It is this I believe that is causing the odd feeling after a while. Don't quite feel sick but more eye strain. Never felt like that in the previous version.
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Yes! Something feels wrong and there seems a slight pulsing or jumping going on for me that was not there before. I can only try for a few minutes at a time now.
 

rand_h

rand_h
Wolfox said:
I can't believe it after 2.02 came out the Oculus is not working anymore!!
And I can't change the settings to single screen! everything is stuck!!

I hate all this!
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I could get it run with keeping the oculus on Extended desktop mode but having OVR server running this time. I just can't log in
 

Slawkenbergius

Slawkenbergius
Wolfox said:
I can't believe it after 2.02 came out the Oculus is not working anymore!!
And I can't change the settings to single screen! everything is stuck!!

I hate all this!
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1. Navigate to: "C:\Users\***YourName***\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics"

2. Open "Settings.txt"

3. Change "<StereoscopicMode>4</StereoscopicMode>" to <StereoscopicMode>0</StereoscopicMode>

That should get the game running again single-screen. Doesn't help with the other problems though... Mine hangs in the menu screen after a few seconds
 
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Wolfox

Wolfox
Slawkenbergius said:
1. Navigate to: "C:\Users\***YourName***\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics"

2. Open "Settings.txt"

3. Change "<StereoscopicMode>4</StereoscopicMode>" to <StereoscopicMode>0</StereoscopicMode>

That should get the game running again single-screen. Doesn't help with the other problems though... Mine hangs in the menu screen after a few seconds
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Thank you very much.
Positive: Single screen now
Negative: Screen still stuck on Menu.

I will take off some dust from my xbox and play some GTA5!!
 

Warrior

Warrior
I've just done about an hour or so of Solo, the outpost gets very blurry when at any distance over about 3k away but up close its amazing, flying in and around the structure is very impressive on the rift. I even managed to attack it and then scamper inside its structure and hide from the turrets!

Very cool. Shame about the multiplayer issues...

Oh and to answer my own question from earlier - the head tracking is now working fine on my old AMD cpu (previously I had to unplug the camera to get basic VR working).
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Adam Lusardi said:
I don't suppose you would share those key bindings for the Galaxy map.
I use a HOTAS + xbox controller and it would save me so much hassle to have some basic bindings.
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hi

I am not saying they are any good - which was why i was asking for better...

but i use left stick to strafe up down L & F

right stick to spin L & R and pitch up and down

and then L&T triggers to go forwards and backwards

and L & R shoulders to zoom

and the dpad works in the menu
 

vonFelty

vonFelty
Had to use extended mode as direct doesn't seem to work. However, it seems to be pretty smooth at Low settings. I am using a GTX 770.

I did open a ticket on the fact that if you lean into the side menus too close they disappear which is annoying as you can't lean in too far to read them.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
vonFelty said:
Had to use extended mode as direct doesn't seem to work. However, it seems to be pretty smooth at Low settings. I am using a GTX 770.

I did open a ticket on the fact that if you lean into the side menus too close they disappear which is annoying as you can't lean in too far to read them.
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yeah.... the menu thing is a tough one. they keep blooming dissapearing when i am trying to use them too...

but the flip side is you dont want them popping up every 2 mins when in a dog fight either and you happen to look over one way.

maybe if they could keep them as they are, BUT it you press and hold a specified button it increases the activation area?
 

Flying_Fox

Flying_Fox
My rift is working fine in extended. But its like they removed half the colour from the game when im in the rift, like if you take the colour from beta1 and reduced it by half, then you would have the beta2. I would hope they implement more colour correction sliders in the near future.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Flying_Fox said:
My rift is working fine in extended. But its like they removed half the colour from the game when im in the rift, like if you take the colour from beta1 and reduced it by half, then you would have the beta2. I would hope they implement more colour correction sliders in the near future.
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IME this is often a side effect of using extended mode its often very washed out. Direct tends to have much better lighting and colour

if you want to see for yourself try welcome to oculus and beneath in direct and then extended

i bet elite will improve when direct works properly
 

KING5TON

KING5TON
After giving up on 2.01 in the rift and playing a bit on my normal monitor (hot damn 1440p looks pretty, need a 4K screen next ;) ) I just tried it again on the DK2 for a hour and even playing online it's been running very well.

Have it supersampled from 1440p with everything maxed out and SMAA on instead of FXAA. There is maybe an insy wisy little bit of judder in stations but it's very minor. Not really tried ring systems. Will provide more scientific benchmarks etc.... over the next couple of days.
 

Tony Spaniels

Tony Spaniels
Just got to check out 10 minutes worth of solo play after downloading it finally.

Wow, you guys werent joking about the performance improvements. Smooth as silk and so sharp now.

Tired but a very happy chap!
 

Sanderson

Sanderson
Flying_Fox said:
My rift is working fine in extended. But its like they removed half the colour from the game when im in the rift, like if you take the colour from beta1 and reduced it by half, then you would have the beta2. I would hope they implement more colour correction sliders in the near future.
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Use the gamma slider in graphics options, worked for me by reducing it. looks like 1.06 now as far as color and brightness
 

freehotdawgs

freehotdawgs
My performance is awful. I can hardly ever get it to stop juddering. I tried setting the dk2 to secondary and primary, I tried all different settings including setting absolutely everything to low, disabled aero, and it doesn't seem to make much difference. I am using an i7 3770k oc to 4.4ghz, 16gb ram, 670gtx oc, and installed on an ssd. It shouldn't be running this badly.
Any advice on anything I can try to get it to work better? I'm planning on getting a 980 in the near future, I'm sure that will help, but I would still like to play it in the mean time.
 
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