Control Scheme Keeps Switching From "Default Context" to "Oculus Touch" - Help!

[tkw722]

Hi All!

Apologies if this has been asked before, I searched around and didn't seem to find anyone with the same issue. I'm totally stoked to be trying out ED on my Oculus Quest using Link for the first time. All seems great so far, with one exception. Seeing that the Galaxy Map is kind of messed up with the touch controllers, I wanted to use the Xbox controller instead since I'm use to it from the One anyway. Unfortunately, I can set the control scheme to Default Context just fine, but seconds after I do, every time, it switches back to Oculus Touch. It's driving me crazy! How can I get it to leave me alone and just let me play with my Xbox controller?!? I can't seem to figure out what specifically keeps flipping it back. Is it ED itself? The Oculus app trying to "help" me use my touch controllers? Or maybe even steam? (I actually bought and own ED through steam, so steam is running simultaneously as well. Anyone seen this at all? Please help me regain my sanity!

-Cmdr in need

 

[tkw722]

For anyone that comes across this in the future, the problem was related to the way I was running Elite. While the Oculus app was smart enough to find my Elite installation from Steam automatically, it wasn't launching Elite correctly. Oculus launches Elite directly, without using the Elite Launcher (when launching in VR mode -- it still uses the launcher if launching in desktop mode). Yet, when Oculus would launch the Elite through Steam, it was launching it via the launcher. It's not clear if this is explicitly the issue: launcher vs not launcher. It may very well be some other aspect of launching Elite via Steam. Either way...

TLDR; The fix is to just install vanilla Elite Dangerous via the Oculus Store itself. It's possible you could also install the vanilla windows version of Elite as well and simply add it to your Oculus Library, although I haven't tested that. If you're not already aware, if you own Elite Dangerous for PC through Frontier you can redeem a code for Oculus so you can download the game in Oculus for free (and avoid buying the game over and over).