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

Zantium · Oct 14, 2014

Adam Lusardi said:
Better to post on YouTube or the likes (but that's my preference). Not going to download some 12Mb.

You don't need to download it, just click the link to stream it.

@Valdren looks good but I think the side panels are a bit distracting, I know you're filling space but personally I'd go with plain black or reduced brightness for the side images... more of a watermark/emboss effect.

Adam Lusardi · Oct 14, 2014

Valdren said:
Weird, it loaded directly into chrome on my end.
Anyways, uploaded it to yt, here's the new link.

EDIT : Annnd youtube cropped the sides...

Looks cool and distortion not too bad. :smilie:
<edit> Explorer! :smilie: said to download it.

Dinbar · Oct 14, 2014

Got my DK2 today like many other. All demos work well but I cant get ED to work in it. I thought direct mode was meant to work?

If I put it in direct mode I get two small screens on my main monitor but nothing in the rift. Extended desktop mode just created a second screen for the DK that's portrait rather than landscape.....frustrating to say the least.

oh well if anyone has any top tips then great if not I'll keep on trying.

Adam Lusardi · Oct 14, 2014

Dinbar said:
Got my DK2 today like many other. All demos work well but I cant get ED to work in it. I thought direct mode was meant to work?

If I put it in direct mode I get two small screens on my main monitor but nothing in the rift. Extended desktop mode just created a second screen for the DK that's portrait rather than landscape.....frustrating to say the least.

oh well if anyone has any top tips then great if not I'll keep on trying.

No top tips.
Extended mode, rotate to suit GPU and off you fly. Sure its stated in the OP or the "How to get rift to work' OP.

<Edit> Have you set ED graphic settings to secondary and full screen, and yes this OP is out of date. (been a long time since I set it up)

Ref Minor · Oct 14, 2014

Oh my!

Valdren · Oct 14, 2014

Zantium said:
@Valdren looks good but I think the side panels are a bit distracting, I know you're filling space but personally I'd go with plain black or reduced brightness for the side images... more of a watermark/emboss effect.

Hmm, that's right... A bit more like this then ?

I've also slightly reduced the size of both logos.

Mobius · Oct 14, 2014

Dinbar said:
Got my DK2 today like many other. All demos work well but I cant get ED to work in it. I thought direct mode was meant to work?

If I put it in direct mode I get two small screens on my main monitor but nothing in the rift. Extended desktop mode just created a second screen for the DK that's portrait rather than landscape.....frustrating to say the least.

oh well if anyone has any top tips then great if not I'll keep on trying.

got mine today aswell. i eventually got it working i think.
used the nvida control panel to set the second monitor to lanscape, nvidia see's it as a dk2, when running Elite set your monitor to secondary via the menu and then select your rift as your 3d option, the rift only appears to work for me in extended mode. using the oculus munu. though i can get the sdk demo to work fine none of my other demos work.

Adam Lusardi · Oct 14, 2014

Glad you got it working, have you tried the other demos in direct mode, changing it in the OR setup display mode. I must admit I only use it to test "play" ED.

Mobius · Oct 14, 2014

Adam Lusardi said:
Glad you got it working, have you tried the other demos in direct mode, changing it in the OR setup display mode. I must admit I only use it to test "play" ED.

ill have a proper fart around with it tomorrow, but i will say that the dk2 isnt as easy to get working as the DK1 was,

Adam Lusardi · Oct 14, 2014

I've tried faffing around with it (primary secondary etc) lost primary had to play with the window settings via the porthole view from the rift. Not fun.

CATPAIN KIRK · Oct 14, 2014

Valdren said:
Weird, it loaded directly into chrome on my end.
Anyways, uploaded it to yt, here's the new link.

EDIT : Annnd youtube cropped the sides...

Looking good - what software did you use for recording? I played around with it yesterday, but Fraps and Shadowplay didn't work for me and OBS had bad video quality (will figure that one out), but had really bad impact on performance, rendering the game next to unplayable (I use that tutorial and manoeuvres for benchmarking and usually hit constant 75 FPS with better graphics settings).

Dinbar · Oct 14, 2014

Mobius said:
got mine today aswell. i eventually got it working i think.
used the nvida control panel to set the second monitor to lanscape, nvidia see's it as a dk2, when running Elite set your monitor to secondary via the menu and then select your rift as your 3d option, the rift only appears to work for me in extended mode. using the oculus munu. though i can get the sdk demo to work fine none of my other demos work.

Thanks to everyone that responded. got it to work in the rift now but only in 2d!

Cant read any of the text and cant look around either. odd

Adam Lusardi · Oct 14, 2014

Dinbar said:
Thanks to everyone that responded. got it to work in the rift now but only in 2d!

Cant read any of the text and cant look around either. odd

Now that's odd!

What in your
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\DisplaySettings.xml
file
and
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\Settings.xml

Valdren · Oct 14, 2014

CATPAIN KIRK said:
Looking good - what software did you use for recording? I played around with it yesterday, but Fraps and Shadowplay didn't work for me and OBS had bad video quality (will figure that one out), but had really bad impact on performance, rendering the game next to unplayable (I use that tutorial and manoeuvres for benchmarking and usually hit constant 75 FPS with better graphics settings).

Ouch indeed, that's not looking good at all !

I'm using OBS with Nvidia NVENC for the encoder, CBR activated, recording at a 4000kb/s bitrate and 1080*1214px @75fps. (the resolution and framerate of the mirror window).

Then converting the video to a good ol' x264 powered .mp4 with Handbrake at 20RF.

There's a few framerate drops here and here, but that's far from unbearable, the game runs mostly at capped 75fps with my 780sc.

Dinbar · Oct 14, 2014

Adam Lusardi said:
Now that's odd!

What in your
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\DisplaySettings.xml
file
and
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\Settings.xml

Settings.xml

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsOptions>
	<Version>1</Version>
	<PresetName>Custom</PresetName>
	<StereoscopicMode>4</StereoscopicMode>
	<IPDAmount>0.100000</IPDAmount>
	<AMDCrashFix>false</AMDCrashFix>
	<FOV>56.249001</FOV>
	<HighResScreenCapAntiAlias>3</HighResScreenCapAntiAlias>
	<HighResScreenCapScale>4</HighResScreenCapScale>
	<GammaOffset>0.000000</GammaOffset>
	<DisableGuiEffects>false</DisableGuiEffects>
</GraphicsOptions>

Display settings.xml

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<DisplayConfig>
	<ScreenWidth>1680</ScreenWidth>
	<ScreenHeight>1050</ScreenHeight>
	<VSync>true</VSync>
	<FullScreen>true</FullScreen>
	<PresentInterval>1</PresentInterval>
	<Adapter>0</Adapter>
	<Monitor>1</Monitor>
	<DX11_RefreshRateNumerator>74999</DX11_RefreshRateNumerator>
	<DX11_RefreshRateDenominator>1000</DX11_RefreshRateDenominator>
</DisplayConfig>

Edit: restarting the OVR service seems to have fixed it......Thank you again for your help

Adam Lusardi · Oct 14, 2014

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<GraphicsOptions>
<Version>1</Version>
<PresetName>Custom</PresetName>
<StereoscopicMode>4</StereoscopicMode>
<IPDAmount>0.063600</IPDAmount>
<AMDCrashFix>false</AMDCrashFix>
<FOV>60.000000</FOV>
<HighResScreenCapAntiAlias>3</HighResScreenCapAntiAlias>
<HighResScreenCapScale>4</HighResScreenCapScale>
<GammaOffset>0.000000</GammaOffset>
<DisableGuiEffects>false</DisableGuiEffects>
</GraphicsOptions>

AND

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<DisplayConfig>
<ScreenWidth>1920</ScreenWidth>
<ScreenHeight>1080</ScreenHeight>
<VSync>true</VSync>
<FullScreen>true</FullScreen>
<PresentInterval>1</PresentInterval>
<Adapter>0</Adapter>
<Monitor>1</Monitor>
<DX11_RefreshRateNumerator>75</DX11_RefreshRateNumerator>
<DX11_RefreshRateDenominator>1</DX11_RefreshRateDenominator>
</DisplayConfig>

Resolution different and your refresh odd to mine.

Snakebyte · Oct 14, 2014

Mobius said:
anyone got any advice?

I got the DK2, (...)
BUT!

the DK2 doesn't appear to display with any other application. what appears to happen with some is that head movement is shown on the monitor as working when I move the DK2 around but it wont display on the headset. the other thing is that Elite has now decided to run in window mode. and wont return to full screen.

has anyone got any advice.

thanks

I should have made a proper log, when I got mine working a while back.
Using a single GTX780 card with latest driver on Win7/64, though it worked with previous driver too.

This is what I have to do to make it run:

- Put DK2 in Extended mode
- Choose 'Pause Service' in Oculus Config Utility
- Find the proper monitor in Elite settings (Secondary/Tertiary) and choose Oculus at 1920x1080.

Some points of general DK2 interest for other demos and such:

- Make sure orientation of DK2 in Control Panel/Screen resolution settings is "Portrait"

- If possible, put all your other monitors on a 75Hz capable resolution. That surely removed stutter in other demos for me.

- Regarding the issue with seeing the tracker at work, but on your regular monitor: Some demos require DK2 to be the primary monitor. Which can be a hassle. There is a launch utility that can do this for you. Unofficial VR Game Manager
It was the only way I got the Radial-G demo working.

- Reset your system sometimes in between extensive fiddling with settings.

Don't know if this is any help, but feel free to send a message to compare or check settings or so.

Adam Lusardi · Oct 14, 2014

Dinbar said:
Edit: restarting the OVR service seems to have fixed it......Thank you again for your help

Now enjoy

BigDuke6ixx · Oct 14, 2014

Mobius said:
ill have a proper fart around with it tomorrow, but i will say that the dk2 isnt as easy to get working as the DK1 was,

Hmmm, not so sure it's all that more difficult if you follow the advice/instructions people have posted in here. Only problem I had today was with the camera, which I traced to a dodgy USB cable.

Overall, quite a jump forward from the DK1. I can new comfortable read all the text. Loving the positional tracking and the OLED.

Only thing I'm not keen on is the cable placement.

Adam Lusardi · Oct 14, 2014

BigDuke6ixx said:
Hmmm, not so sure it's all that more difficult if you follow the advice/instructions people have posted in here. Only problem I had today was with the camera, which I traced to a dodgy USB cable.

Overall, quite a jump forward from the DK1. I can new comfortable read all the text. Loving the positional tracking and the OLED.

Only thing I'm not keen on is the cable placement.

I know I'm thinking to disconnecting the cables and feed them out of the elastic rear loop.