Sort the portrait flipped thing and set your resolution to 1080p and try again. If still not working try the instructions in the message.
ED and the Oculus Rift Developers Kit 2 (DK2) Discussion Thread
Sort the portrait flipped thing and set your resolution to 1080p and try again. If still not working try the instructions in the message.
OK, set to 1920x1080 and selected Portrait flipped. Rift display is right way up.
I have followed the instructions in the message and I still get no oculus choices in the 3D menu.
Is it actually displayed on the rift when you see these options or on the monitor?
If on the monitor select the DK2 as the display and click apply.
If you still can't see the options restart the game and try again, make sure the game displays on the rift when it starts then try it again.
If it still doesn't work try a PC restart.
On the rift.
Done.
Restarted game, which automatically started on Rift, no Oculus option.
Restarted with a power off in between, no Oculus in 3D list.
:/
Finally got a go on my rift Sunday night before going to work. Got it to work ok just need to sort setting levels out. One thing I did notice was if I brought a esc menu up it was off set to the left and I had to lean to the left to read it as it was off centre quite a bit. Is that normal with the rift?
OK, try this.
Shut the game down.
Open this file C:\Users\YOU USERNAME HERE\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\Settings.xml
Look for this line and set it like this
<StereoscopicMode>3</StereoscopicMode>
or like this
<StereoscopicMode>4</StereoscopicMode>
Save the file.
Start the game.
It's basically forcing the game to use the Oculus Rift 3D separation option.
If that doesn't work open this file
C:\Users\YOU USERNAME HERE\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\displaysettings.xml
Make sure these lines are like this
<ScreenWidth>1920</ScreenWidth>
<ScreenHeight>1080</ScreenHeight>
<VSync>true</VSync>
<FullScreen>true</FullScreen>
Save the file.
Repeat this in case it's set it back to 0,1 or 2 again.
Open this file C:\Users\YOU USERNAME HERE\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\Settings.xml
Look for this line and set it like this
<StereoscopicMode>3</StereoscopicMode>
or like this
<StereoscopicMode>4</StereoscopicMode>
Save the file.
Start the game.
If you're still having issues copy and paste what's in those two files into a message and send it across and I'll see if I can spot what is wrong.
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Yeah, press F12 to centre it a bit but in Beta 2 it's a bit off centre, was perfect in Beta 1.
Oculus on this game verses others. I found this games Oculus support lacking really. Alien Isolation that has graphics on par with Elite runs smooth as silk on my DK2 at 1080p 75hz, however Elite has some major head tracking issues... It's just too jittery, if I dont move my head everything is smooth so I dont believe its a frame rate issue. I can even lower everything to low and set res to 720p and the head track does not change at all, if this was a frame issue I should of seen some major changes there. My PC will play this game on a display (2D) at 720p 120hz at 120fps, everything cranked. So I believe they got a bit of work to do for the Oculus to be the great experience we all hope it to be on this game. It's still possible that it my video card, but unlikely as I've seen others complaining about it too and they have far better video cards than I. This game is graphicly amazing but it isnt so much so that it should really tax any modern video card so much so...
This is bizarre. I get those options even when my Rift isn't connected! Reinstall Elite?
I haven't managed to keep up with everything, but you're using extend mode right? Is your rift you primary or secondary display according to Windows?
Just wanted to say thanks for all the research you guys have done and help provided, received my Rift yesterday and although there were issues, having been following this thread for the past 2 months I was prepared for all that it threw at me and it's now working perfectly!
Cheers!
Cheers!
I don't care what you believe; jittery headtracking is 100% due to running the game at anything other than vnsynced 75fps.
The slider in the config tool to match the comfort screws slightly alters the algorithm that separates the colours to compensate for the lens curve. Try and keep it the same and theoretically you'll see less chromatic aberration (colour separation).
I'll be honest, people on here go on and on about supersampling but it literally makes sod all difference on the Rift. Don't waste gpu on it! If you like, experiment using the in game options. Park up somewhere, have a good look at your cockpit menus. Head into options, enable the different AA options. See if you can see a difference. I can't.
I wasted an hour of my life trying to get it to 'work', but it doesn't, no matter what I try (even super sampling via nVidia control panel was useles).
What does happen, though, is that your eyes adjust pretty quickly and your brain will fill in the gaps more and more.
Ok not sure if it´s right asking these here because offcially i´m not a current owner of an Oculus Rift but....
I CAN´T WAIT ANYMORE...
80% decided to go for the DK2, the 20% left is due to the following concerns:
1. I have recently bought a new system, GTX 780ti and a i7 4770k processor, you guys think it will run ED smoothly, i mean, now i can´t play anything below 60hz /frames per second, i know DK2 runs at 75hz, even better, but anybody here can play at that refresh rate with a similar rig without lowering ED settings too much?
2. It´s Said that the CV version still will take some time to see the light, i was hoping at the beginning of the year, but recent news says it won´t be until final 2015, i think it is true due two reasons, one is the lack of contents for virtual reallity, and the other one, the actual specs of home computer seems to be not enough for a decent virtual experience, i mean, 1440p at 75/100 hz i think even with a single GTX 980 is hard to mantain, yes you can buy two videocards and put them in sli (when it works right), plus a new computer plus the oculus, but it can be not a great idea if oculus whant to succeed with the normal consumer. (the concern about this is if you see it the same way, i would be upset if i buy now a DK and in three months they release a CV)
What i can assume is:
the lack of resolution right now, some people says still you cannot read clear menus for example.
The complexity of setting it up, i´m a bit freak with computers and technology.
Lowering a bit ED (and other games) settings if the result is an amazing experiece anyway.
Final Questions:
Have you been playing for a long time? How your body and vision reacts?, some times with my actual trackir i feel my neck very tired.
Really is so amazing???, c´mon, be sinceer
(Please excuse me if i´m not posting this in the right place, i will delete it and open a new thread )
I CAN´T WAIT ANYMORE...
80% decided to go for the DK2, the 20% left is due to the following concerns:
1. I have recently bought a new system, GTX 780ti and a i7 4770k processor, you guys think it will run ED smoothly, i mean, now i can´t play anything below 60hz /frames per second, i know DK2 runs at 75hz, even better, but anybody here can play at that refresh rate with a similar rig without lowering ED settings too much?
2. It´s Said that the CV version still will take some time to see the light, i was hoping at the beginning of the year, but recent news says it won´t be until final 2015, i think it is true due two reasons, one is the lack of contents for virtual reallity, and the other one, the actual specs of home computer seems to be not enough for a decent virtual experience, i mean, 1440p at 75/100 hz i think even with a single GTX 980 is hard to mantain, yes you can buy two videocards and put them in sli (when it works right), plus a new computer plus the oculus, but it can be not a great idea if oculus whant to succeed with the normal consumer. (the concern about this is if you see it the same way, i would be upset if i buy now a DK and in three months they release a CV)
What i can assume is:
the lack of resolution right now, some people says still you cannot read clear menus for example.
The complexity of setting it up, i´m a bit freak with computers and technology.
Lowering a bit ED (and other games) settings if the result is an amazing experiece anyway.
Final Questions:
Have you been playing for a long time? How your body and vision reacts?, some times with my actual trackir i feel my neck very tired.
Really is so amazing???, c´mon, be sinceer
(Please excuse me if i´m not posting this in the right place, i will delete it and open a new thread )
made no difference, elite just starts with 3d set to off.
Yep, extended mode. I did try with direct mode and the 3d options aree there... so it is something to do with elite not detecting the presence of the rift when in extended mode. Rift is set to secondary.
I have an i7-4770K and a 780TI. On High graphics settings it is mostly OK, but does dip down to 50Hz sometimes - in stations, asteroid fields etc. On Medium graphics settings it stays consistently above 75Hz. To be honest, with the Rift, I don't see much difference in the graphics between the two settings anyway so am happy using Medium graphics settings. Of course I'm hopeful that the ED graphics will be optimised further, in future releases, for even better performance.
I concur with that. You need to run MSI afterburner on main monitor while playing ED. I bet your fps is lower than 75
I don't know if this is going to be any help but I did try to help out someone else a few weeks back. The post I wrote is
here
Aye, its running pretty sweetly, its just the inability to focus the damn thing that's got me baffled. Its a fixed focus, change the lenses, type of thing which baffles me. I'm sure there's a reason for it. I will try the other lenses or with my glasses on (slightly short-sighted). failing that I will get fitted for sodding contacts.