ED on Oculus Rift - basic questions

imacken

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Thanks, but I just redownloaded the whole thing from Oculus Store. The game now runs from within my library, but the issue of not auto-switching to Rift headphones for audio is still present, so no different to running the normal ED launcher. The only way this works for me is launching from my Steam library. Then the audio switched to my Rift, and switched back to Windows default speakers when I take the Rift off (as normal).
 

TorTorden_VR

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Well, running steam for the rift in a rift capable game is adding an overhead costing nearly 25-30% of VR performance compared to running directly to the rift.

I would double check the rift audio settings, or rather use the oculus tray tool https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5okoju/oculus_tray_tool/ to set correct windows output device.

Or just as a commonly used utility https://audioswit.ch/er

Or no tools necessary, right click the sound icon in the bottom right "open sound settings" and select "rift headphones" as the output device.
 
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imacken

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Thanks, yes I started using OTT a few hours ago, and it works really nicely. Switches the audio device to and from Rift headphones automatically, so all is now good with the ED world for me.
 

Gizmofail

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Alec Turner said:
OK, here's what I do.

I have a simple desktop install of Elite Dangerous from Frontier (no need for a separate Steam installation and no need for a separate Oculus installation).

Startup Oculus Home, select Settings in the left hand menu, select the General tab, next to "Unknown sources" click to allow content from unknown sources (you'll only need to do this once).

Now startup Elite as normal from your desktop shortcut.

Go to the graphics settings and under the 3D option select "HMD headphones".

That should pretty much be it. You may have a problem with not hearing sound from the Oculus. If this happens you need to click on the speaker icon in your Windows system tray, click the top where it says something like "Speakers" and pick the Rift option instead.

Re: the graphics settings for Elite in VR - I STRONGLY recommend installing DrKaii's EDProfiler utility which allows you to set up different "profiles" (collections of graphics settings, etc) for both VR and non-VR gameplay. Then what you do is pick which profile you want to use before launching Elite.

You can read about and get EDProfiler over here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...er-Robust-Settings-Profiler-Switcher-Detector!
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Ignore my previous comment. I am using OTT to do the switching. :) Been a while since I did it. I did however still set the default output/input to the Rift S, so I'm sure the rift is the only output,

PS: I run ED via it's own launcher, no SteamVR running. Also I have steam overlay off in every VR game I run through SteamVR. Really don't like it, and can cause some issues.
 
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