Getting the Best DK2/CV1/Vive VR Experience: Guide/Compendium

Karnath

Karnath
Just as a option for some users, as I have seen a few posts from people looking and asking how to get various Oculus Runtime versions.
For convenience I've uploaded the latest three versions to my drop box where anybody can grab which ever they require

Runtime 0.5.0.1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/07lepp19v43j6hw/oculus_runtime_sdk_0.5.0.1_win.exe?dl=0

Runtime 0.6.0.0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojdg97goqd40egv/oculus_runtime_sdk_0.6.0.0_win.exe?dl=0

Runtime 0.6.0.1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e401cr5jz6nz1ey/oculus_runtime_sdk_0.6.0.1_win.exe?dl=0
 

Karnath

Karnath
tabs said:
Effort appreciated, but why not just link the official downloads page?

Select Platform/PC then all previous versions become available.

https://developer.oculus.com/downloads/
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Thanks tabs, that's true I could of put a link to the Oculus downloads page, but a little while ago for whatever reason Oculus made it a little difficult to find Runtime 0.5.0.1. This was done just incase that happens again

Also I thought it fits in quite well with drkaii's compendium as people don't need to leave the setup guide as it keeps everything in one place.
 
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rennarda

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FYI: I've found that setting resolution to 1080, and in-game DSR to 1.5x, but then lowering the Oculus quality slider, gives comparable, but slightly better, results than using Nvidia DSR with full quality Oculus settings. The other benefit of this is that the Oculus slider can be quickly adjusted in-game, so you can raise or lower it until you find the point where your graphics card is maxing out.

1x GTX 970
 

rkodey

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rennarda said:
FYI: I've found that setting resolution to 1080, and in-game DSR to 1.5x, but then lowering the Oculus quality slider, gives comparable, but slightly better, results than using Nvidia DSR with full quality Oculus settings. The other benefit of this is that the Oculus slider can be quickly adjusted in-game, so you can raise or lower it until you find the point where your graphics card is maxing out.
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Wow! This worked great for me, also using a single GTX 970. I was using DSR 1.2x with no AA. Now, I have standard 1080, 1.5x in-game supersampling, and the Oculus slider at 50%. Looks WAY better than before, and I'm even trying SMAA without any stutters. Very nice! +rep
 
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drkaii

drkaii
rennarda said:
FYI: I've found that setting resolution to 1080, and in-game DSR to 1.5x, but then lowering the Oculus quality slider, gives comparable, but slightly better, results than using Nvidia DSR with full quality Oculus settings. The other benefit of this is that the Oculus slider can be quickly adjusted in-game, so you can raise or lower it until you find the point where your graphics card is maxing out.

1x GTX 970
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Yes I just tried it too, amazing effect. To be honest with a 970 I can play at 1.5 SS supercruising with full oculus slider. This has mainly helped with asteroid fields, but at starports, I have to turn the oculus slider to 0% to get it stable, and that looks worse than zero SS and full slider.

Anyway, this is going in the OP
 

Deimos-GOW

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If you have a monster video card you could ditch v-sync all together to get sub 10ms frametimes.

I'm currently running medium with 2xDSR, no v-sync. Game runs at 200+ FPS with sub 10ms frametimes on a single 980 Ti, I have not noticed any tearing to speak of.

Also I found that running borderless windowed introduces lag for me even with sub 10ms frametimes it's enough to make me sick, anyone else experience this?
 
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drkaii

drkaii
Deimos-GOW said:
If you have a monster video card you could ditch v-sync all together to get sub 10ms frametimes.

I'm currently running medium with 2xDSR, no v-sync. Game runs at 200+ FPS with sub 10ms frametimes on a single 980 Ti, I have not noticed any tearing to speak of.

Also I found that running borderless windowed introduces lag for me even with sub 10ms frametimes it's enough to make me sick, anyone else experience this?
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How do you disable vsync and how do you make it borderless?
 

Decado

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I just bought a GTX980 so looking forward to setting this up with Elite and DK2 :D Hopefully will get a few extra fps :D :D bye bye 290!
 

drkaii

drkaii
Deimos-GOW said:
You have to force it off with the nvidia or AMD CP.

Borderless window can be enabled with EDDS which you can download from the frontier forums.
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Wow I never realized EDDS would force borderless, I'm going to give it a try now. If it works, that annoying alt tab delay will be solved, thanks!

I've never bothered to try vsync off, I'll also try that.

Results will be in an edit of this post
 

Deimos-GOW

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So far I have tinkered with Borderless windowed, DSR, in game SSAA and the Oculus quality slider.
I can say without a doubt that the best VR experience with my setup is Fullscreen with 2.00x DSR, Oculus quality at max, in game SSAA disabled (1.0x) and V-Sync enabled.
Everything is at high apart from Shadows which I have set to low. If I deviate from this in any way (e.g. borderless, no v-sync or substitute DSR with in game SSAA) I get noticeable lag even if the frametime is low.
Next test is going to be V-Sync set to "smooth" in the nvidia CP, I'm not really liking adaptive v-sync although it's only an issue while look at the galaxy map.
Has anyone tried using ED Diary on a separate device through a share?
 
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drkaii

drkaii
Deimos-GOW said:
So far I have tinkered with Borderless windowed, DSR, in game SSAA and the Oculus quality slider.
I can say without a doubt that the best VR experience with my setup is Fullscreen with 2.00x DSR, Oculus quality at max, in game SSAA disabled (1.0x) and V-Sync enabled.
Everything is at high apart from Shadows which I have set to low. If I deviate from this in any way (e.g. borderless, no v-sync or substitute DSR with in game SSAA) I get noticeable lag even if the frametime is low.
Next test is going to be V-Sync set to "smooth" in the nvidia CP, I'm not really liking adaptive v-sync although it's only an issue while look at the galaxy map.
Has anyone tried using ED Diary on a separate device through a share?
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I haven't managed to get borderless working even with EDDS, but I think I will leave it
 

Deimos-GOW

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It's possible that it wasn't working, I didn't test it for very long due to the lag however it may have been caused by something else.
Has anyone noticed that direct mode is working? I'm giving it a try later. I did a quick test with the trvel tutorial and noticed hitching, I'm going to compare and let you know what I find.
 

Decado

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Also, I've got a new way to have it set up that works great. Rep to rennarda for this great tip!

I turn off DSR, turn SS to 1.5x and the Oculus Quality slider down two notches - works great for my GTX 970. I have to turn it down even more in starports, but it's a quick change as opposed to DSR. Either way, the stars and text is so much more crisp like this, so it works amazing.
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I thought this was interesting because originally it was said (not sure if by you) that there is more performance hit using ingame SS rather than external DSR.

But anyway ive been testing a little bit with my new Nvidia gtx980 :) I want to say right now that if you're on an AMD card i would certainly recommend moving to a Nvidia card!! I was on a r9 290 no slouch by any means but using the same settings when i start the game with the gtx980 everything is soo much crisper and sharper - genuinely very impressed! Text is easy to read now. Bare in mind my settings were 1.5 ss in game.

So anyway i thought i would apply Nvidia DSR (2717x1717 or something) and lower SS to 1.0 it still looks very good and better than my AMD experience (no text shimmering!!!! which as you will know annoyed me before) but its not quite as sharp as when i had 1920x1080 & 1.5 ingame SS. More testing required but i think i will finally be playing this game at a great level of graphics :D (whereas before i would be compromising all the time and continually tweaking)

ohh drivers 353.30
 

Deimos-GOW

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Decado said:
I thought this was interesting because originally it was said (not sure if by you) that there is more performance hit using ingame SS rather than external DSR.

But anyway ive been testing a little bit with my new Nvidia gtx980 :) I want to say right now that if you're on an AMD card i would certainly recommend moving to a Nvidia card!! I was on a r9 290 no slouch by any means but using the same settings when i start the game with the gtx980 everything is soo much crisper and sharper - genuinely very impressed! Text is easy to read now. Bare in mind my settings were 1.5 ss in game.

So anyway i thought i would apply Nvidia DSR (2717x1717 or something) and lower SS to 1.0 it still looks very good and better than my AMD experience (no text shimmering!!!! which as you will know annoyed me before) but its not quite as sharp as when i had 1920x1080 & 1.5 ingame SS. More testing required but i think i will finally be playing this game at a great level of graphics :D (whereas before i would be compromising all the time and continually tweaking)

ohh drivers 353.30
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The default DSR - Smoothness is a little too blurry for the DK2, try lowering it to 15% (default is 33%)
 
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