Making the leap today! Help :)

[Lane1572]

I am making the jump from my "pretty awesome" three monitor set up pictured to the world of VR as my Rift is arriving today!

There is a ton on info out there on settings and stuff but I want to get into the game as quickly as possible.

I have a GTX1080 and 6700k. What should I do out of the box and what settings should I use??

Should I mess with that REprojection stuff that I have heard a lot about??


Thanks!!!!

 

[Chaz]

I would just use the VR Ultra settings to start with and see how you get on with that before you start messing around with anything else.

Don't over do it on your first session.

Personally before jumping straight into ED, I'd give all the Dreamdeck stuff a go and try out all the animated shorts. Also give Farlands a bit of a go. Just to get yourself a bit used to it if you've never used VR before. Jumping straight into ED might be a bit of a shock to the system. Go easy in the SRV until you get your VR legs. If you start to feel a bit nauseous, STOP IMMEDIATELY.

Anyway, hope you have a great time. VR is just amazing and ED in VR doubly so.

 

[Lane1572]

I would just use the VR Ultra settings to start with and see how you get on with that before you start messing around with anything else.

Don't over do it on your first session.

Personally before jumping straight into ED, I'd give all the Dreamdeck stuff a go and try out all the animated shorts. Also give Farlands a bit of a go. Just to get yourself a bit used to it if you've never used VR before. Jumping straight into ED might be a bit of a shock to the system. Go easy in the SRV until you get your VR legs. If you start to feel a bit nauseous, STOP IMMEDIATELY.

Anyway, hope you have a great time. VR is just amazing and ED in VR doubly so.

That is great advice i think! I have never used VR before so it probably isn't a great idea to jump into PVP dogfighting minute 1 haha

 

[[HJ]-RedRaven]

What Chaz said , plus some more... good choice of HMD.

Get through all the setup first, especially the IPD adjustment - its a setting that gives you a green + to look at and get clear by using the slider on the bottom of the Rift. Be sure to get it spot on, and remember the number if you give it to others to use and they muck with it

Chaz is right, don't rush it. VR is a lot of fun to begin with, even before you start ED. Stop when you get tired, headache, sore eyes (and I'm not kidding, remember to fricking blink, ok?)

When you're ready to try ED - under the Oculus Home settings/options, check the setting for "Allow External Content" to On - then you can use the ED launcher to run ED normally. It'll start in 2D, until you set the display to HMD. Restart, and the Rift Oculus Home software should start, along with ED in a small monitor window. This is intended. Leave Oculus Home running; I just set it to my library and minimise it.

Be aware the resolution in the Rift is nowhere near as fine as your monitors. Its pixelly, and aliases badly... its 1st-generation hardware. There are god rays, and you'll see the screen-door effect. Ignore them and your head will tune it all out if you're concentrating on the VR 'content', not the Rift's 'delivery'. (Nobody cares what the pizza box looks like, its the pizza that counts!)

You don't need to mess with reprojection (called Asynchronous Time Warp on the Rift). Its on by default.
With a 1080, you can run reasonably high detail settings. In space you should see smooth 90fps, with minimal judder. In stations you see 45-60fps but ATW will fill in the rest, and you probably won't notice any difference from true 90fps (that's the idea).

ED can be fairly hard on the senses - even if you don't get motion sick in real life, be prepared for some nausea if you jump in the SRV and start barrelling across the landscape! Real-life motion sickness and VR-induced sickness are not the same animal. Be wary - the SRV is possibly the worst case scenario. Driving in the SRV can muck you up after a few seconds, or if you're like me, be fine for hours at speed flying off mountains. Fighters are pretty quick too!
The SRV cockpit, wow. Wheel arms so close you could almost reach out and touch them... they're awesome. Seen it in 2D, boring, right? Nu-uh. VR gives you a whole new way of looking at things.
And that's all before you actually move the thing.

You'll spend quite a lot of time just looking around!
Feel free to move about a bit in your chair - it helps to get a feel for the cockpits/bridges.

Welcome to VR, Commander.

 

[Rubix]

As a relative newcomer to VR myself, I can only echo what's been posted above.

Definitely take it easy to begin with. definitely go through all of the dreamdeck stuff and animated shorts first.

Elite Dangerous is absolutely astounding in the Rift. I've had mine approximately 4 weeks now and can easily do hours in VR now. My first foray into VR world and i could only just about do 30 minutes to 45 minutes before i started getting a bit of a headache. Advice to stop before you get ill is definitely well founded. It won't be long before you get your VR legs and can do marathon sessions.

Welcome to the world of VR, you'll love it

 

[Dim Reaper]

Just got my Rift on Monday. Some very good advice above about trying out the Oculus demos first to get used to the feel of the rift.

When you do venture in to ED, I'd recommend spending some time in the following training missions whilst you get used to the controls and maybe still need to tweak some graphics settings:

Docking & Travel Training

SRV Training

Wolfpack Tactics

These three give you stations, planetary surface and an asteroid field so you can check your FPS and so on without risking your own ship.

The Introduction to VR training mission certainly shows off the view from a Keelback cockpit.

Outside of ED, if you have Steam it is well worth setting up your Rift on that too - there are some nice bits and pieces there.

 

[pippo]

Don't over do it on your first session.

Sounds like a drug user advise.

 

[Dim Reaper]

Well, the Rift is pretty addictive...

 

[JetsonRING]

Give your new setup a chance to show you "the gold" and if does not perform up to snuff THEN worry about what you will take out of the graphics settings. Turn everything up to Ultra++ and see how it goes . . .

 

[Lane1572]

Thanks all for the advice!

 

[mikey_205]

I got a Rift a week or so ago. Ive been testing and i have no problems with nausea ive been doing double barrel rolls in SRV and even tried flying without assist and spinning in all kinds of ways which i seem to be much better at in the rift. Ive a good stomach though as been exposed to sailing at sea and theme park rides from young age.

Whats limiting me is my eyes getting tired after 30 or so minutes especially with contact lenses on. I hope this gets better.

It is wonderful though just amazing to be able to look around and piloting feels so natural. Galaxy map is a real struggle though.

 

[Rubix]

I got a Rift a week or so ago. Ive been testing and i have no problems with nausea ive been doing double barrel rolls in SRV and even tried flying without assist and spinning in all kinds of ways which i seem to be much better at in the rift. Ive a good stomach though as been exposed to sailing at sea and theme park rides from young age.

Whats limiting me is my eyes getting tired after 30 or so minutes especially with contact lenses on. I hope this gets better.

It is wonderful though just amazing to be able to look around and piloting feels so natural. Galaxy map is a real struggle though.

Although i don't wear contacts or glasses, I had the same. very tired eyes after 30 mins or so. you do adjust. all i needed was 5-10 minutes out of the rift every half an hour. 4 weeks on and it isn't a factor. just need to get used to it is all.

 

[Chaz]

That is great advice i think! I have never used VR before so it probably isn't a great idea to jump into PVP dogfighting minute 1 haha

Thanks. Just one more tip I forgot about. If you are planning on going out, don't spend too long in VR first. Otherwise you'll have bad VR face and it takes a while for the tram lines in your cheeks to go down after a lengthy session.

Whats limiting me is my eyes getting tired after 30 or so minutes especially with contact lenses on. I hope this gets better.

Yeah, you'll get used to it. I wear contacts with my Rift too. After a while they'll start to feel a bit gummy on the eyes. I get dry eye anyway and having them exposed to the extra warmth just drys them out even quicker. Having some eye drops handy can help, but I'm usually near then end of my session when my contacts get like that.

Oh and I can spend hours playing ED with my Rift on now. I've been practically falling asleep with it on. Just got to make this last delivery... zzzzzz. One day I'm going to fall asleep and wake back up still in VR, man will that be weird.

 

[Lane1572]

So quick takes after about 3-4 hours of play on it.
1. Holy crap the resolution is horrible.
2. When it all clicks it is amazing! I did some ship launched fighter dog fighting on a planet surface and that was so awesome!
3. No nausea at all which kinda surprises me cause I get carsick easy.
4. It seems like when there is a lot going on and I can't focus on the screen door effect I like it a lot, other times it's painfully obvious that I just have a tv strapped to my face

 

[Dim Reaper]

Glad to hear that you're enjoying it. I have to say I had the exact same thoughts - particularly 1 and 4. I did get some mild motion sickness and a headache on the first day though through over-use, but I've been fine since then.

After a couple of days though, I found that I'm not seeing all of the faults and instead seeing how amazing the game is in VR. I took a day off VR yesterday (sore eyes, but unrelated to teh Rift) and played on my 42" screen at 1920x1080 - everything turned up to full and 2xSS. It was nowhere near as good as being in the Rift.

Best things about VR and Elite: Dangerous for me are:

Actually seeing how HUGE things are. From the external camera in the docking bay, the Cobra really does look the size of the Millennium Falcon.

The stations - did I mention how HUGE they are when you approach them.

Being able to track an enemy ship as it pulls out of your field of fire...and it makes it so much easier to follow them.

Being able to stand up and look at the bridge of your ships.

Sitting in an Orca as you fly below an Earth-like world.

 

[Lane1572]

Glad to hear that you're enjoying it. I have to say I had the exact same thoughts - particularly 1 and 4. I did get some mild motion sickness and a headache on the first day though through over-use, but I've been fine since then.

After a couple of days though, I found that I'm not seeing all of the faults and instead seeing how amazing the game is in VR. I took a day off VR yesterday (sore eyes, but unrelated to teh Rift) and played on my 42" screen at 1920x1080 - everything turned up to full and 2xSS. It was nowhere near as good as being in the Rift.

Best things about VR and Elite: Dangerous for me are:

Actually seeing how HUGE things are. From the external camera in the docking bay, the Cobra really does look the size of the Millennium Falcon.

The stations - did I mention how HUGE they are when you approach them.

Being able to track an enemy ship as it pulls out of your field of fire...and it makes it so much easier to follow them.

Being able to stand up and look at the bridge of your ships.

Sitting in an Orca as you fly below an Earth-like world.

I am for sure trending in that direction. I can feel it taking over. Lots of things to complain about when there's nothing going on but man I had a conda fly over my fdl in the station real low and I watched it fly over with my jaw on the floor.

The scale is totally insane. I don't think I'll use it 100% of the time.. especially when grinding but I am really liking it