I want these results when I use EDProfiler. Currently, no matter what the setting is in profiler Oculus fires up. I really don't want another shortcut to turn on and off the service. The profiler should work as intended. I guess I will keep playing with it until I get frustrated enough in uninstall. Yippy.
Oculus Elite: The good, the bad and the ugly.
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I want these results when I use EDProfiler. Currently, no matter what the setting is in profiler Oculus fires up. I really don't want another shortcut to turn on and off the service. The profiler should work as intended. I guess I will keep playing with it until I get frustrated enough in uninstall. Yippy.
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Just popping back in here to say that, as I enter my 3rd week of Oculus ownership, I'm loving it and am actually very happily switching between Oculus sessions one day (for VR wow and immersion) and TrackIR/monitor sessions another day (for gorgeous graphics and nausea free high speed SRV racing). If you're worried about the "you can never go back" thing (and I know I was) then I'd suggest that it's not necessarily as bad as some people make out. I think having head tracking really helps and I think getting comfortable with using the Oculus and that it's brilliant but doesn't have to be the only way you can play ED also pays off in the end.
One very happy and contented customer here now.
I admit I have said to others "you can never go back" and until recently I played exclusively in VR. What changed my thinking was the 20k Ly return leg of an exploration adventure which I did exclusively in windowed/monitor mode while doing other things. EDProfiler is great to swap between the profiles. Now that I'm in the bubble I'll probably be almost exclusively VR again, but changing back and forth is quite ok, indeed required sometimes
Note that I also have the issue of oculus home starting up even in monitor mode. I didn't know EDProfiler was the cause.
EDPofiler isn't the cause of this afaik, it's the Oculus runtime service. When you start ED, whether or not you're using graphics settings that are asking to use the HMD (and I don't think it matters whether you've configured these settings in-game or with EDProfiler), Oculus home will start up. The way to prevent this is via the stop/start Oculus desktop shortcuts I described in the OP (and it's just a simple double-click before you start the game so really not too onerous). WTFover - don't get annoyed with EDProfiler, it's a great way to switch between profiles but isn't the cause of the problem (again, as far as I know - I'll point drkaii at this thread so he can comment further).
Alas I now have a new problem which is that if I stop the OVRservice (because I want to play on the monitor), then SteamVR decides that it's going to have a go instead and that now starts up. This has been reported in the bug forum and is a known problem apparently.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...mVR-Launches-Automatically-When-It-Should-Not
Ho hum.
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Thanks Alec & drkaii. I'm sure you would have covered this in earlier posts but I'm catching up on too many threads after holidays and can't read everything.
Understood re start/stop oculus shortcuts but it doesn't bother me that oculus starts up since I'm in VR most of the time anyway.
Understood re start/stop oculus shortcuts but it doesn't bother me that oculus starts up since I'm in VR most of the time anyway.
Oculus home always starts regardless of Screen or VR mode, but if I select screen mode in EDprofiler ED starts fine on my monitor and I just park Oculus home. If I select VRMode in EDProfiler then ED starts on the headset, even have different bind files between the two - EDProfiler handles all this like a charm.
I got ED directly from Frontier, are you using a SteamVR version? maybe something there that needs looking at.
Yeah but the thing is I don't want it to. Part of the reason is just me being picky I suppose but the other thing I discovered is that when Oculus Home is running it somehow prevents my NVIDIA graphic overrides for EliteDangerous.exe from taking effect, specifically the vertical-sync override.
We're getting into really marginal stuff now but I found, after much experimentation, that the only way I could completely eliminate screen tearing on the monitor when looking around on planet surfaces (with TrackIR) was to set vertical-sync for ED in the NVIDIA control panel. If I just use the in-game vertical sync I still get tearing. Beats me but there it is.
Anyway, if you're not bothered about this and if you're not bothered by Oculus Home running when you don't actually need it then you're right, just use EDProfiler and don't worry about all this Oculus stop/start nonsense.
Yeah but the thing is I don't want it to. Part of the reason is just me being picky I suppose but the other thing I discovered is that when Oculus Home is running it somehow prevents my NVIDIA graphic overrides for EliteDangerous.exe from taking effect, specifically the vertical-sync override.
We're getting into really marginal stuff now but I found, after much experimentation, that the only way I could completely eliminate screen tearing on the monitor when looking around on planet surfaces (with TrackIR) was to set vertical-sync for ED in the NVIDIA control panel. If I just use the in-game vertical sync I still get tearing. Beats me but there it is.
Anyway, if you're not bothered about this and if you're not bothered by Oculus Home running when you don't actually need it then you're right, just use EDProfiler and don't worry about all this Oculus stop/start nonsense.
Never tried the NVIDIA overrides, vsync is set to off for screen mode in ED and not noticed any tearing but also don't use trackIR, have the Tobii eye tracker and also the EDTracker that I used prior to getting the Rift though to be honest never got on with them, may have been setup issues.
Currently seen no issues with Oculus home running so happy the way it is.
On a side not VR usage has gone down would guess 25/75 VR/Screen these days depending on what I am doing, combat/mining (belt/planet) I tend to use VR not run around stuff use screen, a 2kls run to station to drop off some data is not the best use of VR
I am indeed using the Frontier version of ED. I am quite sure that EDProfiler should be able to handle the switching just fine but after several attempts I still cannot get EDProfiler to switch between Screen and VR modes. I suppose I can create the shortcuts as suggested by OP and disable Oculus all together but it has been my understanding that EDProfiler was created just for this very reason. I am determined to find the answer although it is cutting into my ED time significantly.
UPDATE:
After wiping all of my graphic files in ED and again uninstalling/reinstalling EDProfiler I now have a working EDProfiler that switches my profiles correctly. I can enjoy "docs" app to the fullest and I will promptly donate for his efforts. Thank you.
Now if I can just figure out why my CV1 headset randomly drops out (popup says it is unplugged, then says it is resolved). I have it plugged into the hdmi port but maybe I will try moving it to a display port since I have the necessary adaptor. Always something it seems LOL.
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My DK2 does this as well, I put it down to the cable slightly comming out on the front, which it did the first time it happened.
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I unplugged the cable and plugged it back in and now seems to be fine. It felt like it was fully plugged in. Oh well, seems to be working well now.
Might be a USB disconnect, common problem ...
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ensor-HDMI-disconnects-getting-ridiculous-now
Had mine for a week now. Narrowing down the issues. Biggest issue is FOV. I didnt notice it at first but the more I play the more I am getting annoyed by the diving goggles FOV. Nothing can be done about it but its there nevertheless.
Second le is lack of SLi support. My poor second GTX970 is just sat there twiddling its thumbs while I'm playing games in poor settings.
Finally, software. There is just so little quality stuff out there. Looking at future releases this year my skirt isnt exactly blowing up either. I was stoked about FO4 till I found it was Vive exclusive and also will be using teleport. I've no real desire to spend hours messing around with VorpX so I'm left with a handful of top end games and about a hundred million mobile games which are meh at best. At the moment, E is the only game worth spending lots of time on. Maybe Vanishing of Ethan Carter...
[EDIT] Can't use the N word with IGG in the middle followed by LES.... lol
Second le is lack of SLi support. My poor second GTX970 is just sat there twiddling its thumbs while I'm playing games in poor settings.
Finally, software. There is just so little quality stuff out there. Looking at future releases this year my skirt isnt exactly blowing up either. I was stoked about FO4 till I found it was Vive exclusive and also will be using teleport. I've no real desire to spend hours messing around with VorpX so I'm left with a handful of top end games and about a hundred million mobile games which are meh at best. At the moment, E
is the only game worth spending lots of time on. Maybe Vanishing of Ethan Carter...[EDIT] Can't use the N word with IGG in the middle followed by LES.... lol
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