Oculus Rift DK2 - struggling to get it working with ED

zaqq

Z
If anyone has had issues with the tracking and res side of things I would appreciate some help.

Also on the graphics setting what are you guys using? I saw there was a few options under the 3d thing. I have the dk2 running in extended mode since I heard ED only works that way but its not easy to get going.

Any advice, links to setup guides etc or prt scns of graphics would help thanks o7

- zaqq
 
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CATPAIN KIRK

CATPAIN KIRK
There's this thread, however, in addition to what is described in the top post, you need to go to tools -> advanced -> pause service in the config tool to get the headtracking working.
 

Nano606

Nano606
The tracking does not work unless you end the 'wscript' and 'oculusservices" processes with the task manager before you open the game.

I just end those, fire up the game and select the oculus rift (speakers) as display output - dont know why it says speakers, but it works. I also set the refresh rate to 75hz. Then go and play.
 

CATPAIN KIRK

CATPAIN KIRK
Nano606 said:
I just end those, fire up the game and select the oculus rift (speakers) as display output - dont know why it says speakers, but it works. I also set the refresh rate to 75hz. Then go and play.
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It says speakers because if you pick headphones mode, the game will rotate the soundscape according to your heads movement. Since that is unnecessary with speakers, as they don't rotate with your head, it will stay stationary in speakers mode.
 

Zalamander

Z
If you upgraded to latest firmware and SDK don't get confused, wscript doesnt exist any more its r enamed to Oculus service launcher or something like that.
 

Baton

Baton
Got mine yesterday, struggled a bit, read lots of threads...
My story in short:

Switched second monitor off, I'm sure I will finally figure it out, but for time being I have problems with two screen + OR
Put oculus in extend desktop mode, and go tools->advanced->pause service
check that OR in display settings is 1920x1080 75Hz - I had to put it in portrait mode (at least once flipped portrait because it was upside down, don't know why)
Start ED, go to graphic settings, my OR is secondary so I put secondary screen 1920x1080 75hz - 3d experimental oculus headphones. Applied -worked
But this was after around two hours of struggling, reading through threads etc.
For a good while I could only start it in 960x1080 (119 Hz?) which looked horrible, then I did pretty much nothing and it magically started to work in proper resolution. At the time I didnt even restart the computer (I'm actually desktop support engineer and most of the time I know what I'm doing :) )
Try changing resolutions, and restart the computer as often as you can. If the OR gets grayed out in Oculus utility I unplug the usb cable at the unit side.
Some people had luck by putting Rift as primary display, but then you struggle in Windows, so I prefer not to.
My positional tracking worked straight away in ED without any issues.
Wish I could offer better help and good luck :)
 

arkemiffo

arkemiffo
Maybe someone here could help me.
I asked at the oculus forums, but no answer after 3-4 days.

Now, I do have elite up and running perfectly fine with my OR DK2. It runs buttersmooth, I have no issues with headtracking, and it looks just shiny.

My problem is though that I can't select the secondary display. I have to set my OR to the primary display, keep the nvidia control panel open (so that I can switch back after I'm done playing). If I think ahead long enough I open the launcher first, so it's displayed on the monitor (now the secondary display), otherwise I have to go to the startmenu and click the launcher in the OR, and then move it into a position where I can see the login/play button. After that it's smooth sailing.

I do have 2 gfx cards, GTX780's. Have the monitor and living room TV plugged into the first card, and the OR in the second card. The monitor and tv are cloned, OR extended.
I've been playing around with the cables to see if the position would affect it, but I just can't find any combination that lets me see the secondary option in the graphics section in E:D.

Anyone knows?
Would be awesome not having to deal with the nvidia control panel at all times, making mistakes,forgetting which is what et.c. and having to use the OR to try to set the settings correct again.
 

CATPAIN KIRK

CATPAIN KIRK
arkemiffo said:
My problem is though that I can't select the secondary display. I have to set my OR to the primary display, keep the nvidia control panel open (so that I can switch back after I'm done playing). If I think ahead long enough I open the launcher first, so it's displayed on the monitor (now the secondary display), otherwise I have to go to the startmenu and click the launcher in the OR, and then move it into a position where I can see the login/play button. After that it's smooth sailing.

I do have 2 gfx cards, GTX780's. Have the monitor and living room TV plugged into the first card, and the OR in the second card. The monitor and tv are cloned, OR extended.
I've been playing around with the cables to see if the position would affect it, but I just can't find any combination that lets me see the secondary option in the graphics section in E:D.
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Does it lack the option to select the secondary display in ED's Graphics option menu?

Anyway - probably not the most elegant solution, but I think your problem should be fixed as soon as you disable the TV in the NV control panel and just leave the primary monitor and the rift enabled.

I use a dual GTX 680 SLI setup with triple 24" screens and although I got the rift and all three displays running simultaneously, it led to all kinds of hassles, as pretty much every program running on the rift would address a different display.

I think in ED, I had the problem that it would only allow me to select between primary and secondary displays, but not tertiary or quaterny displays

So what I ended up doing was just disabling all but one display (+the rift of course) in NV control panel when I plan to use the rift. Maybe you could play around with display numbering, but personally, I couldn't be bothered to try - don't see the screens anyway when wearing the rift.

Moreover, the rift and the active display are both connected to the same card via HDMI (I've read that this would matter before receiving the rift, so I set it up that way when it arrived - can't say if it actually does matter, since I didn't try a differwent configuration).
 

arkemiffo

arkemiffo
Anyway - probably not the most elegant solution, but I think your problem should be fixed as soon as you disable the TV in the NV control panel and just leave the primary monitor and the rift enabled.
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Yeah, I had a sneaking suspicion that it had problems with multiple display setups, so I did try to simply remove the TV HDMI cable once. Still nogo. Then I also tried to move the OR HDMI to the first card as well (so the monitor and the rift are both on the first card, no TV connected), and still nothing. When I start the game like that I only get Primary display. When I have the TV connected (even if it's on the second card) it shows up as secondary (when extended, and not cloned), but the OR just won't show up ingame.

Should say that it's only ingame I have this issue. In the control panel, there's no problem at all. Just ED selection for what display to use.
 

edguy

edguy
Have you tried forcing the config, what i mean by this is setting it up correct initially for each graphic output device then backing up your DisplaySettings.xml and Settings.xml to a folder for each of your settings.

I have one for primary , one for secondary TV display and one for the rift, then use a standard bat file to copy the settings over before launching the game.

i.e

Rem Rift batch file
copy /y "D:\scripts\Rift\DisplaySettings.xml" "C:\Users\edguy\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\DisplaySettings.xml"

copy /y "D:\scripts\Rift\Settings.xml" "C:\Users\edguy\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\Settings.xml"

Rem secondary batch file
copy /y "D:\scripts\secondary\DisplaySettings.xml" "C:\Users\edguy\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\DisplaySettings.xml"

copy /y "D:\scripts\secondary\Settings.xml" "C:\Users\edguy\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\Settings.xml"

Rifts settings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsOptions>
<Version>1</Version>
<PresetName>Custom</PresetName>
<StereoscopicMode>3</StereoscopicMode>
<IPDAmount>0.042972</IPDAmount>
<AMDCrashFix>false</AMDCrashFix>
<FOV>54.146061</FOV>
<HighResScreenCapAntiAlias>3</HighResScreenCapAntiAlias>
<HighResScreenCapScale>4</HighResScreenCapScale>
</GraphicsOptions>

Rifts displaysettings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<DisplayConfig>
<ScreenWidth>1920</ScreenWidth>
<ScreenHeight>1080</ScreenHeight>
<VSync>true</VSync>
<FullScreen>true</FullScreen>
<PresentInterval>1</PresentInterval>
<Adapter>0</Adapter>
<Monitor>1</Monitor>
<DX11_RefreshRateNumerator>74999</DX11_RefreshRateNumerator>
<DX11_RefreshRateDenominator>1000</DX11_RefreshRateDenominator>
</DisplayConfig>

Secondary settings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsOptions>
<Version>1</Version>
<PresetName>Custom</PresetName>
<StereoscopicMode>0</StereoscopicMode>
<IPDAmount>0.042972</IPDAmount>
<AMDCrashFix>false</AMDCrashFix>
<FOV>54.146061</FOV>
<HighResScreenCapAntiAlias>3</HighResScreenCapAntiAlias>
<HighResScreenCapScale>4</HighResScreenCapScale>
</GraphicsOptions>

Secondary displaysettings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<DisplayConfig>
<ScreenWidth>1920</ScreenWidth>
<ScreenHeight>1080</ScreenHeight>
<VSync>true</VSync>
<FullScreen>true</FullScreen>
<PresentInterval>1</PresentInterval>
<Adapter>0</Adapter>
<Monitor>1</Monitor>
<DX11_RefreshRateNumerator>59998</DX11_RefreshRateNumerator>
<DX11_RefreshRateDenominator>1000</DX11_RefreshRateDenominator>
</DisplayConfig>


arkemiffo said:
Yeah, I had a sneaking suspicion that it had problems with multiple display setups, so I did try to simply remove the TV HDMI cable once. Still nogo. Then I also tried to move the OR HDMI to the first card as well (so the monitor and the rift are both on the first card, no TV connected), and still nothing. When I start the game like that I only get Primary display. When I have the TV connected (even if it's on the second card) it shows up as secondary (when extended, and not cloned), but the OR just won't show up ingame.

Should say that it's only ingame I have this issue. In the control panel, there's no problem at all. Just ED selection for what display to use.
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zaqq

Z
thanks for all the help guys, managed to get it showing on the rift now with a good resolution.

Still no tracking cam though, I have tried the usual pausing/closing the service process and still no luck. I'll keep trying and let you know if I make it work.

o7 zaqq
 
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