Any of you Oculus owners aware of this? Tried it?
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/6tca7t/why_you_may_need_to_disable_spud_oled_mura/
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/6tca7t/why_you_may_need_to_disable_spud_oled_mura/
Oculus SPUD registry setting?
- Thread starter NeilF
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reading the comments I'd rather avoid messing around with this, but thanks anyway 
reading the comments I'd rather avoid messing around with this, but thanks anyway
The grainy effect shown in the first message, I've witnessed I'd say in my lower part of vision, during loading screens. As if you can see the pixels making up the lenses over the lower portion of your view. But while playing games/demos, all seems OK.
I would say though, when you get large white text on a black background, the "glow" around the text is annoying.
Not sure how much of that is light bleed into the glass before it gets to your eyes, or indeed, your face/eye being lit up and reflecting back off the glass infront of your eye again.
When I first got my Rift a year ago, I had a problem with blacks appearing as dark red. Oculus sent me a spud tool so I could disable spud. It definitely made the blacks black, but it also caused a horrible grid to appear in space instead of dust clouds, as well as other problems. Anyway, several months later Oculus finally corrected their drivers or something and I stopped using the spud tool as it looked better using the standard settings. Sure, if you look for it you can sometimes see the dust layer, but I only notice it if I'm looking for it. I think I'm usually focused past it or just too busy enjoying other things to give a crud about it. But all Rifts may not be the same.
Odd, I see the mura effect only in pitch black scenes, but it'a so dark I can only just about make out the pattern. I don't know if I'm lucky or whatever, but the pattern is so dark as to be insignificant.
All these complaints about widely ranging image quality suggests to me that the QA on Rift panels leaves a lot to be desired.
All these complaints about widely ranging image quality suggests to me that the QA on Rift panels leaves a lot to be desired.
Tested this last night.
And indeed black levels has dropped to proper black.
I do have some dirty screen artefacts in certain shades afterwards on my right panel.
But I always had those on my left, so now it's more even.
And better blacks. I'm leaving this disabled for a bit.
And. Yes.
The QA department for these screens not quite as a rigourous as I would like :/
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By "this" I mean the spud setting this registry key disables.
And indeed black levels has dropped to proper black.
I do have some dirty screen artefacts in certain shades afterwards on my right panel.
But I always had those on my left, so now it's more even.
And better blacks. I'm leaving this disabled for a bit.
And. Yes.
The QA department for these screens not quite as a rigourous as I would like :/
Edit:
By "this" I mean the spud setting this registry key disables.
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I tested this and with SPUD disabled I have black smearing again (was gone a very long time). The black and grey levels are VERY nice nevertheless and everything looks sharper imho. But the texts in the station services to "flicker" and warp if I move my head. So I disabled the hack and turned SPUD on again.
My suggestion: give it a try and disable it if you don't like it.
My suggestion: give it a try and disable it if you don't like it.