So if I fire up Elite from Steam in VR Mode, it's just black on the monitor, the HMD says "Sorry, Elite is taking a while to load," but the sound is playing (through my normal headphones.) So I launch it in normal mode and try to switch the 3D setting to the headset, as someone suggested, but the option isn't there. I get the Oculus Home key from Frontier, reinstall the game on Oculus Home, get the same "Taking a while to load" message when launching from there. I deleted the Steam version too. Some people were saying the issue was caused from having both their monitor and headset plugged into the same card, but I'm running my monitor off VGA from the motherboard and my Rift from the HDMI in the GPU. Any help? I have an Intel 6600K and a GTX 1080 with 24 GB RAM
Rift CV1 simply not working... tried seemingly everything else on the internet, please help!
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when it says "taking a while to load" do you see the launcher if you take the headset off? Might need to enter account/password.
So it looks like it is trying to load. I get something similar whenever I start a game/program for the first time. I don't know if you might have something similar going on here. My issue comes about with my anti-virus (Kaspersky total security) detecting a game wants to receive data (audio/video) from the internet and do I want to allow it. If I miss the notification, it can look like the app has just stalled. Once I realised it was doing this, I am ready every time a new program starts. Probably nothing to do with your situation but might be worth a look anyway.
Best of luck with it anyway.
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Best of luck with it anyway.
o7
You need to plug the monitor to the GPU. Elite Dangerous requires a dedicated graphics card and there is no reason to split these video outputs. Even if this isn't the issue plugging the monitor into the motherboard will cause issues.
Make sure your Elite Dangerous graphics settings is pointing at your dedicated GPU.
Make sure your Elite Dangerous graphics settings is pointing at your dedicated GPU.
This. And while you're at it, I'd disable the onboard Intel video chipset. I don't care how many times Intel tries to tell us it shouldn't make any difference, any time I've encountered someone with graphics hiccups who has an onboard chipset AND a discrete graphics card, disabling the onboard chipset fixes it.
I have the 1080 also, and it's running a 34" ultrawide screen, a 28" 1920x1080 LED screen, AND the Oculus Rift, and have no issues.
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Thank you so much. Works fine now, just have to go back to the monitor to switch the audio now, but I'm sure that's a fix I can figure out. I have no idea why that causes the issue, but I dug around and found a DVI to HDMI cable so now I can run everything off the GPU. Again, thanks a bunch
Try using Sound Switch. It's a handy little program that I use all the time. It lets you assign a hot key combination that will toggle your Audio Device between any 2 or more outputs that you select. I set mine to Ctl+F12 so whenever I use that key combination it changes my output device between my speakers and my Rift.
It's a handy program for VR users that want a quick and easy way to change output devices.