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Ham Yoyo

Ham Yoyo
Rift S, Desktop i7, 16GB RAM, SSD, GTX 1080. 66mm IPD
5 days in and managed a proper long session taking my Viper and then FDL into a RES for some combat.
Wow. What a difference. It's not my 4K screen, but the seamless/natural head look and intuitive feel for direction of travel (mine and opponents) is stunning. That huge sunroof on the FDL really comes into its own :)
Played about 4 hours (couple of short breaks) with the Rift S and that's probably about an upper limit for me I think, comfort and eyestrain wise.
Still the occasional USB issue, so I'm ordering a powered USB3 hub which hopefully sorts that out.
Very occasional hourglass/stutter around station
Still to try this on a planetary surface. But from the experience so far, I can wholeheartedly recommend this headset for Elite.

UPDATE - planetary surface turned out to be totally puke-inducing. First such experience in VR, for me. So back to 2D for that at least.
 
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lreese

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Ham Yoyo said:
UPDATE - planetary surface turned out to be totally puke-inducing. First such experience in VR, for me. So back to 2D for that at least.
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Do little by little and you may slowly get used to it. There's also a setting somewhere that stabilizes the horizon (i think?) that may ease the motion sickness. Also, don't drive like a maniac. Doing that will surely make it worse, as it would in real life.
 

Nighteyes

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Recently I got more used to how the Oculus Tray Tool works. What's been a revelation for me is the settings for Supersampling, and monitoring of ASW. I first noticed how much of a difference Oculus' own SS setting can make when playing Lone Echo. I upped the setting to 1.5, and it's stunning.

I put Elite back on today, first time since the September update (engineering is proper shafted I see). As an experiment, I set the HMD quality to 1.0 in the Dr Kali's ED Profiler, and set the Oculus supersampling to 1.5. It looked great, but even moreso it felt great.

So I went back to my original settings. HMD 1.75, and Oculus SS on 1.0. Parked inside a hangar at Felicity Farseer, I could see ASW was constantly engaged. WHAT??

Yep. I do believe I'd been playing previously with ASW almost always on, due to my settings. I think this may explain why I was getting eye strain playing Elite, while other games weren't giving me a problem.

After putting the settings back to HMD 1.0, and Oculus SS at 1.5, it felt good again. However, I did go to Dav's Hope, and sure enough ASW kicked in when pootling around there. It also kicks in a smidgen here and there when docking. But otherwise, it's mostly off. I have not tested it in planetary rings yet. What's surprising is text is still just as legible as before.

Thing is, I tried testing my old settings with Oculus super sampling at zero. Still constantly in ASW with HMD quality at 1.75.
 

Rampant

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Nighteyes said:
Recently I got more used to how the Oculus Tray Tool works. What's been a revelation for me is the settings for Supersampling, and monitoring of ASW. I first noticed how much of a difference Oculus' own SS setting can make when playing Lone Echo. I upped the setting to 1.5, and it's stunning.

I put Elite back on today, first time since the September update (engineering is proper shafted I see). As an experiment, I set the HMD quality to 1.0 in the Dr Kali's ED Profiler, and set the Oculus supersampling to 1.5. It looked great, but even moreso it felt great.

So I went back to my original settings. HMD 1.75, and Oculus SS on 1.0. Parked inside a hangar at Felicity Farseer, I could see ASW was constantly engaged. WHAT??

Yep. I do believe I'd been playing previously with ASW almost always on, due to my settings. I think this may explain why I was getting eye strain playing Elite, while other games weren't giving me a problem.

After putting the settings back to HMD 1.0, and Oculus SS at 1.5, it felt good again. However, I did go to Dav's Hope, and sure enough ASW kicked in when pootling around there. It also kicks in a smidgen here and there when docking. But otherwise, it's mostly off. I have not tested it in planetary rings yet. What's surprising is text is still just as legible as before.

Thing is, I tried testing my old settings with Oculus super sampling at zero. Still constantly in ASW with HMD quality at 1.75.
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What is this Oculus Tray Tool of which you speak and where do I find it?
 
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