Actually no, these are both settings within Elite: Dangerous somewhere. I use drkaii's EDProfiler to get at these which makes them a lot easier to find.
Some graphics settings questions for new VR guy
Nope, you're still just ranting from no experience
Ok, now you are either just trolling (winking smiley or no), or proving that you really do have nothing better to offer than a witch's recipe of toad's bladders and eyes of newt. If reasoning is "ranting", then I'll happily rant for the rest of my life.
Still haven't calmed down then? Pretty emotive still
Hang on, I put some info up based on my own experience to help others and you slate it with no experience to back it up. That's text book trolling mate, and then you're openly malicious - you need to re-think this.
@Old Duck - Frontier will give you a 'key' for Oculus free - which allows you to launch it without the steamVR overlay. DR Kaii I also recommend as very useful.
Shadows and AA use an unfair proportion of GPU power and very good results can be had with mild SS and those settings reduced.
I'd think the 2070 chipset has a reasonable enough grunt to not need to drop much (if any) 'quality' to play. (My 1070 laptop is ok with ED on mostly Ultra settings but no SS)
Recent improvements in the Oculus runtimes mean you are 'joining' with the software about as good as it gets (until the next round of optimising)
I recommend once Oculus software has installed to go to 'Settings', 'Beta' and turn on Public Test Channel (beta) as the current, V12, appears very stable.
ASW (Oculus) will 'smooth' out most of the lags, but expect it in stations, they are incredibly detailed in the activity going on...
Enjoy the rift S - there is little to compare to PSVR, really
Shadows and AA use an unfair proportion of GPU power and very good results can be had with mild SS and those settings reduced.
I'd think the 2070 chipset has a reasonable enough grunt to not need to drop much (if any) 'quality' to play. (My 1070 laptop is ok with ED on mostly Ultra settings but no SS)
Recent improvements in the Oculus runtimes mean you are 'joining' with the software about as good as it gets (until the next round of optimising)
I recommend once Oculus software has installed to go to 'Settings', 'Beta' and turn on Public Test Channel (beta) as the current, V12, appears very stable.
ASW (Oculus) will 'smooth' out most of the lags, but expect it in stations, they are incredibly detailed in the activity going on...
Enjoy the rift S - there is little to compare to PSVR, really
Actually... voodoo coming up...
If you start the game in VR, its always possible to switch to pancake mode by going into Settings/Graphics and editing the 3D setting. HMD (headphones) and HMD (Speakers) are VR, whilst you can set this to OFF to go back to pancake. Ignore the other settings, they don't seem to work with either my monitor or VR setup. If you didn't start the game in VR, the HMD options don't appear, even if you start up your VR system before going into Setup. You need to have VR working before you run the game.
You will need to adjust the graphics settings to your preferred values every time you change from one to the other however, which can be a bit of a pain.
EDIT I've only done this using Steam VR and a Vive, so I can't promise it works with Oculus
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Thanks mate, I'm going to use that as I can't for the life of me find them in the ED system menu.
Would I need this game if I download DCS and used the free stuff?
UPDATE - after more research, I went ahead and pulled the trigger on IL-2, downloading now. The price is right, and I'm thinking IL-2 will work better on my modest hardware than DCS (though someday I'll try the latter since it's free).
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It's two layers of filtering and will smooth out jaggies more for a given internal render resolution than just one.
I do the same thing outside of VR with in game super sampling (at 0.9 in my case, set manually in the custom.fxcfg file) while running 2.25x DSR to scale it to 4k on a 1440p display.
These are post processing AA filters. SMAA isn't bad and has a fairly low performance hit, so that's what I usually use.
DCS Word is free. You get an unarmed Mustang and a Su-25 Frogfoot mud mover. There are regular sales on DCS but it can be very demanding of your hardware and also a bit expensive for the software if you buy lots of modules and maps.
Great that Dr.Kaii's tool sorted you out!
...but there are a few more places in the game that have nested menus, so:
If you haven't got a key bound for exanding and collapsing menu trees yet, and do not want to use the mouse pointer on the little plus signs that indicate them, the function you need to assign a key/button to is: "settings/controls/miscellaneous/interface mode/UI nested toggle"
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I’ll give that a go, my issue is that I don’t see a pointer in VR to extend/collapse them.
Many thanks
Ok, worked out that you can still use the mouse pointer when in vr (fs)I’ll give that a go, my issue is that I don’t see a pointer in VR to extend/collapse them.
Many thanks
Sorry all good now
IL2 Runs far better for me in VR compared to DCS so your assumption is certainly correct for me, it's also awesome in VR but it's worth using opencomposite instead of steamVR.
I found in my Rift that I didn't have to restart the game, I could go into graphics settings and turn 3D on and off, click apply, and be in my selected mode without restarting the game.
But:
there's a drop-down menu for your preferred VR mode - when going back to VR make sure you select the right option;
unless you want to be stuck in the window that VR echoes to the screen when you go into flatscreen mode, you have to manually set your resolution and window type every time you enter flatscreen mode - it's a real pain.
I'd love a bindable toggle between my preferred VR mode and my preferred flatscreen mode, but there ain't one.
So back to my noob questions. If I run Steam, do I need to still download and install Oculus software for my Rift S to work? I'm assuming the answer is yes. Can I do that now while I wait for my headset, or do I need to plug in the headset BEFORE I install the software? I'm assuming I can at least download the software, right? Anyone have a handy link? Again, this is assuming that Steam doesn't automatically do all this for me.
@ Old Duck
Yes. You need Oculus software.
In my experience I find the game runs better running straight from the Frontier launcher or the Oculus Home launcher. Steam seems to knock a few FPSs from me. If you buy from Steam Frontier is happy to provide keys for whatever platform.
Good luck weathering the storm :/
Yes. You need Oculus software.
In my experience I find the game runs better running straight from the Frontier launcher or the Oculus Home launcher. Steam seems to knock a few FPSs from me. If you buy from Steam Frontier is happy to provide keys for whatever platform.
Good luck weathering the storm :/