Why does my Oculus client open when I launch ED (not using the Oculus in it)? Why are they bound togethor?

NeilF

NeilF
Why does my Oculus client open when I launch ED (not using the Oculus in it)? Why are they bound togethor?

So when I launch ED, the game opens! Great! But my Oculus client opens too! If I close the Oculus Client, ED closes too!

Not using the Oculus, just the monitor for ED!

What's bound the two together?
 

MrWhippy

M
Just stop the Oculus service when not using it, best way is with the Oculus tray tool as it does a load of other useful things.

Believe Elite causes it to launch because it contains uses some the the Oculus API's/DLLs or whatever, it does the same with Steam VR, annoyingly I haven't found an easy way to stop that one.
 

NeilF

NeilF
MrWhippy said:
Just stop the Oculus service when not using it, best way is with the Oculus tray tool as it does a load of other useful things.

Believe Elite causes it to launch because it contains uses some the the Oculus API's/DLLs or whatever, it does the same with Steam VR, annoyingly I haven't found an easy way to stop that one.
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Pain in the butt! So ED is defined as not to use the Oculus... Yet it fires it up? And worse still is bound to it so if you close the Oculus software is dies!
 

MrWhippy

M
Non-issue if you simply stop the Oculus Service when not using it, as I said before.

The cause is probably more to do with Oculus rather than Elite, definitely the case about closing Oculus closing the game, that will totally be down to Oculus.
 

jojon

J
At some point, a few months back, an update made the Oculus watcher extremely servile. Since then, it will launch Oculus Home at the merest tentative API check.

I don't even have my Rift connected to the computer, and it still happens, whenever I start anything that has utilising the Oculus runtime as an option, unless I have remembered to stop OVRService first. :7
 

Mot

M
Open the file location of Oculus, right click on the app and click properties, find and select "run as administrator". It will only open when you double click on it now. :D
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Quick tip I picked up recently which prevents ED from auto-starting SteamVR when you've stopped the Oculus service (and probably even prevents Oculus from starting up if you leave the service running) ... copy your normal ED shortcut to create a new non-VR shorcut and then change it's properties by adding "/novr" to the end of the command string.
 

fitzsteve

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This is the Oculus software, it does the same for other games like Ark, very annoying as it should only kick in when you have the software setup to actually use the rift and on top of that it even does it when the rift is unplugged! I looked everywhere in the settings for an option to switch that off but the only way as mentioned earlier in the thread is to stop the Oculus service.
 

NeilF

NeilF
Mot said:
Open the file location of Oculus, right click on the app and click properties, find and select "run as administrator". It will only open when you double click on it now. :D
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That seems to work? Wow!

Why does that do anything?! Does it stop it from automatically running when it should?
 
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Mot said:
Open the file location of Oculus, right click on the app and click properties, find and select "run as administrator". It will only open when you double click on it now. :D
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Nice tip ... definitely gonna try that.

One other good reason to stop the OVRService tho ... the Oculus proximity sensor can wake up Oculus Home and power the HMD screens. Depending on how you store your headset this might happen a lot. Stopping the service prevents this.
 

Mot

M
Doesn't do anything else to my knowledge/experience. Works a treat. Also learnt from doing that, you dont need home running to boot games in VR, just the service.
 

NeilF

NeilF
Mot said:
Doesn't do anything else to my knowledge/experience. Works a treat. Also learnt from doing that, you dont need home running to boot games in VR, just the service.
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Ten points to you!

If you can tell me how to make Robo Recall always open focused, rather than me having to alt-tab it's window that would get you another 27 points!
 

NeilF

NeilF
Mot said:
Doesn't do anything else to my knowledge/experience. Works a treat. Also learnt from doing that, you dont need home running to boot games in VR, just the service.
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Found main downside of doing this.

Putting the headset on no longer automatically goes into Oculus.
 

NeilF

NeilF
NeilF said:
Found main downside of doing this.

Putting the headset on no longer automatically goes into Oculus.
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...and second issue. When you click on Oculus to run, you have to give it permission to. Without the administrator frig, you don't.
 
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