Captain Orso

I suppose I could try to capture some, but screenshots are static, and the discovery is dynamic. It's the transition, or lack of a transition from one state to another. It's a little like complaining to my landlord that I have no power in the apartment, and he say, how does that look, so I send him a completely black picture with the comment, this is how it looks. I never said anything about "forcing" anything. I explained how I constantly have to bring DCS to the foreground. No. It's not running. Even the services are set to delayed start, so they don't start until Meta Home is started. Windows 10 Pro 64bit. Although true, it is absolutely vague and useless. You could just a well claim ghosts or the CIA is meddling with my PC. It works perfectly with Oculus, but I've taken Oculus down. The HMD is packed up and put away. The software is still installed, but not event he services are started. So, I checked the services. One is 'manual' and the other 'delayed', which I was explained means, it doesn't starte unless nudged from the outside. like if Oculus Home is started, it checks if the service is running, and if not, it starts the service. I've now set both to 'disabled' and will restart my system to get a 'clean start' - no pun intended. I'll report in a minute or four. --- [Back after restart] Everything is as it was before. I tried taking some screenshots. You can screenshot the desktop, but not what is in VR, other than in DCS, you can use the DCS screenshot facility to make screenshots, but only when DCS is up and running and in foreground, so it completely defeats the situation. If you know of some app or a method for taking screenshots from within the HMD, I'd be glad to learn that and give it a try. Show me how you make screenshots from what you seen in VR. The ball is in your court.

Do tell. Please inform me, as to which steps are unnecessary. I know I don't. Sounds familiar I PP you see the status of the HMD. I never put it on until it says that the display is started, which is the last step in the start-up. You are not supposed to use the Windows Desktop icon to start DCS, because PP can otherwise PP might not recognize that DCS is running. I have the Launcher turned off. I starte DCS directly. But regardless of that, following your instructions, I start PP, get the HMD up and running. Put it one to confirm that it is functioning. Takt it off again, and double-click DCS on the desktop to start it up. I put the HMD on and wait... and wait and wait and wait... and then I wait some more. After about a minute, I press the front-left input button on the HMD because I'm bored and want to see if something happens. The screen flashes a little near the bottom, and is no longer absolute black, but has a tiny bit of typical QLED bleed through, but still no DCS. HMD off and check the disktop. DCS is definitely running, but the window is black, where usually at this point the menu is. HMD on again and I press the Pimax button, and bingo DCS is in the foreground, clear as day. So, still no change from what I described yesterday. Maybe for you, but not for me... <sigh> I agree. It just requires some competent programing. I'm still waiting on that, and probably will be for the next years, if my general experience over the last decade means anything.

I'm all ear I do this My headset is always connected. I only plug in the power adapter to the UPB/DP cable tree. Which one? Pimax says to start DCS through Pimax Play -> My Assets -> DCS, because PP otherwise might not notice that DCS was started, so I only start DCS like this. As stated, I do this per the above. I'm in VR from the moment PP is started, the HMD is booted and PP connects to it, and I put it on, I'm in VR. What you seem to mean, is that once DCS starts I "should" be in DCS in VR. As I clearly stated, this doesn't happen, because PP doesn't swap the foreground process from PP to DCS. You are just grasping at straws. The entry in My Assets is just a formatted set of lines in PP's config.json file pointing to the DCS.exe file we give it, if it isn't found on its own. You can delete and re-implement it a million times, and it's still just a link to the DCS.exe. I have that turned off through PIMAX -> Device settings -> Advanced -> [ ] Activate Chaperone {check removed} It has nothing to do with re-centering. It has to do with PP throwing other windows into the foreground, when DCS is supposed to be in the foreground exclusively.

After fighting with the Corsair for a while, I jumped into the Mustang in the same mission, starting in the same row of paring spots, facing the exact same direction. I started the Mustang and taxied out, smooth as butter, like I'm used to.

I don't start PP at PC startup. Why would I? I don't live in PP. I only need it when I want to use it and don't want it robbing my resources when I don't need it. When I want to use Pimax to fly DCS I start PP, I put the HMD on, start the right-hand controller through pressing the Pimax button on it. open the PP display in VR by pressing the Pimax button gain, select the My Assets menu, scroll down to DCS, and click Start. After a minute or so, I see a faded display of the DCS display that looks like DCS is running somewhere way back in the distance. It never pops into the foreground like it did in Oculus. I press the Pimax button again to bring DCS to the foreground. Now it looks just like it did in Oculus. Only now I can click where I want to with the mouse and nothing happens. Moving the mouse moves the pointer accordingly, but I can click nothing. So I open PP in VR again, clock on the desktop button to open the desktop and see that on the desktop PP is in the foreground in front of DCS. So I use the hand controller to lower the PP window on the desktop so that DCS is now in the foreground, press the Pimax button to switch back to DCS and I am in DCS and can now click the menu, and everything I should be able to click. I'm not doing anything but starting PP and DCS the way any sane person would. BTW Pimax themselves say to start DCS through the My Assets selection, otherwise PP might not recognize that it was started. With Oculus I started Oculus Home/Meta thingy to get the HMD to work. Then I started the VR desktop and started DCS over the VR desktop, just like I would when playing DCS without VR, and it always worked. I never had to do anything weird. Also, in Oculus, if was in DCS, the used the mini-controller Oculus button to swap from DCS to the VR Desktop, if I opened a window and left it open and then used the Oculus button to swap back to DCS, if I tried to use the mouse, I was blocked by whatever window I left open in the foreground. This seems to be a logic situation, the same as in native windows, clicking somewhere within the desktop area affected the window under the pointer at the time of clicking. The difference is that in VR there are windows that you only see on your desktop monitor and other that you can see only correctly in the HMD, but logically there is still always only one in the foreground. So the issue is that PP doesn't bring DCS to the foreground by itself, and when the use brings it to the foreground, PP throws itself into the foreground in front of DCS again. That all is just crappy programming and piss-poor quality control.

Normandy II, Brucheville. I was just playing around with it, and found that if instead of using the brakes on my rudder-pedals, if I used A, S, and W for right-, left-, and both brakes, I was able to use differential braking to maneuver around. I then tried with the rudder-pedals, and they now seemed to work. I turned on the controls display to see if something looked funny while using the pedals, but the brakes are not displayed like with other aircraft I think this time I also didn't use the pseudo-parking-break lever to set the parking bake before starting the engine, and just held the pedals down.

I feel PP is like walking a tight-rope in gusting winds. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. In Oculus, it didn't matter how you started DCS, when it wad up and running, it took center stage. Oculus Home, or Meta Garbage-Dump, or whatever they changed the name to, went into the back ground never to bee seen again, until you quite DCS or switched out with the Oculus button. At one point the Oculus button stopped working, but they eventually fixed that too, and I was a happy-camper... except of the Rift CV1 resolution and screen-door affect. With PP, half of the time I start DCS through PP and PP can't figure out how to bring it to the front, and it NEVER does it automatically, and most of the time, when it finally has brought DCS to the front it throws PP on the desktop in front off DCS so that when I try to click something with the mouse, nothing happens!! It's like the mouse buttons were dead. The pointer-dot moves normally, but button clicks don't go through. You have to switch to PP desktop view, and lower the PP app on the desktop so that DCS is in the front, where it belongs, swap back to DCS in VR and now I can click things. FFS these are simple rudimentary things that should have been caught on day two of development.

I meticulously undid everything I did through Tally Mouse's video and tried DCS. DCS started, but it was terrible. Then I followed just the list on the Pimax site derived from TM's video, and it runs well now. Pimax Play is still one of the klunkiest, must flawed SW I've had to deal with in years.

I've been away from DCS for a while, got a new Pimax Crystal Super and was thrilled to get back into the cockpit of the Corsair--only done a few takeoffs and landing until now, at that was right after the Corsair was released. Finally got the Pimax setup fairly well and was chomping at the bit to get back into the Corsair's cockpit, and all these... troubles with taxiing are still plaguing the Corsair. You can take all your tweaking of FMs and engine management and stuff them into a suitcase, if I can't taxi off a parking spot to go to the runway. Somebody's got to learn why priorities exist and what breaks the game and what doesn't. Sheesh - my Pops, who worked on Corsairs during the war in the Pacific would be shaking his head - I'll have to do it for him... smh

A slew of the paring spots cannot be used/addressed. In the ME you see the spot numbers on the ground, but if you try to assign air aircraft to them, the numbers are not in the pull-down list. You can also not drag an aircraft on to them.

No, I'm not intending to do that. I was just commenting on the quality of the SW.

Short update Yesterday I was trying to follow Tally Mouse guide to set things up which is a task in itself. Today I found this Pimax Crystal Super: DCS Ultimate Settings Guide which seems to be Tally Mouse's guide in written form. Anyway, after re-asserting that I want to use OpenXR and not SteamVR--how I would go back to SteamVR is not apparent, because there is no option to choose (typical Pimax, I guess)-- I got DCS to start through Pimax Play, and I could see that it was running, but it wouldn't swap the display over to DCS. I remember in Oculus at the very beginning, when my PC was rather weak-kneed, when DCS started, the HMD went black for a while, until DCS was up and running, so I was hopping this was a similar situation, but I waited a couple of minutes and then checked the MS Task Manager. DCS and the Pimax task were both on very high power consumption, but neither was very high in CPU or GPU usage, which is very weird to me. What was Pimax doing, sending my power back to China? I'm going to try to undo all the stuff I did yesterday, which for me is like petting a porcupine against the grain. We'll see what happens. None that I know of, but I have SteamVR because of Half-Life Alyx, so there's that...

Many thanks for the replies!! I think I was not clear in my description. The HMD displays. When I start Pimax Play and put the HMD on, I get a weird outer space planet displayed. I have to press the menu button on one of the controllers to get some rudimentary control bar, where I can then pick a "window" to look at. OMG so clunky. Under device => general, when I did the first setup it only said SteamVR. Now it had the option of OpenXR/PimaxVR so I selected that and tried to start DCS. NOW I GOT DCS in VR!! but OMFG it is so clunky wand wrong. It keeps flashing like it were changing from DCS to another window and back randomly. I thought Oculus was a task to get used to but this is literally 10x worse, and I'm not exaggerating. It's like I went to a cheap, off-brand gas station to buy SW from a rack and grabbed something from China, and..... ohhhhhhhh, this is bad. If I didn't know better, I'd say I'd been scammed. I mean literally, like one of those videos you see on YT where some schmuck ordered a super-cheap SSD and they sent him a cheap SSD box filled with sand and dirt, only this is NOT CHEAP I think I saw a video somewhere, where they guy mentioned something about the DCS menu flashing and a setting that might fix that *sigh* maybe it's good I haven't put my Oculus Rift CV1 away yet

I have one of the very first commercial copies of Oculus Rift CV1 and have been using it for nearly 10 years. I finally got up the courage and cash to go to something where I can read instruments without using full-zoom AND leaning into the instrument panel. Pimax Crystal Super All day long I've been trying to get it to play with DCS. No luck. DCS starts, but only in monitor mode, whether I start through Pimax Play, or disktop links with "J:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS.exe" -force_enable_VR -force_OpenXR or any combination. DCS starts, but only in monitor mode. My disappointment is immense. It must be a ME problem, because I can find no thread here with similar issues. Can anybody help me (I've already been through therapy, so let's let that aside for now).

YES!! Thank you. This worked like a charm.