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    DCS World
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    Sweden
  1. What he said after you, it is about immersion and field of view a monitor is shit compared to Vr in terms of how much the screen covers your vision and how immersed you will be, there is no replacement for VR, you sacrifice some visual fidelity for a whole bunch other better stuff. The biggest sacrifice is actually that you have to have a HMD on you, that fact is its biggest drawback i think, having a monitor is easy, you just sit down and play but with VR you have to strap this device on your face and it can get hot and somewhat uncomfortable after a few hours give or take. Absolutely worth it for flight sims tho :)
  2. The current cv1 oculus rift works fine (if you do not get black screens and freezes like i do sometimes for some reason) but it is minimal, it is acceptable to play with, if you can find somebody to sell a rift for you for like half price i will say it is worth it unless you can actually wait for the next version that hopefully has more pixels and bigger lens and slightly lighter frame. If you buy a new one now for full price, you may regret it when the next version comes out, i dunno when though, if there is a 1 year wait i would recommend oculus cv1 now, but if only like 3-8 months, it is debatable, it is pretty glorious to fly with vr tho and i cannot imagine flying a flight sim without it, seriously, there is nothing that compares.
  3. I am a newbie but milan's mfg crosswinds work great, smelled a bit strange out of the box but that disappears quickly. Fits well on the wheelstand pro as well, and i can adjust it in many ways and program it a bit. Could you ask for anything better? Keep in mind tho that if you are new to flight pedals that you will want to consider using or purchasing a chair that can stay still and firm on the floor without moving around.
  4. I have only tried #1 wheelstand pro but i think the center rod that holds up the hotas accidentally increases immersion because you can feel it sometimes and when you move your joystick you can feel a rod / cylinder between your legs like you should it makes me think i am actually holding the joystick that i see in the cockpit. For me #1 wheelstand pro feels great on top and the center cylinder, but i think i'll adjust the bottom a bit so the flight pedals are closer to me so they are a bit easier to reach (i am not the longest person) :P It also supports flight pedals, i dunno about 2, it looks truly basic even though it is more expensive, the #1 wheelstand pro can also be equipped with other plates to support other things and you can easily swap up the top plate if you want to use something else there, heck maybe even make it a dining table lol, the lower plate for the flight pedals will require a tool probably and is not as easy to swap out. So if you want to play racing games with racing pedals and flight sims with flight pedals i dunno what you should do, i would try to drive with the flight pedals, i think the toe brakes can be used as accel and brakes?
  5. Hi, i started playing DCS with VR for the first time yesterday and everything worked fine but today when i play i get blackscreens and the game freezes. Different from yesterday is that my xbox one wireless controller complained via oculus home app that it was running out of batteries, so i tried turning the controller off and restart the game again. But still, now that the xbox one wireless controller is shut down i still get random black screen / freeze in the middle of the game after like 5-15 minutes on the runway trying to lift off. What should i do? am i required to have a functioning xbox one wireless controller to not get these freezes/black screens? i did not need to launch oculus home app with admin settings yesterday. The only thing different is afterall that the controller went out of power and some keybindings, but i do not have enough usb slots to play and charge at the same time without pulling something else out:( The oculus home app seems still to work, but the oculus HMD is black but when i look at my computer screen i can see that the game is frozen (not black tho). Anyone experienced something similar? I am excited to play DCS again but i was newbie then (1-2 weeks play time) and i am newbie now (2-4h+ play time) and it feels awesome to play with mfg crosswind + wheelstand pro + x55 rhino throttle and stick + oculus rift cv1, i was actually amazed, it is truly amazing to fly :) I am open for gaming chair /gaming cockpit recommendations though. I have a random chair but i need a better one for flight sims / regular computer use (my current one moves around when i use flight pedals a bit and that is a big no-no) Edit: So i managed to plug something else out so i could charge my xbox one wireless controller and it worked without problems for a few hours! but when i landed and the ship started burning (of course) i went out to the menu and back to "fly again" i pressed that and oculus screen went black. Then to troubleshoot i closed down DCS world and check oculus app and i see a notification that it has trouble finding headset. i closed oculus app too and tried starting it again, worked on desktop but when i check my rift display i see nothing but black, i think i could hear the store but not see anything, so i rebooted computer and it made an awkward sound (rift headphones) on bootup i think, it was a bit scary because it got me thinking that it may be broken? But now when computer finally booted up i started the oculus app again and it works again. I dunno what it is but for some reason the oculus rift can fail to find the device sometimes, either the HMD or the sensor is having troubles with something i think, the trouble may not even be in DCS World, i have not had this problem with other games though it was a long time i go i tried playing VR with other games (finally getting back to VR now that my mfg crosswind flight pedal + wheelstand pro arrived and i finished setting it up). It may be a load problem, either too much data or too much power requirement? so when reloading the game it goes black, or when the oculus store complains or notifies me about something the computer cannot handle all the stress? It is weird because i never had this problem before, i should not suddenly need a better computer for oculus VR. I got a standard VR computer i think: I7 quad core cpu. Nvidia GTX 980. 16gb ram. Windows 8.1 x64 bit directX 11. motherboard to match (prebuilt computer). SSD hard drives and an extra hdd for passive storage.
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