Oculus Rift with DCS World Discussion

[Lange_666]

I was happy with V31 (on Rift S) but then i forgot to block the upgrade and when it upgraded to V32 i had again something... oh crap Oculus...(and no option to roll back) but V33 came quite quickly after that. Now everything is good again like V31 was. This time i blocked further upgrades. I'm gonna stick with V33 for as long as possible.

 

How to block forced Oculus updates: https://forums.oculusvr.com/t5/General/Please-Stop-Forced-Updates/m-p/619275/highlight/true#M305739

 

[Enduro14]

2 hours ago, Cowboy10uk said:

Same here.      Not used VR for a bit, as was struggling to stop stutters while over towns.   So gave up and decided to go 2D and physical controls. 
 

however after reading how much V33 improves things figured I would give it a go yesterday.   Wow smooth, clear and no stutters.  Very very impressed.      
 

so now I need to make a choice, 2D or VR and cancel the MFD order I still have outstanding. 
 

BUT whatever I decide, blooming impressed at the improvements that have been made here

I use my MFD’s no problem in vr, all muscle memory and nice to have.  Don’t need to see them to use them

[Hoirtel]

1 minute ago, Enduro14 said:

I use my MFD’s no problem in vr, all muscle memory and nice to have.  Don’t need to see them to use them

Same here. A little piece of tape on the middle buttons of each side helps me know where I am. 

[AlpineGTA]

Is Oculus VR down at the moment, along with Facebook etc?

[VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants]

Serious FB outage, and then Oculus app is not working......thank goodness we can still fly in VR

[dburne]

5 minutes ago, AlpineGTA said:

Is Oculus VR down at the moment, along with Facebook etc?

 

Yep.

 

[AlpineGTA]

So does that just affect accessing online content and your Oculus library of games, or will the software still run offline and allow you to still run DCS VR? I'm not home at the moment to try it, just curious whether it will work when I get home tonight if the services are still down. Another downside to the Oculus and the FB tie I suppose. Hopefully it happens very rarely.

19 minutes ago, VFGiPJP said:

Serious FB outage, and then Oculus app is not working......thank goodness we can still fly in VR

I didn't notice your post above me. So DCS VR still works? That's good.

[Lange_666]

Yes DCS VR still works, all "unknown sources" stuff works, software downloaded through the Oculus app doesn't work atm. 

[Enduro14]

quest 2 working perfectly fine in dcs via link right now...  oh and if the Facebook platform forever disappeared miraculously due to this I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Edited October 4, 2021 by Enduro14

[dburne]

13 minutes ago, Enduro14 said:

quest 2 working perfectly fine in dcs via link right now...  oh and if the Facebook platform forever disappeared miraculously due to this I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

 

 

That is fine however there undoubtedly are many Quest users that it probably does affect for their Oculus games.

[Oldahpilot]

On 10/3/2021 at 3:12 PM, Cowboy10uk said:

Same here.      Not used VR for a bit, as was struggling to stop stutters while over towns.   So gave up and decided to go 2D and physical controls. 
 

however after reading how much V33 improves things figured I would give it a go yesterday.   Wow smooth, clear and no stutters.  Very very impressed.      
 

so now I need to make a choice, 2D or VR and cancel the MFD order I still have outstanding. 
 

BUT whatever I decide, blooming impressed at the improvements that have been made here

In my opinion get those MFDS,  I use mine in VR........I modified mine with little rubber buttons (from an old remote control) glued to the middle OSB on each of the four sides. It becomes very easy to reach out towards the MFD in VR and run your finger across the buttons until it stops at the little bump, you then just move one or two buttons left or right, up or down to press the correct OSB. Works great in the A10c or the AV 8b. 

[harf4ng]

Hi,

For those using DCS world standalone, with virtual Desktop... do you use it with the steam API? Or the oculus API? And so, the reasons to choose one or the other?

And btw for the Oculus API we have to feed virtual desktop with the DCS exe isn't it? There is no other way I think.

Also is there a website somewhere to optimize the DCS configuration for VR and recent graphic cards such as the RTX 3080?

Thanks

[Hoirtel]

13 minutes ago, harf4ng said:

Hi,

For those using DCS world standalone, with virtual Desktop... do you use it with the steam API? Or the oculus API? And so, the reasons to choose one or the other?

And btw for the Oculus API we have to feed virtual desktop with the DCS exe isn't it? There is no other way I think.

Also is there a website somewhere to optimize the DCS configuration for VR and recent graphic cards such as the RTX 3080?

Thanks

have you tried airlink?

[harf4ng]

32 minutes ago, Hoirtel said:

have you tried airlink?

Yes. I used it months ago then it stopped working. Now when I launch airlink I have like 1 fps even on the link desktop. Like a slideshow. It is so slow it is even hard to close it  So I dropped it and went back on virtual desktop which always works fine.

[Hoirtel]

3 minutes ago, harf4ng said:

Yes. I used it months ago then it stopped working. Now when I launch airlink I have like 1 fps even on the link desktop. Like a slideshow. It is so slow it is even hard to close it  So I dropped it and went back on virtual desktop which always works fine.

Ah ok, I've not tried VD so not much help. Just if it helps airlink seems to do that if you have a bitrate set at anything other than 0 (default). Might not be your issue though.

[Steel Jaw]

What are the best refresh settings for O2?

Also, can someone please tell me why stupid steam VR tries to launch when I start DCSW in VR mode?

Edited December 1, 2021 by Steel Jaw

[Lange_666]

Because SteamVR thinks it's needed for everything VR wise which it is not.
Never found a solution to block SteamVR from poppin' up.
I was so annoyed by it that i uninstalled Steam totally. I didn't had any Steam provided game anyway but installed it because Steam has almost the monopoly on race games (besides Assetto Corsa which is a subscribtion payed game and Live For Speed) and i wanted to try some VR racing. I ended up with Live For Speed.
 

[Hoirtel]

5 hours ago, Steel Jaw said:

What are the best refresh settings for O2?

Also, can someone please tell me why stupid steam VR tries to launch when I start DCSW in VR mode?

 

I've found if you launch oculus first and the headset is switched on then steam VR doesn't open for me.

[Steel Jaw]

On 10/1/2021 at 9:33 PM, 5ephir0th said:

Is called Passthrough on Quest, there’s an option to double tap on the HMD side to enable, double tap again to disable

This no worky for me, and it is enabled in settings.

[Steel Jaw]

Does the oculus tray tool override settings in the oculus software, specifically the refresh rate?

[Lange_666]

Yes

[Hoirtel]

2 hours ago, Steel Jaw said:

Does the oculus tray tool override settings in the oculus software, specifically the refresh rate?

Oculus tray tool works the oculus debug tool for you. So yes it controls main oculus settings and saves them which the ODT doesn't.

[ppokit]

On 12/3/2021 at 12:36 PM, Steel Jaw said:

Does the oculus tray tool override settings in the oculus software, specifically the refresh rate?

No. Use the Oculus PC app for that.

OTT can control SS, FOV multiplier, ASW, adaptive GPU scaling, encoder resolution, sharpness, link bitrate.

 

If your CPU/GPU combo has the power, there are big improvements in image quality to be had by adjusting the refresh rate setting & encoder resolution:

Adjust Oculus PC app rendering resolution all the way to the right (i.e. native resolution. Don't worry about the 1.x number the app shows - this is just an Oculus thing  - its not super sampling)

If using 72Hz refresh rate, the max encoder resolution (directly proportional to displayed pixels) is 3648.
If using 80Hz refresh rate or higher, the max encoder resolution (directly proportional to displayed pixels) is 4064.
To get the higher encoder resolution use the OTT Quest Link tab and type in 4064 (it doesn't appear as one of the drop down choices).

WARNING: 4064 encoder resolution WILL NOT work with 72Hz refresh rate. Switch to the higher refresh rate first before increasing the encoder resolution.
If you wish to go back to 72Hz, ensure the encoder resolution is 3648 or lower before you switch the refresh rate to 72Hz. If you don't do this, it will appear as though your Oculus app is bricked if you revert to 72Hz before you reduce the encoder resolution. Very frustrating if you didn't know all you had to do was reduce the encoder resolution...(I've been there).
 

Adjust SS, ASW, bitrate, sharpness etc as required.

  

My R5 5600X, 6800XT, 32GB DDR4 system runs my Quest 2 very fluidly in single player, YMMV in multiplayer...

Edited December 5, 2021 by ppokit

[Steel Jaw]

The settings above brought my VR to its knees, dang near frozen in the sim.  I5/8600k with 32GB 3200 RAM, GTX2070.

[ppokit]

Ouch yep VR is hard on systems. Always trying to find the quality vs performance balance.