Oculus Rift with DCS World Discussion

[GurbY]

How can I, using TARGET editor, map Left Mouse Button to a button TM Wart Hog?

Been pulling what hair got left out.

Goto settings, controls, and in the left pulldown menu where you can choose an aircraft, go down to UI layer. You can set mouse, vr zoom, etc...

[SGT Coyle]

Goto settings, controls, and in the left pulldown menu where you can choose an aircraft, go down to UI layer. You can set mouse, vr zoom, etc...

 

Thanks,

I'm not looking to set "VR Zoom", I'm looking to set the Left mouse button to my slew button on WH, for flipping switches. Same for Right mouse button...

 

Basically, emulate mouse buttons with WH buttons. In lue of that I'm just going to make my own mouse.

Edited February 3, 2018 by SGT Coyle

[Flamin_Squirrel]

Thanks,

I'm not looking to set "VR Zoom", I'm looking to set the Left mouse button to my slew button on WH, for flipping switches. Same for Right mouse button...

 

That's exactly what GurbY told you how to do.

[SGT Coyle]

That's exactly what GurbY told you how to do.

 

I had tried that before when suggested and couldn't set any of the UI layered settings. Must have had "Hand Controllers" set on, and "Mouse" off.

But I see they're settable now.

 

Thanks,

 

Sorry GurbY,

 

Sometimes this thing can drive you nuts.

[Delta99]

Alright so i've returned to this thread after trying everything, DCS works fine without my oculus plugged in. ive checked all the buttons in the vr tab but whenever the oculus is plugged in the resolution changes on my desktop and i am stuck listening to the menu music through my rift while staring at a black loading sign image. This is quite a frustrating problem.

 

If you don't normally, try starting the Oculus software before starting DCS. As another post suggested returning to the older Oculus software, I'm running the latest without problems. I do find that some games require the Oculus software running first though whereas in the past that was never required. I would just fire up any game and Oculus client would start up then the game would start up.

[BlacleyCole]

I’m using dcs in VR without oculus no problems. I have had to go into the sound configuration menu of windows to verify and or set my oculus device as sound out and in for everything to work correctly.

[The Integrator]

Hey,

 

I'm thinking about getting an Oculus, primarily for DCS. I have heard very positive things about it but have read a few concerning things about the difficulty of spotting targets. Generally these were from a year or so ago, has this improved and how is it in 2.5? Also I've heard that the relatively low resolution of VR means that reading cockpit instruments can be difficult. Is the scale of this problem exaggerated and how far can things like variable pixel density address this?

 

Thanks

[dax]

Hey,

 

I'm thinking about getting an Oculus, primarily for DCS. I have heard very positive things about it but have read a few concerning things about the difficulty of spotting targets. Generally these were from a year or so ago, has this improved and how is it in 2.5? Also I've heard that the relatively low resolution of VR means that reading cockpit instruments can be difficult. Is the scale of this problem exaggerated and how far can things like variable pixel density address this?

 

Thanks

All this is still true.

Spotting target is possible, but for sure more difficult than on a screen.

And yes, most instruments are difficult to read.

This can indeed be improved by increasing pixel density, but there is no miracle and it's still difficult. Also, you should have a very high end computer.

 

So, VR in DCS is very far from perfect. But for sure the immersion is just amazing.

[hannibal]

i dont want to wait another 10 years for perfect VR.

 

i am enjoy the rift implementation as it right now.

 

but i hope in 3 years time we will see a slightly upgrade gen 2 hmd's

[dburne]

i dont want to wait another 10 years for perfect VR.

 

i am enjoy the rift implementation as it right now.

 

but i hope in 3 years time we will see a slightly upgrade gen 2 hmd's

 

My guess is we will probably see a CV2 from Oculus sometime in 2019.

[hansangb]

Pimax 2018 carries me over to CV2 in 2019. Life is good! :)

 

I mean who could have imagined 5 years ago. Never mind back in MicroProse/Falcon3 years.

[sirrah]

Did anyone here own, or has any experience with, a GTX1070 and a GTX1080, especially in combination with DCS and the Oculus Rift?

 

I am currently filling the little spare time I have, doing research (and dreaming) about what system to buy as soon as I my home situation (very young daughter :helpsmilie:) allows it.

 

So I was wondering if the difference between a GTX1070 or GTX1080 (not the ti version) would be noticeable at all. On this website they compared both cards for the games Adr1ft and Project Cars . Where "gem" stands for average fps and "min" for minimum fps (never mind the the rest of the Dutch language).

 

Performance wise, the difference between both cards seem extremely low, or at least not worth the extra bucks. Or am I missing something essential here?

 

Anyone have any experience with both these cards in DCS?

Edited March 9, 2018 by sirrah

[Leader98]

Did anyone here own, or has any experience with, a GTX1070 and a GTX1080, especially in combination with DCS and the Oculus Rift?

 

I am currently filling the little spare time I have, doing research (and dreaming) about what system to buy as soon as I my home situation (very young daughter :helpsmilie:) allows it.

 

So I was wondering if the difference between a GTX1070 or GTX1080 (not the ti version) would be noticeable at all. On this website they compared both cards for the games Adr1ft and Project Cars . Where "gem" stands for average fps and "min" for minimum fps (never mind the the rest of the Dutch language).

 

Performance wise, the difference between both cards seem extremely low, or at least not worth the extra bucks. Or am I missing something essential here?

 

Anyone have any experience with both these cards in DCS?

 

I am using a GTX1070 (with an Intel I5-4690K (4.5Ghz) - 16GB) in combination with an Oculus Rift CV1 set and I am getting decent framerates if I use the correct settings (lots of info on what the correct settings are on this forum and you will have to do lots of testing as your setup is unique).

 

I still have no clue whether my CPU or my GPU is the bottleneck in my system but the flight experience is still very good.

[amessh]

I also have a CV1, I was getting alot of "freezes" with my current system, AMD 8 Core, 16GB & GTX -1080 so I decided to an upgrade to an Intel I7-6700K (works with DDR3) CPU, DDR3 1866 32GB RAM, SSD, I also bit the bullet and bought the EVGA NVIDIA GTX 1080 TI SC 11GB, but got it before Bit Coin drove up the price by 30%. I no longer have "freezes" of any kind, very smooth performance, Pixel Density 1.5 up to 2.0, still very smooth. cockpit displays are very sharp for me, the older aircraft models, like F-15C, are not as good as the newer one's, A-10C & F-86F, P-51D.

 

I tested my frame rate, I am getting a constant 45fps, if I pitch up to clear sky it jumps to 90 which suggests that the ASW is on, I ran the Oculus Debug Tool which show's the ASW as disabled, which is strange because I am not getting any frame rates between 45 & 90 fps, If it is capable of 90fps it jumps directly to 90fps otherwise it is always 45fps which is by definition what ASW enabled does. I would really like to test various settings in DCS and impact on frame rate.

[Madman777]

I also have a CV1, I was getting alot of "freezes" with my current system, AMD 8 Core, 16GB & GTX -1080 so I decided to an upgrade to an Intel I7-6700K (works with DDR3) CPU, DDR3 1866 32GB RAM, SSD, I also bit the bullet and bought the EVGA NVIDIA GTX 1080 TI SC 11GB, but got it before Bit Coin drove up the price by 30%. I no longer have "freezes" of any kind, very smooth performance, Pixel Density 1.5 up to 2.0, still very smooth. cockpit displays are very sharp for me, the older aircraft models, like F-15C, are not as good as the newer one's, A-10C & F-86F, P-51D.

 

I tested my frame rate, I am getting a constant 45fps, if I pitch up to clear sky it jumps to 90 which suggests that the ASW is on, I ran the Oculus Debug Tool which show's the ASW as disabled, which is strange because I am not getting any frame rates between 45 & 90 fps, If it is capable of 90fps it jumps directly to 90fps otherwise it is always 45fps which is by definition what ASW enabled does. I would really like to test various settings in DCS and impact on frame rate.

 

 

 

I had the same issue with it being locked at 45fps. What you need to do is setup a profile or edit the profile automatically created by Oculus Tray Tool, and turn it off in the profile. Not in the global settings.

 

 

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[amessh]

Madmann,

 

thanks for the info, I assume I have a profile since Oculus forces you to create a login, so to get to the profile I just need to run the Oculus Tray Tool.

[Madman777]

Madmann,

 

thanks for the info, I assume I have a profile since Oculus forces you to create a login, so to get to the profile I just need to run the Oculus Tray Tool.

 

Correct. Then you just need to edit the profile to turn off ASW. Sooooo much better and smoother without it.

[BigDuke6ixx]

Correct. Then you just need to edit the profile to turn off ASW. Sooooo much better and smoother without it.

 

ASW actually does a great job of smoothing the experience. If you leave it on auto it will only come on when needed.

[amessh]

Thanks guys! I will test it in both OFF and AUTO setting to see what difference it makes on my system.

[amessh]

So, I downloaded & installed the Oculus Tray Tool. played with the ASW settings but did not seem to make much difference in my case. In Auto or Off, I mostly saw 45fps unless I looked up into blue sky then it would vary from 45 fps to 90 fps, in external view it jumped up to 90 fps and rarely falling back to 45 fps, based upon my testing the cockpit display has a huge impact on the frame rate. I need to play with other option settings, or just start low and tweak upward until the frame rate starts to break. Even at 45 fps everything appears fairly smooth.

 

My other wish would be able to run the Oculus Rift CV1 without having to run the Oculus Home App. In the interim I have set it to run as Admin which means I can close it after I acknowledge the warning statement.

 

As a point of comparison, I have been working in the Modeling & Simulation world for 40 years, I have developed and flown many military sims over the years, worked with one of the first HMD's for simulators back in the 90's, DCS is an amazing virtual environment, the cockpits and aircraft flight dynamics are very realistic, as the environment grows and becomes more complex so does the requirement for higher performance hardware.

[spiritXkeeper]

VR HUD visual glitch

 

Afternoon all,

 

I have been getting this weird visual glitch when restarting missions. It seems like the game still wants to render the previous cockpit outline which then masks text on screen. Fortunately it does not mask current pit but if i were to look at the briefing screen or map, the part that would have been the old cockpit completely covers that screen. Will attach photo to show what I mean. If you had this issue and know how to solve, please let me know!

 

Thanks!

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[BlacleyCole]

Question before the Persian Gulf Map was released I ran dcs and my rift worked perfectly with out any oculus software active. But since I’ve had to start the oculus software before the rift activates and I see the dcs screen. Are others able to run dcs without any oculus software running?

[dburne]

Question before the Persian Gulf Map was released I ran dcs and my rift worked perfectly with out any oculus software active. But since I’ve had to start the oculus software before the rift activates and I see the dcs screen. Are others able to run dcs without any oculus software running?

 

Oculus changed that in one of their latest software updates.

AFAIK no. Someone may have come up with a work around but have not seen it myself yet.

[funkyfranky]

Oculus changed that in one of their latest software updates.

Oh bugger, I miss that feature. I liked opening DCS without the Oculus home nonsense, which I do not need :(

[gianlu320]

I’m away from my computer and I will be till the 19th of July

I’m on beta test channel so I have oculus ver 1.27 installed but I have oculus home 2.0 turned off

I have my oculus software set to run as administrator and the software doesn’t open when I launch DCS world

The last time I tried was 3 days ago and it was working perfectly