Dear oculus rift cv1 users. Is it really worth it!

[MadMonty]

Gents,

 

before leaving for my business trip today, I managed to set up the new PC yesterday evening. So I will be ready to set up the Rift latest Saturday morning...

 

Working on a checklist, what to do with the new system (installing drivers etc.), I feel uncertain, if the HDMI cable of the RIFT fits to my Gigabyte GTX 1070 Gaming G1 HDMI connection. Since I am in the office, I cannot check if the HDMI sizes match.

 

What HDMI size does the Rift have? This is a pic of the backplate of my GTX1070:

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/product/3/5921/20160624191242_big.png

 

Please advice, if I need an adapter in order to get it before setting everything up.

 

Cheers,

 

Monty

 

PS: To wait for an ordered Rift is hard, having no time to set up an already received Rift is even harder :cry_2:

[simo1000rr]

Gents,

 

before leaving for my business trip today, I managed to set up the new PC yesterday evening. So I will be ready to set up the Rift latest Saturday morning...

 

Working on a checklist, what to do with the new system (installing drivers etc.), I feel uncertain, if the HDMI cable of the RIFT fits to my Gigabyte GTX 1070 Gaming G1 HDMI connection. Since I am in the office, I cannot check if the HDMI sizes match.

 

What HDMI size does the Rift have? This is a pic of the backplate of my GTX1070:

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/product/3/5921/20160624191242_big.png

 

Please advice, if I need an adapter in order to get it before setting everything up.

 

Cheers,

 

Monty

 

PS: To wait for an ordered Rift is hard, having no time to set up an already received Rift is even harder :cry_2:

 

 

Your Video card is ready to go you dont need any adapter or anything , just connect the HDMI cable to the Hdmi output in your Card.

 

as for your system buildup so i assume you doing it from scratch so first Install your windows if not installed.

 

Second update all your drivers , Windows 10 will tend to update the drivers for you but i go further . I install software called PC smart driver . it will search the internet for all the available drivers for you.

 

update your video card driver.

 

run windows update.

 

connect your Rift cables ( USB and HDMI) then install Oculus Runtime from Oculus website.

 

let it finish and then follow the step by step instructions.

 

after that install DCS and setup your controls and settings.

 

restart Your PC ( i dont know why but its better for your system so it can check for anything missing)

 

Play DCS . ( the sequence i do is to start Oculus runtime then start DCS.)

 

Enjoy

[MadMonty]

Hey Simo,

 

thanks for your rapid answer!!

 

Your sequence is identical to mine and now I am very happy not to having any additional adapters to organize.

 

Cheers,

 

Monty

[dburne]

Also a neat feature with the Rift is just putting on the headset activates the proximity sensor and starts the Oculus Home runtime as well.

Don't have to worry about forgetting to launch it prior to launching DCS.

[boedha68]

I just tested some with PD 2.0, pretty nice and clear (45 city, 90 outside) but ASW starts kicking in when you turn fast over the city, outside it should be just fine with that and 8xAA in the Mustang. Amazing performance for DCS, Kudos to the developers.

 

To anyone on the fence about vive or rift, rift hands down, there is no comparison. No motion sickness in VR but hell i get it outside now haha.

 

Turn fast over city ASW is kicking in??? :cry: i think i missed something here??? Can you explain?

[MadMonty]

Turn fast over city ASW is kicking in??? :cry: i think i missed something here??? Can you explain?

 

I believe he is talking about Asynchronous Spacewarp:

 

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/asynchronous-spacewarp/

[boedha68]

I believe he is talking about Asynchronous Spacewarp:

 

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/asynchronous-spacewarp/

 

I know. I know what ASW is. But kicks in when making a turn above a city??? That's new too me!!!!:music_whistling:

[Pipe]

Hey guys just got a dk2 for cheap.Wanted to test the waters before diving in head first lol

Not sure what driver version to use though?

thx for any input

[boedha68]

Hey guys just got a dk2 for cheap.Wanted to test the waters before diving in head first lol

Not sure what driver version to use though?

thx for any input

 

Don't hit me, but i thought to have read that you can use the normal setup for the rift. It seems to work with dk2.

 

www.oculus.com\setup

[Pipe]

No worries and thanks:)

 

Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk

[bart]

I believe he is talking about Asynchronous Spacewarp:

 

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/asynchronous-spacewarp/

 

Interesting......ASW doesn't work with Windows 7, never knew that. Would probably explain why I can't see any difference when I turn it on/off :music_whistling:

[trigen]

I know. I know what ASW is. But kicks in when making a turn above a city??? That's new too me!!!!:music_whistling:

 

My mistake i think . i mean it starts to ghost like crazy, thought that might be the ASW but guessing im wrong. the whole scene looks like it skips every second frame.

[MadMonty]

Okay gents, after returning from my trip yesterday I immediately startet to set everything up.

 

Everything did go very well, no problems at all to set up the Rift and to get it running in DCS.

 

So, my first impression of Rift in DCS is:

 

WHAT THE HELL!

HOLY TOLEDO!

IT CANNOT BE TRUE...

 

I have never ever experienced anything in gaming that even comes close to what I have seen last night.

 

Everyone knows 3D-effects from cinema. So my expectations have been something like DCS with TrackIR in 3D. But I was totally wrong! The immersion within the cockpit is so close to real life, you just want to grab every switch. If you lean to the side, you will pay atention not to hit the canopy because everything looks so real.

 

Being a private pilot (flying Cessnas, Mooneys etc. for more then 20 years), this experience comes very close to real flying.

 

So everyone who reads this and is thinking of ordering a Rift - just to it. You just cannot regret it. I had some fears about the resolution and yes, the MFD´s are sometimes tricky to read (I will have to work on that, but it is not so bad that you can´t use the MFDs, it´s ok), but the overall fun is just complete way better than 2D.

 

I had some training missions with the A10C and yes, targets are harder to spot e.g. at a gun run, but I think it comes closer to real life. On the other hand, once you are flying over the target area, you will see EVERY enemy so much clearer. I made a gun run and a single soldier survived. Doing a flyby I saw him running away - I couldn´t believe how easy I could spot this guy just because he now is not a 2D-pixel-unit anymore, but a 6 feet tall soldier standing on the ground. Wow!

 

Thank you SO MUCH guys for this thread! It really has helped people like me who haven´t been sure about spending the money for a Rift. It´s worth every cent.

 

More to follow up later after further testing.

 

Cheers,

 

Monty

 

PS: I couldn´t resist and have also ordered the earphones - great addon in terms of accoustic immersion!

[kuabi]

Okay gents, after returning from my trip yesterday I immediately startet to set everything up.

 

Everything did go very well, no problems at all to set up the Rift and to get it running in DCS.

 

So, my first impression of Rift in DCS is:

 

WHAT THE HELL!

HOLY TOLEDO!

IT CANNOT BE TRUE...

 

I have never ever experienced anything in gaming that even comes close to what I have seen last night.

 

Everyone knows 3D-effects from cinema. So my expectations have been something like DCS with TrackIR in 3D. But I was totally wrong! The immersion within the cockpit is so close to real life, you just want to grab every switch. If you lean to the side, you will pay atention not to hit the canopy because everything looks so real.

 

Being a private pilot (flying Cessnas, Mooneys etc. for more then 20 years), this experience comes very close to real flying.

 

So everyone who reads this and is thinking of ordering a Rift - just to it. You just cannot regret it. I had some fears about the resolution and yes, the MFD´s are sometimes tricky to read (I will have to work on that, but it is not so bad that you can´t use the MFDs, it´s ok), but the overall fun is just complete way better than 2D.

 

I had some training missions with the A10C and yes, targets are harder to spot e.g. at a gun run, but I think it comes closer to real life. On the other hand, once you are flying over the target area, you will see EVERY enemy so much clearer. I made a gun run and a single soldier survived. Doing a flyby I saw him running away - I couldn´t believe how easy I could spot this guy just because he now is not a 2D-pixel-unit anymore, but a 6 feet tall soldier standing on the ground. Wow!

 

Thank you SO MUCH guys for this thread! It really has helped people like me who haven´t been sure about spending the money for a Rift. It´s worth every cent.

 

More to follow up later after further testing.

 

Cheers,

 

Monty

 

PS: I couldn´t resist and have also ordered the earphones - great addon in terms of accoustic immersion!

 

+1

[dburne]

Thank you SO MUCH guys for this thread! It really has helped people like me who haven´t been sure about spending the money for a Rift. It´s worth every cent.

 

:thumbup:

 

Congrats!

It is amazing isn't it, I now have several hours in the Spit with the Rift, and I am still blown away with every flight.

[Mud]

I share your feelings, MadMonty.

 

Years ago I built a campaign for the A-10C, and once more or less done I moved on to BMS, and then later flying choppers and prop planes in DCS.

 

I got my rift last week, and I'm blown away. I flew one of the missions in my campaign to see if everything was working alright, and improve maybe this or that. Well, it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable flights I've ever done. Spoofing SAMs, dodging machine gun fire, ...

I've never had this much situational awareness. The 1:1 tracking alone is already such an improvement over TrackIR. And it doesn't behave erratically like TIR does.

 

I've installed Picksking's terrain and Mustang's cloud mods today and I can't wait for the kids to be in bed so I can have another go!

 

Apart from the negatives we all already know such as sharpness, the only two negatives I experience is that it does get a bit warm on your face, and I have to drink beer through a straw :D

 

Bottom line: awesome bit of kit!

 

Mud

[FragBum]

 

Apart from the negatives we all already know such as sharpness, the only two negatives I experience is that it does get a bit warm on your face, and I have to drink beer through a straw :D

 

Bottom line: awesome bit of kit!

 

Mud

 

:megalol: Note to self get a supply of straws, already have beer and waiting for Rift to be delivered. :thumbup:

[Cibit]

Hey Monty glad you like it :) Hope the build went well:thumbup:

[MadMonty]

Guys, finally I have ran into my first problem.

 

I used to play with Voiceattack before and it would be ideal to use it with the Rift.

 

Having set up everything right (I hope), my radio commands are recognized by VA, but nothing happens in the game.

 

To find the failure, I tried to open the comm menu (# at my default setting) and nothing happens. Since I haven´t tried to open the comm menu before with the Rift, I wonder why I can´t see it, even when not running VA. I ist not possible to see the comm menu with the Rift?

 

My settings are to easy radio communications.

 

Any advice?

 

Cheers,

 

Monty

[boedha68]

Alt-tab a few times and then go back to DCS. That worked for me for voicebot. Why?? I don't know, but it worked for me...

[MadMonty]

Alt-tab a few times and then go back to DCS. That worked for me for voicebot. Why?? I don't know, but it worked for me...

 

Did it help to run Voiceattack or to see the comm Menu in DCS?

 

Hitting Alt-Tab several times changes nothing for me. Like I said, I can´t see the comm menu in the cockpit after pressing "#". Any ideas?

[MadMonty]

I moved my problem to where it belongs...

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3023147#post3023147

[Torso]

Congrats MadMonty. Now you know how hard it is to relay to someone who has never tried it how just amazing it is. Glad you took the leap. The more the merrier. We have strength in numbers and helps ensure the next generation. Which we need. I am not sure what your gaming setup is like. But I have one more suggestion for you. Add another $175 USD or so(+2nd sound card too for $25)to your budget and pickup a Buttkicker Gamer2 or even a Jetseat from Andre' here and it will take it up even another notch. Very much worth it. And either of those are easy to employ additions if you just game from a traditional desk/chair setup.

 

Again, enjoy, the wonder doesn't fade. I was a day 1 guy for both devices. To me, this is the Field of Dreams in tech/gaming/simming. You know the movie..If you build it, they will come. Yeah, it's just like that.

[Cibit]

I just had a free flight around Nevada in SP. After an hour I landed on a roof, opened the pilots door and got out of my chair. That bit was cool standing at the edge of a tall building with my huey spooling down beside me. I then had the idea of putting it in autopilot and sitting on the sofa which put me in the cargo bay of the huey on the bench seats opened the doors and had a nice view of the scenery going by:)

[Cowboy10uk]

Well after almost a year of not using the rift, I had a mate stop by who wanted to try it.

 

When on earth did it get so good in DCS world, last time I used it, I was stuttering all over the place and couldn't read any dials or spot a damn thing. This time, dials are readable, the sim is smooth and I could even see the troops on the ground.

 

WOW what a difference, honestly night and day, while I'm still not convinced my DK2 has the Rez for Jets, I can't think of anything better for helo flying.

 

Now the big question, as I already have the dk2 and it's now certainly workable and very immersive, is it worth picking up a CV1? Is it that different to my current headset?

 

Cowboy10uk