PIMAX CRYSTAL STANDALONE MODE QUESTION

[=GR= Coyote]

Hi team,

I got a cystal and I am amazed by the fov quad performance and withe the quality of the HMD, a very good upgrade coming from a HTC VIVE PRO2.

My question is this :

I am running the game in standalone (not from Steam), when the game runs Pimax is closing SteamVR and thus I dont have the fucnionality to view my desktop as need for other tasks (From the Steam dashboard.) and have to remove the HMD from my face and see the desktop which is not very practical and annoying.
 

Anyone else has the issue and what might be the solution to my issue ?

 

Thank you.

fly safe !
 

[speed-of-heat]

Why do you need to see your desktop in game?

[Hotdognz]

About to ask the same, why would you be wanting to see your desktop.

25 minutes ago, speed-of-heat said:

Why do you need to see your desktop in game?

 

[=GR= Coyote]

I have also tried ExpirienceHome that has a dekstop funcion. Same effect it shutdown to open the DCS

For seeing discord, this is the way etc

 

[mbucchia]

40 minutes ago, =GR= Coyote said:

I am running the game in standalone (not from Steam), when the game runs Pimax is closing SteamVR

Beware about the term "standalone" which in the industry mostly refers to "app running on the headset (as opposed to PC)".

If you are using Quad-Views-Foveated, then I assume you are using PimaxXR - which is an OpenXR implementation that "ditches SteamVR".

If you want to keep using SteamVR, you may simply not use PimaxXR (toggle back to SteamVR in the PimaxXR Control Center app).

However if you do that, you will need to install an additional program in order to do eye tracking with SteamVR (because SteamVR does not support eye tracking): Home · mbucchia/OpenXR-Eye-Trackers Wiki (github.com)

 

So for short, if you want to keep using SteamVR AND also benefit from Quad-Views-Foveated, you need to:

1) Disable PimaxXR and toggle back to SteamVR

2) Have Quad-Views-Foveated installed

3) Have OpenXR-Eye-Trackers installed

 

[=GR= Coyote]

I need to prefer the performance in pimaxvr and openxr. In SteamVR is so bad the performance...

[mbucchia]

Then you will need to live without your desktop in VR... There is currently no alternative outside of SteamVR.

[=GR= Coyote]

ok thanks, got it !