Hempstead Posted October 29, 2023 Posted October 29, 2023 Urgh... I bought an Ultraleap 2 for an experiment for an idea.... installed the tracking software... ran it... it seems to track my finger tips quite accurately (that's what I need, because Oculus Quest Pro's hand tracking is very inaccurate in the Z direction; try hold out both of your arms flat out, and try to touch your two index fingers together in VR, not passthrough, it's about 2 cm off in the Z direction). BUT... going into ED now gets me no Oculus controllers! In the [Settings] --> [VR] tab, it showed a blank page, and took forever to finally filled it up with options... and to my surprise... VR controller is disabled, and the only other option is Ultraleap! Going to the [Special] --> [UltraLeap] options, and it tells me to "Disable the VR controller in the VR tab...." I didn't want Ultraleap... I just wanted to test it... not getting hijacked by Ultraleap! My quest controller works great for now.... Found no way to disable it... after an hour of googling... so I uninstalled Ultraleap software... and now DCS crashes. Now I am uninstalling/installing DCS...
Hempstead Posted October 29, 2023 Author Posted October 29, 2023 Reinstall DCS worked. That means, Ultraleap modified my DCS settings and/or installation without notifying me, nor my permission, not in the OS, nor OpenXR layer. Originally, I had DCS release installation, i.e. DCS World, then converted to OpenBeta, so my directories had the names "DCS World" instead of "DCS World Openbeta." Now, I directly downloaded and installed OpenBeta. And I also renamed the old DCS World installation directory to "DCS World.old" so it doesn't get overwritten, and got some Ultraleap modified leftover stuff. This way, I can be sure both the installation and Saved Game Data are new without any leftover. Also the old files in the Save Game Data are preserved (so I can copy my input configurations back; my git repo for this dir was a bit old as I am still testing 2.9 settings and the new TM Viper TQS + Warthog throttle combo). But this also means that Ultraleap's uninstaller did not cleanup after itself regarding its "unauthorized" modification of DCS. There is one other possibility... DCS detected Ultraleap and modified itself or my settings to get that... and when Ultraleap was uninstalled... it breaks. I don't know which. I am sure there is an easier way than to uninstall and reinstall/download the 400+GB of modules... but I can't find it with google. What else did Ultraleap break? MSFS 2020? I don't know.
MAXsenna Posted October 29, 2023 Posted October 29, 2023 @HempsteadRenaming of the Saved Games folders ensures you get a clean fresh folder on the next run, as a new folder will be created. Instead of re-installations, do a full/slow repair. I find Skatezilla's GUI Updater/Launcher invaluable and easier for that process.You can have as many DCS installations as you want. And to control which Saved Games folder a certain installation uses, you need a dcs_variant.txt in the root.Example. When you install OpenBeta, it creates the dcs_variant.txt in the core root. The only text in it is "openbeta", so DCS creates a DCS.openbeta folder under Saved Games. You can change the text to "whatever" and DCS will create a "DCS.whatever" folder under Saved Games on the next run.Cheers! Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk
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