Fingers68 Posted Monday at 10:49 PM Posted Monday at 10:49 PM (edited) Spent hours in a driving SIM yesterday, this is after updating the latest Pimax firmware and Pimax play, beta. Running like butter. DCS however has turned into a stuttering, freezing, loss of tracking mess. Choosing Pimax play as openXR run time seems to have fixed it. I am convinced the latest Pimax updates has triggered this. Anyone else experiencing this? Edited Monday at 10:51 PM by Fingers68
Peedee Posted Tuesday at 11:02 AM Posted Tuesday at 11:02 AM 12 hours ago, Fingers68 said: Spent hours in a driving SIM yesterday, this is after updating the latest Pimax firmware and Pimax play, beta. Running like butter. DCS however has turned into a stuttering, freezing, loss of tracking mess. Choosing Pimax play as openXR run time seems to have fixed it. I am convinced the latest Pimax updates has triggered this. Anyone else experiencing this? Not experienced this. But if Pimax Play OpenXR has fixed it, then why worry? Surely you don’t want to use SteamVR OpenXR runtime? And I don’t think the PimaxXR “stand alone app” - outside of Pimax Play - has been supported for a while. PC: I9 13900K, Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC, 32 GB RAM@6000Mhz. Thrustmaster Warthog Hotas. Virpil Base for Joystick. Thrustmaster TPR Pendular Rudderpedals. Realsimulator FSSB-RL MKII ULTRA base + Realsimulator F16SGRH V2 grip VR: Pimax Crystal, 8KX, HP Reverb G2, Pico 4, Quest 2. Buttkicker Gamer Pro. Next Level Motion Platform V3.
Fingers68 Posted Tuesday at 12:18 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 12:18 PM 58 minutes ago, Peedee said: Not experienced this. But if Pimax Play OpenXR has fixed it, then why worry? Surely you don’t want to use SteamVR OpenXR runtime? And I don’t think the PimaxXR “stand alone app” - outside of Pimax Play - has been supported for a while. The pimaxXR run time still works perfectly in my driving Sims, slightly better than pimax play, hence why I use it. DCS was working very well with it also, till the updates. To be honest I updated DCS and Pimax both the same day so can't say which update has changed things. PimaxXR has not been updated for a very long time, it's possible it's not going to work at all in the future. They currently recommend it still on there website https://pimax.com/blogs/blogs/how-to-run-openxr-on-the-pimax-crystal?srsltid=AfmBOoqjBeJyns31an-6oSuHz6sMC9VXj2ymOaKmUnyVnXhDAjqbENZL
Peedee Posted Tuesday at 02:23 PM Posted Tuesday at 02:23 PM 1 hour ago, Fingers68 said: The pimaxXR run time still works perfectly in my driving Sims, slightly better than pimax play, hence why I use it. DCS was working very well with it also, till the updates. To be honest I updated DCS and Pimax both the same day so can't say which update has changed things. PimaxXR has not been updated for a very long time, it's possible it's not going to work at all in the future. They currently recommend it still on there website https://pimax.com/blogs/blogs/how-to-run-openxr-on-the-pimax-crystal?srsltid=AfmBOoqjBeJyns31an-6oSuHz6sMC9VXj2ymOaKmUnyVnXhDAjqbENZL Ok, that article is just over one year old as far as I can see. Anyway, how is your performance in 2D in DCS? A guy on a Norwegian forum said he got terrible performance with Pimax Crystal after the update, but then later he discovered he also had gotten terrible performance in 2D too. I have not updated my Pimax Play yet. Only DCS. I have also heard that the external PimaxXR app OpenXR gives performance boost compared to Pimax Play Open XR. But, to make it easier I just use the Pimax Play version. PC: I9 13900K, Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC, 32 GB RAM@6000Mhz. Thrustmaster Warthog Hotas. Virpil Base for Joystick. Thrustmaster TPR Pendular Rudderpedals. Realsimulator FSSB-RL MKII ULTRA base + Realsimulator F16SGRH V2 grip VR: Pimax Crystal, 8KX, HP Reverb G2, Pico 4, Quest 2. Buttkicker Gamer Pro. Next Level Motion Platform V3.
Tobse Posted Tuesday at 02:37 PM Posted Tuesday at 02:37 PM I had massive head tracking issues in my Crystal light after the recent update, recovered this by going back to PimaxPlay 1.36, which nicely resolved the issue. Importantly, I had to first deinstall, then remove all Pimax-related folders in the AppData subfolders, the reinstall the older version of PimaxPlay. Here's a link to the different versions, thanks to The Blog of ThizThizzyDizzy Best of luck, Tobse! 1
Fingers68 Posted Tuesday at 08:31 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 08:31 PM I used the run time app to remove the pimaxXR run time. Repaired the others showing as errored, repaired the open XR tool kit (which thankfully keeps your settings). Set Pimax as the runtime and for Quad views. So far things seem to now be running better than ever. Apart from when it's raining!! Currently on mission 6 of the big show, dear me, the rain is not kind to FPS. More testing required, I might go back to pimaxXR just to see if it is infact this that caused the issue.
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