Oculus Rift and DCS World Discussion

[hansangb]

Well i am a lucky owner of oculus DK2 and to be very honest with you i dont think it will ever be any good for a hard core flight sim. You need as you need to see your controls. Now using oculus on something like a sim racing is a different story all together. And i just feel that we need so much more resolution to make it really usable and i dont think the technology is there yet.

 

 

Which is why Oculus made you sign the "this is a dev kit..." when you ordered. It's still a work in progress.

 

hsb

[Tricky11]

Which is why Oculus made you sign the "this is a dev kit..." when you ordered. It's still a work in progress.

 

hsb

 

Yeah i know that but what i am saying is we dont have the screens with enough resolution to make it work yet and cant see us having screens like that for years to come..:doh:

[cichlidfan]

So some planes and some type of flying may not be the best but that doesn't rule out flight simulation as a good experience in the rift. It may just rule it out for some of you flying some particular planes, fair enough but that doesn't cover the flight sim genre as a whole by a long shot.

 

Absolutely, I can think of one sim where every aircraft will be quite manageable with the Rift, even at less than 'gauge reading' resolution.

[Scoggs]

Yeah i know that but what i am saying is we dont have the screens with enough resolution to make it work yet and cant see us having screens like that for years to come..:doh:

 

I don't think it will be the screens that we have an issue with, I think the graphics hardware is where we are going to run in to issues. Mainly because of cost needed to run 75+ stable FPS on high resolution with 3D.

[cichlidfan]

I don't think it will be the screens that we have an issue with, I think the graphics hardware is where we are going to run in to issues. Mainly because of cost needed to run 75+ stable FPS on high resolution with 3D.

 

In that arena, I believe the current code, not the hardware is the bigger part of the issue

[Mnemonic]

In that arena, I believe the current code, not the hardware is the bigger part of the issue

Code is always an issue, and usually one of the most hardest and time consuming to fix.

[cichlidfan]

Code is always an issue, and usually one of the most hardest and time consuming to fix.

 

I do agree. I was trying to point out that hardware is not the problem.

[Frusheen]

Anyone tried the new oculus runtime released today? Any improvements?

[DerekSpeare]

Anyone tried the new oculus runtime released today? Any improvements?

 

I'm going to give them a go later tonight.

 

https://developer.oculusvr.com/?action=hist&utm_source=Dev+Center+Release+Announcement&utm_campaign=1631882a62-Release_Announcement8_15_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_90303cf518-1631882a62-86236301&status=1

[Buznee]

Anyone tried the new oculus runtime released today? Any improvements?

 

Just tried it, no perceivable improvement or change in DCS. First tried lowest graphics, fps above 75. Still get the judders.

 

Then turned on my fps limiter (dxtory), smooooooth but has the curtain effect on one eye as before.

 

Removed the fps limiter and turned on vsync. Smooooooth but lots of latency. Will make you sick very fast.

[Buznee]

Setting the DCS built in FPS limiter to 75 via C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Config\graphics.lua maxfps = 75; added another undesirable effect. The snappy cockpit effect. Can someone here take a look at their file and tell me what the default is for this? It was set to 120 before and it may be causing a conflict with dxtory causing the curtain effect that I am currently experiencing. Hands down though the best experience setup has been low graphics, vsync off, no hdr, and using dxtory at 75 fps. Almost to perfection.

[CookPassBabtridge]

You might want to hold off on the new SDK. It breaks a load of existing unity based demos. That means your collection of rift demos may suddenly be useless hdd space hogs.

[metalnwood]

Setting the DCS built in FPS limiter to 75 via C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Config\graphics.lua maxfps = 75; added another undesirable effect. The snappy cockpit effect. Can someone here take a look at their file and tell me what the default is for this? It was set to 120 before and it may be causing a conflict with dxtory causing the curtain effect that I am currently experiencing. Hands down though the best experience setup has been low graphics, vsync off, no hdr, and using dxtory at 75 fps. Almost to perfection.

 

 

 

I found dxtory gave me that issue you have with the line. I think it was sync tearing, its vertical instead of horizontal because the screen is running in portrait mode.

 

I wonder if we change the limiter to 74 or 76 if that might fix it. I notice some games only pick up the rift as 74hz.

[DerekSpeare]

I should have asked this early on. Does DCS use the DK2 if the DK2 is set to "Direct Mode"?

[metalnwood]

Derek, DCS doesn't support direct mode yet.

[EddieJames]

I'm running the new SDK with DK2 and have no issues at all. Looks great.

[Random]

I'm running the new SDK with DK2 and have no issues at all. Looks great.

 

It works in Direct to Rift mode? I need to try that! Still running extended

[DerekSpeare]

Derek, DCS doesn't support direct mode yet.

 

Thank you, MnW. I thought this was the case. The new runtimes don't change anything. Still have slight judder, but not a deal breaker.

[Sn1PeR]

Can anybody verify if the AMD+Dk2=Black screen bug has been fixed?

 

This method works if you have TrackIR. Just tested it out with Huey on my 6950.

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=129728

[CookPassBabtridge]

I'm running the new SDK with DK2 and have no issues at all. Looks great.

 

You havent found any of your existing unity based demos / games are now broken?

[Phantom_Mark]

I have all my details set to max here with max AA etc, and obviously set to application override mode in the drivers, everything looks awesome out to around 300 metres and then it looks pretty fuzzy and blurry, just a limitation of the DK2 or something I have setup incorrectly ?? Blown away with the experience of sitting in the cockpit and looking around, really feels like I could reach out and touch some of the controls :D

 

Is there any way to increase the amount of movement forwards you can have, feels like the forward movement is capped too much atm ?

 

TIA :pilotfly:

[EddieJames]

You havent found any of your existing unity based demos / games are now broken?

 

That is correct sir. Everything works great.

[CookPassBabtridge]

That is correct sir. Everything works great.

 

Excellent news. A couple of mine are borked, including my very favourite "First Try", but I think devs are going to be looking at doing a bit of firefighting every time a new SDK comes out.

[KeyCat]

Looks very promising and exactly whats needed with ED's excellent 3D pits...

 

 

/KC

Edited October 29, 2014 by KeyCat

[hannibal]

looks amazing. what leap motion was not...