Tips for new Rift Owners

[=EXPEND=Tripwire]

Fly the 109 for a practice flight. Use both eyes open but one eye behind the gunsight. When you understand why it is offset to the right, go back to a Russian plane. Move your head to the side to align the gunsight behind one eye. It works the same as a German gunsight just more awkwardly.

 

You can save your head position to be centered with one eye behind the sight (using F10 with vr disabled in-game) or use the reset button and guess the amount of movement to do so each time.

 

Now you have the Russian sights sorted, head to the spitfire and realise that you can actually use both eyes at the same time with the gunsight centered as the gunsight is larger (which is probably what you were originally trying to do with a too small Russian gunsight).

Edited December 29, 2017 by =TBAS=Tripwire

[dburne]

HMMM, I might have missdrawn my safe area.  Hoping I can redraw that area.   I've done the one eyed system for the gunsight, or even use the iron sight.  Both work, neither is optimal.  I'll try your method tomorrow.

 

Thanks again for all of your help.

 

You are most welcome, have fun!!

[skline00]

dburne, THANK YOU for an OUTSTANDING tutorial oh how to set up IL2 with Rift. I just bought and received the Rift yesterday (even bought a third sensor). 

 

I fooled around trying to set up IL2 and too bad I didn't see your tutorial.

 

Thanks for clarifying the setup.

[dburne]

dburne, THANK YOU for an OUTSTANDING tutorial oh how to set up IL2 with Rift. I just bought and received the Rift yesterday (even bought a third sensor). 

 

I fooled around trying to set up IL2 and too bad I didn't see your tutorial.

 

Thanks for clarifying the setup.

 

 

 

You are very welcome, always glad to help where I can! 

[PatrickAWlson]

Great write up dburne.  I want to second everything you said.  It takes some time but it is not only worth it, it's necessary.

 

I just flew my first mission.  The feeling of sitting in the cockpit is amazing.  Awesome.  I only have a NVidia 970 but it works pretty well.  Now ... how to avoid throwing up.  Hopefully I'll be like Moelders and keep practicing until it comes naturally.  Or I'll be like like Nelson and just suck it up

[Dave]

Does anyone use SLI 1080Tis for their VR setup?

 

I expect it would add little with the game being so CPU crippled.

Back when BoS SLI support reached its ebb I cancelled my order for 2 deciding it wasn't worth the $$$.

But since I now have to turn graphics settings way down for so-so VR frame rate I'm considering buying 2 Volta cards when they ship.

[PatrickAWlson]

Most of the CPU related difficulty is AI, so amping up the GPUs probably won't help that much.

[=EXPEND=Tripwire]

Don't believe SLI is supported for VR yet in IL2 GB. You would only be running one card Dave. I don't forsee that changing in the near term.

[Dave]

Now ... how to avoid throwing up.  Hopefully I'll be like Moelders and keep practicing until it comes naturally.  Or I'll be like like Nelson and just suck it up

I got very nauseous at first. I could stomach about 5 minutes of low level turning before the sweats took over.

After about a week of playing in VR for short stints every other day I got over it. Now I play for a few hours straight (not really a good idea anyway) without the slightest hint of motion sickness.

[Dave]

Don't believe SLI is supported for VR yet in IL2 GB. You would only be running one card Dave. I don't forsee that changing in the near term.

I expected as little

Sad really, as Nvidia ship some nice VR-specific hardware support in SLI. I understand the decision to standardise on OVR rather than take advantage of vendor specific support - but its frustrating to see so many features of a nice piece of hardware go completely unused.

My GPU isn't even being taxed while I have choppy frame rates. I think the VR compositor is running entirely in software with no GPU acceleration. Meanwhile 9 of my 10 cores are idle while one is melting.

I'm looking forward to 3.001 and appreciate having new features - particularly gameplay improvements in campaign and coop - but I'd prefer to see this take a back seat to some bug fixing and performance enhancements for a little while.

[skline00]

dburne, thanks again for your wonderful tutorial.

 

Even though 2 of my rigs are in my sig below, I decided to use my 3rd rig for a VR setup.

 

It is a 6700k OC'd to 4.6Ghz with a GTX980TI SC, 16gigs of DDR4-3200. At present it is custom watercooled with an external rad (MO-RA3-420PRO) but I was lucky enough to win a new Caselabs BH8 bullet case so the rig soon will have an AIO EVGA 280mm cpu cooler and go back to the stock cooler for the Nvidia GTX980TI SC. It will be a small portable VR rig with sufficient cpu power and a decent video card.

 

I must say I had a heck of a time getting IL2 to run in VR. My first mistake was installing Steam VR beta. A big NO NO!

 

Once I uninstalled it and re-installed regular Steam VR I was set to go. 

 

I have the Oculus Rift setup with 2 sensors (actually have a 3rd but so far don't need it) the new touch controllers etc.

 

I have a Galdiator flight stick on my 1800x rig along with Saitek Pro pedals but just stuck with a simple Logitech 3d wingman stick with throttle a a few programmable buttons on my VR setup.

 

I followed your recommendations on key mapping. One suggestion would be to program a key on your touch controller instead of having to hit the P key to start the program.

 

I just did a few quick missions with the B-109 to get a feel of VR.

 

Simply put OMG!  

 

​​​I am not a pilot but have played flight sims for a LONG time. 

 

​VR is a totally different and immersive function. Example. When you want to look right or left when using a monitor, you hit the right or left function (whatever you have programmed. However, in VR you simply turn your head!

 

​3 dimensional VR makes this an amazing piece of software.

 

​One suggestion which really helped me calm down and learn the cockpit in VR was to hit the A key for auto mode and just relax and fly.

 

All in all IL2 in VR is incredible.  

Edited January 5, 2018 by skline00

[dburne]

dburne, thanks again for your wonderful tutorial.

 

 

 

You are most welcome, have fun!!

[BFsSmurfy]

Here`s an obvious question but one I can`t see having been asked....if you turn the desktop monitor off whilst using the Rift do you gain anything??

[dburne]

Here`s an obvious question but one I can`t see having been asked....if you turn the desktop monitor off whilst using the Rift do you gain anything??

 

Don't think so.

[OrLoK]

Don't think so.

 

Here`s an obvious question but one I can`t see having been asked....if you turn the desktop monitor off whilst using the Rift do you gain anything??

 ive tried disconnecting my other monitors but it didnt have a noticeable effect.

[Archie]

Finally got my Rift today, set up was ok, and the whole day just disappeared with flying around and trying different settings. Although the resolution takes some getting used to after years of monitors and eye candy, the absolutely incredible feeling of flight makes up for it IMO. I've spent hours just hooning around at low level in a P40 down rivers and around trees.

[[CPT]CptJackSparrow]

Try SE area of Kuban, set clouds to very low. Evening time.

[dburne]

1 hour ago, 6./ZG76_Archie said:

Finally got my Rift today, set up was ok, and the whole day just disappeared with flying around and trying different settings. Although the resolution takes some getting used to after years of monitors and eye candy, the absolutely incredible feeling of flight makes up for it IMO. I've spent hours just hooning around at low level in a P40 down rivers and around trees.

 

 

Welcome aboard!

Been flying with my Rift for over a year now, and still love it just as much as the day I got it.

[Wolf8312]

One thing that you told me that really helped that I am not sure your mentioned is landscape filter set to sharp!

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

To improve spotting and identification from top-down radically, you may want to set landscape to blurry. 

 

Depends on your preferences.