VR image only rendering 3/4 per eye

[DieGeist]

Hello all,

 

I purchased BOS yesterday with the intention of playing it exclusively from my HTC Vive. However I am running into a problem. I noticed it when I first fired the game up in VR ( I ran it in 2D first to set the key-binds and other settings), for some reason the game (even in the main menu) is only rendering about 3/4 of the image per eye. It almost looks as if the IPD is set wrong, with each eye showing a very noticeable vertical black bar close the nose in each eye. It feels like the image is off center or is to narrow (although what I can see seems to be the right scale). 

 

At first I thought that my HMD was broken so I fired up both DCS and Elite just to verify that it was working like I remembered it, and sure enough both were rendering each eye correctly. Also each eye is different, with the right eye being much worse then the left eye. I have attempted to move the IPD around to fix it, but this is definitely an issue where only most of the screen in each eye is being used, not the whole thing.

 

Has anyone ran into this before, I could not find anything in my limited wanderings through the forums.

 

Thank you

 

P.S. Please overlook my terrible MSpaint skills. 

 

Edit:

Specs

i7-6700k "@4.3Ghz

32GB RAM

Nvidia 1080FE

Samsung 950Pro M.2 NVME

HTC Vive

Edited March 15, 2018 by DieGeist

[DieGeist]

Things I have attempted to resolve this on my own are:

 

Re-install the game (via Steam)

Re-install SteamVR

Swap USB/HMDI ports for HMD

Clear user settings and start from scratch

Install HMD on different computer and run the game (fresh install)

 

The Primax fix wont really work here since it is using different software.

 

Thank you

[DieGeist]

More info:

 

 I am running the latest gold release of SteamVR, but I have attempted to run the beta to see if that made things better or worse. I did not see any change.

 

I did more digging last night and this morning and have contacted 2 other Vive users that have I have flown DCS with. I had both update BoS and run the app. Both of them have the Vive setup so that the screens are further out (using the knobs on the side) because they fly with glasses on. As soon as they took their glasses off and pulled the Vive back in to its lowest setting they also saw the black bars cutting off their inner peripheral vision, with the right eye being worse than the left.

 

It can be easily tested by wearing the headset and looking at your nose with your left eye closed then starting the game. You will see the part of the screen by your nose go from the white SteamVR room to black as the login screen pops up and it never comes back.

 

 I attempted to film it with my phone, but the video comes out terrible and you cant really see anything but glare.

 

I am sure of it now that this is not an isolated issue with my hardware and that BoS is definitely not rendering to the whole screen inside the HMD, what is causing it though I don't know. As soon as 3DMigoto mod is updated I will install that and see if I can correct it by messing with the games IPD setting. Hopefully support can help us before then.

 

I would be curious to see if other Vive users are experiencing the same issue.  All the ones I have spoken to are now seeing the problem so I think I will post to the reddit Vive forum and see if anyone else is running into it.

 

Thank you

[Milopapa]

I do not see this with my Vive and I use an extremely thin (2-3mm) foam insert.

[DieGeist]

Thanks for the feedback Milopapa. I stopped updating this post when the one in technical support was getting most of the attention. I posted this on the Vive subreddit and it seems like this is not just an isolated incident. I have since submitted a support case to the developers.

Here is a link to the other post, it has links to the reddit post as well:

 

Thank you