New Steam VR settings, which to use?

[SCG_motoadve]

So now we have 2 options to increase SS?

I am a bit confused.

The one on the picture on top is to increase (in my case 160% ) over the already SS applied?(236% in the picture below)?

 

How does this works exactly?

 

 

[dburne]

I found my best result for appearance to be setting manual override to 100% in Steam VR, then use Oculus Tray Tool to set my SS for my Rift.

I "think" by not selecting the manual override Steam VR uses some kind of adaptive resolution, did not look very  good to me after one of the recent updates to Steam VR. I was getting a lot of shimmering of terrain.

 

By doing the above I was able to get the image quality back about where it was, no more shimmering.

Still though, I sure wish 1CGS could natively support the Rift. 

 

[Rangerjoe03]

I’ve been messing with this a bit too, trying to figure it out. I could be wrong with all of this, but I think your second screenshot ‘application resolution’ is a general setting applied to every VR app based on your video card. It will run all your apps at this resolution unless you override it in the individual app section.

 

If you set this to auto for example, yours would run every program at 200% resolution/SS because you have a 1080ti. Mine is at 182% with a GTX 1080. So far, I’ve left mine on auto, because you can adjust each application individually (your top screenshot).

 

If your application resolution was on auto (200%) and you left the IL-2 app on 100% it would run IL-2 at 200%. 

[dburne]

BoX is the only application I run in Steam VR thankfully.

 

 

[chiliwili69]

If you put everything at SS=1.0 (ie, in video Manual override checked with 100%, in Applications put SS=100% or leave empty, in OTT/ODB put SS=1.0) then the reported resolution should be 1344 (horiz.) x 1600 (vert.) per eye.

 

Then, when you set in video the 236% you just multiply 1344 per SQRT(2.36) and 1600 per SQRT(2.36), delivering 2065x2458 (which is what I obtain with the my Rift not exactly your numbers, don´t know why).

 

Then, on top of that, you can apply an added SS factor per application, in this case is 160%. So 2.36x1.6 is 3.77,so:

1344*SQRT(3.77)=2610

1600*SQRT(3.77)=3107

which are basically the numbers you have, although not exactly them.

 

You can investigate why you are not having exactly the numbers I wrote when you apply SS=100% in both places in SteamVR. Check that you have OTT/ODT set to 1.0.

 

I don´t use the SteamVR per application setting since basically IL2 is the only game I play in VR.

Best thing for SS is to just touch it in one place (either OTT/ODT, or SteamVR Video, or SteamVR Application)

 

 

[SCG_motoadve]

I don't have OTT, so maybe that is why our numbers are different?

 

How are you liking your Vive Pro after been using it for a while now?

[chiliwili69]

I don´t have OTT neither. You can check you put 100% in video and 100% in Apps and then see what are the numbers reported by SteamVR. They should be 1344x1600. Any Rift user should have that numbers.

 

Regarding the VivePro, I still couldn´t spend the time I would like with IL-2. Most likely I will keep the VivePro. I will report that in the VivePro vs Rift thread.

[SCG_motoadve]

Something is strange, no matter how high I increase those numbers, the quality stays the same, I dont get an increase in resolution.

[-332FG-Gordon200]

According to Steam I have their latest edition installed.

However, I do not get a Settings page as displayed above.

I've searched and re-read everything multiple times and can not find an option to manually override SS.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[dburne]

You need to launch Steam VR, then go into the settings tab in it.

[-332FG-Gordon200]

37 minutes ago, dburne said:

You need to launch Steam VR, then go into the settings tab in it.

I've done that in both beta and standard many times and have shut down and rebooted a few times as well. I still get the same Settings page Steam or Steam VR.

I've been struggling with this since the release of BoK and the Windows and Oculus conflicts a few months ago. Getting weary.

Thanks for your help, dburne. 

[dburne]

8 hours ago, Gordon200 said:

I've done that in both beta and standard many times and have shut down and rebooted a few times as well. I still get the same Settings page Steam or Steam VR.

I've been struggling with this since the release of BoK and the Windows and Oculus conflicts a few months ago. Getting weary.

Thanks for your help, dburne. 

 

Ok this may sound redundant and you are already doing this, but for clarification:

 

When Steam VR is running, it puts a small window in the lower right corner of your monitor. You do not even need Steam running to have Steam VR running. ( Unless of course you are running Steam version of the game). That Steam VR window will show it is tracking and you will see your sensors there either showing green for tracking or red if they are not being tracked.

 

Now, in that window is where you will click I believe a drop down arrow of sort and choose the settings listing. There you will find the resolution (SS) settings along with some others.

[-332FG-Gordon200]

Ah, they did a fantastic job of hiding that little feature.

Thank you very much for your time and patience, dburne.

[dburne]

1 minute ago, Gordon200 said:

Ah, they did a fantastic job of hiding that little feature.

Thank you very much for your time and patience, dburne.

 

 

Good deal, glad to help!

[JonRedcorn]

On 5/16/2018 at 7:01 AM, dburne said:

 

 

Good deal, glad to help!

I love seeing stuff like this from this community, makes me all warm and fuzzy, patience is truly a virtue.

[Kandiru]

On 5/4/2018 at 2:12 PM, dburne said:

BoX is the only application I run in Steam VR thankfully.

 

 

Jump and run and dancing games mostly, you are missing NADA.