Steam VR and Rift

[Badders46]

Hi all,

 

I am absolutely loving the update and BoBP! I'm still rubbish but I enjoy it so that's the main thing! 

 

I have a question regarding Steam VR... I used to use it a lot and was able to turn off asynchronous reprojection by opening the Mirror View and pressing shift+A... That was playing a game through Steam. I only have BoBP so it isn't through Steam but SteamVR is automatically used for VR... I don't seem to be able to turn Asynchronous off though? Any ideas?

 

The latest update has killed by frames and I am at 45 pretty much all the time whereas before I was around 80-90...

 

Thanks! 

 

Big about out to the Devs too! Keep up the grand work! 

[[DBS]Browning]

Try Ctr+Num 0...or is is Ctr+Num 1. One of those two.

[Badders46]

Is that when in IL2 or in the VR view in Steam? Thanks!

[dburne]

Do yourself a favor and get rid of Steam VR for IL-2 and Rift.

Open Composite much leaner and provides better performance.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9nxixe/systemwide_installation_for_opencomposite_released/

 

[Goffik]

5 minutes ago, dburne said:

Open Composite much leaner and provides better performance.

 

Only works on Windows 10 though, unfortunately.

[Badders46]

6 hours ago, Goffik said:

 

Only works on Windows 10 though, unfortunately.

 

I am on windows 10 ?? Can you use the Occulus Tray Tool with Open Composite?

[GrinderX9]

7 hours ago, dburne said:

Do yourself a favor and get rid of Steam VR for IL-2 and Rift.

Open Composite much leaner and provides better performance.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9nxixe/systemwide_installation_for_opencomposite_released/

 

I'm going to test this right after work ? . performence with steam VR have always been horrible compared to native rift games. I'm prepared for disapointment but hoping for a miracle and will be more then happy for a smal improvment

[SAG]

16 minutes ago, GrinderX9 said:

 

I'm going to test this right after work ? . performence with steam VR have always been horrible compared to native rift games. I'm prepared for disapointment but hoping for a miracle and will be more then happy for a smal improvment

 

Care to share your PC specs and performance in FPS? im curios about where my own setup stands  

[enyak]

I have had a very positive experience using Open Composite (OVR) with IL-2 the last month. Works quite well.

[Badders46]

Right, I installed Open Composite before heading off to work and it seemed to work so that's all good... Can anyone share their settings for VR?

 

My PC is:

 

Windows 10 64bit

I7700 4.2ghz

GTX1080Ti

16gb RAM

 

Just want to make sure I'm running the best I can... I love this sim - used to play IL2 Cliffs of Dover with Team Fusion and have played a lot of DCS and I'll be honest, I bought BoBP to fly the P-47... I have ended up loving all of the aeroplanes I have available and have also bought the P-40 and Spit V to enable me to play on other servers too... It is brilliant in VR! I am rubbish though and have only 1 kill to my name! 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Dan

[GrinderX9]

2 hours ago, SAG said:

 

Care to share your PC specs and performance in FPS? im curios about where my own setup stands  

 

I7 6700

Win 10

16 gig DDR 4 ram

Gtx 1070

 

Fps. Are all ower the place dempending on the patch. Before I had 24 on the ground and 40-60 in flight whith ingame settings tuned for vr after tips on this forum

 

The fps was bad but it felt ok for some reason. But in the spring a patch totaly destroyd my fps and the game was unplayabel for some time.

 

At end of summer patch made then performance better again. I ended up using oculus tool to lock the fps to 45. And at the moment that gives me a pretty solid experience. But far from optimale, and I think on paper I should have gotten better performance. Posibel that my cpu are the bottelneck, unsurten....

[dburne]

5 hours ago, Badders46 said:

 

I am on windows 10 ?? Can you use the Occulus Tray Tool with Open Composite?

 

Yes you can, I am using it.

[Lensman1945]

Using Open Composite for some time here too. However, since yesterday's big update my FPS has taken a bit of a dive

Quick mission 4 on 4 dogfight before update 70-80 fps consistent. After update 50-60 fps.

Hopefully this will be ironed out in the final release.

[Badders46]

I have no sound since moving to OC... Change back to Steam VR and I have sound... How do I uninstall so I can try again? 

So it seems, if I use my headphone (not rift) I can't hear... If I use rift I can... Can I use my headphones with OC?

[dburne]

7 minutes ago, Badders46 said:

I have no sound since moving to OC... Change back to Steam VR and I have sound... How do I uninstall so I can try again? 

So it seems, if I use my headphone (not rift) I can't hear... If I use rift I can... Can I use my headphones with OC?

 

I should think so, just change the sound output in Windows 10 to your headphone if you don't want it through Rift.

Speaker icon in lower right of your taskbar.

 

[Badders46]

This is what it was set to but no sound... Changed to Steam VR and had sound. Put speakers on rift and selected this when running OC and had sound... Strange! Will do some more testing tomorrow... Just want to fly now ??

[=SFG=capt_nasties]

FWIW i also noticed much lower frame rates with the same graphic settings after the new patch.  i9900K @4800, 4433 mHz ram, 2080 are my specs.  going to try this open composite option....

[Fern]

I downloaded OpenComposite, but I can't figure out how to launch the game.

 

I run the Opencomposite.exe and switch to opencomposite, but have no idea what to do from there. Oh, I'm using a Rift S and I also downloaded the OTT.

Edited October 5, 2019 by Fern

[Lensman1945]

3 hours ago, Fern said:

I downloaded OpenComposite, but I can't figure out how to launch the game.

 

I run the Opencomposite.exe and switch to opencomposite, but have no idea what to do from there. Oh, I'm using a Rift S and I also downloaded the OTT.

I just launch IL2 from a desktop shortcut before putting on my Rift, that works for me.

[Fern]

I had to go into steam library and launch it from there.

 

Now I need to solve this double vision blurry mess. I'm about to go back to trackir.

[Lensman1945]

1 hour ago, Fern said:

I had to go into steam library and launch it from there.

 

Now I need to solve this double vision blurry mess. I'm about to go back to trackir.

You won't need Steam at all. Just find where your IL2 exe is installed in the Steam directory and create a shortcut.