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Tried something else last night. While on Virtual Desktop, I switched the Virtual Monitor off first, desktop came back to my monitor on a correct resolution, HMD went black, but that just needed a reset on the HMD. Yeah, I can live with this coz everything else works just fine but a weird thing nonetheless.
Ok, first I tried the method that was on by default, when I put on my HMD, the monitor shuts down and so on. I tried to change the method to fully manual, where I have to shut down the monitor my self, but that resulted in black screen on the HMD when the monitor was shut down and I had to reboot the HMD to get any picture back. Using the method where Vorpx shuts the monitor automatically works fine otherwise, been gaming quite well with that, but finishing a session is a problem because the desktop is on some wanky low resolution after that. I have Pimax Crystal headset, I don’t have the latest Pimax Play release because that broke something with Vorpx, I think I couldn’t use the Vorpx Virtual Desktop at all with the latest release (they broke other things too when they added the Sharpening and GPU scaling functions to the Pimax Play so I reverted to the latest working release and been using that ever since). Windows 11 with all the latest updates aswell.
For some reason, when using the virtual desktop now (and my monitor is shutdown), after exiting the virtual desktop, my actual desktop goes to some really low resolution, sometimes so low that I have to reboot the whole system coz I can’t see what I am trying to do (change the desktop resolution back to normal). A small weirdness, but a strange thing nonetheless.
Ok, thanks for the info! Will the beta 24.1.0 version autoupdate or do users need to do a new install?
Im wondering about the latest version too, coz what is this and why can’t I update to this -> “vorpX 25.1.0 Released” Tried the weblauncher, it installed version 19. something and the “beta” installers installed the 24.1.0 again….
Maybe you have the Pimax DFR on. I switch that completely off when playing with Vorpx coz I’ve noticed that it does not work correctly and can cause pixelation right in the middle of my view.
I’ve noticed this too, on my rig it hovers around 6% when nothing is running. Running the latest version 24.1 whatever… How do I revert back to earlier version? Might try that just because tinkering :) No AV, just Win Defender.
Ok, I have to get back to this headset FPS thing. Last night I noticed a weird behaviour with this. Played Homefront The Revolution and Prey and with both games I get those moments when the headset FPS just suddenly drops (to very low, like 10-20 FPS) and I noticed that what fixes this is to just move my head, look around a bit and boom, FPS goes back to full! Im at loss with what might be causing this. I usually turn the headtracking off cause I just like to look around with the mouse. Any ideas? The HMD is Pimax Crystal with the latest updates (got rid of the PimaxXR software coz Pimax integrated this into Pimax Play -tool recently).
Some technical questions again, with more experience on using Vorpx.
– What if any procedure is there to launch Vorpx? This might be a problem with my rig, but for example, I start my comp for gaming, I start Pimax tool first with the headset on and it connects and then I start Vorpx from the ‘start Vorpx’ shortcut. Everything is fine up to this point, but then I try to start either the desktop viewer or the virtual monitor and nothing happens. Usual remedy for this is to restart my computer all over and then it works.
– About performance. What is the ‘headset FPS’ that shows on the FPS counter? Im experiencing weird drops in it when playing Bioshock Infinite. The headset FPS drops to something like 20 or so (from steady 120). Weird thing is, I can fix this by going in to the game settings and graphics options and it goes back to normal. Maybe a glitch with the game, can’t remember experiencing this with Metro Last Light. Only happens maybe once or twice on a several hour gaming session.
Yeah, thats the one.
Played through Last Light and I ended up turning the texture sharpening off (it sort of worked on some parts but still caused that aliasing). Cranked up the resolution to 4096×3072 or something like that in 4:3 and that is probably the max resolution that Im going to use with Vorpx. With Last Light I had to up the virtual desktop resolution to something similar to the game reso or it bugged out the graphics on the lower part of the screen, not a huge issue and I suspect this might be a game spesific thing. Going to try another game tonight.
Yeah, I dialed some settings in last night that I find good. 3840×2880 I find is decent resolution and runs great.
Other thing I tried last night was to run “OpenXR Toolkit” with Vorpx. Now I do remember reading Ralfs comment that the foveated rendering isn’t really useful with Vorpx (doesn’t give any performance boost really), but the thing that did work wonders was the CAS sharpening that you can activate from OpenXR Toolkit. CAS sharpening with Vorpxs own sharpening tool in the image settings gave the image quality I was looking for. I am running the CAS at full 100% and on top of that all the Vorpxs sharpening sliders on full. Now this might not be for everyone, but atleast for me the image really started to pop with this setup. Granted I’ve only tried one game so far (Metro Last Light) but one can always dial the sharpening game by game.
Weird thing with this combination was that the Vorpxs own texture sharpening thingy (the second slider) seems to work better when running the CAS sharpening (without CAS I kept the texture enchanment/sharpening off because it seemed to introduce this almost aliasing like shimmering everywhere).
Thanks again!
Read your message and remembered that there was that little box in the virtual monitor settings to add custom resolutions, again my bad to think that I need to add these custom resolutions to Nvidia directly. I’ll have to tinker with the virtual monitor settings tonight and try it out.
Hi!
Yeah, I think I solved the resolution thingy, theres a checkbox in the virtual monitor settings that allows higher resolutions, now I can change to 3200×2400 for example (so my bad ).
The ALT+L is weird still, I tried it again when playing last night and all it seemed to do was that I lost head tracking when I tried it. Maybe just not use it at all.
Now all I need to do is figure out a resolution bit higher than 3200×2400 that I can add to Nvidia cotrol panel without it freaking out and Im good to go :) Are 1:1 resolutions a no-go? I’ve read an old comment from you about not using 1:1 resolutions (maybe they screw up the rendering or something), is this still the case or should I maybe try one of those (like 2880×2880 for example)?