BernieG

[BernieG]

Thanks,

Finally got it running, super smooth now, but looks a bit zoomed in, but is certainly playable.

1) Turned off all Windows 8 visual effects. I.e. Set windows performance preference settings to performance, not visual.
2) Turned off antialiasing – might try adding a low level if its worth doing?
3) Run the Rift in extended Mode and used VR Game Manager to set it to run Dear Esther on the Rift Monitor.

I also installed Display Fusion,but initially had some issues with odd display configurations suddenly occurring (e.g. flipped main display). I reinstalled it and it seems to run fine now.

So, all seems good. The documentation links are helpful too. One question I can’t seem to find the answer to is if you change the VorpX settings in one game if they remain changed for other games? I am assuming each game has an individual profile.

Cheers
Bernie

[BernieG]

Thanks for the suggestions folks, both very helpful. I am actually a prof, here in British Columbia and planning to use this in a project to see if VR game distraction and Immersion helps with chronic pain sufferers. so we want immersive exploartory/strategy VR games for patients to try, rather than FPS for this!

I am pretty much finding out that Oculus and high-end Macs don’t get along too well currently.

I have the 2013 Mac Pro with the twin ATI 300 cards and a Thunderbolt 27″ Cinema monitor. I suspect the later might be the issue as it won’t refresh at more then 60mHz (and can’t be over locked) and I have had a nightmre getting Dear Esther to actually load on the Rift screen. It always starts on the main display, as does the Tuscany extended mode Demo. I tried using the VR Games manager application, and setting Dear Esther to run on the Rift, and so far that is the only way I can get it there. However, I think that too may introduce lag, as interestingly,if I run the extended mode Tuscany Demo as direct to rift through the games manage app, it is amazingly smooth, but then stops after about 5 minutes with a memory error full error. I checked which graphics processor is doing what, and when the ATI cards are linked in crossfire config and one is running at 99% and the other at only 25% so I don’t think the demo is using both.

I just purchased Display Fusion to manage my monitor configuration to see if that might help, but any suggestions for getting this going on my machine very welcome, particularly:

1) how to get the Dear Esther screen opening in the Rift
2) how to get the Dear Esther menu visible in the Rift (in the opening screen it’s way off to the left and does not head track at that point).
3) any other VR exploration games I might try?

so far the only thing that works as designed on my system is Discovering Space.

cheers, and Happy New Year,
Bernie

[BernieG]

n.b. I am running it on a (dual boot) Windows 8 OS, not Mac

[BernieG]

hi, just bought Vorpx to run Dear Esther on a new Mac Pro with a Rift DK2.
it is supposed to work, but I can’t get it to run without severe judder, on head tracking. I have tried all sorts of configs, but no luck, and this makes it almost unusable. Any suggestions for configuration, or ideas?

this is a high end machine with twin ATI graphics boards so I am surprised it won’t run smoothly. The Tuscany demo runs very smooth.

cheers
Bernie

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