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  • in reply to: 4090 Impressions #213835
    brown66
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    How strong is smell of burnt plastic?

    Much less than the smell when I fart.

    Jokes aside, watch this video.

    In a universe of possibly more than 100,000 RTX 4090s already sold, perhaps there is one burnt connector for some reason other than the not well-inserted connectors, but the remaining cases that we know of (apparently around 50), the problem is due to poorly inserted connectors. In fact, older people with some experience in electricity had already been saying that the problem was poorly inserted connectors, but while GamerNexus didn’t discover this and showed it on YouTube, few believed it.

    So, for those who don’t want to buy an RTX 4090, the excuse of burning connectors is no longer valid.

    in reply to: 4090 Impressions #213834
    brown66
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    Yup, can confirm, 4090 works well in all VorpX titles I’ve tried except Cyberpunk. Not sure if its the mod or game but quickly rotating the viewpoint really hurts ones eyes and brain.

    Try this.

    Go to Display Settings, Graphics, Change Default Graphics Settings and turn off the Hardware/Accelerated GPU Sheduling option (you will need to restart your computer).

    brown66
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    Why would you play LE with vorpx instead of the VR version?

    Several reasons.

    First, there are some mods that don’t work with Skyrim SE/VR (essentially, mods that have physics based on HDT-LE). But that’s not the main reason.

    The main reason is that there are some aspects of Skyrim VR that I don’t like.

    One of them is some missing animations, like when you are at the forge, mining or fighting. Yes, you read correctly, fighting! In Skyrim LE and SE, as many other games, when you fight, or better saying, when you press a button in your keyboard that is assigned to the fight, you see an animation of your main character fighting. And that’s the way it should be on Skyrim VR! No, I’m not crazy.

    Let me explain why.

    In Skyrim VR, Bethesda made the dream of many people (my self included) – you move your arm, and you see your weapon moving. And that’s the problem! As you know, in Skyrim LE and SE, the more one weapon is heavy, the more slow you will see this same weapon moving. That’s logic, as in the real world, we can move much quickly a dagger than a heavy two hand sword. But in Skyrim VR, you move a two hand sword as fast a dagger, because both move as fast as you move your hand. For me, that’s break the game immersion. A lot!

    Second, I don’t like the moving system that Bethesda choose for the game, so that the player does not get nauseated. I don’t want to move by jumps and I don’t want to get my FOV reduced if I move normally (without jumps). I know that we can move normally, without the momentary reduced FOV, but that’s take us to my final problem with Skyrim VR. I have the HTC VR controllers, I was not used to using them to drive the main character and I didn’t feel like gaining experience doing so, not least because I think the joystick option on HTC’s VR controls is not practical to use.. And I found no way to play Skyrim VR sitting, with mouse and keyboard, as I do with Skyrim LE in VR.

    Third, I already had a good image on Skyrim LE in VR with Vorpx, better than the image I got with Skyrim VR when I first tried it. I didn’t feel like wasting hours again investigating how to improve the image of the game, as I had done with Skyrim LE with Vorpx.

    So, that are the reasons that led me to give up Skyrim VR. However, I intend to try again Skyrim VR very soon.

    brown66
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    Solved!

    We have to enter the game, choose options, graphics, and then click on the default button at the bottom of the screen. The Vorpx settings file(?) is rewritten, the game does CTD, we run the game again and now we can access all the game’s configuration options.

    brown66
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    Struggling to find the best image quality, without completely crush the computer.

    By the way, the game image quality at 8K it’s phenomenal!

    in reply to: Official Pimax 5K/8K Recommendations #210014
    brown66
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    In Windows 11, is it the option “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling” enabled, in System/Display/Graphics/Default Graphics Settings, incompatible with Vorpx and the Pimax headsets?

    I spent over a week trying to figure out why the Pimax 8KX was performing poorly in Skyrim LE, as well with image quality issues (especially when rotating my head, with ghosting between black and white images, as we have seen in the item menus), and I found that if I turned off the “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling”, my poor image quality and poor performance issues disappeared like magic!

    Now the game runs as smooth as when I used it with the HTC Vive Pro (well, I also still need some tweaks on the VorpX menu options, but I will discuss this on another topic).

    in reply to: Official Pimax 5K/8K Recommendations #209880
    brown66
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    Ralf

    In your first post, you said this:

    “Turn on smart smoothing: should be OFF to avoid judder “.

    However, in the Pimax 5K/8K recommendations, inside the VorxP Held Overview, is written the opposite:

    “Turn on smart smoothing: should be ON to avoid judder”.

    Which one is the correct?

    in reply to: How to adjust IPD in Vorpx? #209808
    brown66
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    Did you follow these instructions?

    Official Pimax 5K/8K Recommendations

    From some other messages I have read on internet, with the Pimax headsets, in some games and especially with VorpX, you need to have parallel projections enabled on Pitool or you will see double vision.

    I also bought the Pimax 8KX and I’m now waiting for it arrive.

    brown66
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    Of course that I can wait!

    I’ve seen two videos on YouTube about the Arpara 5K and the problem with this helmet it looks to be the reduced FOV and the image with little brightness.

    I was unaware that there were more VR headsets to come out with Micro-Oled displays. I’ll be paying attention to them.

    Thank you for the information!

    I’m embarrassed to say it, but I couldn’t wait any longer!

    I already ordered a Pimax 8KX!

    I’ve been reading some stuff on the internet about the new VR headsets that looks like they’re going to come out this year, or the next one, with the new Micro-OLED screens, and it looks like pretty much all of them will have a small FOV. This is out of the question for me! For that, I would stick with my old HTC Vive Pro, until it gives its soul to the Creator.

    After receiving the Pimax 8KX, I will leave here the testimony of how it is to play Skyrim LE with VorpX, and the comparison with the old HTC Vive Pro will be inevitable, since it is my reference and I will keep it. I feel like I’m going to start crying again for a more powerful graphics card…

    Anyway, thank you very much for those who helped me to reach a decision!

    in reply to: Will Vorpx work with Varjo Aero? #209800
    brown66
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    I’ve not tried Skyrim LE with Vorpx, do u recommend it? I own Skyrim VR so haven’t tried Skyrim games with Vorpx.

    I’m glad to see that you can now see images in the distance very clearly in Fallout 4! This is one of my flaws with the HTC Vive Pro, especially because of the SDE.

    And to answer to your question, no, you don’t need to play Skyrim with VorpX, if you already have Skyrim VR, unless you want to use some mods that are not available on the Skyrim 64 bits versions, which is my case. And besides, I play Skyrim with VorpX in the sitting position, with keyboard and mouse, because all I want is just to see a true 3D image.

    However, if you have access on your Steam account to the original Skyrim LE, you can try, just to see how it is. There are some differences with several animations (like fighting, riding a horse, working at the forge or mining), but the “core image” is the same, maybe with a better scale in Skyrim VR, especially on outdoors environments.

    I must say that, even with my old HTC Vive Pro, the image quality of Skyrim LE, with the lasted VorpX versions, is just stunning! That’s why I decided not wait any longer and I already order a Pimax 8KX!

    I know that I will need to use the parallel projections with VorpX, to play Skyrim LE, so I’m guessing that, even with my current RTX 3090, I will return to the old days when I fell that my previous graphics card, an GTX 1080Ti, was not enough to show the full image quality potential from the HTC Vive Pro, which I fell that I only achieved after I got the current RTX 3090.

    And so is life! We are always crying for a more powerful graphics card…

    in reply to: Will Vorpx work with Varjo Aero? #209750
    brown66
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    Received my varjo yesterday and can confirm it works ok with vorpx.

    It would be also good to know your opinion about how it compares with the Pimax 8KX. The increased clarity justify the lower FOV? It works better with the Vorpx than the Pimax?

    By the way, have you tried it with Skyrim LE + Vorpx?

    brown66
    Participant

    Of course that I can wait!

    I’ve seen two videos on YouTube about the Arpara 5K and the problem with this helmet it looks to be the reduced FOV and the image with little brightness.

    I was unaware that there were more VR headsets to come out with Micro-Oled displays. I’ll be paying attention to them.

    Thank you for the information!

    brown66
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    Lawrence1962

    Thanks for your post! It brings a very important point to me.

    I had already seen these two videos. These and many more, including this other one, which describe a different experience from the same HTC Vive Pro 2:

    It’s from a small and unknown YouTuber channel, and I know, from my original HTC Vive and also (and specially) from the HTC Vive Pro 1, that changing the original tick face cushion to a thinner one, makes a great difference in FOV and sweet spot in these headsets. These and running the game at the very high resolution possible, even a way higher than the VR headset original resolution.

    That’s the small kind of information that the great YouTubers many times don’t tell you, but that is very important (at least to me…) to make a barely accepted experience in VR on to a great VR experience!

    Also, I’m tired to see some this great YouTubers don’t tell you some weakness from a VR headset, until they make a review from a new one, been this new one from the same manufacturer or another one.

    Let me give you an example (and there are so many like this one!)…

    Sebastian Ang, from the MRTV channel, praises a lot the new Varjo Aero, with a fantastic resolution. I believe that’s entirely true, but why he doesn’t also make a so great warning about the very small FOV from this headset, which looks like to be the same size of some VR headsets from six years ago?

    That’s the main reason I created this topic where. I’m looking for people who have a Pimax 8KX or the HTC Vive Pro 2 and already has tried it to play Skyrim LE with VorpX. I usually trust more the opinions of this kind of people.

    About the HP Reverb G2, I also have view YouTube videos and read a lot of reviews. It looks to be a very good headset, specially for the price, but I excluded it mainly because of the small FOV, even with the FOV mod installed. Also, I don’t like to see so many people saying that it has a small sweet spot.

    For me, it’s out of question to go to a new VR headset with a smaller FOV or even a FOV with the same size from what I got now with the HTC Vive Pro with a thinner (6 mm) face cushion installed. Add to this the fact that the Vive Pro is OLED, and you start to understand why I’m still using an VR headset from almost 4 years ago.

    Again, thanks for your message!

    brown66
    Participant

    Thank you very much for the answer!

    By the way, I have the Skyrim VR, but I prefer the original 32 bits version with VorpX (because of some mods and also some solutions that Bethesda used to port this game to VR that I don’t like). And I play always seated, with keyboard and mouse. That’s why the image quality in Skyrim is so important to me.

    I have an i7-10700K and the RTX3090. I’m also aware that this hardware maybe short to run this game, even at the Normal FOV, but I’m used to playing with few FPS in some exterior areas.

    in reply to: HTC Vive Pro 2 with VorpX ? #209554
    brown66
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    Has anyone already got the Vive Pro 2 running with VorpX without problems?

    My Vive Pro 1 has almost 4 years and thousands of working hours in Skyrim LE, with VorpX, and it won’t last forever, so I’m looking for a replacement and the Vive Pro 2 was one of the possibilities (the other one been the Pimax 8KX).

    Forget the previous answer. It works, as it can be seen on at the end of this topic: https://www.vorpx.com/forums/topic/htc-vive-pro-2-vorpx-not-working-properly/page/2/

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