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Rift Setup guides. Any good resources?

Discussion in 'VR Headsets and Sim Gaming - Virtual Reality' started by Archie, Jul 6, 2016.

  1. Archie

    Archie Eternal tinkerer

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    I'm about to enter into the world of VR.
    Saved all my pennies and finally took the plunge.

    While I wait, I want to read up on getting VR setup in as many games as possible so I am prepared when the Oculus arrives.

    My question is, in games that fully support the SDK, is it just a case of ticking "Oculus Rift" and away you go, or is there ( and I suspect ' yes') more to it.

    Games I want to get working / read up on, are:

    AC
    Project Cars
    Elite Dangerous Horizons
    Euro Truck Simulator 2
    Dirt Rally

    Any pointers, advice, much appreciated. I did a quick forum search, but no specific guides to speak of.

    Cheers,

    Archie.
    Archie, Jul 6, 2016
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  2. RiftFlyer

    RiftFlyer Active Member Gold Contributor

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    You will have to select allow unknown apps in oculus home settings. This allows the rift to be called by standalone games on your PC from outside the oculus store front. Apart from that once the games offer support for the latest oculus runtime you shouldn't have any issues.
    RiftFlyer, Jul 6, 2016
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  3. noorbeast

    noorbeast VR Tassie Devil Staff Member Moderator Race Director

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    Dirt Rally does not have Rift support, it was broken a while ago and was meant to be in the last patch but wasn't: https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...to-get-oculus-1-3-support-in-next-patch.8514/

    AC can have issues with PP and AA settings.

    Pcars is a bit resource hungry with VR, so don't go overboard with high end settings.

    If your hardware is up to it then the Oculus debug tool can be used to enable supersampling, which improves image quality: http://www.roadtovr.com/improve-oculus-rift-game-image-quality-using-this-tool-oculus-debug-tool/
    noorbeast, Jul 6, 2016
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