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SteamVR has always been glitchy in the sense that it crashes at times, games will fail to close and need to be force quit, the audio won't switch, or won't switch back automatically, and stuff like that. Its usually just fine when in game, but... yeah its got a lot more legacy bloat to it no question. TVs Ian posted:I’ve been having a little weirdness with SteamVR home on my new Oculus. Basically, little flashy/twinkly V-shapes (like 3 pixels each) all over the display in the home. It seems to go away in actual games. I did have some insane rainbow flashiness the first time I tried Nvidia VR Funhouse, but it went away when it went to the second scene (and I happened to take the headset off and it was on the monitor version, too) and didn’t come back the next time I opened it. One other app got them when I changed a graphics setting, but went away when I turned it back (maybe the FSAA setting?). This is a longshot, but do you also notice this effect when in some of the destinations/steamvr home photogrammetry and other environments? The steam environments use their engine, and it does some weird on the fly resolution and foveated blurring stuff depending on your performance. Its one of the reasons I started using UE4 for the photogrammetry stuff I was doing since the large scenes would have artifacts and blurry parts and stuff that bugged me. If your computer isn't super high end its possible you're seeing artifacting effects from the engine doing that stuff, and thats why you only notice it there and not in any games (since nothing else I'm aware of uses their engine in VR).
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I haven’t noticed, but I’ll check it out next time I’m on my PC. It’s an I7-8700k with a GTX1080TI, so I’m pretty sure it’s not an issue of specs, unless something is horribly wrong that I haven’t noticed yet.
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TVs Ian posted:I haven’t noticed, but I’ll check it out next time I’m on my PC. It’s an I7-8700k with a GTX1080TI, so I’m pretty sure it’s not an issue of specs, unless something is horribly wrong that I haven’t noticed yet. Naw you should be running everything fine, more so if you've not messed with supersampling much yet. Theres nothing you cant crush currently. Either theres something glitching out, or its just steamvr being a dumbass. I wouldn't put much into it if its only happening in home.
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Bhodi posted:I have a i7-2600 and a gtx 970 and run all vr games just fine. You don't need to upgrade and the rift doesn't have the resolution to make cranked graphics pop anyway. That's helpful, thanks.
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Thanks for the recs. Soundboxing and War Thunder win by virtue of being cheaper. I've actually always preferred WW2 dogfighting to fake WW2 in space dogfighting anyway. I hope we see a non-coop bridge sim kinda thing. I'd be way more into a vr space sim for a bigger ship (ala Serenity or the Millenium Falcon) than another Wind Commander ish thing. Even the space trucker thing in Elite would feel better if it wasn't a cockpit tho I haven't tried it in VR yet. Also, I'm gonna look at that Farlands but any other recommendations for something rpg or adventure but exploring like a brighter fantasy world? Nothing grim? My wife was liking Mage's Tale a lot but was getting sick of the dungeon. I was just playing Vanishing Realms which has a lot of environmental interactions she'd dig but aside from sporadic bits seems to be all dungeon. Gorn is loving dangerous. I swapped around my office last night to clear out enough room for VR and haven't had any mishaps with VR till Gorn. Flailing around I managed to slam into the wall and then a minute later a chair off the side. Glad the hardware seems to be sturdier than I expected. Also, feels like Oculus is missing out majorly by not going heavy on accessories. For one thing that's an easier way to make money on the hardware like console makers have been doing forever, but with all the sensor/cabling fiddle factor there's lot of need. Just official extender cables would be something, but a break out box kinda thing sorta like the psvr would be helpful for being able to position your roomscale farther from the PC. Wireless camera sensors would be ideal. Due to the magic of Amazon free one day I already have another sensor and glad I bought it. I don't necessarily feel any difference but it made the setup simpler for the bigger space. EbolaIvory posted:What kind of hardware? SteamVR isnt as optimized for the rift like home is. My 960 was AMAAAZZZINNNGG with anything oculus only, steamVR just shat on it though. My 1080 is fine and I rarely have steamVR actually crash (And typically its some lovely buggy game taking it down). 1070.
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Spent the last hour playing STAND OUT. This is my first VR BR game and it was fun but so so janky. Especially the vehicles, oh wow the vehicles. I was able to kill a couple of players but I wasn't sure if they were bots or real people. Aiming is incredibly hard. But all in all it really had that PUBG feel. Also, the weapon distribution is bad. Again, I liked it. Edit: I really really liked the vaulting mechanic. jubjub64 fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Thanks guys for all of the suggestions. I will be checking out all of those games you mentioned. Work Simulator is on my to do list since I saw it on YouTube and found it very funny - I hadn’t thought of that for my daughter and having a mode for kids that makes the height lowers is great! I also finally got out of the native Oculus store program and am trying Steam VR. It is rough around the edges but I like it a lot since there are more bells and whistles in it to play around with like the weekly quests to customize your avatar. I don’t like that they don’t show hands holding devices though - that seems like a bad design decision, although maybe with the Vive it is better than the Rift. I tried it because I wanted to buy Elite Dangerous and was holding out since it was 50 bucks on the Oculus store and then read here how low the price was on Steam. I assumed that prices would be consistent between stores - how often are prices different between stores? I am definitely more invested in Steam but I have also bought a whole lot on the Oculus store since getting it. Regarding the GTX970, someone told me that it was trash and would barely be running games but I haven’t experienced that at all. In games like Robo Recall they will start me on low graphics settings but after manually raising them I don’t see any performance issues so I don’t know what that’s about. This is with a 4th gen i7 btw. I was really considering upgrading to a 1070 but I am just not seeing performance issues yet - are they really pronounced with current VR games? I tried the Coco app for example to see if my daughter might like t and it had the gtx1070 (I think, maybe 1060) as a minimum sped but even after bumping up the graphics it ran just fine on my setup. Oh, I will also take the guy’s word for it who recommended the 3rd sensor. I feel like it is pretty good right now but if anything it will let me hide some wires by not needing to have 2 sensors spread really wide at the corners of my play space. Edit: I just got Job Simulator and decided to do it off of steam since I have a lot more invested in it and consolidating my games in one place is appealing. I am having an issue that I will try to describe but it’s hard - the perspective will randomly change left or right, up or down ever so slightly like my head is moving but I am staying still. I went back to Steam VR and it is actually happening there too but I didn’t notice it for whatever reason. Is this an issue with Steam or is it on my end? I have not had the issue at all in my other games (in the Oculus store) which is why I am wondering if it is a Steam issue. I don’t get VR sick apparently since I rarely get nauseous in real life but I did get pretty disoriented at first and think I was falling. I got used to it through a whole session but it isn’t idea and I wouldn’t want my daughter dealing with that. Maybe the third sensor will help but it is odd that it is only with Steam. I guess I could always get a refund and buy it through the Oculus store if it is different between stores? rio fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Assuming its not paired with some gen 1 i3 or something, it should be fine. guessing you're just having the same steamvr bullshit most of us do. Advanced settings can help iron poo poo out. Def grab it.
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jubjub64 posted:Edit: I really really liked the vaulting mechanic. Is it like Climbey? Climbey with guns sounds rad.
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EbolaIvory posted:Naw you should be running everything fine, more so if you've not messed with supersampling much yet. Theres nothing you cant crush currently. Either theres something glitching out, or its just steamvr being a dumbass. I wouldn't put much into it if its only happening in home. Interestingly enough, when I was playing around with it tonight, it was only on the big "wall screen" in Home. Not on the actual headset's display, but on the in-environment screen. I was in that corner of the room and I got a brief flash of it on the actual display, but the only place it was consistent was on that one wall. Like some kind of weird texture corruption. I tried other environments without that wall and they were all fine, but every time I went back to the base room it was there.
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Republicans posted:Is it like Climbey? Climbey with guns sounds rad. Haven't played Climbey but basically you hold down a button and then you can grab a ledge or whatnot and move your character over or through an obstacle.
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FuzzySlippers posted:
Its not a first person game, and a lot more traditional, but maybe check out Chronos? Its a fun action RPG, in a very interesting fantasy world, played sort of like a dark souls thing. I loved it, and a good game to play if you want to relax and not jump around the room. You could also look at soulkeeper vr? Its a pretty well made game, not sure how long it is though. Also Mage's Tale isn't the same dungeon the whole game, theres a few different environments, I mean, it is a dungeon crawl so you're always in enclosed places, but there is more variety as you go on. EDIT: rio posted:
I'm pretty sure thats an issue wish steam thats been there for a while, especially since you haven't had it outside of steam. I seem to recall seeing reports of stuff like that going back to last year, not just with the rift but with vive owners as well, not sure what the cause would be. Might be something to do with tracking that steam just isn't handling well but oculus doesn't have a problem with? Shouldn't really be the case though because steamVR just takes the info from the oculus software for position, boundary and all that. Could be the 3rd sensor will fix it for steam, but I don't know. Theres usually not a difference between the same game on steam and the oculus store, in that if it runs steamVR and oculusVR, the steam version will run native for whichever headset you have. There are however some games, and according to a quick google search job sim is one of them, where for whatever reason the steam version only runs steamVR instead of natively running the oculus build. In those cases, yeah I would say get it on the oculus store definitely, but also make sure you're not missing a launch option to start it in oculus mode instead of steamVR mode in general. Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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rage-saq posted:1070ti is new and about equal to the 1080. I would get whichever is cheaper. Well, I wouldn't call it "about equal", I believe 1080 can easily overclock for a 10-15% FPS increase, while the 1070ti is limited to always perform below a base 1080. The 1070ti should be a good chunk cheaper than the 1080 before buying one. New vs new, the 1070ti seems to be a better value at the moment, but if you find a good deal on a 1080 with a form factor or cooler you want, or maybe a great deal on a used one, it should warrant consideration. Overclocked it might give just enough extra oomph to run some newfangled VR game at the highest settings that the 1070ti might not. edit: Also 1070ti is 5-10% slower than a stock 1080, so an overclocked 1080 can be a 20% spread. Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Every first-person game needs a good vaulting mechanic.FuzzySlippers posted:Thanks for the recs. Soundboxing and War Thunder win by virtue of being cheaper. I've actually always preferred WW2 dogfighting to fake WW2 in space dogfighting anyway.
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FYI I was in a Microsoft store today and they had a "TPCast for HTC Vive" in the store sitting next to the Rifts and Vives. It was very tempting but a janky accessory for an accessory just seems a bit too much for me. I was really surprised since I haven't seen them on the MS store for awhile. Getting one from a physical MS store is a good plan since they seem to be very nice on returns/support. Does anyone have any impressions of ZomDay or Eternal Warriors VR? That Sairento bundle is really tempting. Link: http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/5418/TRIPLE_KILL_VR_Bundle/ Mini Viveport Subscription Review: You have to download their app, and then the launch the apps using the Viveport app, everything seems fine. Annoying that your data will be locked up with Viveport data not Steam data, also note the user name displayed is the "Firstname, Lastname" on you HTC account. Caught me off guard playing Arcade Saga and seeing my real name appear while I was streaming out. You can change your name but they don't accept any numbers in your Firstname or Lastname. Arcade Saga review: seems alright. It's 3 minigames, breakout, holoball, and an archery game. Both the holoball and the archery game seem pretty decent and they seem to have a significant amount of single player content. I played each for about 30 minutes and managed to get about 1/4 through the content. Assuming it scales up there might be many hours of pretty decent content. Def. decent for the $.50 it's slot in my Viveport Subscription will cost. Stick100 fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Ralith posted:If you're into WWII dogfighting and want something a bit more substantial and less f2p-grindy than War Thunder, also have a look at the new IL-2 series. Is it playable with a controller if you crank down the realism settings? I do like that it has a proper single player campaign.
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SEKCobra posted:Really waiting for that Robo Recall Steam port. You'll be waiting forever, I believe it will never come over. Robo Recall was made by Epic at Oculus' direction/payment. There is a SteamVR mod of it but you still need to buy the game on Oculus (or get a Rift+Touch/use someone's account). https://github.com/LibreVR/RoboRevive
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Stick100 posted:You'll be waiting forever, I believe it will never come over. Robo Recall was made by Epic at Oculus' direction/payment. There is a SteamVR mod of it but you still need to buy the game on Oculus (or get a Rift+Touch/use someone's account). Didn't they literally release the entire source code for the game at launch? I would take that to mean they won't sue someone if they do their own fan standalone Vive executable...
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Zero VGS posted:Didn't they literally release the entire source code for the game at launch? I would take that to mean they won't sue someone if they do their own fan standalone Vive executable... RoboRevive is functionally the same as a standalone SteamVR executable anyway.
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SwissCM posted:RoboRevive is functionally the same as a standalone SteamVR executable anyway. OK then, sounds like SEKcobra should just "add non-Steam game to library" and call it a day.
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I'm not paying 30 € for a game that might work OK.
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SEKCobra posted:I'm not paying 30 € for a game that might work OK. Robo recall works fine on vive. Buddy bought it because I was ranting and raving about it and it’s the most fun he’s had with his vive. It works better than ok. It works fantastic.
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SEKCobra posted:I'm not paying 30 € for a game that might work OK. RoboRevive makes the game run with the UE4 SteamVR plugin instead of the OculusVR one. Apart from the Touch controllers showing up in one or two places the game plays and performs like (and is quite literally) a native SteamVR title. Tim Sweeney is on record for despising VR hardware exclusivity, I don't think the ease of this mod was an accident. Just speculation though. SCheeseman fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Thanks everyone for the advice in buying and setting up. All my stuffs arrived today, set up, played. Maybe best gaming experience of my life. Just loading the Arizona night scene in H3VR and shooting at bottles and setting off fireworks, while listening to music is such a good way to spend time.
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FuzzySlippers posted:Is it playable with a controller if you crank down the realism settings? I do like that it has a proper single player campaign.
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Had to refund eve valkyrie yesterday because it seems to be entirely broke (surprise surprise CCP being poo poo). Couldn't get past eula unless I used a keyboard (didn't recognise my 360 controller at all), couldn't realign my screen (had to stand) and couldn't get controller configuration working to the touch. Whole thing was borked. Pretty disappointed as it looked pretty.
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WMain00 posted:Had to refund eve valkyrie yesterday because it seems to be entirely broke (surprise surprise CCP being poo poo). Couldn't get past eula unless I used a keyboard (didn't recognise my 360 controller at all), couldn't realign my screen (had to stand) and couldn't get controller configuration working to the touch. Whole thing was borked. Pretty disappointed as it looked pretty. Well that is the smart move anyways. It's multiplayer only, which is dumb in this tiny niche market.
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Hoping my refund goes through soon so I can get SUPER HOT and/or Tilt Brush.
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WMain00 posted:Hoping my refund goes through soon so I can get SUPER HOT and/or Tilt Brush. Super hot is definitely worth it. Tilt Brush is a really cool program but did you try Quill yet? Its similar to tilt brush and comes free with the rift, so you may want to spend the money on super hot, play around with quill and see if its the kind of thing you want to spend more money on, and then look into tilt brush.
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For anyone who's a fan of Penn and Teller, LRR or Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, it has arrived Downloading now, doubt I'll post any impressions because Desert Bus doesn't conform to anything at all, really.
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WMain00 posted:Had to refund eve valkyrie yesterday because it seems to be entirely broke (surprise surprise CCP being poo poo). Couldn't get past eula unless I used a keyboard (didn't recognise my 360 controller at all), couldn't realign my screen (had to stand) and couldn't get controller configuration working to the touch. Whole thing was borked. Pretty disappointed as it looked pretty. Huh, odd well when they made it cross play with flatscreen gaming, they must have messed up the VR version. That's too bad as it was the definitive launch game of the Rift and consumer VR. House of the Rising sun is a decent (although very short and pretty easy) single player space dog fighting game. It's worth a couple of hours if you can catch it on deep sale. I can't compare it to Everspace or Elite since I've never played them. Also maybe Starway Fleet is decent. I've never played it but it seems like it gets updated pretty often and might progress from an Early Access title to something really good. http://store.steampowered.com/app/610680/Starway_Fleet/ I bet with Vorpex there probably are some good non-VR Starfighting games that worth well in VR. It seems like the easiest genre to get working from a non-VR game.
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Paingod556 posted:For anyone who's a fan of Penn and Teller, LRR or Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, it has arrived quote:Desert Bus VR released on November 27, 2017 – the date selected by Robert “DoctorBobtastic” Nix, the winning donor during the Desert Bus for Hope 2017 “Choose the Desert Bus VR Release Date” charity drive. November 27th is also Robert’s birthday, so if you see him on that day this year, or any other year for that matter, be sure to give him a nice, big cake. poo poo, it's so realistic you can feel the dust in your eyes even without owning a VR headset... 
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WMain00 posted:Hoping my refund goes through soon so I can get SUPER HOT and/or Tilt Brush. Super Hot was so, so good. I played it the first day I got my Oculus and it blew my mind. Genuinely freaked me out a few times too.
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My favorite part of Desert Bus was how they built it in that the bus had terrible alignment, so you always had to be slightly fighting the wheel for those long eight hours. I plan on getting a rift once I get a few more USB ports for the computer, but this will totally be a game I check out for nostalgia purposes (and for the penn and teller radio station!).
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rio posted:Super Hot was so, so good. I played it the first day I got my Oculus and it blew my mind. Genuinely freaked me out a few times too. I love the endless mode and keep going back to this. It's simple to grasp, hard to master. Takes deliberate movement, which can mean moving slowly while holding strange positions, which gives a unique workout. I'd pay for another dozen endless mode areas, even if they used the various story mode areas.
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I'm some pages behind the thread but I'm makin the sacrifice of fuckin' up my last read spot to give a heads up GMG has Dooooom VFR for 15% off plus a VIP code for another 10% for 5 days, final price in my cart is https://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/
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Seashell Salesman posted:Where are US people buying protubes? The manufacturer site seems crummy. Well since it's a brand: https://www.protubevr.com/ He's the only seller. Thankfully he recently significantly dropped the shipping cost. Also he's great on customer service and will respond quickly to anything you want (or cancel your order). His website seems fine, except "Baguette Quality" on the menu is a big odd. Stick100 fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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