[REL] OpenOVR: possible performance boost for Oculus owners.

Oops, probably should have mentioned I've tried this already. I've been playing R3E in VR for a year now via SVR, so it's all set up fine. Pressing my VR position reset button does nothing, unfortunately. That is what it looks like though, just black empty space as if the menu is hidden somewhere. Seems to be working fine for everybody else so I don't get it.

 

It occurred to me to try loading a track this morning, to confirm if I really am getting no picture in my headset or if it's just a menu position problem. It's the former... track loaded fine, I can hear the audio playing through my Rift headphones, but the headset is still just black.


Edit: Really weird thing... my monitor is showing what my headset should be showing. I can move the headset around and the view on the monitor moves accordingly, so the headset and game are definitely communicating. So why no headset picture?!

 

I only can say, that some people of another forum have the same problem.
But I cannot provide a solution. Hopefully, @The Iron Wolf can.

 

FWIW, can you try restarting SVR? I remember having this a few times and restarting the OVR service seems to resolve it. I run a batch file with this:

Bold items are the essential ones. Oh, don't forget to run this as Admin. I also use TIW's dll.

 

same problem. and i use it with rf2 without problem

 

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, this didn't resolve the issue. Still stuck with a black screen. I've tried both of the available TIW dlls with the same result.

 

Could you try doing Oculus setup again, or at least reset center position in Oculus software? Make sure you center in the position that's your racing position.

Also, do you happen to have main OC dll installed globally?

 

@The Iron Wolf

Thanks for the reply mate. I did the full sensor and playspace setup again, but it didn't help. I can move sideways to activate the Guardian system, showing me that I'm right in the middle of my playspace. But the boundaries are the only thing I can see... the rest is just black space. On my monitor I can see that I am indeed sitting in the driving seat of the car, and the view moves with my head as it should. But for whatever reason the picture shown on my monitor is not reaching the headset, even though it works perfectly for everything else. (Including R3E with Steam VR.)

I can confirm that I do not have OC installed globally. I only have your version as R3E is the only game I am interested in using it with right now.

I don't know if it will help at all, but I found a log file which seems to have some errors or something:

Code:

10:39:38.508 TID:0x1330    TraceStatrtupMsg  Line:132    - Wolf's Open Composite (TIWM fork) version: 1.0.0.0_AVX2+PGO

10:39:38.508 TID:0x1330    TraceStatrtupMsg  Line:138    - Requested configuration:
10:39:38.508 TID:0x1330    TraceStatrtupMsg  Line:139    - supersampleRatio=1.500000
10:39:38.508 TID:0x1330    TraceStatrtupMsg  Line:140    - enableLayers=true
10:39:38.508 TID:0x1330    TraceStatrtupMsg  Line:141    - enableCubemap=false
10:39:38.508 TID:0x1330    TraceStatrtupMsg  Line:142    - threePartSubmit=true
10:39:38.508 TID:0x1330    TraceStatrtupMsg  Line:143    - useViewportStencil=true
10:39:38.508 TID:0x1330    TraceStatrtupMsg  Line:144    - postInitCmd=""

10:39:38.508 TID:0x1330    TraceStatrtupMsg  Line:145    - dx10Mode=true
10:40:03.557 TID:0x1330    VR_InitInternal2  Line:319    - Runtime initialized successfully.

10:40:03.557 TID:0x1330    CVRSystem_012::CVRSystem_012  Line:279    - Created.
10:40:03.557 TID:0x1330    CVRRenderModels_005::CVRRenderModels_005  Line:1046    - Created.
10:40:03.557 TID:0x1330    CVRCompositor_016::CVRCompositor_016  Line:20    - Created.
10:40:17.230 TID:0x1330    CVROverlay_013::CVROverlay_013  Line:572    - Created.
10:40:17.230 TID:0x1330    BaseOverlay::CreateOverlay  Line:116    - New texture overlay created "overlay.Menu" "Menu"
10:40:17.230 TID:0x1330    BaseOverlay::CreateOverlay  Line:116    - New texture overlay created "overlay.HUD" "HUD"
10:40:19.726 TID:0x1330    BaseCompositor::CreateCompositorAPI  Line:362    - Creating new Hybrid DX11 Compositor
10:40:19.727 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::DX11HybridCompositor  Line:45    - DX Call failed with: 0x80070057
10:40:19.728 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::Invoke  Line:74    - Generating new swap chain
10:40:19.733 TID:0x1330    BaseCompositor::CreateCompositorAPI  Line:362    - Creating new Hybrid DX11 Compositor
10:40:19.733 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::DX11HybridCompositor  Line:45    - DX Call failed with: 0x80070057
10:40:19.733 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::Invoke  Line:74    - Generating new swap chain
10:40:19.738 TID:0x1330    BaseCompositor::CreateCompositorAPI  Line:362    - Creating new Hybrid DX11 Compositor for layer use
10:40:19.738 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::DX11HybridCompositor  Line:45    - DX Call failed with: 0x80070057
10:40:19.738 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::Invoke  Line:74    - Generating new swap chain
10:41:37.391 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:173    - Resource mismatch: Width
10:41:37.391 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:174    - Resource mismatch: Height
10:41:37.391 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:176    - Resource mismatch: Format
10:41:37.391 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::Invoke  Line:74    - Generating new swap chain
10:41:37.400 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:173    - Resource mismatch: Width
10:41:37.400 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:174    - Resource mismatch: Height
10:41:37.400 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:176    - Resource mismatch: Format
10:41:37.400 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::Invoke  Line:74    - Generating new swap chain
10:42:16.113 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:173    - Resource mismatch: Width
10:42:16.113 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:174    - Resource mismatch: Height
10:42:16.113 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:176    - Resource mismatch: Format
10:42:16.113 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::Invoke  Line:74    - Generating new swap chain
10:42:16.138 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:173    - Resource mismatch: Width
10:42:16.138 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:174    - Resource mismatch: Height
10:42:16.138 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::CheckChainCompatible  Line:176    - Resource mismatch: Format
10:42:16.138 TID:0x1330    DX11HybridCompositor::Invoke  Line:74    - Generating new swap chain
10:42:19.352 TID:0x1330    VR_ShutdownInternal  Line:353    - Shutting down.

 

Sorry, but I have absolutely no idea why that would be. I apologize for the obvious question, do you have VR center button mapped? I believe menu layer should re-center on that button press. Unfortunately, I do not have R3E anymore and I am also leaving Oculus (and meanwhile using Oculus Small runtime), so I can't even try your configuration and very soon WOC project will stop. You might have more luck with main OC project author. He merged my DX10 work, but I don't know if that was done right etc.

 

No worries bud, thanks for trying to help. Your efforts seem to be working for the majority, so this is probably some isolated thing on my system. I've just recently developed some other VR related issues (something up with my USB ports, I think), so that might have something to do with it. I'll try again once I've sorted that problem as it's rather more pressing.

 

One thing I keep wondering about, you say "playspace setup". I wonder if this is something new in new Oculus software? If so, see if there's "seated" option, and most important make sure height from the ground roughly matches your HMD's distance from the ground, good luck

 

Oculus has less options than SVR when going through the playspace setup. It asks your height and then asks you to "draw" your space using one of the controllers. No option for seated or standing. And that's it. Once those two things are done you're good to go. My height is fine in all my Oculus games so it's definitely set up right. I'll have another play around when I get some time.

 

I'm going to give this another go, as I've formatted my system and done a few other things since my last try. Hope it works as R3E is literally the only game left that I play which requires SVR...

 

I have been using this for a short while and whilst I can't say if there's any performance increase, I didn't really want it for that, I can say that it works really well. I used to experience problems with steam vr crashing, not shutting processes down (including raceroom) properly after finishing a gaming session, etc.. I hate steam VR

Thankfully, I don't even have steam vr installed anymore, just use this dll. So for that reason alone, its well worth it.

 

I wonder if Steam VR will get an overhaul when the index arrives as it really needs it.

 

They quite literally keep making it worse and worse, removing required features, adding useless ones, ruining performance, and continually denying that it's anything to do with SVR itself. I honestly can't see that attitude changing anytime soon, so anything that allows us to bypass SVR entirely is more than welcome.

 

Unfortunately is VR on my new Device Slower than SteamVR iwth OpenOVR. With my Old system this was a huge performance boost. Don't knnow whats wrong there in this moment.