HTC Vive

flyinmunky said:
I have just ordered a htc vive and a gtx1080.

I'm still on a i5 2500k @4ghz with 8gb ram.

I'm going to see how it runs, eventually I will upgrade rest of my machine.

In the mean time, what are some top tips before it comes Monday, in regards to software I can download now or anything I can do to make install/ playing as painless as possible? cheers
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I ahve a 15 2500k @ 4.2 paired with a zotac 1070 and it runs every game I have tried superbly, super sampling at 1.5 as well.. You will have no problem at ll.
 
hyperseven said:
thinking of these or the 6mm replacement foam leatherette ones.

how much do these collapse/squish by when wearing as they seem quite thick so might affect FOV.
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Actually it's very squishy and does not affect FOV, and I wear glasses with it too. I'm pretty impressed. MUCH better than the original foam. VR Headsets should ship with this soft faux leather as standard.
 
Well unfortantely as much as I love the Vive and think it's an excellent bit of kit I've started the returns process with OcUK. It still makes me feel sick beyond belief, a 20/30min session results in 3 hours of sickness afterwards and sometime eyes strain following into the next morning. I have checked for the best setup in reddit with no luck. I have now got to the point of replicating the feeling of sickness just by the thought of playing it.
Really enjoyed the Vive but just sickness is one of the worst feelings and I can't justify it.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Well unfortantely as much as I love the Vive and think it's an excellent bit of kit I've started the returns process with OcUK. It still makes me feel sick beyond belief, a 20/30min session results in 3 hours of sickness afterwards and sometime eyes strain following into the next morning. I have checked for the best setup in reddit with no luck. I have now got to the point of replicating the feeling of sickness just by the thought of playing it.
Really enjoyed the Vive but just sickness is one of the worst feelings and I can't justify it.
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Sorry to hear that, what games were you playing or was it all games?
 
It was most of them tbh, tonight being the last straw when I was playing with settings for Raw Data (low fps is a killer) and dropping down into the first mission on the open view lift I nealy had to visit the toilet area of my house. Also Brookhaven always got me in the end.
 
That's a real shame, especially considering the power of your rig you should have been getting smooth frames the whole time.

Any indications of what kind of things you didn't agree with?
 
The only time i feel dizzy is when banking left and right in flight sims even then it goes away when i level out. What fps you getting im game maybe your just sensative to low fps. Do you feel sick in the lab?. Try supersampling off for a bit to help frame rates. Its a shame cos it is an excellent bit of kit everyone whos tried it is blow away, only my gf gets queezy and thats not very often.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
It was most of them tbh, tonight being the last straw when I was playing with settings for Raw Data (low fps is a killer) and dropping down into the first mission on the open view lift I nealy had to visit the toilet area of my house. Also Brookhaven always got me in the end.
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Damn that sucks man :(

Sounds like you are unlucky in the sense that nothing you could do would prevent the feeling of sickness (at least not with the current generation of VR headsets).

I have experienced the feeling of queasiness once when my framerate took a huge dive in VR Funhouse. Not a nice feeling at all.

On the point around frame rates I took the decision yesterday that I needed to improve my VR performance and ordered a GTX 1070. It is only the "cheapo" KFA2 blower model but case restriction (Fractal Design Node 202 ITX) and wanting a card that vents heat outside the case forced my hand somewhat.

For anyone interested the KFA2 blower (and by extension the MSI Aero) are basically the Founders edition minus the metal shroud. The HSF assembly and base plate are identical from what I can tell.

After a very quick test using the Steam VR Performance test my result has gone from ~5.6 with my Titan (@1100/6600) to 10.9 with the 1070 at stock (no idea what clocks as MSI Afterburner only read 540....).

Very pleased with that result.

EDIT: Restarted PC, re-installed Afterburner and the card is clocking to ~1820Mhz out of the box and now scoring 11 with 1 dropped frame. :)

Now I am just waiting on another delivery which includes the Lighthouse stands and I am ready to move to my new "play" area. :D
 
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Sickness is a shame. I am prone to nausea quite easily but can put long vive sessions on and feel fine. The only bad experience was 2 nights ago playing assetto corsa for the first time and after 20 mins felt really sick. Actually made me physically sick. Found a tip online for racing games called real head motion so used that and assetto corsa is now fine again.
 
Just played one of these (some star wars test and another racing game) at my gf's brothers. Seems pretty fun and no serious issues of motion sickness for me! (shame I'm rubbish at driving games).

It does feel odd that given the price the lcd quality seems a bit poor (compared to a decent monitor)
 
Yeah genuinely gutted about the Vive I thought it was excellent and really enjoyed playing it would recommend it to any-one. I said it was the future of gaming which I still think it will be, but at the same time I hope it won't. Not sure if future VR releases will be better for me but I doubt it.
I set SS to 1.5 and had 90fps all the time so it wasn't really lack of fps. Warping around in Budget Cuts or anything else was really bad causing really cold clammy sweats, I felt like a 5 year old that had played to much "dizzy dinosaur" when I came off the Vive, but it lasted the rest of the day.
 
Man that's a shame. VR has a long way to go for the masses. I'm OK in all the standing stuff I've played.

However pcars makes me nauseous... Its the lack of g's that makes me feel weird.
 
it's only really subnautica that does me in now, I'm avoiding it till it gets better optimisation for the vive.

My cure for the sickness though, the gym. You might not feel like it, but 5-10 minutes in to working a sweat up, it goes away.
 
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