3 questions / issues with VR
Posted: 10 Jun 2022 21:41
Hi. I am testing VR and I'm so impressed with VR implementation in Heli-X. Performance is great, and ability to control menus / HUD without taking off your headset is just great. best graphics and performance from all sims I tested (Accu, next, RF).
3 issues though:
1. All photo maps are very dark in VR. They look normal in "preview window" but are dark inside the headset. I have to crank "brightness" (in Wind / Brightness) but this washes out shadows. Heli is sometimes dark, but mostly it is dark for 1 second after spawning, and then becomes lighter. Photo field is always dark. Also, when you select the airport in the dialog window, preview bitmap is dark. Like some gamma not applied to textures. It's flyable, but I think not correct and makes a very dramatic effect. Can this be adjusted somewhere?
2. I normally fly at home with a notebook, external screen and Reverb G2 headset and stuff works. But I'm just on travel in a hotel, and have same notebook and headset, but no external screen. And Heli-X doesn't run in VR. It starts, preview windows shows everything ok (camera moves when I move the headset, I can click and go to menu), but in the headset everything is black. And it shows very heavy CPU usage and ~25 FPS. What could be wrong? I downloaded the alternative installation (to be used if heli-X does not start), but no change. Notebook is powered and other sims work fine.
3. Sometimes mouse works in heli-X when I have my headset on. But sometimes not, and I have to press Win+Y key to switch the input. What could be the reason?
Besides issues, really great VR implementation. It's so great to change settings without removing the headset all the time, just so nice..
3 issues though:
1. All photo maps are very dark in VR. They look normal in "preview window" but are dark inside the headset. I have to crank "brightness" (in Wind / Brightness) but this washes out shadows. Heli is sometimes dark, but mostly it is dark for 1 second after spawning, and then becomes lighter. Photo field is always dark. Also, when you select the airport in the dialog window, preview bitmap is dark. Like some gamma not applied to textures. It's flyable, but I think not correct and makes a very dramatic effect. Can this be adjusted somewhere?
2. I normally fly at home with a notebook, external screen and Reverb G2 headset and stuff works. But I'm just on travel in a hotel, and have same notebook and headset, but no external screen. And Heli-X doesn't run in VR. It starts, preview windows shows everything ok (camera moves when I move the headset, I can click and go to menu), but in the headset everything is black. And it shows very heavy CPU usage and ~25 FPS. What could be wrong? I downloaded the alternative installation (to be used if heli-X does not start), but no change. Notebook is powered and other sims work fine.
3. Sometimes mouse works in heli-X when I have my headset on. But sometimes not, and I have to press Win+Y key to switch the input. What could be the reason?
Besides issues, really great VR implementation. It's so great to change settings without removing the headset all the time, just so nice..