SpaceGazelle wrote:

Kernowgaz wrote:

I’ve got a cable to connect my Quest 3 to the PC, as my WiFi connection wasn’t that great with STEAM VR. Well I’ve tried Flight Simulator and it ran well and looked great apart from this sort of screen tearing effect. Looked into it and I think it had something to do with screen warping, I’ll sort that later. Tried Half Life Alyx, initially it was stunning over Steam link but the picture got worse. I then connected my headset with the cable but it wouldn’t work with Steam and I got a 215 error code, which was fucking annoying as it looked stunning at first. Hopefully it won’t take long to figure out. Finally I tried a Lone Echo experience thing from the Oculus store, WOW just fucking WOW the graphics were amazing, it worked perfectly over the Oculus app unlike Alyx.

When you do get it working I can recommend...

VTOL:

Currently on Sale and built for VR rather than just VR'ing a regular flight sim. Loads of mods and we can do MP if you get it. Dog fighting so much fun in MP, the controls just nail it. The community is great and the mod missions are superb. Dual cockpit training aircraft is the way to go if you want to be taught as it's no arcade shooter.




Bootstrap Island:

Early access but it's already great. As immersive as VR gets.

Elite Dangerous:

Works best with a powerful rig as you want graphics on MAX.

The Lab:

Free Valve game built to show off VR with minigames and other stuff to to.

Plus Alyx obvs. You can also pirate Quest games and use them on PC with extra shinies. Lone Echo 2 with better resolution is a beaut.

Cheers Gazelle and Hair. Just had a 90 min play of Alyx and fucking hell, what a game and bizarrely how the fuck have they not followed up with a sequel? I guess there’s mods made by other people? And I’m sure I’ve seen something called contracts?

I’ve only got it to work over Steam Link but the cable doesn’t work properly (which is strange, as it should and the games would look better). With the cable on Alyx it’s just crashed when you see the valve logo with the bald bloke with a valve in his head.

With the cable using the Oculus app I can play Lone Echo and Stormland with no problems apart from an occasional flicker in Stormland but I imagine I just need to play with the settings. I think the issue could be agreed to a data option that popped up when I connected the cable, it’s at 6.50 in the video below.



I need to find out how to reset the headset so I can connect the headset like it’s the first time I’ve done it.

I’ve got enough games at the mo but will keep an eye on Boot Strap Island though. How do get a pirated copy of Lone Echo 2? It’s only £22 with a referral code though.

How long is the campaign Kow?

Well the issue for me is Alyx, it crashes at the same bit. The part when you see the VALVE emblem and the blokes bald head, with the cable or Steam Link. I need to buy another VR game on Steam to see if it’s ok.

The Lab worked ok though, this is why I hate PC’s

I used a small WiFi usb dongle a while back - had to fanny around a bit with sharing WiFi or some weird settings but it saved having to use a whole router.

Kow wrote:

I never managed to get the cable working properly, it was always shit. I think part is the problem was that it was before the Valve app was released and every time you went into Steam it also opened the Oculus pc app too and caused all kinds of shit. Works flawlessly via wifi now. Could you borrow a 5g router and see if that solves the problem? There's no way the wireless option will work without 5g.

I’ve got a 5g router already, it’s a Bt Homehub 2. One minute it works, the next it crashes on the fat bald head with a valve in it. Should I turn the valve?

Oh I don't know so. Alyx runs flawlessly for me via the Stream app. Doesn't even drop a frame

Kow wrote:

Oh I don't know so. Alyx runs flawlessly for me via the Stream app. Doesn't even drop a frame

Dunno if it’s because my PC has been on for hours downloading shit when I tried it last but when I first tried it, it was perfect. For me, it’s the fact it crashes on the bald cunts head.

Cheers dj - that’s good info, now there’s a whole new world of Wi-Fi dongles to explore…

Elmlea wrote:

What do people mean when they talk about a 5G router exactly?  5G as in the mobile signal?

You should have it if you've been vaccinated anyway

Kernowgaz wrote:

Kow wrote:

Oh I don't know so. Alyx runs flawlessly for me via the Stream app. Doesn't even drop a frame

Dunno if it’s because my PC has been on for hours downloading shit when I tried it last but when I first tried it, it was perfect. For me, it’s the fact it crashes on the bald cunts head.

Well I’ve since read that I have to change a setting from Oculus to Steam and it should as there’s a conflicting if it’s set as Oculus. Fingers crossed as it’s pissing me off

Right, I did wonder; I know wifi standards up to ac/ax, wifi 6 etc, but I figured it'd be impossible to get a pure 2.4GHz router now so got a bit confused there.

So if I've got an ax router, I should be fine for this; is Q3 wifi 6 compatible?  Still haven't priced let along bought a PC to actually try some PCVR stuff, but it's a plan.

Well it “seems” deleting Steam VR and reinstalling got it to work. I crashed on my because I selected the home button on the left controller, I booted it up again and it worked again.

Can I use the Steam VR app to run my Oculus games? I don’t want to start changing things in the menu as it now works.

Cheers. I’m tempted to get Virtual Desktop as its only a tenner and supposed great with more options

Cheers Hair. If only I could read word you’ve crossed out. But where would you get 4k crossed out word from?