EXPERIMENTAL: Virtual Reality

Just wanted to give a massive thanks for supporting VR. It's hard playing without it now

 

I love the VR mode!

But just some issues:
- The map is clearly missaligned in vr mode, you cant correctly set waypoints
- On the Quest 3, quest link is'nt working correctly, I only get a few fps, while virtual desktop works fine
- Additional windows like the fps meter will not show in vr. Thats especially an issue on servers like carp
- I cant get the open xr toolkit running?
- a lot of sequences that are shown in the beginning of missions like "from workshop to workshop" are really f'd up. The camera is doing loopings before I can see the description of the weather, traffic ect. of the upcoming tour. I'd really like to vomit less! So pleeeeease for the love of god let us disable it entirely in vr mode. The same for the zoom out when opening the map. While it is not a huge problem for me personally, I just cant justify getting my friends used to vr, if they need to start an ejector seat everytime they look on the map.

Other than that, Beam NG is soo perfect for VR! <3

 

Firstly thank you for supporting VR and Steynak to you for absolutely perfect support and deep knowledge.


I have found that less ui elements in vr is better for immersion so wanted to say that in career mode red warning box about how it is experimental is big offender in this regard. So if it could be for example acknowledged and hidden - that would be great.


Thanks!

 

That's your first message in eight years (well, eight years in four days)? Wow.

 

Maybe, just maybe i have some old account and just logged in throught steam today. Either way it is not bussin.buses business and is offtopic.

 

My car turns invisible when i get into VR. Any fixes for this?

 

How to fix missing textures when in VR?

 

bottom half of textures and pause menu missing in VR mode. tried to open in safe mode+vulkan but this error (in picture) was shown.

tried clearing cache and even reinstalling the game. nothing works

 

A fix for VR water is all I want from the next update. Also add ck graphics mod options into the base game please, it helps SO MUCH with performance and pop in.

 

for some reason, the controller lines only appear when the mirroring mode is set to "between eyes" i usually use the "empty" option for fastest performance and enabling the "between eyes" options adds quite a bit of latency, without the lines i find it really hard to press triggers.

 

Has anyone managed to run VR with the following hardware combo?:

• Intel A770 16 GB
• PICO4

Anything I tried doesn't work, the best I got was to connect with SteamVR, got no image inside the headset, but got the streamed image controlled by my movements on the PC display, with some heavy artifacts.
I noticed that also I sometimes get artifacts inside the Vulkan client, but I think it's unrelated to the topic.

 

Maybe it this is helpful, but when I start the SteamVR, I continuously get this message in the debug console:

Code:

Sat Mar 23 2024 23:52:45.210 [Info] - vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2 failed with result -11
Sat Mar 23 2024 23:52:45.210 [Error] - ComposeLayerProjection: failed to submit view 1: VRCompositorError_SharedTexturesNotSupported

 

This doesn't seem to work. Checked Steam and Oculus software and no changes have been made to resolution, still can't push resolution past 100%. I'll just wait for more updates.

 

When I Click Activate It Wont Do Anything And When I Open The Console It Says this (attached image)
my headset is connected too

 

The vr experience right now is pretty playable, i dont know which patch/update did it, but for me it uses lot less vram. Low end users dont give up hope (unless you want to play italy / wcusa).
I have i3-10100f, 2x8gb ram, gtx 1060 3GB, i use Oculus Rift (no steamvr running) and game is running on my HDD. In the past, i would get around 5gb vram usage, but currently it sits around 3.2gb (shared vram).
I always start vr in main menu, and dont change any graphic settings ingame (i do it before vr).

Graphic settings i use are : everything lowest, except (Lighting low, AF x16, grass density 0.6, VR resolution 98%). Ive also noticed that having lightning set to lowest causes the sea to render bad (doesnt render far, different between eyes).
I also turned ASW off, as its horrible if you cannot keep stable framerate constantly. While the fps isnt much to brag about, it is mostly a smooth experience, and fps stays mostly around ~44 and sometimes dips around ~22 depending on map. Ive also noticed having 2 ai traffic cars and 1 parked doesnt have too much effect on fps / stability. I also have ~50 mods installed.

I have tested it on my own map (soon on repo maybe), jungle rock, and east coast. East coast is the most stable one, rarely dips to ~22 fps, while the other two frequently dip. (in the last screenshot i set lighting to lowest to show the sea rendering incorrectly, compared to other ones) (P.S i am leaning in the pictures cuz of my keyboard so i can screenshot)

 

Is there a a way to fix screen tearing in a headset when playing beamng?

 

Quest 2