Elite Dangerous Setup Guide - Lets make it Dark Again :)

Pimax 8K Series
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Lol. Point taken.
Ill try to keep my eye out for ghosting as i wasnt looking for it before.
I suspect ill be changing those settings at some point

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The sound when you press F12 was probably Steam taking a screenshot…

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Thanks for these configuration tips! The blacks are quite good with these settings. Removing the station haze also helps a lot with the clarity of station environments.

I reduced the quality in the graphics settings and set the HMD quality to 0.75 in the game in order to get 90 fps without smart smoothing. Otherwise I get around 45 fps in stations and 60 fps in space. Smart smoothing isn’t enough for a fluid experience when you are in combat.

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Yeah F12 is stupidly always a SS in Steam. High pitch tone.

@Nifter - does that not really make the image awful?

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It’s not awful but it’s certainly a bit more blurry. I’m using an i5-4690k and 2080 ti.

The biggest fall in quality are the ships that are farther than 4km away. They are harder to distinguish against the sky. Look more like a mess of pixels instead of a ship. However once I fly closer than 2km to my target I can make out the details of the ship just fine.

To me there’s a big difference between 45 fps smart smoothing and 90 real fps for high paced combat. I think smart smoothing is better for slower paced games or games where it’s completely impossible to reach 90 fps like Fallout 4 VR.

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I honestly think even 45fps in Haz Res’ is acceptable to me. And that’s without this fancy Brainstuff. It’s not generally a super fast paced game. 45fps feels like 90 to me.

I use around 4000x in Steam and 1.25 in game, with SS in-game set to 0.65. Try that and see if it ‘feels’ ok.

ED on this headset is amazing. The first time I came up from a planetary hanger was amazing.

I am currently jumping to the Galactic Core to see what a Black Hole looks like in VR

:slight_smile:

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Be careful , I lost my RTX 2080ti in Black Hole…

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What?!? :wink: …

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seriously my card burned in Sag A, I did RMA and waiting 3 weeks already for return to my place

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you need to set center button in game option , go to binding options , micelenious and look for „center hmd”

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BTW due to recent changes, you can only center the head in game or during the load screen. It doesn’t work on the screen with the Eagle and SRV

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For me it does work even in the hangar. Just make sure that the button you mapped for the HMD re-center does not collide with any of the buttons used for the menus.
Just for the record, I am using Xbox One controller and I have it mapped to “Y”+“Left trigger”.

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Weird. It definitely doesn’t work for me in the hangar despite having it bound

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Works for me even on the initial loading screen… I have it bound to a button on my Throttle… Warthog. The program MUST have focus however… I use Joyfocus.ahk to make sure Elite has focus as soon as my throttle moves etc… it sounds to me that maybe Elite is loosing focus…

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In my case, if ED loses the focus, my XBox controller does not work at all. But I agree that what @TonytotheB experiences is strange. I had previously a problem in the hangar with “HMD re-center” when I had it mapped to the combo which used one of D-PAD buttons. This did not work, because D-PAD was captured by menu control and the combo was not recognized (while in game it worked ok).

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Weird. Must be my config. Works during load and in-game. Not in the hangar. Oh well. At least it works somewhere

I flew to ‘Black in Green’ last night. Black hole in VR using a Pimax - wow!!

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When I first tried ED it was all washed out color wise. After some tweaking and moving Piplay up to 1.5 it now look great. Steam app 100% Steam VR 20% Game hmd 1.5. fov normal and 64fps. Runs smooth enough for my play style.
I must have lucked out on 5K+ panels as I find the blacks to be great. As good as my Rift.

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Piplay? Can you explain a wee bit further how you got better colours?

I find 45-65 fps is fine in this game as it’s not fast paced. Even when dogfighting in a High Rez.

I find my blacks better now than the first headset I had (replaced due to dead pixels)

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Not sure why it was washed out on my first run. I have been running piplay as high as I can (2.0 in some games). I think I also have gamma cranked up but will have to check that. Seems like the more you can push PP the better the result, but again I’m not sure.
I also moved to PP beta and latest Nvidia drivers.

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Maybe I am being dense sorry… you mean PiTool SS?

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