Just brought a Pimax for watching SBS Movies and 360 video.
My PC is good spec but the graphics are onboard - so the software keeps telling me my graphics are insufficent and it will only play in extended mode. Is this why I cant get headtracking to work?
Whats the cheapest option to get the films and videos playing in the highest resolution of the Pimax hardware? I’m not into gaming so I don’t need to go overboard (and I don’t want to spend too much either!)
Also the headphones dont come up as an audio device in windows. any ideas?
It’s not been a pleasurable user experience so far!
I think the official minimum system requirement is an GTX960 GPU. I don’t think Pimax officially supports onboard GPU’s. However I remember some people succesfully used that before for movie watching, not sure how they did it, but you can most likely find it if you search the forums a bit.
thanks for your replies guys, it’s a relatively new pc that I brought for music production so the rest of the machine isn’t sluggish at all.
i7-7700k
32gb ram
I’ll have to look at upgrading my graphics by the looks of things, just seems crazy that my phone can play 360 stuff in a vr case no problems and a PC worth £1300 can’t do the same thing! haha
But wait, you’re saying in extended mode you can use the headset ? Then you can watch movies, that’s what you want, right ? And what do you mean with headtracking not working ?
Can you send us your PC model and the vendor please, so we could google for all pc specifications?
If there is no specific model - are you sure your pc has no discrete graphic card? Its really weird if someone builds a PC with 32gb ram and brandnew CPU without a graphic card.
But what do you guys even mean with ‘headtracking’ ? You mean regular gyro data ? That should work under extended mode. The whole idea is that under extended mode the Pimax emulates an (old version of) Oculus under ‘Oculus extended mode’. So it’s not just a ‘display’ it really works like an old version of the Oculus, including what, I assume, you guys call ‘head tracking’.
Under ‘pimax mode’ it opens its own drivers that plug into Steam.
It is possible to connect a desktop gfx card to a laptop. Just have a Google on using desktop graphics cards on laptop and you will find instructions how to do it
@ericuk Hi, which Piplay version you installed? The latest Piplay may auto detect PC config and switch to a lite Piplay if PC can not meet the minimum requirement (GTX960 / AMD R9 290).
“Extend mode” you referred that is “Video mode” that only used for watching regular 2D / 3D videos. You still can manually switch to complete Piplay version in Piplay setting and then you will see “Video mode” and “Pimax mode”. Pimax mode can be used for 180 / 360 degree panoramic videos.
Your PC config is good except Intel HD Graphics 630 that similar to NVIDIA GT730 card. It may play some small VR videos I think.
I think I might know whats bothering you here… I had the same issue before.
My guess is that you are not connecting the HDMI from the HMD directly to the gfx card.
Try to connect the pimax HDMI cable without any adapter or extension straight to the HDMI port itself.
My case is that i tried to be too intelligent. I have a breakout box from my HTC Vive.
So i just connects my Pimax USB and HDMI directly to it. Lo and behold extended mode
Once i just connects the pimax cables directly to my computer … problem solved.
Somehow HTC Vive cables are not 4K compatible.
