[New users attention!]Frequently Asked Questions During Using

Common problems the serial number, corresponding solution, continuously updated in…

  1. Piplay not search equipment.
  2. Piplay always searching for the device.
  3. Pimax headphone has no sound.
  4. Pimax has been prompting the firmware upgrade all the time.
  5. Pimax inside screen Angle of 90 degrees.
  6. Extend mode has no image in headset when start a game.
  7. Why do games can’t run, or the game running on an error.

1. Piplay not search equipment


Cause: USB or HDMI signal is not detected.
Solution:

  1. Check that both HDMI and USB are connected to the computer.
  2. Check if HDMI is connected to the computer’s discrete graphics card and the monitor is connected to a discrete graphics card too (if the computer’s discrete graphics card has only one HDMI port, the monitor can be connected to the DP or DVI port.) The desktop computer ensures that the integrated graphics card is not working and Not connected to any other display device).
  3. Check whether the helmet light is blue, if not blue to re-plug HDMI.
  4. Check the “Task Manager” → “Services” → “PiserviceLauncher” is running, you can restart the service
  5. Check the USB drive is normal, Device Manager, whether the driver is not installed equipment. Try to install USB Universal Driver .
  6. Try to restart computer.

2. Piplay always searching for the device.


Cause: USB or HDMI signal is not detected or other software lead a fail to Piplay driver.

  1. Check that both HDMI and USB are connected to the computer.
  2. Check if HDMI is connected to the computer’s discrete graphics card and the monitor is connected to a discrete graphics card too (if the computer’s discrete graphics card has only one HDMI port, the monitor can be connected to the DP or DVI port.) The desktop computer ensures that the integrated graphics card is not working and Not connected to any other display device).
  3. Check whether the helmet light is blue, if not blue to re-plug HDMI.
  4. Check the “Task Manager” → “Services” → “PiserviceLauncher” is running, you can restart the service
  5. Check the USB drive is normal, Device Manager, whether the driver is not installed equipment. Try to install USB Universal Driver .
  6. Update the latest graphics driver.
  7. Check it if you have set up the oculus drivers, if you do have, you can unistall it and re-plug Pimax USB to
    see whether Pimax can get connected normal.
  8. Switch the lower right corner of Pimax icon to Pimax mode to see whether it is working normal.

3. Pimax headphone has no sound.
Cause: The Audio driver on the graphics card is not correctly recognized and set as the default device
Solution:

  1. Right-click the lower right corner of the computer sound icon, open the playback device. Set the Pimax as the default device.
  2. If you do not install the audio part of the video card driver will cause the computer does not recognize Pimax headphones, update and install the complete video card driver.
  3. A small part of the user set the HDMI sound off the motherboard option, if the above methods are useless, you can check whether the motherboard HDMI sound option turned off, you can reopen it to make Pimax work normal.

4. Pimax has been prompting the firmware upgrade all the time.
Cause: The DFU upgrade driver is not installed properly or is missing the Microsoft runtime.
Solution:

  1. Set up a new USE driver(STMMicroelectronices DFU device drivers) and restart Piplay after that.
  2. Please use the Microsoft common runtime to repair and restart Piplay.

5. Pimax inside screen Angle of 90 degrees.
Cause: Some people open Piplay with a wrong position when change mode.
Solution:

  1. Right-click desktop resolution, set the Pimax’s display direction to the same as the main display.

6. Extend mode has no image in headset when start a game.
Reason: the game is running automatically when the game screen display in your main screen. But if your game’s default resolution is bigger than or smaller than your main screen resolution, the game screen will “run Offset”, between the two screens.
Solution: 1. This time is actually your game is not fully into your VR screen, you can move your mouse to drag the game all into the VR, and then click to maximize (ALT + ENTER key is to maximize the switch hot key).

7. Why do games can’t run, or the game running on an error.
Reasons: 1. Some games only support WIN7 and WIN8 (extended mode games mostly) Part of the game only supports WIN8.1WIN10 system (similar to the virtual desktop)
2. The lack of the corresponding game runtime, or DX tools
Solution: 1. If there is some game itself does not support the system, may not be a good way.
2. Install the commonly used 3D game runtime, DX tool repair, install DX11

2 Likes

Hello, my pimax has recently started the wanting to update firmware. It was working fine a month ago. I was happily playing games on steam in vr. Then I put the goggles aside for a few weeks, (just basically got sidetracked with other things)
Yesterday I decided I wanted to play Elite dangerous in vr again. As soon as I started up the goggles, it asked for a firmware upgrade and then it got stuck in that process and now my pimax is a 300$ useless paperweight.
I tried following the very vague directions on this site to get the firmware downloaded properly (downloaded the firmware file and then tried the holding the buttons and letting them go one at a time, slowly while plugging in the usb) But this has so far been a complete waste of my time.

now i see in the directions you have above, it says "Set up a new USE driver(STMMicroelectronices DFU device drivers) " Now what the heck does that mean???, do i have to download a file from somewhere?? or does it mean i have to configure something that is a part of windows already??
Then the next step says “Please use the Microsoft common runtime to repair and restart Piplay.”
Now I will ask again, do I have to search for this file to download?? When I did a search I got something like “Update 4.0.3 for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 – Runtime Update”
So is that the file I should download??
I would appreciate some straight answers.

You know you guys should really be warning people before they buy this thing that is basically still in beta testing mode and you will be keyboard mashing to try to get this thing running.

Seriously!!!

1 Like

Sorry,my post is too concise.
STMMicroelectronices DFU device drivers) means DFU driver.
Microsoft common runtime is writted by Microsoft Visual Studio 20XX.
Don’t worry about this. We will start our air service so that you can download files on it.