SteamVR Resolution not native anymore

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@DannyDan @DJSlanr
You might want to have a look at some old posts of mine:

How the render target resolutions and the supersampling factors of Pimax and SteamVR work together

I have already expressed it in many replies, but since there are still new people coming in and being confused I decided to dedicate the thread to this topic. First I need to point out that all numbers I will present later were: recorded at Pimax 5k+ running, PiTool v1.0.1.91 and firmware v181 They should not change between the different versions, because they are basically defined by the optics, which does not change either, but its good to keep it in mind anyway. How OpenVR (SteamVR) works OpenVR subsystem (which is exposed as SteamVR app to the user) uses a headset driver (which is act…

All the parallel FOVs of Pimax 5k+

This post is a follow up to my original post on the subject (All the different FOVs of Pimax 5k+), which should be probably rather renamed to All the native FOVs of Pimax 5k+ as all it addressed were the FOVs, when parallel projection (PP) was turned off, but I leave it as it is. I did not really expect that PP on would change the FOV(s), it would change the actual view geometry, but should not change the overall FOV (both one eye and stereo). However inspired by @VTS post (Parallel projections option renders too big vertical FOV and 25% performance is lost) I decided to redo the analysis wit…

All the different FOVs of Pimax 5k+

Recently I was looking at projection matrices and from where they come and realized that there is actually finally the info available about what the different FOVs offered by Pimax mean. Just for the record I should state that I run the tests on: Pimax 5k+ PiTool v1.0.1.91 (HMD Firmware v181) Parallel projection OFF If for some reason Pimax decide to change the headset characteristics, these results become obsolete. They also may differ for Pimax 8k. EDIT 15.4.2019: I have added another post to address the configuration with the parallel projection turned on (All the parallel FOVs of Pima…

The first one in particular explains (or at least tries ) why there is no direct relation between the display resolution and the rendering resolution.

Unfortunately, the links in posts do not work anymore as Pimax changed the forum domain and did not change the links. So I am listing them here explicitly. If you find other links which do not work, try changing .ai top level domain in the URL to .com.

EDIT: Seems to be fixed now, thanks to @Heliosurge