Yes probably. maybe I miss something here but why should Pimax send a headset to a major site for a review when it’s not100% ready also bad judgement? No?
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That is TH procedure based on testing results using the idea of a user being able to install & pickup & play.
It clearly says it’s a pre-release headset & the software not finished.
Rating of 3/5 stars is decent. A follow up prior to pre-orders opening demonstrating that Steam’s Dynamic Resolution working will fix the rating. A 4/5 as it works as advertised.
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All other finished and already available headset with controller are given 4/5 except one
I don’t see why we should over dramatized a 3/5 score, if Pimax does there job, it should easily go to 4/5 like any other.
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No, I was asking him if he can sort out his review showing an incorrect 3/10 rating on the UK site. He has since replied and we have moved on.
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Pumcy is one of the testers. TH has procedures for reviewing hesdsets. No different than when users got all fired up because the v5 didn’t receive a glowing review on RdToVR.
Pumcy’s article has some flipping out because the headset was tested according to default settings & not tweaked to work.
So the headset is not working well due to the Bug pimax has with Steam’s Dynamic Resolution thinking the gpu can do crazy high resolution render targets.
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So once again bad communication by Pimax with the testers ;-(
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In away yes. Pimax knowing this bug all too well, should have sent Pumcy a package as sn official source mentioning they are working on correcting this bug.
It wouldn’t change the rating but could be used as an official source from pimax.
In a nutshell it is an early access review as it states it is a pre relesse product & as such does not perform at default settings on reccommended requirements.
Anyone following TH would know pimax has started shipping the headsets with software unfinished. (Beta)
@Pumcy Hey bud, can you give us more information on this ‘scoring error’ that still hasn’t been changed? This one seems fine to me in spite of this “mysterious and unsolvable” site problem… unless its supposed to be 14/10? I don’t think we are having an honest dialogue here… I suppose you could argue that this review is not connected across sites in the same way? But then… if you did… you’d just be pointing out that it could be edited and fixed easily…
https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/das-keyboard-5q-mechanical,review-34535.html
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It’s right in the review.
Admittedly, it could have been better placed to make it easier to find if you’re just browsing through.
Surprisingly, SteamVR’s recommended resolution is still too much for our RTX 2080. Steam suggested setting the resolution scaling at 76 percent, which produces a 2686 x 2295 image per eye. Despite the significant reduction in pixel count, our RTX 2080 still couldn’t keep up with the 90Hz display. Our system pumped out an average of 67.55 fps, which is barely enough of an improvement to merit the image quality reduction.
The GTX 1070 didn’t do much better with the SteamVR recommended resolution scaling of 36 percent, which reduced the resolution to 1849 x 1579. This resulted in lower image quality than what we’re used to with the Vive headset.
The 100% scaling resolution was 3081x2632.
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Simply Put TH has been notified & hasn’t fixed it as of yet.
site has correct rating 3/5
The 
site updated wrong & should read 6/10.
What are you talking about? Either its a database issue or it isn’t. How can one review have a score of 7/10 and others have this mysterious doubling issue? Stop randomly defending stuff and use your brain please. If a review can have a 7/10 score like the one I posted, then clearly there is no “deep difficult to find” issue meaning the 5K+ review is stuck like this. Come on @Heliosurge, seriously …
I have no clue. All I can tell you is what the managing staff for the website have told me.
If they are lying, I can’t do anything about it. I am not a Tom’s Hardware employee. I am a freelance writer and TH is my client.
As I’ve stated several times, I have zero control of what happens with the rating. I don’t even have access to put it on the article in the first place.
I was told there’s a bug in the website and they are working on it. I don’t know what the holdup is, but I really can’t do anything about it.
All I can tell you, is the score I submitted was 6/10 or 3/5.
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You could send TH a gentle message about the error on their site.
Pumcy has reported the issue but as explained has no control of the article after published(Freelancer Journalist). TH team is likely trying to find a fix but for whatever reason has not got it corrected.
But I would reccommend area backers send polite notification of the rating error compared to the site.
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“I have no clue” - *Stops listening to tech journalist who has 3 day old article with score up for a company that clearly also has a 7/10 score on another product from 2 weeks ago…
That’s your problem not listening.
Pumcy = Freelance Writer
Writes Articles & TH buys them off him. TH publishes review. Pumcy has no longer owns the article. (The Article becomes TH’s Intellectual property)
Pumcy not an employee of TH & thus 0 ability to fix TH’s bug.
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what the fuck do you want from me?
I don’t own the goddamn website. I don’t have access to the backend of the UK site to make any changes. I’ve explained it several times.
I’m not responsible for the screwup and I don’t have control over it.
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I’m not blaming him, I’m asking why you’re both repeating this bizarre “website issue”. Which clearly doesn’t exist if you engage your brain for 2 seconds. I’m happy to be corrected if someone can explain this ‘unsolvable’ disparity with the link I posted for the 7/10 review.
As I’ve explained, that is the story the management of the website has told me. Beyond that, I do not have a clue what’s going on.
It’s not the only article that’s doing that. The two week old RTX 2080 article is also doing the same thing.
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Now, can we get back to discussing something productive instead of beating the dead horse that is the rating that is out of my control?
There was some comments about Pimax needing to fix the SteamVR Dynamic Resolution. I’m pretty confident that’s out of their hands.
The way I understand it, Valve built support for the Windows MR and Vive Pro headsets into SteamVR to enable the proper scaling.
The algorithm probably isn’t updated for the Pimax headsets because either A) not enough people are using these devices to build a profile, or B) Valve needs to get its hands on a headset to do the updates manually.
I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the resolution scaling will continue to change every time Pimax makes a change to the way PiTool handles the resolution of the displays.
I suspect that we won’t see a proper set resolution until Pimax has completed the UI and firmware changes.
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