Problem raceroom VR experience

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  1. david ponsdesserre

    david ponsdesserre New Member

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    Dear all ,

    I am trying to get RR works with my brand new pimax crystal light but when I launch the game in VR I only have a small windows opening in the top left corner of my main screen (not the headset) and there is nothing I can do to act on this window .

    I have tried multiple tips and tricks I found online but nothing works .

    Has someone already experienced the same issue and how did you resolve it ?

    thanks
    K
     
  2. MJFox

    MJFox New Member

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    in your steam library right click on R3E, go to Properties, then Set Launch Options, and put "-vr 2.0" (without quotes) in the box ("2.0" is the super sampling rate so you can lower or increase the value depending on your hardware)
     
  3. david ponsdesserre

    david ponsdesserre New Member

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    hello , I already tried and the outcome of this is having a green screen coming up in the headset without any possibility to do any action on this screen ... i also tried to verify the game integrity ... no luck
     
  4. MJFox

    MJFox New Member

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    that's strange, I have a Pimax Crystal Light too and it works like that for me

    are you using SteamVR or OpenXR?
     
  5. david ponsdesserre

    david ponsdesserre New Member

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    I did not find a way to use RR with openxr .... so I am trying to use steamvr
     
  6. MJFox

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    same here, I could not get openxr to work with R3E, but with SteamVR it works fine

    one thing I noticed is that I have to disable FFR in PimaxPlay for R3E to work, otherwise it crashes on launch

    do you have FFR enabled in PimaxPlay?
     
  7. david ponsdesserre

    david ponsdesserre New Member

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    I need to check .... but I am pretty sure I am not
     
  8. MJFox

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    by the way, I guess it's obvious, but just to make sure: after adding "-vr 2.0" to the launch options you need to launch the game in normal (non-vr) mode

    I created two batch-files that run the raceroom.exe, one with the vr-option, one without it (so I can launch both versions without having to change the launch options in steam back and forth)
     
  9. david ponsdesserre

    david ponsdesserre New Member

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    yep I tried all this . I just also tried to uninstall the game complety , delete all config files and re-do a clean installation on another drive ............. the problem is even worse and the screen I have on the top left of may main screen is not even smaller :)
     
  10. Tomasz Kipran

    Tomasz Kipran New Member

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    Hi, try different values after the "-vr" parameter. If I remember well I had the same issue when launching the game with -VR 1.5 or so. After launch all I had was a tiny game window in the corner and after changing to a different value the problem disappeared. I'm using Quest 3 headset and currently running -vr 2.7 in 72hz mode.
     
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  11. Maskerader

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    How do you put startup parameters in a batch file?
     
  12. MJFox

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    just create a text file and put this into it:

    @Echo off
    start /B "" "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\raceroom racing experience\Game\RRRE.exe" -vr 2


    (make sure you change the path accordingly)

    give this file a "bat"-extension and double click it to launch raceroom in VR-mode
     
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  13. Makman

    Makman New Member

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    In pimax play app set your preferred resolution to balance and you won’t get small window. Or in steamvr settings go to app settings and set 70-80% to lower resolution.
     
  14. TurboHenk

    TurboHenk New Member

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    I have exactly the same issue here with the Pimax Crystal.

    The game simply does NOT launch at 1.0 resolution with the Pimax Crystal, I get a super small windows (unusable) in the left corner of my screen and nothing in VR with SteamVR and with OpenComposite x64.

    It ONLY works when I set SteamVR lower than around 0.8 render scale, but that's downscaling the resolution of the Pimax Crystal and this is not possible with OpenComposite, if I use the *.ini on any other value different than supersampleRatio=1.0 (so 0.9/0.8 etc.) then I get an instant crash of the exe with -vr.

    So this game is NOT compatible with the Pimax Crystal at all, because I'm not playing anything lower than the 100% native render resolution which is 4315x5100px.

    This means that RR will not work with ANY future headset that has a proper high resolution.

    Any comments from the developers on this? Because this seem to be a major issue.
     
  15. david ponsdesserre

    david ponsdesserre New Member

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    SAME HERE I HAVE TRIED ANYTHING I COULD AND THIS WINDOWS ON THE UPPER LEFT OF MY SCREEN IS SUPER ANNOYING !!!!
     
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  16. TurboHenk

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    @ DEVELOPERS please take this issue serious. The Crystal won't be the last high resolution headset, probably all future headsets above 4000px + resolution will get this issue. The game only works at downscaled SteamVR resolution, which is of course not an option.

    We need a fix for full native resolution on the Pimax Crystal.

    The game is unplayable at native resolution, it simply doesn't work. This is the ONLY game that doesn't work at 100% resolution on my headset. And that damn mini window top left makes it impossible to configure it indeed.

    Is anyone actually looking into this issue?
     
  17. david ponsdesserre

    david ponsdesserre New Member

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    Yes !
    I have to downscale the resolution to something around 0,55 to get it working..

    dx12 is coming ?! Please fix this !
     
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    I'm having real performance issues with Racerooms, just upgraded to Pimax crystal light from a Quest 3, rtx5080 13600k, turned everything down to low and 50% render resolution, maximum 90fps mostly 60-80?
    Any suggestions?