VR support in Assetto Corsa 2016

Yes, and SimXperience is adding SimCommander support for Wind effects too. I can easily believe it adds a lot of immersion in VR; even a simple fan adds something to the open-wheel cars.

 

I know, I can't wait for the update of SC4 that will add Simwind support.

 

great. however win 10 requirement is redundant in applications like this

 

For those that feel (like me) that ASW is an immersion killer (it IS noticeable), there is a registry hack to disable it. It was driving me crazy, as I have the graphs pretty cranked up (AA 8x, AF 16x, PD 1.6), and whenever ASW kicked in, the image was no longer fluent. Even worse, the FPS stayed @45. All this on an i7 6500K combined with a GTX980 Ti.
So I created this register file, and no longer need I cycle trough all the cars (hopefully uneven amount) to disable it. Whenever I used CTRL+H to disable or reenable the onscreen apps, ASW would kick in again. Now, I can jump in my car, and start driving right away. I've tested it numerous times, and for me it works fine. I'm on Win10 64-bit.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oculus VR, LLC]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oculus VR, LLC\LibOVR]
"AswEnabled"=dword:00000000

Save this file as whatever.reg, double click it, reboot and you're good to go.
Kudos go to phoenixdigita1 that posted this on Reddit.

 

You're absolutely right, it IS noticable. I have almost the same hw-setup. nothing beats 90 fps.

It all is a little bit inconsistant at the moment. i can drive for hours with solid 90 fps, next day i start almost the same session with the same amount of AI and activated apps and have a slightly choppy image. and 45 fps

I activated/deactivated/asw;set it to auto...
("Crtl and 1-4")
I didn't see a connection to crtl+h but it could be, as i just show apps, when i need it and use hide/show apps quite often.

Would be awesome, if your solution worked.

Edit: Is there any tool, that shows me realtime if ASW is activated?

 

Alas, it does not .
Just ran a mutliplayer on the green hell, as usual I started off in the wrong car, so I pressed CTRL+1 to go back to my car and it did reactivate ASW.
For offline vs AI it does seem to work, as I'm in the correct car when entering the track. Sorry for that, was really hoping like you were.

I see when ASW is activated via the AC FPS counter.

 

Only workaround for me is to sit into my car (ctrl+1) and activate asw, then alt/tab out of ac, deactivate ASW and alt/tab back in.

 

CTRL+ (NuM LOCK)1 works on track as well.
I mapped CTRL+ (NUM LOCK)1 to a button, so for now, it has a double function, but it keeps me from having to alt tab and enabling me to keep the headset on.
Would be a lot easier if we had the possibility to change one of the two shortcuts, be it in AC or in Oculus..

 

Im not noticing AWS :O Maybe im so into the experience atm and this will be something I disgust later on, but I hope not.

 

Guys, please dont tell me that if i didnt manually activate ASW it is not working?
Reading last few posts here made me google and i found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/com...rift_seem_like_a_cv2/?st=ivz37iid&sh=21d50051
It says that ASW is not auto enabled and had to be done by user.

 

it is auto enabled as of current oculus home versions.

 

In my experience, going online with the CV1, when entering the track, the focus is on another car, not my own. I need CTRL+1 to goto my own car, and that activates ASW. On my machine that forces the FPS down to 45, even when capable of holding on to 90 FPS. So I need to press it a zillion times before entering my own car, hoping that ASW is disabled that way. Suppose I crash and unable to drive back to the pits, when pressing ESC, back to pits, the focus is again on another player's car, so CTRL+1 is required again to enter my own car, reenabling ASW

 

So ctrl+numpad1 is ON/OFF hotkey?

edit:
@nivadepi CTRL+numpad 2 will get you straight to your car, no need to cycle back through entire grid to get back.

 

CTRL+Numpad1: Disable ASW, go back to the original ATW mode

CTRL+Numpad2: Force apps to 45Hz, ASW disabled

CTRL+Numpad3: Force apps to 45Hz, ASW enabled

CTRL+Numpad4: Enable auto-ASW (default, use this first)

 

Thank You.

 

Yes, thank you all.
However, it seems that we are not out of the woods yet. Using CTRL+2 to go directly to the car disables ASW but forces 45 FPS.

 

yeah, thats exactly why i at first change to the car, switch out of AC, change to the asw mode i want and switch back to ac

 

I think I'll go with your workaround until Kunos decides to tackle the "random car issue in VR" or Oculus decides not to force ASW on us. Hopefully Virtual Desktop won't crash when trying that.
It has to be said, AC is amazing in VR and gets better with every update, but it is a shame that one needs to apply multiple workarounds before being able to race. Once in the correct car on track @90 FPS it is unbeatable. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining as we already got much much more from Kunos as initially expected.

 

Try to look at it from another point of view:

We are all VR-Testdrivers. We have the chance to experience something new, and there definitely are flaws. but as long as there are workarounds it's worth it, kunos delivers us the best available opportunity to really use that tech and VR gives us the best available tech to use ac.

If you look into the problem we have here at the moment it's only to a small part kunos' fault. yes, there is the "wrong car"-bug. wasn't a big thing, you pressed [crtl 2]. solved.

Then oculus makes an update and they use a shortcut the best VR-Sim used for years. I won't blame them too much.There are lots of little problems to be solved, rules to be made, trims to be done, especially if you consuder, that hardware-vendors/driver-programmers/vrsoftware-devs/virtual desktops/os developers/sim-devs have to go hands in hands to deliver a flawless experience. But that's the price we have to pay to be the first.

 

true that, well said.
You're absolutely right, didn't mean to bash on Kunos, I know it is not their fault nor their responsibility. I am also aware that they are the only company that can and does deliver such an amazing experience, and for that I am extremely grateful.