PATROLLING AFGHAN IN VR IS INSANE!!!! AND NEW ARMA 3 SETUP FOR 1.3 RUNTIME

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TODAY WE PATROL HELMAND PROVINCE WITH THE BRITISH ROYAL MARINES IN VR AND COME UNDER FIRE, QUESTION LOCALS AND MORE USING A NEW ARMA 3 SETUP AND RUNTIME 1.3 FOR SMOOTH FRAME RATES THE NEW SETUP FOR BETTER RESOLUTION AND MORE REALISTIC LOOK AND FEEL IS BELOW CREDIT TO SQB-SMA ON THE FORUMS. YES ARMA 3 ON 1.3 RUNTIME IS POSSIBLE AND DOES WORK IF YOU DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL LIBOVR WHICH YOU CAN FIND ON GOOGLE IF NOT COMMENT AND IL BE SURE TO HELP. Opentrack settings Tracker: Oculus Rift 0.8 Protocol: Freetrack - now hit ... next to freetrack use trackir hide freetrack Filter: Blank none, let the Rift run the filtering Mapping: 1:1 i.e. a line from bottom left to top right, with no point on it. right click to remove a point for all axes. Options: Bind a key to center the rift, the go to the output tab. Disable roll. VORPX settings Ensure Vorpx has the correct IPD for you, the calibration may be slightly off by +-0.5 normally and you can adjust it in game. Make sure it's at a setting where your eyes aren't getting tired/sore. Aspect Ratio - STRETCH this takes the image and compresses it from H:V 16:9 to 8:9 Head tracking ON - Sensitivity = 0 so it doesn't move your gun when you move your head - Roll ON. 3D Set to a separation of 0.2-0.5 map dependent and FOV dependent, with this new FOV I'm using 0.45-0.5. Depth weight at 0.05. It's tempting to set this up too high, DONT. Under Vorpx Config whilst not in game, go to excluded programs and add everything you can see. Add opentrack, trackir the actual trackir program shouldn't be running, but the process will show up because opentrack is pretending to be it, vorpx itself, arma3sync. EVERYTHING. You should have a blank list. The only thing not to add is arma3.exe. I know vorpx is normally smart enough not to be fooled... but sometimes it gets this wrong. In Game Settings + Config settings In your config file Documents/Arma3 Other Profiles/ The profile you play on you will see two settings, fovtop and fovleft. These should ALWAYS be at the same aspect ratio as the rift which is 8:9 ratio I use approximately 110 FOV To calculate what values to enter go ti Hi,A3's wide-angle FOV calculator http://hia3.com/tool...ne_by_Hi,A3.htm Set your resoltuon to 960, 1080 Enter 110 as your desired FOV you should get fovTop=2.05; fovLeft=1.82; Arma may extend these to 8sig figs, e.g. fovLeft=1.8200001; no worries Make sure your game resolution is still 1920x1080 because we are going to be rendering that FOV/weird aspect ratio TWICE left and right eye. This means in the Rift you will see two screens at 960x1080 or 1:1 resolution draw vs physical screen res In game, make sure sampling is 100%, FSAA 2x or higher. I'd turn off bloom, DOF, blur etc if I were you. Texture settings above "high" caused crashes after 10-30 minutes for me, likewise for objects above "medium", turn down your draw distances terrain to 3km, object to 500m and use ACE mod's FOV based object draw distance so when you zoom you can see distant objects. controls in arma 3 Turn off headtrack zoom, headtrack headmovement etc. Make sure you're only using the rotation values. Arma doesn't support proper positional values for headtracking and more messing around in opentrack is required before it is accurate for vehicles. I'd keep it off for now. Optional: Reshade that works with vorpx https://drive.google...UWc&usp;=sharing Delete any previous reshade you may keep your settings in the reshade folder, or replace them with my own. I'd recommend the latter if you get crashes etc. My settings are a subtle variant on Solano/Sore6's RealLight Drop all the files and single folder into your arma3 directory How to start the game Ensure Opentrack, Enbinjector, Arma3.exe, Vorpx, Arma3sync, trackir and any overlays/recording software are closed by closing them and double check in task manager. Open opentrack, hit start Open Arma3sync double check that nosplash, nologs, default world=empty are still there, arma3sync loses your setup if it crashes if using reshade navigate to your arma 3 directory and run enbinjector.exe Start Vorpx Run the game No crashes yet