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Please stop supporting "Extended Mode"!
Hi, IHMO the last weeks showed very clearly that the ongoing support for rendering to the Rift by extending your desktop (and rotating it 90°) was a mistake. Made in good intentions, sure, but none...
I see that there are many problems right now, especially regarding Linux and OSX. But why isn't the right mode triggered by the application itself when there is no other solution?
When the engine isn't supporting Direct HMD Mode for some very good reason it should switch the device into Extended Mode itself, rotate the rendered picture itself and reset the display mode to default when exiting.
So I should rephrase my appeal:
"Please fix the OpenGL bugs in the Oculus driver and THEN kill Extended Mode. If not possible than make it fully transparent for the user, thank you."
The best solution would be direct driver support by Nvidia and AMD, of course. So let's hope that all that dirty driver-/OS-hacking will not be necessary in one year.
spyro
When the engine isn't supporting Direct HMD Mode for some very good reason it should switch the device into Extended Mode itself, rotate the rendered picture itself and reset the display mode to default when exiting.
So I should rephrase my appeal:
"Please fix the OpenGL bugs in the Oculus driver and THEN kill Extended Mode. If not possible than make it fully transparent for the user, thank you."
The best solution would be direct driver support by Nvidia and AMD, of course. So let's hope that all that dirty driver-/OS-hacking will not be necessary in one year.
spyro