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tam404
New Participant
September 13, 2014

How to get DK2 to display on headset and not monitor

Got my Oculus Rift yesterday wasn't able to get games display on my Oculus headset. Went online found a bunch of solutions with too many steps. So as a user of Windows for many years, found out an easy solution.
This is a fix for the Duplicated Desktop Mode and the game would display on the Main monitor instead of the Oculus Rift.

Go to OculusUtilConfig, Set as Extended Mode.
Go to screen display properties in Windows.
Set Oculus Rift as the Main Display. Go to Apply.
Turn Off your Oculus Rift headset. Your main window should be your monitor now.
Turn On your Oculus Rift headset after you have launch a game. Turn Off after you finish your game.

Problem solved!

    7 replies

    AntDX316
    Up and Coming
    September 13, 2014
    lol

    im on multi-gpu so I have to enable oculus as main otherwise I will have no multi-gpu

    if I do extended mode with oculus I have to disable multi-gpu which is like 3 softwares to close everytime
    Jedi2016
    Up and Coming
    September 13, 2014
    You know, that solution is so simple I never even thought of it. Kudos, Tam. Just got my Rift today, I'll give that idea a whirl tomorrow.
    Shannonb1
    Up and Coming
    September 14, 2014
    What about windows key + left or right arrow
    tam404Author
    New Participant
    September 14, 2014
    I tried that. That method only works with windows mode and doesn't display properly on the rift. When you alt+enter to get full screen, it goes back to the monitor.
    blanes
    Inspiring
    September 17, 2014
    Seriously !? Why hasn't anyone else discovered this ? Does it work for all/any PC system regardless of monitor/vidcard ?
    SamuraiProgramm
    New Participant
    October 1, 2014
    "tam404" wrote:
    Got my Oculus Rift yesterday wasn't able to get games display on my Oculus headset. Went online found a bunch of solutions with too many steps. So as a user of Windows for many years, found out an easy solution.
    This is a fix for the Duplicated Desktop Mode and the game would display on the Main monitor instead of the Oculus Rift.

    Go to OculusUtilConfig, Set as Extended Mode.
    Go to screen display properties in Windows.
    Set Oculus Rift as the Main Display. Go to Apply.
    Turn Off your Oculus Rift headset. Your main window should be your monitor now.
    Turn On your Oculus Rift headset after you have launch a game. Turn Off after you finish your game.

    Problem solved!



    BLESS YOU !!!!!
    Sharpfish
    Up and Coming
    October 2, 2014
    "blanes" wrote:
    Seriously !? Why hasn't anyone else discovered this ? Does it work for all/any PC system regardless of monitor/vidcard ?


    Hmm it's mentioned on the forums elsewhere. But hard to do a generic search for. I rarely use extended mode anyway (Direct mode UE4 junky here) but when I do use it and leave it that way for a while (Weekends checking out unity demos etc(, this is what I do.
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