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November 9, 2013

New to the Rift *tips and tricks please*

Okay, it seems a lot of us are about to get (Monday for me woot! lol :D) or have recently received our Rift's, So I was wondering if those that have had their rifts for a while were willing to share any potential setup issues or tips to get the most and best performance from our rifts.

The term IPD (Interpupillary distance) is used a lot in the forums. A little more information as far as making sure its accurate, ways to tell if its off etc would be great, also any other major/minor settings be they via hardware tweaks or software tweaks would be appreciated. (such as resolutions, texture settings, anti-alias etc.)

Thanks in advance,

Ryan ;)

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    Altrez
    Participant
    February 26, 2014
    I fixed it! I had to use the Nvidia config tool to change the monitor to mirror!

    Thanks!
    T35513R
    Participant
    April 16, 2014
    "grodenglaive" wrote:
    "cybereality" wrote:
    For Unity demos you can add this to the target of a shortcut and have it show up on the Rift.

    -Adapter N

    Where N is the monitor number of the Rift, usually 1.

    This will allow you to have the Rift as an extended desktop with a normal monitor (at different resolutions) and then have the games only show up on this Rift. If you don't do this, then you will either have the mirror the displays or set Rift as primary.

    thanks, that is super helpful!


    Semi-related: Props to agsking over at Reddit for creating the shortcut here.

    Basically (I haven't tried it) but it looks like what this does is add a contextual menu option for a program to "open on the Oculus Rift" and have the monitor preset to whatever "N" is appropriate (as above). Neat!
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