So I've installed the Rift Runtime and everything and games and such mean for the rift work fine. But nowhere in the configuration utility is an option to change Display mode. Right now the oculus only starts working if I run a compatible program. Otherwise the lens are just black. I can't see my desktop or anything. How can I fix this?
you cant, the rift only works with games designed for the rift. You could try 3rd party injection drivers, though i dont think that works with the newest runtime.
You can roll back to the old runtime if you want extended mode, but that wont add compatibility to non rift games.
Thanks a lot guys! I think i was running an earlier runtime when I first installed and then it was showing my desktop (rotated sideways) but the runtime wasn't detecting HMD. Atmos73 will try out that option when i get home.
"cybereality" wrote: Yes, this is normal and intended.
0.7 only uses Direct Mode, not Extended. So you won't see the Rift as a monitor in Windows.
Unfortunately, the result is that games like Elite that require the HMD to be in extended mode don't work. Or am I missing something? My Rift seems to be working just fine in all respects, except that I cannot select it as a 3d device in Elite: Dangerous, and I am not able to set it to 'extended mode' as I am reading that I need to be able to do. Welcome any suggestions please. Thanks.
Well, I got bad news for you, it is up to the game developers to implement direct mode only in their game, and unfortunately Frontier wants to wait for a stable version of the Oculus SDK before they update support. That is, they feel like it is not worth spending time right now to support a beta version of the SDK since it can change at anytime. If you want to play, you have to go back to an older version of the SDK.
Personally as a hobbyist messing around with a few very small demos for fun, I am quite surprised as to how much the SDK has changed stuff between sub versions, so I can feel their pain.
