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Oculus desktop windows in P3D

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Has anyone been able to drag a desktop window into P3D VR with the Oculus software? I get as far as enabling it in experimental mode, pressing A on the hand controller and the middle finger then dragging the window into oculus home environment and and moving it and resizing it with the hand controller.

When I go full screen VR in P3D the window doesn't show. If you did get it working, did you see a performance hit?

Cheers

1 hour ago, glider1 said:

Has anyone been able to drag a desktop window into P3D VR with the Oculus software? I get as far as enabling it in experimental mode, pressing A on the hand controller and the middle finger then dragging the window into oculus home environment and and moving it and resizing it with the hand controller.

When I go full screen VR in P3D the window doesn't show. If you did get it working, did you see a performance hit?

Cheers

 

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Don't forget to pin the window so that it will show up. You'll find the small pin icon in the lower right corner of the window that you wish to pin

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Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB /  1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe /  1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
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45 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Don't forget to pin the window so that it will show up. You'll find the small pin icon in the lower right corner of the window that you wish to pin

Thanks, do you notice a performance hit or extra stutters Hiflyer?

There can be one, depending on your computer hardware specs. Make sure you are pinning a single window and not your entire desktop!

 

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Devons rig
Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB /  1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe /  1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5

Just a heads up for those that may not have heard of this: Those with lower powered systems with less resources to spare might find this especially helpful.

Note that the installation procedure listed below is not necessary if you have installed the Oculus tray tool, which does this all with a single click: 

The tray tool can be found here: http://bit.ly/2XVXMnA

 

We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically.
 
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Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB /  1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe /  1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5

I usually pin the entire desktop so I can alt-tab between different applications - charts, weather, flight plan. I'm not noticing any performance hit with a 6700k and GTX1070.

 

 

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I did a test on a 2080ti Rift CV1. Adding one window to P3D draws about 5-10% more GPU load. Adding more windows didn't increase load further.

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13 hours ago, andreh said:

I usually pin the entire desktop so I can alt-tab between different applications - charts, weather, flight plan. I'm not noticing any performance hit with a 6700k and GTX1070.

Awesome thanks. It seems that adding the entire desktop doesn't take up any more GPU than adding just one window. The control you get in VR is amazing. You can do everything including changing aircraft from within VR never have to leave it any more. It is such a pity that the P3D desktop window needs to take up half the screen merely to show all the menu options.

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