To opt in:
In Steam, right-click No Man’s Sky → Properties.
Open the Betas tab.
In the code box type 3xperimental and click Check Code.
Select that branch from the dropdown. Steam will then download the experimental build.
Confirmed working on dream air
thought you all might be interested in this for science. allows you to turn anyone into a 4d person. will work on 5090 which a lot of you have. ask ai to help with viewing the output.
just letting you all know steamvr new beta update breaks sboys3 driver. you can just unclick in the general tab at the top to get it working again. or don't use the latest steamvr beta
Trying to get the cyberpunk mod that comes with https://github.com/Mr-Nlce/PCVR-Mods-Installer-Hub to run with little success on the dream air.
The furthest I've got was just as the actual game runs. And that was only using pimaxplay and pimaxXR.
Has anyone used this mod and is it better than Lukes?
Just spent a few hrs testing the latest nvidia drivers so you don't have to.
Spec:
7800x3d 5090 32gig
All tests I used DDU to fully uninstall drivers. I also used NVcleaninstall to strip out the drivers on some installs.
Game No mans sky 90% res
My old daily driver 596.49. DDU wiped and nvcleaninstalled driver only
Frametime 9.0ms
Latest 610.62. DDU and nvcleaninstall driver only
Frametime 8.8ms
I use to swear by NVcleaninstall. Now with the latest drivers and nvidia app it seems pointless. I noticed zero performance loss with the nvidia app installed, which lines up with hardware unboxed results. I did not activate the overlay.
The results above are real world numbers. Benchmarking may produce different results, but I don't play benchmarks. At best the results show that there is no real change in performance and maybe even an increase. One thing it definitely shows is the Nvcleaninstall app is now redundant and installing the nvidia app is beneficial now.
I'm lucky in the fact I have 3m x 3m area to do roomscale, also lucky I have a dream air;) Anyway I have been using 2 base station 2.0 for such a long time, each one placed in opposite corners. Tracking was ok on previous headsets, PCL, vive2 pro. But I found on the dream air that the tracking bumps (i'll call them that as the controllers would just bump back into place as I moved around the room). that I had on the other headsets was worse on the dream air. Also turning my head the world would slightly float now and again. Probably because of the small form factor
I had a third base station lying around so I spent the time installing a power point and the base station. And I can say the tracking is absolutely flawless now. I haven't experienced tracking this good before. Always had those slight movements here and there.
So if you want flawless roomscale I'd highly suggest 3 base stations minimum. Obviously it depends on the size of your space
The new diagnostics should start automatically first run on installing pimaxplay. It's such a good tool and helps with problems. I'm sure it would save pimax a lot of support questions. But instead it's buried.
I have been messing around with Sboys3 driver and a few settings. I was able to increase my FOV by 5 degrees with no noticeable warping (well maybe if you look really really hard for it). I also increased binocular overlap by 2.5%. the fov increase is noticeable in the hmd and a nice welcome.
First turn off fov clamping. You will then be able to increase the slides Max per eye fov for both horizontal and vertical. Unfortunately at time of writing the values don't stick, so you will have to adjust each time you startup. my settings are 108 and 97.
Next adjust FOV zoom to 0.975. Any more and you will start to get noticeable warping.
I tried eye rotation but that just screwed up my eyes so I left that at default.
I think if you have repair kit it needs to be for only emergency repairs. 1 it needs to take a long time to repair, this will stop spamming repair in fights. 2 it needs to tank your durability so you have to think long and hard between safety or making it out with your armour in good condition.
What do you all think
Been using the Dream Air for sometime now. Thought I'd add a few quirks. Advantages. tips in elite dangerous
Using sboys3 driver is great. The warping profile, the colours and that added little performance makes a nice difference. Unfortunately no eye tracking which in elite cost you around 1.2ms. Also no sharpening unless you want a cost in performance also.
Using pimaxplay has the advantage of DFR with eye tracking. It also gives you sharpening performance free which is nice. But the distoration profile is still terrible, and the colours are not as good as Sboys3.
Anti aliasing doesn't seem to do anything for me in Elite so I turn that off which gives you about 0.4ms from SMAA
Gpu scheduling On will save you roughly 0.5ms
A few quirks with pimaxplay. DFR settings seem to be messed up. performance gives me 7.6ms, balanced 7.2ms and quality 7.9ms. So as you can see performance is worse than balanced for some reason. Also when you close steamVR you lose tracking for 10seconds roughly.
At the moment I'm using pimaxplay rather than Sboys3 driver. Its a tough call but the performance increase is more noticeable than the warping and colours in pimaxplay.
Edit - Fresh build of Sboys3 driver shows eye tracking. I tried open composite and openxr tool but no option to activate eye tracking. Probably only works for true openxr games if I would have to guess. Also open composite cost 0.1ms extra, so no point unless eye tracking works
Boundaries with my PCL use to stay rock solid for both pimaxplay and steamvr. I haven't tried my PCL since I updated to the Dream Air and I have also done two pimaxplay updates to the latest version.
No Boundaries
Dream Air LH not having any camers you can no longer setup boundaries in pimaxplay. So only way is to use steamvr. I hope pimax is going to address this for ppl that want to use openxr with pimaxplay.
Boundaries shift
Using either pimaxplay or Sboys3 driver both with steamvr I'm finding if you shut down and restart your boundary will shift a couple of feet. Has anyone else experienced this with the latest pimaxplay 1.44.2?
Anyone else getting stuttering from CPU and 596.49 nvidia driver. rollback one driver back and everything is great
596.49 latest driver at time is causing constant CPU spikes in exfil zone making it a stuttering mess. I suggest do not update.
596.36 is working fine for me and testing shows no loss of performance
Ok everyone knows the comfort sucks. Most have known for sometime what to expect. The people that didn't this is not for you. But if you have known why are you complaining, and I'm not taking about just mentioning it?
You have the hmd now. Pimax released it to you early with a promise of a facial update. If you wanted better comfort you should have told pimax you wanted to wait for the updated fascial before sending it. Why are people whinging about something they already knew? Also yes it's an expensive hmd. But one thing I know if anyone else made this hmd it would be way more expensive. Buy cheap get cheap.
Just to disclaimer this rant, I'm certainly not condoning pimax handling of any launch let alone this one, and I've had my fair share of ups and downs with the. Still I'm extremely happy I'm not waiting any longer.
Anyone know how to get The Climb started with steamvr.
I've copied gammon across to E:\Games\The Climb\bin\win_x64-steam and run Climb.exe but nothing happens. I have pimax hmd and tried to run using pimaxplay which has something like revive built in, but still no go? Does it even work with steamvr?
I have read all the pinned posts and i have searched the megathread.
Bag zipping exploit bug - remove bag zipping
Breaking npc necks helmet bug - remove neck breaking
Bag item collision bug - remove bag collision
Gun smithing - remove gun smithing ( oh wait...)
I'm sure there is others and it's just an Si I can't remember
For years I have had to put up with shadows in one eye with various games. Subnautic, elite, zombieland, contractors exfil zone (ssao active) that crossed eye feeling was insane. Thats because pimax play forces PP on
Well no more thanks to Sboys3 driver. And simple click turning off parallel projection and all my worries are gone.
Ok I'm dumb, I made a mistake. I was so excited about my new dream air and everything working so good I stuffed up on my last Sboys3 driver post.
The problem was that running pimax play direct gave steamvr one resolution and running Sboys3 driver gave another, Even thou I had both set at 150% in steamvr. Which I didn't notice until someone pointed it out.
I spent today testing rather than playing as I wanted to make things right.
Game - No man sky - I find this game good as it allows me to see quality differences quite easily.
Pimax Play 1.43.9 - 8.8ms - Adding sharpening did not make any noticeable difference in performance
Sboys3 1.2.0-beta0 - 8.3ms - CAS Sharpening and you take a large 1ms hit to performance.
As you can see in the photos (Sboys3 is the round one) there is no noticeable difference in quality running at the same resolution. I tried all other settings under Sboys3 and did not notice any difference. Like sub pixel and PP etc. I thought maybe the distoration profile might be considerably better in terms of resolution, but no.
Conclusion - Yes there is a gain with Sboys3 driver. Is it as large as I shot my load yesterday over. Hell no 0.5ms is not a game changer sorry about that. You still get the better warping profile and all the bells and whistles. But if you want sharpening then stick to pimax play. Anyway I'm done now, back to playing
Problems I have with pimax play. In steam menu constant jitter, fine in game. Also I'm pretty sure you can't set boundaries with the dream air. There is no camera, and the room setup can only be activated from the desktop, which tells you to put the controls and headset on the ground and thats it. So if you want boundaries you need steamvr either through Sboys3 or pimax play, no boundaries with only pimax play openxr
Been playing around with my new Dream Air. After 3d printing a new facial I'm very happy with it. Playing Moss2 is no longer a neck strain, and hugely colourful.
But let me just say Sboys3 driver is next level. On a 5090 and 7800x3d super sampling at 200% I'm getting 7.8ms. Without Sboys3 driver I'm not only getting a constant jutter but also runing at 12.8ms . That is insane! A 39% reduction runing both under steamvr. Thats a better improvement than purchasing a 6090.
So a massive shout out to Sboys3.