X-Plane 11 - VR Headsets that work, and those that don't

[paytheon]

Been flying a lot with various VR Headsets in X-Plane 11 and found the following:

1. Windows Mixed Reality (HP/Samsung) works great with full graphics settings on. However the t racking is not very good. There is the screen door effect
2. Oculus Rift - Works fairly will with Alias, Reflection toned done a bit. Tracking is pretty good. You get the screen door effect
3. HTC Vive Pro - This should be the best VR Headset to have for this game....very disappointing. Must have Object turned down 2 levels., Alias & reflection all the way off, and shadowing off. You get some screen door effect. You can't see anything in the distance at all. You get blinking and massive fluid effects. We tried this with 3 Vive Pro different headsets with exact same results. The Frames Per Second is the issue. You have to have everything turned way down to get the FPS required to fly. What's funny is this headset works well with every other VR flight simulator BUT X-Plane 11.

Test didn't' include HTC Vive.

NOTE: HTC Vive and Vive Pro require anti-alias and MMA off because they both calculate those to features themselves.

[Pte Jack]

Funny you should post this now... I was just looking at X-Plane 11 and was deciding whether or not to invest. I have a Vive (Non-Pro) and after reading your review on the Pro decided to put it off for a bit.

[Oh Heck]

Well..at the end you say the Vive works well with every other VR flight simulator. That would kind of tell me the issue is with X Plane 11 and not the hardware. Maybe an optimization issue.

[Comicus]

When you mentioned Samsung, was that the Odyssey by any chance? I've had XP11 for a while and never installed, but just got the Odyssey Pro set a couple months ago and love it. Use it with War Thunder and was considering putting XP11 on my system for use with this.

[paytheon]

Originally posted by TOG | Comicus:

When you mentioned Samsung, was that the Odyssey by any chance? I've had XP11 for a while and never installed, but just got the Odyssey Pro set a couple months ago and love it. Use it with War Thunder and was considering putting XP11 on my system for use with this.

Thanks for correcting me, I was referring to the Samsung Windows Mixed Reality (best resolution for WMR today). Great VR Headset.

[Stryder]

X-Plane seems to be the worst optimized of the bunch. Supposedly, they have a "Vulcan" update due out... sometime...
The best optimized one(for VR), but it's still being worked on is "FlyInside Flight Sim".

[paytheon]

Originally posted by Stryder:

X-Plane seems to be the worst optimized of the bunch. Supposedly, they have a "Vulcan" update due out... sometime...
The best optimized one(for VR), but it's still being worked on is "FlyInside Flight Sim".

X-Plane is FAA certified and from a 2D perspective it's very good. However the graphics engine they are using is antiquated and very poor handing VR. I hope they do have a Vulcan release coming soon. At some point the developers of X-Plane 11 will have to confront this issue or lose out on the VR market. The VR experience in X-Plane is horrible from a user usability perspective.

With that said, if you want the best of all flight simulators, in my humble opinion, go with Prepar3D. Incredible simulator with great VR capability. However, Prepare3D only supports a couple of VR Headsets, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive/Pro.

[Comicus]

Originally posted by paytheon:

Originally posted by TOG | Comicus:

When you mentioned Samsung, was that the Odyssey by any chance? I've had XP11 for a while and never installed, but just got the Odyssey Pro set a couple months ago and love it. Use it with War Thunder and was considering putting XP11 on my system for use with this.

Thanks for correcting me, I was referring to the Samsung Windows Mixed Reality (best resolution for WMR today). Great VR Headset.

No, that's the one I was talking about. The latest MR headset is called the Odyssey Pro which came with the controllers and I believe has even better resolution than the standard one.

Recently installed Detached (space sim) and it's pretty nice with that as well.

[ntsarb]

I have similar performance issues with the Valve Index. It has a resolution that's similar to Vive Pro and X-Plane 11 has trouble rendering in stereo at that resolution at a decent frame rate. Maxes one CPU core at 100% with the rest of the CPU cores unused (total CPU utilisation 20%). This is clearly a limitation of X-Plane 11, i.e. can't make good use of multi-core CPUs.
Specs: i9 7900X (10 core), 32GB DDR4, GTX 1080Ti.

[Propjock68]

Thank you all. The VIVE PRO hardly works at all. With DCS (A10C and P-51‚ it works awesome, but with X Plane? BLAH!!! With the Samsung WMR, can you use your mouse to work buttons and such on the instrument panel and in the cockpit?

[Propjock68]

Originally posted by Oh Heck:

Well..at the end you say the Vive works well with every other VR flight simulator. That would kind of tell me the issue is with X Plane 11 and not the hardware. Maybe an optimization issue.

Believe it is the XP software. The mouse will not work even when turned on. Really hard to advance the throttles and use the G1000 cockpit with a "wand."

[Destroy]

I quickly gave up trying to fly Xplane 11 with my HP Reverb. Everything worked well and looked great but the frame rate is just too low, even with graphics turned down. 1080Ti here btw.

Vulcan has already been delayed about a year, I'm guessing they are have real issues getting performance out of their sim.

Bring on MS2020 I say and pray it is very efficient.