Pico 4 experience and settings
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Can anyone helpme on how to open the game in vr? Just copy the settings from the first post, disabled all my other monitors, but only managed to fly 2 times, and dont know even how, the rest of the time it just crash or stutter like crazy.
I have the pico 4 via ethernet cable with usb-c adaptor, I get 150 mbps and good connection with VD. When I open the alternative launcher it opens automatically steamvr, and then I click launch and I get to the menu but when I go take off does the same every time. -
@javo Virtual Desktop via cable isn’t officially supported. I suspect this is what’s causing you problems. Have a look at your performance overlay in VD when in BMS 3D. What values are yellow/orange?
What are your hardware specs?
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My Pico 4 works well with BMS 4.37, however a word of warning on the Chinese-made interfaces that are sold on ebay.
They all look to be the same, but sold by many different Chinese-based sellers, as so many of their products are these days.
When mine arrived (to UK after 3 weeks) I was very happy and got to using it straights away. The fit is very snug I mean very snug! With prescription lenses fitted, my nose and eyebrows were touching the lens rims. But I was happy, as the FoV seemed better, which was one of the main things I wanted, along with increased comfort.However, after a week or so, I started suffering from pretty bad eye strain, which got more and more intense in a very short space of time. In the end, I switched back to the OEM interface and guess what? Didn’t notice any difference in FoV and it didn’t seem anywhere near as uncomfy as I’d thought it was!
I’ve seen a lot of people wanting one, so thought a word of warning was in order, as these seem to be the only ones currently available.
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Just got one couple of days ago (Amazon delivered in 2 days europe), and moving from a reverb G1000 ( V1), I’m blown away by it.
Pancake lens are the real game changer, and there’s other bonuses too. electronic IPD adjustment, very good and easy to access colour pass through. Light weight and comfortable, but a little bit of light bleed at the sides. Very silent fan means no fogging! Sound is probably the weakest feature, and big over the ear phones are hard to fit with it.
I really did’nt use the Reverb for anything else except sims, but this headset has made other stuff so much fun with the wire free use.
Clarity of the image at high settings is comparable with my old reverb, but the wide in focus area, no god rays, brightness, and general quality of the image is so superior.
Few times I tried it crashes going to 3d in BMS, and i’ll be back here for help with that, but in DCS is absolutely gorgeous. (note I’m running a high end machine with it), and it (through virtual desktop) uses open-composite to bypass steam-vr out of the box.
And it does not use Windows WMR!
Cant wait to get it going with BMS.
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I also got mine last week. I tried it over Streaming Assistant and mainly in BMS. I spent two whole nights tweaking settings. I will share my discoveries soon. I am glad that you like Pico 4. But I am still not OK because I cannot read for example bullseye in the MFDs. Unfortunately, I don’t have the Virtual Desktop and a Wifi 6 modem.
Is it normal that I cannot read bullseye?
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@TUAF-Ripper I can read mine just fine in VD… I really recommend you get it. A Wifi5 router also works just fine, you don’t need Wifi6. The $40 investment in a dedicated router was well worth it for me. Depending on your current setup, you might not even need one. The VD Discord has recommended routers in all price ranges.
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@TUAF-Ripper said in Pico 4 experience and settings:
I also got mine last week. I tried it over Streaming Assistant and mainly in BMS. I spent two whole nights tweaking settings. I will share my discoveries soon. I am glad that you like Pico 4. But I am still not OK because I cannot read for example bullseye in the MFDs. Unfortunately, I don’t have the Virtual Desktop and a Wifi 6 modem.
Is it normal that I cannot read bullseye?
I recommend you to invest the money (20 Euro or something) for virtual desktop. The streaming assistent coming with the pico is still beta and gives you MUCH less quality and sharpness then VD.
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I also recommend to go for a USB 3 cable and use USB tethering. This solved every issue for me.
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@Razor161 I find that wireless streaming with VD is superior to Pico Streaming Assistant connected with USB. Both performance and the visuals are better, but USB connection at least makes the Pico software usable. The Streaming Assistant isn’t very well developed IMO.
Your comment is very general. Tell us more about your setup and settings, and what issues you’ve had.
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@ipetter
Virtual Desktop + USB3 cable + USB tethering (activated via an app found on APKPure).
I run VD on ultra rendering setting.
My system:
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@Razor161 Thanks… A bit more info on this app and how to setup would be most welcome, if someone else wants to try it I’ve heard about this before, but haven’t looked into the details of it.
Users should note that VD with a tethered connection is officially unsupported.
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@ipetter
I’m in the office right now and can not check which app exactly I installed but I think it was this one
https://m.apkpure.com/de/hotspot-and-tethering-shortcut/com.pw.hotspotshortcutThe workflow is simple:
- Connect the Pico 4 to your wifi.
- Activate USB tethering using the app (Approve the connection if Windows asks if you want to use the new connection).
- Connect VD (works only on wifi).
- Disable wifi (Pico will shift all network traffic to tethering automatically)
- Run the game.
In case you lost internet connection on your PC after the network connection switched to tethering you need to change the network priority for your network adapter to a value which is lower than the tethering adapter. Here’s a guide for it:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-priority-order-network-adapters-windows-10 -
I forgot to tell that I am currently using a laptop and it has 3060 on it. I cannot increase resolution above HD (in Streaming Assistant which means 1x native resolution). I assume that you all have a better GPU than me and use above 1x resolution?
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Have you tried increasing the in game resolution…
set g_fVRResolution 1.5
To compensate for the barrel distortion created by lenses, the recommended setting is around 1.4 (140%) of the native resolution of the headset. Also check your steam VR settings, as it normally sets its ‘100%’ to be 140% of native (around 3024 for pico). A bit confusing I know.
Also as many folk say above, VD its superior to SA (if your budget stretches to the 20 bucks), and gives you more quality options.
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@Fish44 Thank you for the tip. I am gonna try it. But I am not sure if my RTX 3060(laptop) can handle 3024p, especially in an intense TE or campaign.
For VD, I don’t wanna buy it right now because of other reasons. I am temporarily away from my home. So I don’t wanna buy a router at the moment. But, maybe I can finally get VD and try USB tethering.
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@TUAF-Ripper
You can give it a try in the benchmark TE. There you have bad weather, clouds, rain, thunderstorm and lightning. This should be a good test. -
@TUAF-Ripper I highly doubt it… I’d start with shadows and environment mapping off in BMS. Set VD to medium or high settings, sharpening 70%, SSW off. Then try the Benchmark TE. 40FPS or more on the ground and I’d be happy.
Only after verifying this would I start tweaking the BMS resolution or upping VD graphics. You’ll probably see similar or slightly worse performance than I reported earlier in the thread.
Object detail down to 1 is a quick way to increase performance, if you can live with reduced spotting distance (especially on larger planes and bridges). This can be somewhat compensated by going up on BMS resolution multiplier, to 1.3 - 1.4.
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@TUAF-Ripper said in Pico 4 experience and settings:
… I am not sure if my RTX 3060(laptop) can handle 3024p…
Well, you won’t know until you try, and you might be pleasantly surprised.
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@TUAF-Ripper said in Pico 4 experience and settings:
@Fish44 Thank you for the tip. I am gonna try it. But I am not sure if my RTX 3060(laptop) can handle 3024p, especially in an intense TE or campaign.
For VD, I don’t wanna buy it right now because of other reasons. I am temporarily away from my home. So I don’t wanna buy a router at the moment. But, maybe I can finally get VD and try USB tethering.
Does anyone have experience if RTX3050 (laptop) can support Pico 4? My system is:
My system:
Intel i7 7 12700
NVidia RTX3050
16 GB RAMMany thanks.
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