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Offline WpnX

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Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« on: March 23, 2020, 09:54:53 AM »
What are you guys setting your FOV to with Rift S headsets?

Also, I've been running into an issue. After I remove my headset then put it back on my engine sounds go away sometimes. I can still hear all other sounds, it's only engine sound that goes. Anyone having this or have a fix?

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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2020, 10:16:12 AM »
FOV is fixed to look natural, it's not adjustable.

You can check your sound assignments but I can't think of any reason for just engine sounds to stop.

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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2020, 11:15:18 AM »
FOV is an adjustable setting under the Video tab on AH3 opening screen. Are you saying it is fixed and therefore has no effect on the Rift?

EDIT: I just experimented with 60 degrees and then 140 degrees and, like always, you are correct FLS, it appears to be fixed.

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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2020, 11:40:45 AM »
That setting is for monitors. The game uses the FOV of the headset. To change FOV with a headset you'd have to have that option in the headset software.

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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2020, 11:42:54 AM »
Yeah about my only knock on the RiftS is the relatively narrow FOV compared to some other VR headsets. But then again if you want one with wider, say 120 ish, you're gonna pay out the wahzoo for it. Twice what a RiftS goes for currently.
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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2020, 11:44:47 AM »
Oh and the engine sounds thing. I gotta think on it but I remember this happened to me like the fist time I used it in AH. There was a cure for it but I forgot. Either somebody will chime in or it'll come to me. Was something simple. Hasn't happened to me since.
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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2020, 11:54:34 AM »
Did it have anything to do with the sounds.cfg file in the settings folder? Engine sounds can be set in game...
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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2020, 03:01:15 PM »
If you are using Challenge's New sound pack....you lose your engine sounds as you described. They come back on, next flight :uhoh
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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2020, 10:05:44 AM »
If you are using Challenge's New sound pack....you lose your engine sounds as you described. They come back on, next flight :uhoh

I’ve got Callenge’s new sound pack and also experienced that each time I took the VR headset off.  Wonder what’s causing it and if there’s an easy workaround?



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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2020, 03:49:02 PM »
I don't have his sound pack, but it also hasn't happened again all week (loss of engine sound).
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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2020, 04:42:30 AM »
If you are using Challenge's New sound pack....you lose your engine sounds as you described. They come back on, next flight :uhoh

Can you name an airplane this happens to? Does it also happen outside of VR?
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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2020, 03:12:16 PM »
Can you name an airplane this happens to? Does it also happen outside of VR?
:uhoh The ones with NEW Sounds...well most, at least the ones I fly. Spitxvi,ix...P51d,P51b,P47n,m,D-25,D-11, P38s(all 3).As far as outside VR, I will check for you as I am Fulltime VR and have to get my TIR found and set up
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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2020, 05:31:54 PM »
If that's the case I'm having trouble believing it's the way I set up the sounds. Let's see if anything changes after I modify the startups.
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Re: Rift S FOV and loss of engine sounds
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2020, 03:40:46 PM »
This sound thing happens to me as well: I normally fly the Niki and when I take off the headset (oculus rift cv1) and put back on, the engine restarts, then the engine sound comes back on.  At times, though, when I have taken off the headset multiple times during a mission, the engine sound does NOT restart and you hear everything else, EXCEPT the engine sound.  It is like when someone shoots your engine and you have no sound.  You clearly have a working engine, just no sound.  I have not figured this one out!