Oculus Rift S tracking experiences.

MikeKay1976

I would not worry too much about the oculus store titles. Whilst it is certainly a negative against non oculus hmds not getting native support for oculus titles there is always reVive

thesnowdog

Yup, but with the Rift S you also get ASW 2.0 support too for some games, which means less artifacts when super sampling.

My Rift S is out of action at the moment, I've decided to sort out my SSD drive which needs Windows 7 to Secure Erase. Just got to sort out my partitions, Secure Erase the thing then go back to Windows 10.

Unlike most people I never thought much of Windows 7, can't stand it. I much preferred good old Vista!

MikeKay1976

I thought windows 10 had a secure erase function built in? Seems drastic installing windows 7 just to blap it esp if you are keeping it to put your OS on again.
I agree reVive is not ideal but for most people I think it would suffice rather than buying 2 HMDs
(I like ASW 2.0 in theory but given a choice of buying a £400 HMD so I can have it OR putting that £400 into a GPU so high spec I don't need ASW which will then benefit the index and flat screen games as well.... I would just buy a 2080ti. After all we only have 1 head

thesnowdog

Not unless they changed it recently! I've just bought Partition Master and it's still not sorting things out. Bloody thing.

I have a 110GB partition unallocated but Disk Manager and Partition Master won't let me do a thing with it. Says there's not enough free space which makes no sense at all.

I might just install Windows 10 on the 335GB partition that works and just resign myself to losing the 110GB of space. Bloody frustrating!!!

ArmitageShanks

If you have a Samsung SSD drive, I'm pretty sure Samsung Magician has a secure erase feature. Wouldn't be surprised if the other SSD vendors had a utility to do it.

I'd be weary of using something that isn't  SSD aware as you're going to be wasting write cycles if it's treated as a harddrive.

thesnowdog

Yup, they all do. But you need to run the things with Windows 7 unless things have changed.

I can't run a Secure Erase because it doesn't like partitions so I've been trying to sort that out to no avail. I've given up now and have reinstalled Windows 10 on my 120GB, have written off the 110GB partition that I can't do a thing with and am using the 355GB partition to install games on.

Gilbers

How about installing Windows 7 on a VM?

thesnowdog

Didn't think about that but it's too late now. I've tried everything I can think of to sort that partition out but no dice. Like I've said I'm just writing off that 110GB as lost.

Just a quick update regarding the tracking, I've just reinstalled everything and set everything up again and the tracking was about the same with In Death, but I've now gone into the Oculus Settings and switched from Auto (50Hz) tracking to 60Hz tracking and things are A LOT better. Not quite a night and day difference but it's not too far off.

ArmitageShanks

I find that hard to believe. Windows 7 is so old now they would have updated them for Windows 10. Samsung Magician certainly runs fine on 10.

Are you sure that 110GB hasn't been written off by the drive itself? Or being used for overprovisioning?

thesnowdog

Yup, certainly up until a few months ago anyway. All Secure Erase apps needed Windows 7 to work. Probably something to do with the file structures or something. Something definitely changed between Windows 7 and Windows 10, I saw when I downloaded the Kingston SSD Manager (after I had just installed Windows bloody 7 lol) that it said it now works with Windows 10 but when I tried it a few months ago it told me I needed to install 7.

No idea why it won't let me anywhere near that partition though. I tried with Disk Manager and several partition management programs and no dice.