Well first, you can expect to be blown away the first time you climb into a cockpit in VR!
They did an incredible job in their VR implementation for this sim.
Perhaps some useful info in here for ya, I copied this from a post I made over on the 1CGS forums earlier this year.
Hope it helps...
Hey gang,
With the current sale obviously we are going to have some new Rift users in here, maybe even some new IL-2 users as well.
Just thought I would take a moment to highlite some things that may help one get set up and running IL-2 in VR for the Rift.
-- First, take your time and get everything set up properly. Do not rush this part, it is essential for helping to insure you have a trouble free experience with your new Rift.
If you got it on this sale, you got the bundle deal with the Touch Controllers. Now here's the thing, you may be thinking well BoS or flight sims in general do not support Touch, so no need for me to set it up or the sensor that came with the Touch package. Do not take that approach!
First off, the second sensor is not just for the Touch controllers, the controllers will use actually both sensors, same as the headset. Even if you think you will never use Touch, still install the second sensor and go ahead and set them up whilst setting up your Rift. Trust me on this, you will be thankful later. While for sitting applications one sensor is plenty, two is even better. And you will try those Touch controllers later, and love them. There are several great free games that come with them. During setup you will also set up your Oculus Remote and the X-Box controller. I would not skip any of this, get them all set up at one time so everything is there.
Take your time, go through the entire setup process, and through the entire tutorial at the end. Allow approximate an hour to get through all this. The tutorial with the robots is pretty neat anyway and worth going through it.
-- Once you have your Rift successfully set up and gotten through the tutorial, and all appears to be working fine, download and install Steam VR. BoS currently only supports SteamVR in it's VR implementation.
Now, one common misconception is oh great, I have to sign into Steam, and then run Steam VR from there. Not true, unless of course you have the Steam Version of BoS. I never launch Steam for flying BoS, only Steam VR. And it launches automatically for me whenever I launch BoS ( after the VR tick box is checked in the BoS GUI).
Important - Do not install Steam VR Beta! It is problematic for running BoS. Just the standard regular version of Steam VR is all you will want.
Also after having the Rift setup, you have to go into the Oculus Home interface on your monitor, go to the settings tab and put a tick mark in the " allow unknown applications" . Any game you have installed that is not within the Oculus Home environment, requires this in order to run in the Rift.
-- If you are using Re-Shade, get rid of it. Especially if you do not have a lot of hair. It does not play nice with BoS in VR. Can cause hair pulling out moments.
-- Nvidia settings. Forgot about them, many will not work for VR. Use the in-game graphics settings for AA, AF, etc. I use Nvidia settings only to set prefer maximum performance, everything else pretty much at default.
-- Once Rift and Steam VR is set up, and you have gone into BoS on your monitor and put a tick mark into VR, exit out.
If you have not, put the headset on - Oculus Home will start up automatically shortly after. Then launch BoS. Steam VR will immediately start up, and BoS should launch and then you will find yourself shortly after in a life sized hangar with the menu screen showing nicely on your right. This is where the jaw first starts to drop to the floor - it will finish dropping when you are in the cockpit. Obviously if you are running the Steam version of BoS, you will need to log into Steam first as well.
-- Audio - to get sound in your Rift headphones, which are actually pretty darn good, you will need to either set the Rift headphones as your default audio device, or change the audio prior to launching BoS to Rift Headhpones. You can also set it to automatically switch with the Oculus Tray Tool, which is mentioned at the end of this post.
- Before getting into the cockpit though, go into the key mapping, and go to the Pilot Head Control category. There you will find two essential features for VR that can be assigned to buttons. VR Zoom ( Press and Hold), and Default VR View ( this resets the view). You will definitely want to assign those two features to buttons on your stick or throttle. Very handy to have. I have both of these features assigned to buttons on my Warthog throttle.
-- Now load up a quick mission in your favorite ride, and prepare to be in total awe! Yep, that is actually a life sized plane you have just found yourself sitting in.
- Lastly, once everything running great and you are a happy camper, than you can start playing with running without ASW , and increasing the Pixel Density. The Oculus Tray Tool which can be found here, is a great tool for setting these things.
https://forums.oculu...es-hopefully/p1But do get the Rift set up and running properly first.
I hope some info in here might be helpful to new Rift users, you are truly in for a treat!