Hi All,
I've been trying to get FSX to work in VR with the Flyinside demo - using the PS4 VR as I do not have a Vive / Oculus. This means I am using Trinus VR to emulate the Vive. My graphics card was not VR ready (as per a Steam performance test) so I changed it to a GeForce GTX 1060 Dual 3072MB GDDR5. I am using Windows 7, have FSX Acceleration with Service Pack 2 and 10GB of RAM, quad core 3.5GHz CPU.
Whenever I run SteamVR with the PS4 VR connected it automatically switches off Desktop Composition (I don't know if its Windows 7 that is doing this or SteamVR), the option of selecting Desktop Composition (under custom - visual performance) also disappears. From what I've read on other forums - windows 7 disables aero on multiple displays with extended desktop setting. I also read something about SteamVR disabling aero because of a 60Hz setting but I did not really understand.
This leads to Flyinside bringing up the following error message and not running at all:
"FlyInside requires Desktop Composition (Aero) in order to run. Please enable Desktop Composition and try again. Aero requires an Aero-compatible theme to activate."
Needless to say I do have an aero theme selected, i tried troubleshooting the aero from the personalise desktop window, tried changing settings in services.msc and in registry but nothing worked - there is no stopping Windows 7 or Steam from disabling Desktop Composition whenever SteamVR runs.
Is there anything I can do to get around this. Is it a windows thing? does upgrading to Windows 8 help?
Does it have anything to do with me trying to use the PS4 VR instead of the Vive ?