I was an original Pimax Kickstarter supporter, and had been playing Fallout 4 and many other games with it. Due to circumstances in life I’ve been away for a couple years, and I’m wondering if everything I had set up will still just WORK. If not, any advice people can give me to help me get back to where I was will be greatly appreciated.
I have everything installed exactly as I had it. I haven’t touched anything. My PiTools version is at 1.0.1.277. I’m assuming I should update to the current version, but I’m afraid that I’ll cause a cascading series of problems where nothing works anymore and I get in over my head. I haven’t been using Steam much and I’m not sure it’s ever had the chance to update it’s VR settings.
Any comments or advice? Have there been any great innovations in the software? Should I update? Will this all still work?
No idea other than to say you’re years out of date, and you probably need to do a bunch of updates like your GPU drivers etc. Whether or not your setup works is anyone’s guess.
Thanks for considering the question. I’m going with the general idea that if it worked years ago, and everything is the same (hardware and software) that it should work now too.
Yes, but it’s like any technology with software. If you don’t turn on your Windows PC for 5 years and boot it, will it still work?
Probably yes, but should you update drivers and software anyway? Probably yes
Could that actually cause some issues where before there were none? Possibly yes
Is it still worth persevering through that, possibly with a clean install of software to be up to date? Probably yes
Hiya Helio. I remember your name from way back then.
My headset is a 5K+ (or at least that’s what it says on the bottom of it). I haven’t tried to get anything working yet, so I can’t say anything isn’t working. I was just starting to consider getting it working again and wanted to scout ahead to see if anyone had any serious warnings before I tried.
Does it make sense that I could just leave the current version of PiTool installed, and also install Pimax Play? Then, if for some reason Pimax Play didn’t work, I’d still be able to fall back to the old PiTool. Does Pimax Play work with the older headsets like I have?
If I’m given a chance to update the headset firmware, should I just go for it? Or are there risks?
Understood. At least I’m so far confirming that there are no known obvious problems hanging over my head. I wanted to make sure to check if anyone said something like, “NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! DON’T DO IT! IT WILL BRICK YOUR HEADSET!!”
Generally speaking, it’s always advisable to either be as up to date as possible, or not far behind. Take GPU drivers as an example. They may have worked years ago, but updates to titles since then means that the current drivers might not run the game correctly. There can be vulnerabilities in the software that have been addressed in recent updates. Regardless, would highly recommend getting on the latest firmware available for your headset as well as updating all of your PC drivers and software, including Pimax Play.
Firmware udating should be fine. To keep pitool installed alongside pimax okay you may need to rename install directory. Ie from pimax or pitool to say backup Pu
Here’s what I’ve learned so far. I began to install Pimax Play and it asked to remove PiTools. I let it do so, and it let me keep my settings and config files. After Play was installed, it used those settings and configs. So far Play seems to be very much like PiTools, and everything worked fine. I also started up SteamVR, and it also worked fine. I haven’t yet began to tryout Fallout 4, and I’m dreading it, but so far everything has been very easy. Oh, also, there was no firmware update for the headset, which surprised me.
Thanks to the people that responded here. I’ll update if anything else significant happens so that anyone asking similar questions in the future will have some idea of what they have ahead of them. So far I’ve learned: Go for it. It’s easy.
