Now Sim Update 8 has been released, these are my SET & FORGET VR settings for both medium and high end PC systems - Designed for MORE flying and LESS tweaking!
P.S many thanks for taking the time to post your settings - I've got something in between the 2 levels of PC's you mention (Ryzen 3600, 3060ti, 64GB PC3600) but my tweaks are like 70/30 towards the high end specs you mention.
Great tutorial. What about resolution per eye in Steam VR settings? Do you recommend keep 50% that corresponds to native resolution for G2 or go higher?
Dude, thank you so much! I’m running a 3080/G2 and your settings work perfect for me. Just did a sunset flight from LA to San Francisco in a Hornet, and it was probably the most amazing and immersive VR experience to date. You’re the man, and you earned a subscriber 👍
I'm watching this video almost six months on from when you made it, but just did a major upgrade in hardware (particularly from a 2070 card to a 3080ti, faster CPU and memory) and thought I'd try VR in the sim again. Wow, what a difference! My Reverb G2 seems like a completely different headset now. Thanks so much for all of the tips; they certainly helped make this process a lot easier and a success! Cheers!
I want to thank you for continuing to acknowledge the simmers who are still stuck with older graphics cards. With any luck etherium will be moving on to proof of stake before the end of the year and I can finally afford a new gpu.
Great video. I'll have to go over all my personal settings and compare because I did set & forget long time ago and never bothered since I got it to my preference that work. Only once the OpenXR Toolkit got available I did change from 70% to 100 / 100 scaling and 80 / 20 in Toolkit with FSR if I remember it correctly on my AMD R9 5900X / RX 5700 XT pc with a G2. Thanks for all your work and guidelines. Much appreciated.
Smashing! Short of having the room or finance to build your own physical simulator, for your favourite model of aircraft, then I see this [VR] as the only way to properly immerse yourself into this domain. The terrain looks almost half convincing in this flight simulation presentation, although I would like to see it fly over some houses [my own house] at low altitude to gauge whether its going to compress the roof as if made of a brown pancake of plasticine or a cow pat! I've only experienced VR through the cheap fixed lens-type Google thing, with my mobile phone slotted into the side of them. Even with a silly little set up like that, the immersion is near mind blowing. So, I can only imagine the incredible experience MSFS must be like through the set up the gentleman is showing here! No need for surrounding yourself with power hungry 4K monitors the size of a motorway advertisement awnings, just don the headset and immerse yourself. The only VR flight sim presentation I've seen so far was some years ago of a chap getting into a Cessna-type propeller aircraft and using the hand-wand sensors of I think a VIVE unit (?) to activate the switches and flight controls. Else, when seeing him move his head around - all around - without a break in the field of view was a paradigm shift for me. I thought back to my basic experience with the cheapo Google VR set up, and sharks swimming around me - and I didn't take much convincing to completely accept this way of sim involvement. What an absolutely smashing way to escape and have some innocent fun - lots of it! Thank you.
Nice video & thank you for making it! I appreciate all the hard work you put in to making these videos. I know they are very time consuming to do, so thank you! Hey I wanted to ask you where did you get the helicopters for MSFS? Thanks again & we do appreciate your hard work! Good bless!
That truly means a lot thankyou. I'd recommend the Hype Performance Group Helicopters, they're the best in the business. I have a link in the notes above. Cheers!
Steve, I agree with your settings, mine are almost exactly the same, after considerable testing. Great vid for the community. Thanks. For some reason in my Nvidia settings with a 30 series card pre-rendered frames at 1 gives me exactly the same fps as does 2, but @ 2 a few micro-stutters creep in after being in VR for 30mins plus? Terrain Level of Detail (which is simply draw distance) is also a big hitter I've found. I agree with SU8...don't know what has changed but a much smoother experience. 👍
Awesome. Many thanks for this VR settings guide. I use a 3080 but with a quest 2 and your settings gave me that awesome sweet spot with FPS and quality.
Thanks for the update here! I recently got a EVGA RTX3080ti water-cooled Hybrid as part of their Elite Member Que. (On the list for 9months! Still had to hold-in the vomit, lol, due to the current MSRP of just a video card these days, ouch! But recently read the new 4000 series coming out will set an even higher bar for GPU prices in the future, a "double-ouch" for us simmers, LOL!) Question: 1) Do you see any difference between NIS or FSR because I don't and other helpful RUclipsrs select NIS for their option on 30 series cards. 2) Does motion reprojection drop in large steps when hitting a "PC/GPU/Data Download Limit" for some reason? (FPS: 45-30-22.5 for example?) I have been running 60% Scale Factor and 20% sharpness since Open XR came out. I like 45 FPS in my G2 with Motion Reprojection on always. I still get some weird 30FPS dips that last only a fraction of a second in cities at specific intervals. I am assuming they might be terrain download data; because while watching graphs in MSI Aterburner, my GPU load actually dips then spikes a little in the 70's then stabilizes back into steady state in the 60's% range again and my CPU NEVER peaks above the 70% range during these same intervals where the FPS drops down to the next lower step. However my internet connection is not the best in the remote area of the USA where I live; only 9meg Up/Down!!! If I crank up either Scale Factor or Sharpness, the base FPS starts to slip into the upper 30's but then those same dips hit into the low 20's which I find is really annoying for any lengthy flight. Your thoughts are appreciated! Keep up the good work here while holding down a real job, he, he!!! (P.S. On one of your older video posts: Had the same color FJR1300, at least looked like one with my poor eyes, LOL!)
Helpful video. Have you always turned on vertical sync in the Nvidia CP? Always gives me stutters on my 3080, so I keep it off. Do you find much difference in visual fidelity between texture resolution at ultra and high settings on your 3090?
Steve - as always, a great video. I follow you really closely and just upgraded to a G2 V2 and made good progress, in all areas except Motion Reprojection, which was just too jerky for me. However, just tweaking the settings to that in this video has made that work almost flawlessly. Although it works, it does make the cockpit dials a little less clear and there are a few other annoyances that makes me still prefer it being off. One thing I have noticed though is I am getting a slight lag/joltiness with it off....I had noticed that since update 8 anyway. It turns out, if I come out of VR, go to the OpenXR tools and switch "Use latest preview OpenXR runtime" to off, the lag disappears completely. This might be useful for someone else, but would welcome thoughts... system: i9-11900k and 3080Ti FE
Just tested these setting flying out of London City airport, up the Thames, pass by the O2 and up the river for sight seeing from the Pipistrel- at dusk! *** Perfect settings*** my setup: HP G2 V2, PC: Aorus X470, Ryzen 7 5800X, Asus 3080 Ti OC, 1000W Platinum 80 evga PS. (note: never ever forget to upgrade your power supply)
Great video! I'm curious about your recording process. At times I see the black borders come into view, I recall having this with Oculus products when recording, but never with the G2. Are you recording with the G2? If so, would you be able to share your process? My G2 videos come out choppy, and eventually lag to a stop, although gameplay is still smooth, and perfect, even in High Photogrammetry areas like KLAX. Thank you again for the great video and sharing your settings.
Great video mate. What islands were you flying around those coastline cliffs are by far the best I've seen in the sim, is that default Asobo or an add-on?
Well Steve, I don't know what made the biggest difference, but I've copied your settings and WOW! The best thing is the almost complete eradication of shimmering that I had from using the Open XR toolkit. It must have been my supersampling settings. Thank you so so much for this video, it's given me a huge increase in visual fidelity for zero FPS loss, I'm astonished! I'm going to try it with HAGS on now (380ti), wish me luck!
My alltime best change that definetly improved performance was disabling HPET. Tried on-off again many times, and HPET ON was always worse! Running the same system as you, as you allready konw ;) Cheers from Austria!
I appreciate your videos. However, I have a reverb g2, same cpu as you and a 3060 gpu. Nothing I do will give me more than 22-23 fps unless I turn the render resolution down to horrible levels. Any idea what is imposing this upper limit?
Perfect for me, I can use my G2 on RTX3090. My English is not good sorry, I have one question : I have noted that the texture quality on the airport landing runway is very bad, I have probably not choose the good parameter for texture quality ? Do you have an idea of what I need to switch to increase the quality of texture on the ground ? Thanks a lot 👍
I still find, in August 2022, that I need to start the sim 1st, then trigger VR activation(which is quick; around 20secs, from within the sim). I find sometimes that VR isn’t detected by the sim on stater up & doesn’t show the option once in sim, so I have to restart. I haven’t had a chance to try your settings on my AMD system & Valve Index, so I’ll do that when I get the chance. Open XR toolkit is great, but I’ve found I have to turn off Image sharpening in the Adrenaline tool.
Thanks Steve! Finally received my 3080ti, but my G2 shot craps before I got to use them both. New G2 arrives tomorrow. Can’t wait to try your settings out on my rig. Thanks again.
Hey Flight Guy! Quick question...followed you guide and it's running great! How do I turn off that yellow FPS county I see in the middle of my "view" that tracks with me?
Great video, I'm looking to get a G2 but keep reading comments about image clarity being poor - is it clear enough to read the numbers on a G3000 display in FS2020 for instance???
Hi, thanks for sharing this. I'm brand new in VR und struggling bad at the moment. when you mention startup everything in 2d and then switch to vr, how do I do this? thanks my friend
Really good video. You earned a like and subscribe from me. One thing I notice you did not mention or show your settings in your screenshot as it got cut off was Anisotropic Filtering. What is your recommendation for a 3080 user?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but avionics screens such as the g1000 actually does not have that high refresh rate in real life, so setting it to medium might actually be more realistic.
Thanks for your great videos, will you be doing a settings guide for the varjo aero with latest nvidia driver? 🖐 rtx 3090 pc alien R-11 also Hp-G2 Alien R-7 pc GTX 1080 TI gpu
Sorry to ask a random question...But my problem with VR is not being able to zoom to see all cockpit instruments , forcing me to literally put my nose next to the dial/button in question...X-Plane used to allow me to zoom in inside the cockpit, without moving my head. Any similar solution in MSFS? I'm using Fenix A320, VR mode, and my machine is quite high-end.
Quick random question... I have my graphics set for the monitor to run really well and quite high.... (3900x 32gb ddr4 and 1080Ti) I have also my VR graphics in that tab set to a good balance for good graphics and decent fps..... If I am going to just use VR, does it help to turn the graphics in the 'PC' tab to the lowest they will go?? does that help or is it redundant once you enter VR mode?? :)
Hi VR Flight Sim Guy, I found your recommendations very clear and easy to understand however even with your settings, I am still struggling with VR performance as low as 2 FPS - while my normal display gets mid to high 50s. I was previously experiencing mid to high 20 FPS VR and cannot point to exactly when / what has caused the drop off in performance. My CPU typically running at less than 50% and GPU at 98-100% My system specs are: Windows 11 Home 64 MSI B560 B560M, Pro-E MS 7D-22 Intel U3-E1 - gaming mode selected (whatever that means) Intel Comet Lake Core I5 10400 @ 2.9GHZ 32GB memory NVidia GEFORCE GTX 1660 Super 2047MB, drivers up to date 2 Samsung SSD 860 EVO HP Reverb G2 VR I went through and uninstalled recent NVidia and Windows updates, I have uninstalled and reinstalled WMR but no appreciable changes in performance :-(. I use OpenXR with your recommended settings. I am at a loss at where to go next and would appreciate anything you could suggest to help fix or at least diagnose my system. Thanks very much Mike
Any prebuilt pc’s you’d recommend for a $3500 or under budget? Links from Amazon, Dell, HP etc? I bought a G2 and ordered a pro flight puma. Just don’t have a computer. Thanks!
New to OpenXR toolkit, so here is a question: isn't the upscale factor in the toolkit the same as render scale in dev tool or MSFS? So what if I set render scale 100/100 and only change upscale factor in the toolkit? I have a 1080ti and so far I used 100/70 render scale.
I'll give these a try to see if there is a difference I'm running 12900k and 3080ti had pretty high settings was getting about 50 fps heavily populated areas would drop to about 45fps and I definitely think I have your toolkit settings dialed in.Thanks my friend 👍
Hi, great video, but I have tried all the settings for high end cards (I have a 3090 OC 24GB), and I cannot get rid of this "watery" effect. It is always present. In the meny where there is a grey tiled floor and roof it is like its a swimming pool. When playing it is also very noticable, to the extent that the sim is unplayable. With my Quest 2 it is very stable, but the Quest 2 is too choppy. Any tips or experienced with this? Thanks.
Do you have any custom render scale set in OpenXR? I've been off MSFS for a while and coming back to it now so changing a lot of settings. My OpenXR custom render is set to 70% right now, is this out of date? (3080 gpu)
@@VRFlightSimGuy Right I seeeee! Makes sense. BTW, I finally dialled in my "perfect" settings last night (with a lot of your help) - absolutely stoked at the performance and clarity! Getting 32+ FPS with by G2 & 3070. Thanks so much for all your great tips mate (and speedy recovery!!)
Please help me with this vr setting. After setting saved and flight done. The next time I am back on the sim. The saved setting doesn’t exist at all. Is there a way to fix this?
Hi mate, could you please do a pimax 8kx version of this video, …I’m having a nightmare of a time trying to get the bloody thing to work 🤦🏻♂️… the G2 is so easy, the pimax is a nightmare
Steve - thank you for a very well produced VR video. You put in considerable effort and much appreciated. I am a private pilot and have found practice on MSFS invaluable to sharpen my skills and develop muscle memory. It is so much safer for flying in bad weather! VR is much better for depth perception when lining up when turning base and final. I have no stuttering but my picture is not sharp on the HP G2 (almost fly screen door like) with my i710700 RTX 2070 super and 32GB of ram. I would be so grateful if you could recommend the ideal settings for the 2070 super as I cannot tell if it is the headset or the PC which is causing the lack of clarity and I have spent hours tweaking the settings. Would upgrading to a 3080 card solve my issue or can I adjust the settings to get a sharp picture with my 2070? I would very happily make a donation to your excellent chanel. Thanks very much.
Hey Tony thankyou so much for your wonderful words of support. It's always a pleasure to speak to real world pilots who invest into VR for flight training. To be honest if you can, a 3080 would help boost the clarity of your G2 as you'll be able to enjoy upping that render scale slider more. Your 2070 super is only about 4% faster than a 1080ti, however, it also depends on your CPU. It's never an easy game this VR stuff I tell you!
I agree - I used to have a 2070 Super but eventually upgraded to a 3080… and I can tell you that it’s a game changer in terms of clarity and performance. Also upgrading to a high performance CPU will work wonders in itself. Not sure if you’re running an Intel or an AMD system, but I’m running a R9 5900x (12 cores, 24 threads) and it handles literally everything I need it do in VR, and beyond.
I seem to be having a strange visual effect after applying these settings. I just upgraded to a 3090 Ti and use a Reverb G2 (v1). Its hard to explain but it is almost like small portions of the area I am looking at become liquid and have a wave effect to them. At first I tried lowering the Render Scaling from 100 down to about 60 and it seemed to help, but shortly after take off it became worse. Any ideas what I could try tweaking?
I get 0 perf difference between supersampling off and supersampling at 8×8 on my 2080ti which makes no sense to me. Does that setting affect VR? Also, AF should be essentially "free" performance wise. Unless VR has some different interaction with it, AF has been one of the few settings that hasn't affected performance in a fairly long time. Hope this helps! :)
@@VRFlightSimGuy Interesting hobbit affects the 1080ti. My son and I tested it on his 1070ti but there was no difference (non-vr). I wonder if VR is what changes things with that setting.
The supersampling is only responsible for seeing more structural detail textures. 8x8 is better but it costs a bit performance. I would recommend to set it to off with an 10er card to 4x4 with 20er card and only the higher settings with 30er cards. Between 4x4 and 8x8 I don't see a big difference. If you mean with AF = anisotropic filtering: good. There is a bit difference between 4 / 8 / 16x. The higher the further you see sharp textures. Best example is standing on an taxiway and look at the yellow line on the ground. Regarding performance I would recommend to set it to 8x with 10er and 20er cards but 16x for 30er cards.
@@4secsharkmr352 I havent had a perf impact from AF in years and years, perhaps VR is different. AF is often considered the "Free" graphics setting (at least in Non-VR).
@@MCP2002 yep, for 2D that is right. With my system running an 2D game with 144 fps I see no difference at all. In VR my Aero runs a much higher resolution than my 2D monitor. AF isn't loss free at all because it sharpens the AA and that is in VR much more pixels than in 2D. Using an 8kx an Aero or the HP G2 there are many pixel per eye to be rendered. Not only the core resolution. No, in addition to that the pixels which are used to prevent distortion in the edges of the lenses.
You mention to do your testing over London city with overcast yet you and every VR settings guide I've watched so far flies in the country where there zero buildings, haha. Not taking a jab, but it's true. I'm sure you followed that advice yourself before coming to the realization that these settings were okay? People aren't going to load into Boston, London, or New York and have their comps blow up, right? Haha. Sorry, can't help it when all these videos show mountains rather than urban areas. Completely different areas obviously in respect to fps.
There's no conspiracy, it comes down to how it looks on the VR mirror, at 30 frames per second it can look awful when recorded but fine in the headset, so I like to record areas that have at least 50fps, make sense? However do check out my comparison tests where I do show New York, London among others
Now Sim Update 8 has been released, these are my SET & FORGET VR settings for both medium and high end PC systems - Designed for MORE flying and LESS tweaking!
P.S many thanks for taking the time to post your settings - I've got something in between the 2 levels of PC's you mention (Ryzen 3600, 3060ti, 64GB PC3600) but my tweaks are like 70/30 towards the high end specs you mention.
Great tutorial. What about resolution per eye in Steam VR settings? Do you recommend keep 50% that corresponds to native resolution for G2 or go higher?
@@wito3017 Good question.
Motion reproduction???
@@wito3017 You don't need to use steam vr with the G2.
why wouldn't you subscribe? it costs nothing but gives you the latest notification on updates this guy works hard to put out excellent content.
Bless you man, thankyou.
Dude, thank you so much! I’m running a 3080/G2 and your settings work perfect for me. Just did a sunset flight from LA to San Francisco in a Hornet, and it was probably the most amazing and immersive VR experience to date. You’re the man, and you earned a subscriber 👍
That's excellent! I'm so happy this video helped and thankyou for the sub!
I'm watching this video almost six months on from when you made it, but just did a major upgrade in hardware (particularly from a 2070 card to a 3080ti, faster CPU and memory) and thought I'd try VR in the sim again. Wow, what a difference! My Reverb G2 seems like a completely different headset now. Thanks so much for all of the tips; they certainly helped make this process a lot easier and a success! Cheers!
That's awesome to know thanks so much for your support 🙂
I want to thank you for continuing to acknowledge the simmers who are still stuck with older graphics cards. With any luck etherium will be moving on to proof of stake before the end of the year and I can finally afford a new gpu.
No problem Conrad, I appreciate that.
Thanks for going over settings for both high, and low spec PC VR settings. :)
Great video. I'll have to go over all my personal settings and compare because I did set & forget long time ago and never bothered since I got it to my preference that work. Only once the OpenXR Toolkit got available I did change from 70% to 100 / 100 scaling and 80 / 20 in Toolkit with FSR if I remember it correctly on my AMD R9 5900X / RX 5700 XT pc with a G2. Thanks for all your work and guidelines. Much appreciated.
Smashing!
Short of having the room or finance to build your own physical simulator, for your favourite model of aircraft, then I see this [VR] as the only way to properly immerse yourself into this domain.
The terrain looks almost half convincing in this flight simulation presentation, although I would like to see it fly over some houses [my own house] at low altitude to gauge whether its going to compress the roof as if made of a brown pancake of plasticine or a cow pat!
I've only experienced VR through the cheap fixed lens-type Google thing, with my mobile phone slotted into the side of them. Even with a silly little set up like that, the immersion is near mind blowing. So, I can only imagine the incredible experience MSFS must be like through the set up the gentleman is showing here!
No need for surrounding yourself with power hungry 4K monitors the size of a motorway advertisement awnings, just don the headset and immerse yourself.
The only VR flight sim presentation I've seen so far was some years ago of a chap getting into a Cessna-type propeller aircraft and using the hand-wand sensors of I think a VIVE unit (?) to activate the switches and flight controls. Else, when seeing him move his head around - all around - without a break in the field of view was a paradigm shift for me. I thought back to my basic experience with the cheapo Google VR set up, and sharks swimming around me - and I didn't take much convincing to completely accept this way of sim involvement.
What an absolutely smashing way to escape and have some innocent fun - lots of it!
Thank you.
Thanks for this. Where were you flying, and is that with add-on scenery (e.g. the lighthouse)?
Not sure if you already found it, I had the same question, & dug through some other replies to find it. Take off from "Out Skerries".
Thanks for the video Steve, I'll have to revisit my settings and compare them to yours. Thanks for dropping the background music too 😉😂
Excellent as always! Well done, Steve!
Thank you John much appreciated as always take care
Nice video & thank you for making it! I appreciate all the hard work you put in to making these videos. I know they are very time consuming to do, so thank you! Hey I wanted to ask you where did you get the helicopters for MSFS? Thanks again & we do appreciate your hard work! Good bless!
That truly means a lot thankyou. I'd recommend the Hype Performance Group Helicopters, they're the best in the business. I have a link in the notes above. Cheers!
Steve, I agree with your settings, mine are almost exactly the same, after considerable testing. Great vid for the community. Thanks. For some reason in my Nvidia settings with a 30 series card pre-rendered frames at 1 gives me exactly the same fps as does 2, but @ 2 a few micro-stutters creep in after being in VR for 30mins plus? Terrain Level of Detail (which is simply draw distance) is also a big hitter I've found. I agree with SU8...don't know what has changed but a much smoother experience. 👍
Hi Mark, your system is too weak😉🤣
No no no🤣 that was a joke.
Strange how different the systems are.
Mine runs fine with @2.
Hey Mark that's good to know thankyou. I'll see if this makes any difference to my setup as there is always something new to learn. Take care.
Just upgraded to Reverb G2. Do I need to run the OpenXR Tools app every time I run VR? Or can I set it once and close it?
@@rhinous1199 set and forget
@@rhinous1199 set it and forget it …you can access the menu in sim ctrl f2 is default
Awesome. Many thanks for this VR settings guide. I use a 3080 but with a quest 2 and your settings gave me that awesome sweet spot with FPS and quality.
Glad I could help!
Excellent, I didn’t know about hardware acceleration and g2. Have left it off for months now. The new Vegas looks pretty cool 😎
Contributions like this make MSFS2020 VR possible for us common folks. tnx
Thanks some of the little details you list are really nice. Thank you for all your work into this.
My pleasure, your comment makes it all worth it thankyou.
The 1080ti settings work great for my RTX 2060 + i7 9700k...
Many thanks.
Awesome video my friend. Thanks for doing a settings video YET again. Have been a few! LOL Take care !
Excellent video.Many thanks. Just starting with the G2 and need all the help I can get.
Fab, thanks for the 1080ti suggestions Steve. Much appreciated 😁👍
Pleasure buddy. Take care.
Thanks for the update here! I recently got a EVGA RTX3080ti water-cooled Hybrid as part of their Elite Member Que. (On the list for 9months! Still had to hold-in the vomit, lol, due to the current MSRP of just a video card these days, ouch! But recently read the new 4000 series coming out will set an even higher bar for GPU prices in the future, a "double-ouch" for us simmers, LOL!) Question: 1) Do you see any difference between NIS or FSR because I don't and other helpful RUclipsrs select NIS for their option on 30 series cards. 2) Does motion reprojection drop in large steps when hitting a "PC/GPU/Data Download Limit" for some reason? (FPS: 45-30-22.5 for example?) I have been running 60% Scale Factor and 20% sharpness since Open XR came out. I like 45 FPS in my G2 with Motion Reprojection on always. I still get some weird 30FPS dips that last only a fraction of a second in cities at specific intervals. I am assuming they might be terrain download data; because while watching graphs in MSI Aterburner, my GPU load actually dips then spikes a little in the 70's then stabilizes back into steady state in the 60's% range again and my CPU NEVER peaks above the 70% range during these same intervals where the FPS drops down to the next lower step. However my internet connection is not the best in the remote area of the USA where I live; only 9meg Up/Down!!! If I crank up either Scale Factor or Sharpness, the base FPS starts to slip into the upper 30's but then those same dips hit into the low 20's which I find is really annoying for any lengthy flight. Your thoughts are appreciated! Keep up the good work here while holding down a real job, he, he!!! (P.S. On one of your older video posts: Had the same color FJR1300, at least looked like one with my poor eyes, LOL!)
Helpful video. Have you always turned on vertical sync in the Nvidia CP? Always gives me stutters on my 3080, so I keep it off. Do you find much difference in visual fidelity between texture resolution at ultra and high settings on your 3090?
Steve - as always, a great video. I follow you really closely and just upgraded to a G2 V2 and made good progress, in all areas except Motion Reprojection, which was just too jerky for me. However, just tweaking the settings to that in this video has made that work almost flawlessly. Although it works, it does make the cockpit dials a little less clear and there are a few other annoyances that makes me still prefer it being off.
One thing I have noticed though is I am getting a slight lag/joltiness with it off....I had noticed that since update 8 anyway. It turns out, if I come out of VR, go to the OpenXR tools and switch "Use latest preview OpenXR runtime" to off, the lag disappears completely. This might be useful for someone else, but would welcome thoughts...
system: i9-11900k and 3080Ti FE
Hi Ian
Small tips always help ..I'll try your suggestion too 😀👍
Ps. That's a good Scottish name you have there lol
Thankyou so much Ian I really appreciate that and glad my settings have helped.. I'll try running without preview mode too. Cheers.
Awesome settings and tutorial, tried them out and works perfect!
Thankyou :)
Just tested these setting flying out of London City airport, up the Thames, pass by the O2 and up the river for sight seeing from the Pipistrel- at dusk! *** Perfect settings*** my setup: HP G2 V2, PC: Aorus X470, Ryzen 7 5800X, Asus 3080 Ti OC, 1000W Platinum 80 evga PS. (note: never ever forget to upgrade your power supply)
Great video! I'm curious about your recording process. At times I see the black borders come into view, I recall having this with Oculus products when recording, but never with the G2. Are you recording with the G2? If so, would you be able to share your process? My G2 videos come out choppy, and eventually lag to a stop, although gameplay is still smooth, and perfect, even in High Photogrammetry areas like KLAX. Thank you again for the great video and sharing your settings.
Great video mate. What islands were you flying around those coastline cliffs are by far the best I've seen in the sim, is that default Asobo or an add-on?
Cheers Kevin! Take off from Out Skerries :)
Well Steve, I don't know what made the biggest difference, but I've copied your settings and WOW!
The best thing is the almost complete eradication of shimmering that I had from using the Open XR toolkit. It must have been my supersampling settings.
Thank you so so much for this video, it's given me a huge increase in visual fidelity for zero FPS loss, I'm astonished! I'm going to try it with HAGS on now (380ti), wish me luck!
That's so wonderful to hear thankyou!
I have finally upgraded my rtx 2080 laptop to a rtx 3090 desktop with all the bells and whistles this is going to be good 😁👏👍🍻
My alltime best change that definetly improved performance was disabling HPET. Tried on-off again many times, and HPET ON was always worse! Running the same system as you, as you allready konw ;) Cheers from Austria!
What is HPET?
@@DerekMoore82 High precision event timer - found in windows device manager, google for it ;)
I appreciate your videos. However, I have a reverb g2, same cpu as you and a 3060 gpu. Nothing I do will give me more than 22-23 fps unless I turn the render resolution down to horrible levels. Any idea what is imposing this upper limit?
That will be motion reprojection. Try disabling it with the Open XR dev tool.
Awesome video
What helicopter are you using I just recently got flight simulator and would like to try the helicopter
Thanks in advance
Thanks! This is the Hype Performance Group H145
@@VRFlightSimGuy thanks
Perfect for me, I can use my G2 on RTX3090. My English is not good sorry, I have one question : I have noted that the texture quality on the airport landing runway is very bad, I have probably not choose the good parameter for texture quality ? Do you have an idea of what I need to switch to increase the quality of texture on the ground ? Thanks a lot 👍
I still find, in August 2022, that I need to start the sim 1st, then trigger VR activation(which is quick; around 20secs, from within the sim). I find sometimes that VR isn’t detected by the sim on stater up & doesn’t show the option once in sim, so I have to restart. I haven’t had a chance to try your settings on my AMD system & Valve Index, so I’ll do that when I get the chance. Open XR toolkit is great, but I’ve found I have to turn off Image sharpening in the Adrenaline tool.
Thanks Steve! Finally received my 3080ti, but my G2 shot craps before I got to use them both. New G2 arrives tomorrow. Can’t wait to try your settings out on my rig. Thanks again.
Hey Flight Guy! Quick question...followed you guide and it's running great! How do I turn off that yellow FPS county I see in the middle of my "view" that tracks with me?
Would love a similar guide for the varjo aero too please considering those like myself with only a 2080ti
Thankyou, nice to see you are concentrating on the 'bread and cheese headsets' rather than the caviar. One day we will all eat caviar :)
Always! :)
Great Video as always!!!
Appreciate that
Great video, I'm looking to get a G2 but keep reading comments about image clarity being poor - is it clear enough to read the numbers on a G3000 display in FS2020 for instance???
Thanks. Yes you can read small text
Hi, thanks for sharing this. I'm brand new in VR und struggling bad at the moment. when you mention startup everything in 2d and then switch to vr, how do I do this? thanks my friend
Where are these rocky cliffs you are flying around? thanks for the video !
Outer Skerries. Cheers!
Really good video. You earned a like and subscribe from me. One thing I notice you did not mention or show your settings in your screenshot as it got cut off was Anisotropic Filtering. What is your recommendation for a 3080 user?
Thankyou I really appreciate that. Yes sorry about that, I'm using 16x AF. Cheers
Correct me if I'm wrong, but avionics screens such as the g1000 actually does not have that high refresh rate in real life, so setting it to medium might actually be more realistic.
Many thanks for this mate great video.
Thankyou :)
Thanks for your great videos, will you be doing a settings guide for the varjo aero with latest nvidia driver? 🖐
rtx 3090
pc alien R-11
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Hp-G2
Alien R-7 pc
GTX 1080 TI gpu
Second question! lol! This Open XR toolkit.... is this applicable to the VIVE Cosmos Elite? I know it says about WMR but I dont use that...
Thanks for all the work Steve! ..
there are some fantastic msfs content creators out there helping the community,
Thanks to you all!
Thankyou so much that really means a lot.
Sorry to ask a random question...But my problem with VR is not being able to zoom to see all cockpit instruments , forcing me to literally put my nose next to the dial/button in question...X-Plane used to allow me to zoom in inside the cockpit, without moving my head. Any similar solution in MSFS? I'm using Fenix A320, VR mode, and my machine is quite high-end.
Quick random question... I have my graphics set for the monitor to run really well and quite high.... (3900x 32gb ddr4 and 1080Ti) I have also my VR graphics in that tab set to a good balance for good graphics and decent fps..... If I am going to just use VR, does it help to turn the graphics in the 'PC' tab to the lowest they will go?? does that help or is it redundant once you enter VR mode?? :)
Hi VR Flight Sim Guy, I found your recommendations very clear and easy to understand however even with your settings, I am still struggling with VR performance as low as 2 FPS - while my normal display gets mid to high 50s.
I was previously experiencing mid to high 20 FPS VR and cannot point to exactly when / what has caused the drop off in performance.
My CPU typically running at less than 50% and GPU at 98-100%
My system specs are:
Windows 11 Home 64
MSI B560 B560M, Pro-E MS 7D-22 Intel U3-E1 - gaming mode selected (whatever that means)
Intel Comet Lake Core I5 10400 @ 2.9GHZ
32GB memory
NVidia GEFORCE GTX 1660 Super 2047MB, drivers up to date
2 Samsung SSD 860 EVO
HP Reverb G2 VR
I went through and uninstalled recent NVidia and Windows updates, I have uninstalled and reinstalled WMR but no appreciable changes in performance :-(. I use OpenXR with your recommended settings.
I am at a loss at where to go next and would appreciate anything you could suggest to help fix or at least diagnose my system.
Thanks very much
Mike
Steve I'm building a new sim, 12700KF CPU and 3080Ti. Would you recommend Windows 11?
Any prebuilt pc’s you’d recommend for a $3500 or under budget? Links from Amazon, Dell, HP etc? I bought a G2 and ordered a pro flight puma. Just don’t have a computer. Thanks!
Hi, yes. I recommend Stormforce PC's, I have a discount code and link here: tidd.ly/3qBFn15 VRFSGUY5 .. Any issues let me know.
subscribed to ur great channel
Thankyou so much!
should I lower my monitor resolution too?
Thank you for these settings. Does Open XR Developer Settings have to be open during playing ?
Nope. Set and forget :)
Do you use OpenXR Toolkit with this for both settings?
New to OpenXR toolkit, so here is a question: isn't the upscale factor in the toolkit the same as render scale in dev tool or MSFS? So what if I set render scale 100/100 and only change upscale factor in the toolkit? I have a 1080ti and so far I used 100/70 render scale.
I'll give these a try to see if there is a difference I'm running 12900k and 3080ti had pretty high settings was getting about 50 fps heavily populated areas would drop to about 45fps and I definitely think I have your toolkit settings dialed in.Thanks my friend 👍
Best of luck Tim cheers! :)
Any chance for a video like this for DCS? 👍👍 tks man!
thank you!
Great video as always. Any way you can do the same for X plane 11 ?
Can we use the NVIDIA settings for DCS as well?
Hey Mate, is there anyway to make HP Reverb work off an Alienware M15 R6 if it does not have a display port?
Hi, great video, but I have tried all the settings for high end cards (I have a 3090 OC 24GB), and I cannot get rid of this "watery" effect. It is always present. In the meny where there is a grey tiled floor and roof it is like its a swimming pool. When playing it is also very noticable, to the extent that the sim is unplayable. With my Quest 2 it is very stable, but the Quest 2 is too choppy. Any tips or experienced with this? Thanks.
Erik, you need to disable ASW. I have a Quest setup guide that will show you how to do that. Best of luck.
How come these rocks look this good? Doesn't look even close to this when I play MSFS 2020 on my PC. Is this modded?
Nope. Default sim 👍
Hi Steve,
excellent video for the newbies👍👍👍
By the way regarding tweaking...should I like it?...🤣🤣🤣 Nooooooo. Not me🤣🤣🤣
Take care buddy
lol cheers buddy!
Hello, where are those beautiful coasts and that lighthouse?
Take off from 'Out Skerries'
@@VRFlightSimGuy Thank's very good this location
Do you have any custom render scale set in OpenXR? I've been off MSFS for a while and coming back to it now so changing a lot of settings. My OpenXR custom render is set to 70% right now, is this out of date? (3080 gpu)
just got to that point in the video... was watching and adjusting as I went
Steve - any idea why the resolution in the open xr toolkit does not have a 1:1 aspect ratio (given the native resolution is 2160 x 2160)?
Since the G2 has fresnel lenses, I'd imagine this is to compensate for barrel distortion.
@@VRFlightSimGuy Right I seeeee! Makes sense. BTW, I finally dialled in my "perfect" settings last night (with a lot of your help) - absolutely stoked at the performance and clarity! Getting 32+ FPS with by G2 & 3070. Thanks so much for all your great tips mate (and speedy recovery!!)
Please help me with this vr setting. After setting saved and flight done. The next time I am back on the sim. The saved setting doesn’t exist at all. Is there a way to fix this?
Hi mate, could you please do a pimax 8kx version of this video, …I’m having a nightmare of a time trying to get the bloody thing to work 🤦🏻♂️… the G2 is so easy, the pimax is a nightmare
I may do one in the future if I get time, although the G2 is best for MSFS to be honest.
@@VRFlightSimGuy Thanks for the reply mate, appreciate your channel
Do you have similar of this for DCS?
Is that Dunnet Head Lighthouse?
Steve - thank you for a very well produced VR video. You put in considerable effort and much appreciated. I am a private pilot and have found practice on MSFS invaluable to sharpen my skills and develop muscle memory. It is so much safer for flying in bad weather! VR is much better for depth perception when lining up when turning base and final. I have no stuttering but my picture is not sharp on the HP G2 (almost fly screen door like) with my i710700 RTX 2070 super and 32GB of ram. I would be so grateful if you could recommend the ideal settings for the 2070 super as I cannot tell if it is the headset or the PC which is causing the lack of clarity and I have spent hours tweaking the settings. Would upgrading to a 3080 card solve my issue or can I adjust the settings to get a sharp picture with my 2070? I would very happily make a donation to your excellent chanel. Thanks very much.
Hey Tony thankyou so much for your wonderful words of support. It's always a pleasure to speak to real world pilots who invest into VR for flight training. To be honest if you can, a 3080 would help boost the clarity of your G2 as you'll be able to enjoy upping that render scale slider more. Your 2070 super is only about 4% faster than a 1080ti, however, it also depends on your CPU. It's never an easy game this VR stuff I tell you!
I agree - I used to have a 2070 Super but eventually upgraded to a 3080… and I can tell you that it’s a game changer in terms of clarity and performance. Also upgrading to a high performance CPU will work wonders in itself. Not sure if you’re running an Intel or an AMD system, but I’m running a R9 5900x (12 cores, 24 threads) and it handles literally everything I need it do in VR, and beyond.
Are you still using 511.23 Drivers Steve? ( I am - more recent drivers/hotfixes introduce stutters on my system).
511.79 John, I believe I mention this in my video somewhere 👍
@@VRFlightSimGuy Yes, sorry Steve, I typed before I got to that part - thanks for replying!
What is your Anisotropic Filtering setting Steve?
It's in the video isn't it? 16x
@@VRFlightSimGuy Sorry I looked 5 times and didn’t see it. I am getting old though. Thanx Steve 👍 and it’s running really good for me.
@@VRFlightSimGuy Definitely missing
Does The 8kx Look as Good as This or Better ?
8KX has a better sweet spot than the G2 (easily) and looks fantastic.
I seem to be having a strange visual effect after applying these settings. I just upgraded to a 3090 Ti and use a Reverb G2 (v1). Its hard to explain but it is almost like small portions of the area I am looking at become liquid and have a wave effect to them. At first I tried lowering the Render Scaling from 100 down to about 60 and it seemed to help, but shortly after take off it became worse. Any ideas what I could try tweaking?
That will be motion reprojection, try disabling it in the open XR dev tool.
@@VRFlightSimGuy thanks! I’ll give it a shot this afternoon!
@@VRFlightSimGuy that was it!!
Could you make an "Idiots guide to starting in Openxr" please.
Might be quicker to ask in my discord server for help. They're a great bunch :)
wait until you see the new openxr toolkit released today... :P
I get 0 perf difference between supersampling off and supersampling at 8×8 on my 2080ti which makes no sense to me. Does that setting affect VR?
Also, AF should be essentially "free" performance wise. Unless VR has some different interaction with it, AF has been one of the few settings that hasn't affected performance in a fairly long time. Hope this helps! :)
AF is great for 20 and 30 series cards, although 10 series cards suffer more, that's why I knock it down. Thanks for sharing your tips!
@@VRFlightSimGuy Interesting hobbit affects the 1080ti. My son and I tested it on his 1070ti but there was no difference (non-vr). I wonder if VR is what changes things with that setting.
The supersampling is only responsible for seeing more structural detail textures. 8x8 is better but it costs a bit performance. I would recommend to set it to off with an 10er card to 4x4 with 20er card and only the higher settings with 30er cards. Between 4x4 and 8x8 I don't see a big difference.
If you mean with AF = anisotropic filtering: good. There is a bit difference between 4 / 8 / 16x. The higher the further you see sharp textures. Best example is standing on an taxiway and look at the yellow line on the ground.
Regarding performance I would recommend to set it to 8x with 10er and 20er cards but 16x for 30er cards.
@@4secsharkmr352 I havent had a perf impact from AF in years and years, perhaps VR is different. AF is often considered the "Free" graphics setting (at least in Non-VR).
@@MCP2002 yep, for 2D that is right. With my system running an 2D game with 144 fps I see no difference at all. In VR my Aero runs a much higher resolution than my 2D monitor. AF isn't loss free at all because it sharpens the AA and that is in VR much more pixels than in 2D. Using an 8kx an Aero or the HP G2 there are many pixel per eye to be rendered. Not only the core resolution. No, in addition to that the pixels which are used to prevent distortion in the edges of the lenses.
i gott a 3080ti. it dosent go so smood fore me
I doubt that it will be "set and forget" in your case. Settings just get randomly changed every video.
"every video" ... I post a full settings video when the sim significantly changes for different headset users.
Also for quest 2?
Coming soooooooon
You mention to do your testing over London city with overcast yet you and every VR settings guide I've watched so far flies in the country where there zero buildings, haha. Not taking a jab, but it's true. I'm sure you followed that advice yourself before coming to the realization that these settings were okay? People aren't going to load into Boston, London, or New York and have their comps blow up, right? Haha. Sorry, can't help it when all these videos show mountains rather than urban areas. Completely different areas obviously in respect to fps.
There's no conspiracy, it comes down to how it looks on the VR mirror, at 30 frames per second it can look awful when recorded but fine in the headset, so I like to record areas that have at least 50fps, make sense? However do check out my comparison tests where I do show New York, London among others
Thanks for your work.. I love your channel!! But i can't subscribe it😔. what's wrong buddy? Greetings from Germany
Many thanks. How come you cannot sub?
SteamVR settings please Steve
Hi Frank, not recommended. Use the Open XR platform, it's much better. You can change your runtime in your headset software.
@@VRFlightSimGuy Got it Thanx Steve
ok found settings
I deleted this game my pc stronger your pc lot smock no way
That literally makes no sense