VR Discussions, Questions & Feedback

I get great smooth results with Airlink. It's just down to setting up a dedicated wireless network. Haven't used my Link cable for ages now, for AMS2 or any of my other VR games.

 

If you have motion smoothing enabled, this might give you ghosting aswell.
Make sure your problems are actually from your GPU (chances, though, are pretty high in your case), because some tracks or part of tracks are not optimized very well.

I'm sitting on a 3700x and a 6800XT and I get some sort of ghosting / microstutters as well even with pretty low settings on some tracks (Road America for instance, Parts of Nordschleife, many trees around in both cases, too). Looking at taskmanager on that areas look like those are more cpu related bottlenecks. GPU usage seems pretty low / not near 100%.

 

Exactly these kind of things make me wonder if its worth to invest 1600€ on a graphics card, just to get "tiny" improvements. Yes these cards are great for 4K gaming on a monitor (what I dont care about) etc. but in VR all of them kinda suck. Even on high end cards ACC seems running bad in VR. AMS2 as well. Only in Assetto Corsa I get 90 FPS with my 6 years old card lol. So that means if I had a 3080 Ti I probably could run 100% or more in AC on Steam VR. But then again, spending 1600€ for a crisper image. I am fighting with my self to wait for the 40xx series. But its still a long way to go...

 

Oh yeah, I know what you mean by motion smoothing and the ghosting. I used to play and deal with it back in the days w/ 45fps motion reprojection and I had to tolerate it because I have no choice lol. My graphics card wasn't that great back then but I feel so immerse in VR and I just want to play it. Now that I have RTX3090...I would never want to switch back to that experience again...it's either 90fps or below for crisp graphics and easy for the eyes.

Since you have Reverb G2 which mean the headset is capable of displaying high end graphics, I would invest in a high end graphics card to take advantage of the beautiful graphics in the game though. I know I did with my PIMAX 8KX and it looks great. But again, there is always compromise and you may not feel the power is enough to show higher details and that's true with AMS2. You always wish you can MAX out everything in the settings, but I think that's going to take one or two generation of graphics card upgrade to get there . Waiting for that takes a long time...and by that time, I'll probably get PIMAX 12KX already...which mean it may use eye tracking technology to help display detail graphics without taking resource from the high end graphics card.

 

I ordered the 3080 Ti today. To be honest I dont care so much about superb graphics. I am ok with low to medium quality settings. I only care about a crisp image. Hope I can play at 100% Steam VR setting. Because at 50% everything looks kind of blurry (in all games). But 100% really looks nice. Otherwise I will give up VR and play on a widescreen monitor.

 

CPU is also just as important in VR as GPU. what CPU are you guys running with your 3080ti?

 

Just built a new PC with I7 12700K.

 

If I look at the PS5 and Gran Turismo 7, the PS5 runs on an AMD 5700 XT equal GPU! Gran Turismo is the best looking racing game ever. It looks simply stunning. Rain, night, fog, extremely detailed grass etc. in replays full blown raytracing. All no issue for a last gen GPU. It runs on 4K at 60 FPS. Thats massive! I know not comparable with VR but the GPU is so slow. We buy GPU´s that are 3-4 times faster and yet have tu f.ck around with low to mid settings... I dont say this about AMS2 but for PC games in general.

 

What is the mod mask? You mean getting closer to the lens to get bigger FOV? Does that influence blurriness? I hear this also works with a Samsung Foam.

 

Hi all, just wondering if there's any voiceattack users here, I'm trying the latest update now and the new ICM has totally messed mine up.
I've spent a couple of hours trying to get it it to work with no joy, it just gives random inputs,
Has anyone here managed to get it working?

 

Hi Gunner

I’m not familiar with voice attack, but it’s probably similar to issues that have been noticed with Crew Chief .
ICM Menu Update

 

Thanks, I've seen that before but you have no explanation how to do it. Plus I used to use voice commands which is far easier for me and why I bought va.
I know it might be easier now for non vr players but it's messed up my gameplay big time.
How do you non va users get on with it?
EDIT: Thanks @Kuku Maddog I'll keep my eye on that.

 

In the video, I don't know about ya all, I didn't care about the first page on ICM because I don't use it at all. I only concern about the Pit Strategy which is why I explain how it is important to move to the next page and use bottom as a default position. You can always set up a sort of a reset button to move to the default position at the start of every race before VA is executed.

 

Does anyone know if the VR Performance Toolkit v0.3 that was released today by fholger, unlocks foveated rendering in AMS2 VR?

 

I have Pimax 8KX with eye tracking but I never bother to use it eye tracking. If someone tried it and work, let me know.

 

Ok I'll have a fiddle.
I'm getting so fed up with having to mess with stuff..

 

It is possible to compare with some (dodgy) maths:
4k = 7.3m pixels per frame @ 60fps = 442m pixels/sec
G2 @ 100% SteamVR = 3k*3k per eye = 18m pixels per frame @ 90 fps = 1600m pixels/sec

I think saying a 3080 or 3090 is 3-4 times more powerful than a 5700xt is an exaggeration - probably more like 2-3 tops. Plenty of 4k benchmarks to figure that one out.

Of course, people with greater knowledge of graphics engines and in particular how stereo VR rendering works can no doubt point out just how dodgy this calculation is, but I think it still serves to illustrate how much we're asking for when we want to run high-res VR headsets at max settings.

 

Yes it works, I can see artefacts at the edge, not sure what the perf improvement is, didn’t get time to check. Seemed smoother, but over sharpened, I need to mess with the settings.

 

My gut says (based on personal and other's experience) that this is a placebo... as a result of it actually rendering at a lower res. fholgers mod in it's current form doesn't work with AMS2, a previous version did as was modified by @NuScorpii (in the FSR thread)... and I'm crossing fingers and toes that someone else can make the modifications to this current version.

Sorry!