VR Screen Tearing in HP Reverb G2

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  1. mgm41887

    mgm41887 New Member

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    I downloaded the game recently and it seems to work ok except there's really bad screen tearing in VR. It's not exactly tearing: it looks jittery and delayed (almost like it's lagging). I can't really describe it better than that. It happens anytime something moves: as I'm driving past things in my peripheral, as I turn the car. It's incredibly unpleasant.

    I use the HP Reverb G2. I wonder if the issue is because the resolution is set to 1080p but the Reverb G2 is a 1440p headset? I also can't set the resolution to 1440p lol

    Has anyone had this problem/found a fix?

    Specs: 3080FE, 5600x, 32GB 3600Mhz ram, game on an m2 drive
     
  2. Roar McRipHelmet

    Roar McRipHelmet Well-Known Member AMS2 Club Member

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    The resolution that you set in the Automobilista 2 performance settings is just for your desktop monitor(s). It does not affect the resolution in VR (except that if you set it very low, some menu screens are displayed with a low resolution also inside the headset - it's an old bug carried over from Project Cars 2)

    Settings for the rendering quality of your HP Reverb G2 headset is set in two places: in Windows Mixed Reality and in SteamVR. There are many guides on how to do this, like this one:

     
  3. Remco Hitman

    Remco Hitman Member

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    Hi! Have you checked the performance graph in SteamVR for any dropped frames? They are displayed as purple lines, see video.

     
  4. John Hargreaves

    John Hargreaves Well-Known Member AMS2 Club Member

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    I've not had what you describe in AMS2, but I have had it in MSFS2020. Turning off hardware accelerated GPU scheduling (hags) in windows settings fixed it for me so it might be worth a try. Failing that you'd need to scale down the options a bit to hit that nice smooth 90fps, there's plenty of info out there to do it, but it's achievable.
     
  5. mgm41887

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    thank you for recommending that video. i turned off motion smoothing and corrected the resolution and it solved 95% of the problems. I think now i'm getting frame drops but that's because ive got the visuals cranked up too high.
     
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    I didn't do this (because i am a big wuss and editing the registry seems like something i would mess up) but i did turn off motion smoothing in SteamVR options and it fixed the problem!
     
  7. John Hargreaves

    John Hargreaves Well-Known Member AMS2 Club Member

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    It's not as complicated as doing registry entries, it's just within windows settings, but I'd not heard of it before, I got the tip from the MSFS 2020 forums. Here's a guide
    https://www.howtogeek.com/756935/how-to-enable-hardware-accelerated-gpu-scheduling-in-windows-11/
    Might not do anything but it's easy enough to try. Glad the motion smoothing helped.
     

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