When using an Oculus Quest 2 headset. Does it make any difference if my Monitor is 4k or not ?

55 minutes ago, Paulcoy said:

When using an Oculus Quest 2 headset. Does it make any difference if my Monitor is 4k or not ?

Good  question,. I'm starting to think it might. I'm having an issue where my oculus link is crashing often. Could it be because of the change in resolution and higher settings is not playing nice with the transition to oculus? Starting to think this might be connected.

Thanks for the reply. I must admit I've never had any link crashes. First i was using an USB 3 lead till my dog decided it looked better in her mouth. So I thought ( Despite numerous posts saying don’t, it’s not worth the extra cost ) I went and bought the Oculus lead. But not had any crashes with either. I am using an Acer non 4k with a DVI input

Edited March 23, 20215 yr by Paulcoy

39 minutes ago, Paulcoy said:

Thanks for the reply. I must admit I've never had any link crashes. First i was using an USB 3 lead till my dog decided it looked better in her mouth. So I thought ( Despite numerous posts saying don’t, it’s not worth the extra cost ) I went and bought the Oculus lead. But not had any crashes with either. I am using an Acer non 4k with a DVI input

Same as me Paul. Using the oculus cable and an LG 4K monitor set up for 4K and using ultra settings in the sim with lower settings for vr. I’m just wondering if the change in resolution going into vr is messing with things in oculus link.

3 hours ago, Paulcoy said:

When using an Oculus Quest 2 headset. Does it make any difference if my Monitor is 4k or not ?

No, it does not make any difference. When you render the game in VR, the monitor just gets a scaled down image that has already been rendered. There is no significant overhead and the performance is the same as having a 1080p display or not having a monitor at all.

In fact you can switch it off and use only the headset, getting the same performance.

Thanks MrFuzzy. I thought that might be the case, but just wanted some clarification.

let me say this

i am using CV1 with a GTX780 via HDMI and a 24inch 1080p screen via DVI without problems ....apart from having to fly in clear skies always due to the clouds flickering in VR (but not in PC mode)

When I replaced the screen with a 27inch 1440p screen i wasn't able to change to VR mode no matter what i tried for graphics settings in the VR menu or lowering resolution in the graphics settings menu for PC mode

 

Edited March 24, 20215 yr by avhpilot

On 3/23/2021 at 7:03 PM, MrFuzzy said:

No, it does not make any difference. When you render the game in VR, the monitor just gets a scaled down image that has already been rendered.

Correct, what you see on your monitor is just a mirror image.

Thanks all for your help