A friend of mine uses a gtx 2080 Super to drive his HP Reverb G2 for MSFS and he's satisfied with it for now; he's waiting it out when gcards become readily available after the nvidia 40 series launches (still most likely a year away).  Recently I was lucky enough to get an evga rtx 3080 ti FTW3 from a local computer store, but even that struggles to drive my new Reverb G2 at high/ultra settings in MSFS.  Ended up having to use Render Scale 80 to get where I wanted to be visually and performance wise, but dang it is worth it!

Edited October 25, 20214 yr by TheFamilyMan

2 hours ago, TheFamilyMan said:

A friend of mine uses a gtx 2080 Super to drive his HP Reverb G2 for MSFS and he's satisfied with it for now; he's waiting it out when gcards become readily available after the nvidia 40 series launches (still most likely a year away).  Recently I was lucky enough to get an evga rtx 3080 ti FTW3 from a local computer store, but even that struggles to drive my new Reverb G2 at high/ultra settings in MSFS.  Ended up having to use Render Scale 80 to get where I wanted to be visually and performance wise, but dang it is worth it!

Thanks for the info. Can you tell me what the effective resolution is with that render scale?  I want to see if I can find an equivalent one for my ultrawide that would simulate the same pixel count. Like 135 gives me about the same count as the G2 at 100%

There is not much use in comparing flat screen resolution visuals to what you see in a VR headset at that resolution, except in the most extreme (and unrealistic) cases.  Note that simple multiplication will yield any scaled resolution:  HW resolution (both width and height) * render scale factor / 100 = scaled resolution.

11 minutes ago, TheFamilyMan said:

There is not much use in comparing flat screen resolution visuals to what you see in a VR headset at that resolution, except in the most extreme (and unrealistic) cases.  Note that simple multiplication will yield any scaled resolution:  HW resolution (both width and height) * render scale factor / 100 = scaled resolution.

Thanks that worked.  I just had to get the "135% resolution" I mentioned earlier, then use that formula again to figure out what yours was.  I know the visuals won't be comparable, what I'm trying to test is my GPU's performance in sim with a similar pixel count load.  I.e. what kind of FPS can I get at that res.