Just wondering if there is some collection of resources or other guide somewhere that I've missed for setting up VR in 2020 or eventually 2024?  I've never really played much with VR, but it was the whole reason I bought a headset a couple years ago (Quest 2 after a Reverb G2 wouldn't fit my face comfortably due to cutting into my nose's bridge).  Now I'm super confused and overwhelmed about how to set up VR and get good performance between all the tools I keep hearing about from streamers like VR flightsim guy etc. 

 

I know there's the Occulus debug tool, but also OpenXR toolkit, autofps mod (or something like that), and I think there's 1-2 others I've forgotten about that I may have heard but maybe they're obsolete now.  I don't know if they all apply to every headset or maybe I only need to use certain ones due to using a Quest 2, etc.  If I can figure this all out, I'm hoping to actually grab something like a Pimax Crystal or the light version to have actual dedicated PC VR but I want to get what I have working first.  My eventual desire is to have it working at a decent fps with airliner stuff.

If it's FS2020, then what I would suggest is to just boot it up in MSFS and try it with everything as it presently is.  Set up a button on your joystick (or just confirm what the default is on your keyboard) in MSFS for booting up VR and then simply boot up MSFS, put on your headset and press that button.  You might not need to reset any settings - and you probably won't need any add-ons at first as there are plenty of settings in MSFS 'General Settings - Graphics - VR ' to experiment with to get the best initial balance between clarity and smoothness.  The other facilities and addons are really to squeeze the last few frames per second or degrees of clarity once all the basic settings within MSFS and your Quest software are already optimised for your particular system.

I'm just about to get hold of a Quest 3 (I usually use a Pimax Crystal and the Quest is for other stuff but I will be seeing how it fares in MSFS in any case) and so, if you have any issues about the initial start up, I may be able to help further.  But if you do the above, you will probably be ahead of me in any case 🙂

 

9 hours ago, AJZip said:

If it's FS2020, then what I would suggest is to just boot it up in MSFS and try it with everything as it presently is.  Set up a button on your joystick (or just confirm what the default is on your keyboard) in MSFS for booting up VR and then simply boot up MSFS, put on your headset and press that button.  You might not need to reset any settings - and you probably won't need any add-ons at first as there are plenty of settings in MSFS 'General Settings - Graphics - VR ' to experiment with to get the best initial balance between clarity and smoothness.  The other facilities and addons are really to squeeze the last few frames per second or degrees of clarity once all the basic settings within MSFS and your Quest software are already optimised for your particular system.

I'm just about to get hold of a Quest 3 (I usually use a Pimax Crystal and the Quest is for other stuff but I will be seeing how it fares in MSFS in any case) and so, if you have any issues about the initial start up, I may be able to help further.  But if you do the above, you will probably be ahead of me in any case 🙂

 

Thanks for the reply 🙂  It will eventually be for 2024, but I have messed with it before in 2020 but it's been a couple years now since I tried it.  This was before OpenXR Toolkit I've heard about and autofps and whatever else is out there.  I think there was some predecessor to the OpenXR thing but I don't remember now and I never used it.  I was barely getting usable FPS in the DA62 in a remote airfield much less trying to use an airliner with decent FPS and PFD/ND/etc readability so I gave up for a bit and just never got back to it.  I keep seeing all these videos now about various tools and stuff that supposedly help FPS and display clarity so I've been wanting to try it again, but totally lost on where to start with all that.  I figured someone might have put together a guide to it all and I just didn't know where to find it.

 

Edit: it was some "OpenVR NIS-FSR" mod I think is what I was talking about.  Just found it in my Downloads folder and it's from 2 years ago.

Edited November 27, 20241 yr by flyinion