October 12, 2025Oct 12 Commercial Member Did a bit of research, and yeah, that’s actually a known issue with the Quest 3S, not your cable or Wi-Fi. When you enable Link, the headset still activates its PCVR streaming pipeline, even if your sim isn’t in VR mode yet, and that’s where the 3 S tends to glitch. Meta reused the same Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip from the regular Quest 3, but they cut corners elsewhere. The 3S has slower RAM, a lower-bandwidth LCD panel, and a more aggressive compression algorithm for PCVR. The result: artifacting and flicker the moment Link connects, because the headset struggles to keep the encoded stream in sync. It’s not buffering or a bad cable. It’s just the 3S’s display/codec pipeline choking a bit under load. A few things that help: In the Oculus PC app, set refresh rate to 72 Hz. In Oculus Debug Tool, cap Encode Bitrate (Mbps) to 120–150 Mbps. Switch from HEVC to H.264. It’s less compressed and more stable on the 3S. Use a short, high-quality USB 3.2 Gen 1 cable (or solid 5 GHz Wi-Fi for Air Link). So don’t stress. Your setup’s fine. It’s just the headset’s limited compression hardware. Hopefully Meta irons it out in an upcoming firmware update.
October 12, 2025Oct 12 Author 29 minutes ago, GoranM said: Did a bit of research, and yeah, that’s actually a known issue with the Quest 3S, not your cable or Wi-Fi. When you enable Link, the headset still activates its PCVR streaming pipeline, even if your sim isn’t in VR mode yet, and that’s where the 3 S tends to glitch. Meta reused the same Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip from the regular Quest 3, but they cut corners elsewhere. The 3S has slower RAM, a lower-bandwidth LCD panel, and a more aggressive compression algorithm for PCVR. The result: artifacting and flicker the moment Link connects, because the headset struggles to keep the encoded stream in sync. It’s not buffering or a bad cable. It’s just the 3S’s display/codec pipeline choking a bit under load. A few things that help: In the Oculus PC app, set refresh rate to 72 Hz. In Oculus Debug Tool, cap Encode Bitrate (Mbps) to 120–150 Mbps. Switch from HEVC to H.264. It’s less compressed and more stable on the 3S. Use a short, high-quality USB 3.2 Gen 1 cable (or solid 5 GHz Wi-Fi for Air Link). So don’t stress. Your setup’s fine. It’s just the headset’s limited compression hardware. Hopefully Meta irons it out in an upcoming firmware update. Thanks Goran, I will try these out. Though there is nothing for setting the codec on the Meta app on the PC It works in MSFS 2024 and honestly i am blown away sitting in that cockpit it's just wow. Going to do a DCS run. Edited October 12, 2025Oct 12 by Humpty Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
October 12, 2025Oct 12 2 hours ago, Humpty said: tried on both the USB 3.0 and the 5g Wifi You want at least a connection of several hundred mbps to link the PC. Glitching means the connection isnt fast enough and you get compression artifacts, for me that meant wifi 6, the okder "5ghz" wifi didn't cut it. Also depends on the GPUs ability to compress the video. The 3050 on my wifes laptop doesn't have the horsepower (or maybe there is something wrong with its nvenc install), the soon to be replaced 3070 in my desktop does. ALVR has foveated rendering options you can use to lower the load compressing the video. AutoATC Developer
October 12, 2025Oct 12 Author 1 hour ago, mSparks said: You want at least a connection of several hundred mbps to link the PC. Glitching means the connection isnt fast enough and you get compression artifacts, for me that meant wifi 6, the okder "5ghz" wifi didn't cut it. Also depends on the GPUs ability to compress the video. The 3050 on my wifes laptop doesn't have the horsepower (or maybe there is something wrong with its nvenc install), the soon to be replaced 3070 in my desktop does. ALVR has foveated rendering options you can use to lower the load compressing the video. Yeah the connection could be the problem Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
October 12, 2025Oct 12 Author I am now on USB 3 its way better, that Cub cockpit looks sweet. Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
October 15, 2025Oct 15 Author Guys I am bit confused, when I select openxr within XP as the VR runtime it kinda disables the VR mode. That's the meta link app, also in steamvr there is no option to set openxr as runtime Edited October 15, 2025Oct 15 by Humpty Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
October 17, 2025Oct 17 Commercial Member I may have found something. When you switch X-Plane to OpenXR but the Meta runtime isn’t registered as the active OpenXR provider, X-Plane can’t find a VR system, so it drops back to 2D mode. To fix it: Open the Meta/Oculus PC app → Settings → General. Scroll down to OpenXR Runtime and click “Set Meta as Active.” Restart both the app and X-Plane, then re-enable VR in the sim. If the button’s missing, you can manually set it in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Khronos\OpenXR\1\ActiveRuntime C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime\oculus_openxr_64.json After that, OpenXR mode will stay enabled and VR should load normally.
October 17, 2025Oct 17 Author 6 hours ago, GoranM said: I may have found something. When you switch X-Plane to OpenXR but the Meta runtime isn’t registered as the active OpenXR provider, X-Plane can’t find a VR system, so it drops back to 2D mode. To fix it: Open the Meta/Oculus PC app → Settings → General. Scroll down to OpenXR Runtime and click “Set Meta as Active.” Restart both the app and X-Plane, then re-enable VR in the sim. If the button’s missing, you can manually set it in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Khronos\OpenXR\1\ActiveRuntime C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime\oculus_openxr_64.json After that, OpenXR mode will stay enabled and VR should load normally. Thanks Goran , there is no option for OpenXR runtime in the Meta link app. Probably will try the registry trick. Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
October 18, 2025Oct 18 Author On 10/17/2025 at 8:05 AM, GoranM said: I may have found something. When you switch X-Plane to OpenXR but the Meta runtime isn’t registered as the active OpenXR provider, X-Plane can’t find a VR system, so it drops back to 2D mode. To fix it: Open the Meta/Oculus PC app → Settings → General. Scroll down to OpenXR Runtime and click “Set Meta as Active.” Restart both the app and X-Plane, then re-enable VR in the sim. If the button’s missing, you can manually set it in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Khronos\OpenXR\1\ActiveRuntime C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime\oculus_openxr_64.json After that, OpenXR mode will stay enabled and VR should load normally. Did everything but still in the Meta link app it says no runtime, made the registy change too. Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
October 18, 2025Oct 18 Author Think it worked. Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
October 18, 2025Oct 18 Ah! Ya Indi freak helo piloteeeee !! so ya still at it !!! ya keeping it like a MAN !!! Don't sell it Zulfi ! Enjoy !!!! BTW: DCS World is Greatzzzzzzzzzzzzz too Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
October 18, 2025Oct 18 Author 3 hours ago, jcomm said: Ah! Ya Indi freak helo piloteeeee !! so ya still at it !!! ya keeping it like a MAN !!! Don't sell it Zulfi ! Enjoy !!!! BTW: DCS World is Greatzzzzzzzzzzzzz too Huh no, maybe later exchange for a quest 3 but not right now. Haven't yet done any helis, i am stil in the midst of setup. First a new gpu in a few months. DCS is totally different in VR AMAZING. XP I have AA issues. Maybe with the new GPU it will be better Edited October 18, 2025Oct 18 by Humpty Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
October 18, 2025Oct 18 48 minutes ago, Humpty said: Huh no, maybe later exchange for a quest 3 but not right now. Haven't yet done any helis, i am stil in the midst of setup. First a new gpu in a few months. DCS is totally different in VR AMAZING. XP I have AA issues. Maybe with the new GPU it will be better For helis and ww2 there's simply nothing like DCS ! And for VR, DCS and AEFS4 Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
October 18, 2025Oct 18 Author 5 hours ago, jcomm said: For helis and ww2 there's simply nothing like DCS ! And for VR, DCS and AEFS4 Don't have AEFS4 , but DCS is amazing Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
October 18, 2025Oct 18 Author Though I cannot still figure this out. \ XP works though Edited October 18, 2025Oct 18 by Humpty Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
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