How to Optimize Your Quest 2 for iRacing and Get Rid of that Blurry Mess! Plus Lots More Settings 

Was pulling my hair out trying multiple guides on reddit and iRacing forums. Was just an awful experience. Constant 71 FPS and great visuals after your video. Thank you, so much.

This guide was so simple and helped out a ton, just got the quest 3 and put my bitrate up to 900 and it’s so smooth now, I do run in open xr tho changed a few things in there and on tests I’ve watched you get a little more headroom in open xr than in the oculus launcher

Can't wait to try these settings. Great video my friend

Thank for the video and all the comments here have helped me a lot!

Great information, thank you! This game looks amazing in VR now!

bro i really love the energy.. gets me pumped up.

great vid thanks

Man, Love your videos! Just got a set of these and I’ve been struggling to get them working well in iracing. The t bar on my setup is red all the time with oculus plugged in but the r and g bars are both good so Lookin forward to trying your settings out! Thanks for your vid’s

Thanks for the cool and informative video!

Dude! Thank you! I have a 3070 laptop and it has never looked so good! Especially NASCAR. The stands and track have always looked atrocious in the distance. Now it’s smooth!

Love the videos! I'm running an Ryzen 9 5900x/32GB Ram/RTX 3090. I use the typical desktop connection from the Oculus link/Air link menu(not Virtual Desktop). I did notice that my headset looks better in the Open XR than the Oculus setting for iracing(just my opinion). Open VR had too much lag and wasn't fluid. I used the same settings as yours for graphics. Now when I moved to Air Link it had issues. Mass screen tearing and the controllers would take 5-10 seconds to register a movement just on the desktop. The issue was fixed as soon as I changed the Bit rate from 500 to zero in the Oculus debug tool. Everything was back to normal after the change. I play at 5408x2736 @ 120Hz and mine shows a 1.9x. Air link works pretty good as long as your Wifi is fast and has a strong signal. I also do not use a dedicated router for my Oculus. With the Oculus running I seen 92% headroom. With Open VR I was seeing 94-97%. Latency was about the same though using Air link on the Oculus choice caused some micro-stutters as the Open XR never had issues. I plan on using a link cable when racing(the new cable with a power adapter connected inline on Amazon looks really good!). Not sure what caused the micro-stutters as I have minimal programs running the background. One question though. Do you use the standard Oculus desktop or Virtual desktop? And if Virtual desktop is it really that much better? Keep the videos and racing coming!

Awesome video wow... I was in Open VR mode without knowing cuz it didnt prompt me with the option. If anyone has the same issue if you go in the iRacing UI>Settings>in the 'Confirmations' box switch on 'Show sim display mode prompt'. Oculus mode is a huge game changer thanks for the great info & video!

wow man thanks for the video i was just wondering if i could push my headset a little more cant wait to test it all out ill keep you updated. subbed!

I run OpenXR through Virtual Desktop wirelessly, I got an older system, with a GTX1080 and it's locked at 80fps, great performances.

Do you know how to show some overlays in the quest 2? I am desperate cause i don't find any way to show them in my quest 2

Make sure to use the link cable. It’s much better and more stable.

Just got my Sim Rig set up yesterday. Was too tired to try and figure out the VR thing with my Quest 2 and iRacing. Today i woke up fresh and ready to go. Couldnt figure out how to make my VR image clear and I didn't want to frustrate myself so i looked for help. Your video here popped up. It helped me out so much bro and I appreciate your time greatly! Saved me a ton of headache and now I can actually get to the track and have a good tine. You got yourself a subscriber. Take it easy, and maybe I'll see you on the track! Peace!

I would definitely recommend set up FOV tangent multiplier to horizontal 0.8 vertical 0.8 in oculus debug tool. You need to do it after every start of pc. Set those numbers, file in top corner and restart as administrator, than connect quest with pc (important to do it in this order) It will give you performance boost idk, about 10-20 percent. And it's barely noticeable in view trought the quest.

Hi mate after watching your video my oculus looks a lot clearer so thanks for that only thing is fps still stuck at 60 of specs same as yours

Does this Apply to the Standalone Quest 2 while playing without a cable. Lets say when you make Distortion curveture to: LOW does it apply to the whole quest without play PC VR only playing with the quest 2 functions games and such.?

Is the video recorded on the headset or on pc? I'm asking since once connected in VR via cable using X-Plane 12 quality on pc is awesome (pc specs: i 13600k, rtx 4070, 32GB) while on Quest 2 I always get always blurry and flickering (even if set to maximum refresh rate - 120 - and resolution using both Oculus pc app and Oculus Debug Tool): any ideas

Can you do one for asseto corsa?

thanks for the video,that 5408x2736 resolution is supposed to be the full quest 2 resolution

I've only ever tried the oculus quest 2 (borrowed from a friend) so far, and I have to say it just looks like you're looking thru a screen door. I do want to race in VR as I have discovered the overall experience for me is more immersive/better, so I'll see if these changes work for me, but I've just heard bad reviews about this headset as far as sim racing goes and hear that others are significantly better. Of course I'm sure cost is an issue for some, and is for me too, but I'd rather save up for a good headset than spend money on the oculus if I can't get the graphics to work any better. Has anyone experienced any better headsets they would recommend over the oculus?

Great video! How much system ram are you running?

The Oculus API is deprecated and no longer being updated by Meta. OpenXR is the standard for them going forward. It also gives you access to the OpenXR Toolkit which can give a performance increase. I don't think the CPU is actually being used that much, OpenXR reserves as much available CPU as it can for immediate use as needed so I think iRacing believes it's blowing up your CPU.

Look at that motion to proton latency. For a simulation you should be looking for less latency, decrease graphics and increase that refresh rate to 90 hz, latency will go down a lot.

I don't get that box where you select to use Oculus, OpenVR, or OpenXR. It just opens in whatever the default is, I guess. Is there a setting to get this to show up or set the default?

What do you mean when you say “through the oculus software”? I have been just going to desktop and running iRacing lol idk what I’m doing. But def getting that openvr feeling. Lots of flickering too.

Damn man I'm on the fence about picking a VR headset up. Currently running 3x 1440p 32". Dont think i could handle the clouded, diluted graphics.

It looks like OpenXR is locking the renderer at 72FPS. the 13.8ms is simply is simeply the rendering time at that rate. (1s/72=0.0138)

You running 80hz? Why only getting 72 fps? Is it graphical settings in iracing or the 1.5x on the oculus? I am running 90hz and get 89fps. I run my oculus at 1.4x one down from max resolution tho.

Good quality production, nice microphone, good personality, well intentioned, but holy smokes when I tried to follow along with these steps it was a freaking nightmare.

Loads of those graphics settings you’re changing don’t change until you leave the sim and go back in, like sharpening and HDR

Hey can you help me? Whenever I increase the bitrate my headset become extremely laggy and glitchy, any suggestions? Im not using the link cable, do I need that?

I have a Quest 2. Ryzen 5800x, and a 3060. When I try to configure any setting in iracing, it only lets me have a max of 1920x1080 and all my graphics sliders are turned all the way up. I have everything on "High Quality" but it still looks like a PS2 game. I don't know what I am doing wrong here. I've tried OpenVR Open XR Oculus and none of them work.

Could u help me out on my setup for assetto corsa it’s completely blurry for assetto and American truck simulator

Anybody know how the Quest 2 with a 3070 and ryzen 3600 would work? Would I have to worry about bitrate

How do I get the ui to pull up for Iracing vr I’m so lost I can get vr pulled up for races but the ui no I have to keep taking the headset off and the quality isn’t the best I need to buy a better cable I’m using my ps5 cord and I guess it can’t process more then 4 hours of usage threw it

My iracing only seems to pick up on a 1080p resolution which is my computer monitor and doesn’t go any high even with the oculus connected

I got a 10900k amd a 3090 - I USD 100% your setting from the quest 2 and for iRacing. With 72 Hz I get 54-56 FPS in test and 45-50 with cars on track. With 90 Hz I get 60-63 FPS With120 Hz I get never more then 94 Hz

6:37 I have a 3060ti and mine goes up to 1.3x at 72hz

Maybe I missed it. You using virtual desktop?

Any idea why do I get a washed out image when recording oculus mirror?

Why would the painted lines and fences etc all look jaggy and glistens? Is it an AA issue?

what gpu do you have?

This is probably a dumb question but I am new… How did you get the new UI to show up in your goggles… I’m not talking about the VR experience I’ve got that… I’m talking about DUI before I join a race… In your video, it appeared you could see it from within the goggles that would make it easy so I wouldn’t have to take them on and off.

It’s crazy that I plugged in the oculus, pretty sure the resolution was set to 580xsomething-p and I was still astounded that it looked decent... but Thank you for the video, it made me realize how I wasn’t utilizing my hardware at all. I’m running a 4080 w/ 13900k. I should definitely be able to push it harder. 😂

Will this work on warthmder?

i tried this and my vr isnt working good anymore. cant look around at all. trying to fix it back but wont let me. anyone can help me out?

Do you still run these on your q3

Mines a 1.9

So you adjusted settings ingame, but did not see you restarting the game?..

My quest 2 is blurry but i have everything on highdetail

no i got RTX 2060 and its the same render resolution

1.3x for me to run highest render res. 3070ti 72hz

openvr doesn't work if your using air link or oculus software if you use steam link open vr it will be able to beat oculus software from my experience.

This might be a dumb question but I noticed you are actually in the iRacing menu screen in your VR headset. (8m23s) How do I activate that so that I'm not on my monitor while selecting my race and having to go back and forth between headset on and off?

my Quest 2 keeps dropping to 5-10 fps randomly

The multiplier has zero difference on different systems. It is simply your headsets resolution multiplied by Xx so a 1.2x multiplier is your headset resolution multiplied by 1.2. Your Refresh rate has nothing to do with resolution.

Try 120hz and max rez then you will have crisp 60hz 😎

Worst part about it for me is all the shimmering and aliasing. So distracting.

You need to spend more time learning each of iracings VR launch options. Quite a bit of misinformation in this video.

Openxr only for openxrtoolkit and FSR.

rtx 3080 and i7 12700k im at 1.3x maxed 72hz. 1x is 4128x2096