My Preferred Setting for Epic Smooth VR in MSFS2020: What You Need to Know 

I'm very glad these settings work for you in the end. Thank you so much for your feedback. Happy flying Paul!!

@@Virtusim Well, thank you again. I hope i may ask you a few follow up questions, as I hope to unpack what made the DRASTIC change in my performance. So here they are after watching you do the settings for the 6th time to try to understand what sort of magic was performed. 1. In regards the "background application FPS" - You set to 30. Is this because your running your VR at 30fps or? 2. On XR-toolkit, what is the difference between "FPS THROTTLING" and " TARGET FRAME RATE". 3. i AM USING STEAM VR, and in the resolution settings, it allows me to go further up in resolution. Do you think this is advisable? For better image quality. And because I am potentially using "steam VR" for advanced resolution enhancement, would using XR toolkit resolution enhancement "conflict" with the steam settings, and add more "complexity" or "competing" visuals"? 4. What is "turbo mode" actually doing? Apologies for the further questions, but i am very happy, pleased and excited, after the recent gains thanks again, to YOU. Many thanks and best wishes my friend. Paul (UK).

I have the same config as you and have some troubles. Can you share your settings here? Thanks a lot

Great to hear!

You're welcome, happy holidays :)

Happy holidays Daz!! I'm glad these settings work very well for you too.

Glad to hear it! Enjoy the sim

Graag gedaan Ben!! Fijne dagen🍾🥂

thanks, glad it worked out great for you

YOu're welcome Ard

Great to hear!

4070ti super here, so far really liking these settings, Thank You! Using an occulus quest 3. I was able to up the resolution on my quest 3 and turn up the detail on objects and terrain as well. It looks great

WOW, that's great to hear, Kevin!!! It's so much more fun now :) Happy Simming mate

Thanks for the tip! I'll try that too. Have a great weekend my friend!!

Good luck!

Awesome, happy simming!! 😀

Let me know how it worked out for you. 👍

The Q3 has a native resolution of 2064 × 2208 and that's almost the same as the Reverb G2. So these settings should work for you as well. Let me know if this works for you.

Thanks for the feedback René

Have fun and let me know the results

It doesn't fix it completely. I can read the instruments pretty good, but I'm not staring at the instruments when flying. I just look outside and glance at the instruments to make sure what the attitude of the aircraft is. It's like driving a car, you don't stare at your rpm indicator to read what is says, but just look at it and make sure the needle is in the right position ;)

Turbo mode can improve your fps, but don’t use it with motion reprojection. The 100% gives me a good result and the sharpening you can set at any value to your liking. Overal these settings give me a smooth gameplay without the headset blacking out or losing fps.

@@Virtusim thanks for the explanation 👌

No overclocking on my system anymore. I tried MSI Afterburner, but MSFS didn't like it

Thank you, I'm using a VR mirror in OBS to record one of my eyes of the VR headset. The quality is what I have set for VR in the sim. I'm lowering PC quality, because I don't need to have it in hight quality when I'm in VR.

Thank you!! These settings should also work for P3D except for the ingame settings. I don’t owm p3d, so I don’t know the in game settings.

Thanks a lot, appreciate it

Not stutters at all when I fly low. I do a lot of low flying as well. Let me know how it works for you, Charlie

I have completed the settings, I have a slight reduction in clarity I think because I have reduced the resoulution in the OpenXR utility. Need to do further checks for stutters but they haven't gone, I just need to assess if there is an improvement. Thanks@@Virtusim

Youre welcome mate! Hope you find the culprit for the stutters.

You're welcome. I use Rivatuner for the performance info.

@@Virtusim Is that better than the one built-in to the sim, or even the XR Toolkit? If so, how so? Just appearance?

@@imacmill Rivatuner is part of MSI Afterburner. They all give you basicly the same information.

@@Virtusim Ya, I'm just so used the hearing/reading that one particular performance utility is better, with the only evidence-free explanation ever given is that 'the other ones' actually, themselves, degrade performance. Ah, the internet.

Just try them out. They are a lot better. But if you want better clarity, you can choose TAA if you don’t mind the shimmering effects that comes with TAA

@@Virtusim Thank you so much buddy, I do not like the TAA because of that but I'll try the settings and let you know, thank so much again.

@ttscea Graham, I’m glad these settings work for you too. Playing in VR is very demanding on on a PC. My best guess is to start with extra memory. 32Gb should be ok. I also have a new video online with renewed settings. You might want to check that out. I prefer a slightly lower quality image and a smooth VR gameplay. Have a great day and thank you for the comment.

@@Virtusim Thanks Mike. Yes I hate stutters with a passion :) Is my i7-4790 CPU up to the job do you think? I'll grab extra memory anyhow. Am looking at your latest video now on DLSS management. Appreciate your time and effort in passing your knowledge to the community. Have a great day

Your cpu and gpu should be good enough

Maybe a little bit. Let me know if you see any differences

That's Rivatuner

@@Virtusim many thanks Mike🤗

Good to hear that you have good fps with these settings. Happy Holidays

I do that so the sim doesn’t render high quality for pc in the background. Leaving more memory space for the gpu to render VR

Hi Jelle, I don’t have a quest 3, but for the best Q3 settings, check Steve’s channel: VR Flightsimguy. He just released a video about it. Cheers Mike

The problem is that I have already tried out its settings (a little worse). But I also have a maximum of 7 FPS. and that in a helicopter that was just standing on the ground, not in flight at all. I'm starting to not understand it all anymore and I'm really disappointed/sad.@@Virtusim

I understand your frustration Jelle. Do you use airlink or a cable? When you use airlink, make sure your router is close to where you are for an optimal connection. What are your pc specs and do you have the same problems with other sims/games? You can also try the Xplane demo and see if that one runs good in VR. If so, then something in MSFS is conficting. Try running the sim with an empty community folder. You can do this by renaming the folder to Community_old and create a new empty Community folder. Start the sim and choose medium graphic settings and test if you get enough performance. Then slowly increase your settings. Hope you find the solution Jelle.

Okay, that's a lot of tips that I'll try out. Thanks for that. Otherwise, can I add you to DC so we don't have to write over here :)@@Virtusim

Try lowering your renderscale for the headset in openXR toolkit if it is set to high.

which is the render scale in openxr toolkit (i dont see that setting @@Virtusim

That's ok, every little bit helps. Thanks for the feedback

no, fsr3 (frame generation) doesnt work in VR

oh ok thanks @@Virtusim

I'll try that, thank :)

@@Virtusim Actually you'll get the same perf with something around 3200x3200 I think. The clarity still improve a lot with even higher resolution like 3500x3500 or even 4000x4000 but you'll probably need a new GPU.

None, i dont use steamvr

I wish I could help you with that.

Not necessarily. VR comes nowhere close to visual fidelity of a flat screen.

@Dajlec I think in the early days with the likes of the first Oculus headsets and the screen door effect and GPU's that were not quite powerful enough, this is true but the clarity of high end HMD's these days combined with top end GPU's is more than sufficient to see everything clearly in the cockpit. You really are there. In that cockpit in a virtual world that looks so real, it's difficult to distinguish from reality at times. A flat screen is just that and provides zero immersion. Almost everyone who I have shown VR to these days has commented on how difficult it was to go back and look at a flat screen while sitting in the spare room. The experience is incomparable. I'm pro VR as you can tell 😉 * I do think cost is still a barrier though. A good VR setup is very expensive

You are most likely in LOCK mode. Go te General settings - Accesiblility - Cockpit Interaction System and change LOCK to LEGACY

@@Virtusim hi no legacy mode is for the mouse.. who want use mouse in vr. nobody i think.. but devs dont think the same. devs dont care vr community. :(

It’s already set to 16x in the nvidia control panel. Setting it on in the sim AND in the control panel can result in artefacts like shimmering and stutters.

@@Virtusim 👍👍👍

That's why it's called "My preferred settings" They might work for others and they might not work for some. We all have a defferent system to work with and different addons for the sim. 2 years in VR is still relatively "recent" for the gaming industry. I've been flying for real and in the sim for the last 30 years. So 2 years is still pretty recent :) Just my 2 cents and now we can both have a beer. Cheers and thanks for your input mate. HNY

@Serpico360 - what are your settings? I also have a reverb g2, 4090 and Im very curious to get better results (nvidia settings, OXRTK, in game vr settings) Thank you

You're welcome David

Same specs works for me!

@@noelspoelstra game changer for me

What is wrong with it? Here it looks great

Agreed, I run a much higher resolution with a Reverb G2 3500x3460 ish and get 45 fps with Motion reprojection and Turbo mode off since it completly ruins it. No FSR using CAS.

@@Serpico360 Exatally

AMD I presume?

@@Virtusim Yes sir