OpenXR Toolkit - Setup Guide - FREE VR Performance Boost in ACC, AMS2, iRacing, F122 and MORE! 

Thank you for taking the time to explain what it is doing. People a lot of times tell you but I was always unable to grasp the concept. Now with the visual diagram explaining the processing and the overhead cost I now get what it is doing. Really appreciate you taking the time!

Thank you, this has explained so much with clarity, excellent side by side examples, entertaining manner and all round well crafted presentation. Perfect for someone who would like to get the best from what their budget allows. New to your channel now subscribed, brilliant 👍

Cheers Ham, your video was just the ticket to get f1 22 working in VR for me, and makes the game look good and playable with your clear instructions. For me with a 3070, keeping it at 72Hz and up the scaling to 115% NIS and med/high graphics, it looks pretty decent. You sir, are a legend :)

You are an absolute legend for doing this !! I cannot wait to go through this. 😉😎 I have tried following the online help with OpenXR tools and OpenComposite and failed. But you have shown a few things I misunderstood. Again Legend!! Many thanks. 👍

This is fantastic, thanks so much. I saw openXR in iRacing and had no idea what it was. It didn't work, so went openVR. After seeing this, I installed the toolkit, and am now running in openXR. Even without the performance config changes, it feels smoother and more responsive on my G2 since it's not going through steamVR. Thanks!

You basically need a degree in software engineering to play in VR got it 👍

Very cool, thanks! I'll make sure to check back once my G2 gets here. For now, I'm sticking with the Quest 2.

I really wish I'd seen this video when I began using my G2 a month ago. Hell, even yesterday when I finally moved to OpenXR after reading some other things. Nicely done, and I'll be sure to refer others to this vid in the future.

Thankyou so much! i tried all weekend to improve performance with my new reverb G2. I tried over 20 different sollutions. Had all of the suggestions i found online all written down as i was about to rma my headset. My reverb G1 outperformed it and nothing i tried helped. I came across this and thought i'll give it one last try and boom now she performs beautifully! Great work mate Subscribed!

Wow really really great video with a lot of information and details. Love the split screen comparisons at the end!!

Thank you for vid mate. Rtx 3060 never seen dirt rally 2.0 run so good. Saved me a few bucks, was going to invest in a 40 series. No need now. Thanks mate.

thank you for educating me on VR, I got a Meta Quest 3 using cable mode and was wondering why everything outside of the sweet spot are blurry. I just tried running my sim racing games using OpenXR, omg, what a difference. Thank you for teaching me something new.

Wow the DLSS in my game was enabled on my game because the other youtubers set up guide didn't explain that part. Thank you my friend, solid and very informative video!!

This is a great instructional, very much appreciated. I've seen another similar instance of an altered dll and config file that attempts to utilize FSR or CAS for VR and some non-VR games as well, but it's much more difficult to configure since any edits must be done in the config file with the game closed. Either way, Open Composite and the OpenXR toolkit are far better developed tools for doing this and I'm glad I found this video. Thanks for your hard work!

This helped me so much .my pc is feeling its age a bit now and those was a huge boost thank you!

Wow, this video is the best guide ever. I honestly got overwhelmed by the many terms and extra programs.

Having recently bought a Quest 2 and finding that the performance via SteamVR was meh, OpenXR has been a game changer. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain this so clearly.

Thanks for another great video. I got my 4090 last week and I have to say I am impressed. I just wish that they would improve the VR in ACC.

Thank you for this video! , I was able to switch from vrperf to OpenXR toolkit to use VRNeckSafe with the Quest2!

THANKS from even a year later! Running a 4090 but still wanna get all I can outta it lol. This got me off and running with open XR. Thanks for your time here bud!

nice one for this mate, just got it working on DCS world with excellent results!! great video :)

Great video and very helpful!! Going to get this setup for iRacing!

This. Is. Genius. You may want to retitle it as "OpenXR for Dummies." I´m new to VR (had an original Quest for about a month, was really impressed but not satisfied, so sold it during the pandemic when I could still get top dollar, now with Quest 3), and have gone absolutely cross-eyed trying to make sense of the other videos I came across about OpenXR. Reading the docs about it made me want to quit VR entirely and take up knitting or something. Your video, especially the first half, was EXACTLY what I had been hoping for! I found your page by stumbling across your livestream from earlier this month. I got thru the first hour of that, thinking how much I was going to enjoy your editing it down to a tutorial, and then found this vid. You laid it out so clearly without bogging down with unnecessary details that are self-explanatory (typical RU-vid video spends SO much time on minutia, then completely glosses over the esoteric parts!). I watched the first half once, then downloaded the apps described, made the changes you mentioned, and went right into IL2 Battle of Stalingrad without a glitch. Then I watched the demo part to figure out how to use the Toolbox. That will have to wait till tomorrow because it´s late now, but I am psyched to put this to use. Already in the first pass with OpenXR there was a major improvement in performance -- looking forward to serious tweaking. Thank you so much for such a clear explanation about how to actually get these apps set up and running!

EPIC video man... excellent information that is easy to follow. You've got a new subscriber buddy. A+++

😂basically. Thanks for the video. Helped out a lot! Vr and moving sims is about the most complicated nerve racking frustrating thing I’ve ever undertaken.

Brilliant, thanks for this. Im running a 4090 and a 4.9ghz 5800x and was really struggling with AMS2 at night and ACC in general (reverb g2, full res). With this Ive got a much better gpu performance across the board and it points me to CPU issues far more reliably than FPSVR does (i.e i still have ACC issues, but its on the cpu side/ai races) Still amazing im having to tweek settings on a 4090 tho to get a constant 90fps.

I posted my performance boosts on Kuno's forum. For my setup, I went from a highly variable 70 to 85fps to a rock solid 90fps including starts. A key was OpenXR plus turning on FFR to wide/performance.

💯Great Breakdown Video😁 Thank You Sirrrrr🥳

Thank You HamVR. This will help me a lot being a noob on VR

Hey thanks a lot for this info!!! This has been immensely helpful as I have just created a new PC gaming build equipped with an RTX 4090. Building a PC is easy compared to setting up VR and getting VR optimizations dialed in, ugh! Thanks again for this great tutorial!

Thank you very much for the video! This is immensely helpful!

Very helpful thank you for putting this together!

Apprecaiate this video, iRacing is running much better for me now with OpenXR versus Oculus mode!

Perfect explanation - thank you so much ! 😀👍

Nice guide. Thanks Ham.

Great explanation on how to use this. Thank you! :)

Well delivered guide mate. Thank you.

Thank you much for all that explanation in detail!

Amazing video bro 🎉

Solid video. Was able to follow it and it worked on the first try. First game I played was Dirt Rally 2. I did have the game running OK via Steam VR but bypassing it and using the tools enabled me to get it to run better and actually see what the changes were doing as far as the CPU and GPU in real time.

This is extremely helpful! Thank you!

great tips, didint know about this software, thanks a lot 👍

Good video and very useful info. 2080 OC MSI + Samsung odissey 1-st gen , 8700k , 32 gb ram... and with this tool Dcs World works fine. Turbo option is a game changer ,at least for me in. This software is a must have if you are a vr user. Thanks again HamVR

Thanks for sharing this! Very useful :)

Very good guide and tutorial!

I know this is an old video but THANK YOU SO MUCH! Finally I no longer have stutters and now have stable frames... I am new to Sim racing with VR and this saved me from spending money to buy a new CPU/GPU. This worked with Pico 4 as well using Virtual desktop VDXR

Great video. Next time set the time the menu disappear to off first. Makes the video much better to follow. Thanks for your time and keep these vids coming

Helpful vid thanks 🙏

I don't know if you messed around with your control panel for your Nvidia card but I would recommend setting one profile for each of the games and turn off any of the control panel features. Make sure they're off or Auto for everything you can also set the graphics to Quality and keep the trilinear optimization on which helps with the FSR or NIS settings for eliminating issues with some artifacting on distant objects. Make sure that if you have any smoothing in the game turn it to zero if you're using VR this will also greatly improve your GPU CPU bottleneck.

TLDR: I used openxr with quest 3 to tackle performance issues in an outdated machine, and found performance, but had to stick with oculus software for better smoothness I see that your video became quite a reference to sim racers - which is not surprising since your content is great :D - so I'd thought I'd live my 2 cents in the comments for anyone who may be making their research: My pc at this point is somehwat outdated (i9-9900k - 3.6ghz overclocked at 4.5hz -, 32gb ddr4 3200mhz ram, geforce 2080 super), and even with the rift S it ~struggles~. Thus, I wasn't planning on upgrading the headset, but the Quest 3 was just too good of a value for money not to try. After playing around a lot with openxr I found improvements with foveated rendering/upscaling, turbo mode as well, but sadly my machine just can't keep up; even with good and stable framerates I couldn't get rid of stuttering. Even with unusable low settings and tons of headroom there was noticeable stutter ;( So sticking with the oculus software for iracing and ACC was the only solution; with the link cable, it runs in similar settings to the rift s (although at 72hz), and even with the increased latency (around 50ms) it's as smooth as the rift s - and obviously it looks miles better. I'm really surprised with how well link cable performs; it's a bit of a bummer that no true comparable PCVR headset is available at a closer price point, but Zuck got me checkmated there. Probably with a slightly better cpu/gpu I could have kept the gains made with openxr in sim racing, and the stutter shouldn't noticeable in slower games :D

Top vid! Thanks!

Great video. Thanks. +1 subscriber!

Thanks, Ham! I just spent an entire evening in ACC getting it to be the best it can be with my new PC (13900K/4090/G2) and I decided it was time to go racing. Now maybe I'll see if I can squeeze a little more out of this setup and possibly increase some settings. Currently I'm at 90fps (average of around 88.2) according to fpsVR. Would love to get that average up, but don't want to sacrifice. Maybe this will do the trick.

Full FPS . YOU ARE THE BEST

The 4090 was a good upgrade for vr gamer but this tool is a HUGH STEP FORWARD ! specialy in ACC. Now i play WITHOUT DLSS +KTAA + most settings on EPIC (vegetaion and postprocessing [depth of field / motion blur] are on LOW), have a much clearer view in the G2 and stable 90 fps. The new, better mirror view is a massiv immersion plus. That forward circle and upscaling stuff is not necessary. ACC and XRtoolkit run`s smooth without that options on a i9 12900k / 32 GB DDR5 and the 4090! My appGPU "score" is most 6,1 ms. CPU bound is 0.5 IF it`s showing. VRAM use is most 11 GB. Thank u a lot HAM !!!

I was running acc with 11400f and was cpu bottlenecked, I thought "fair enough, 11400f is outdated", so I update to 13700kf, still the same. Then I found this video, I am relieved 😌

Thanks. Probably the best video out there explaining the openxr toolkit.

Thank You. You are my master! This is the best what we can have for PCVR. Here is my short story about what can do good developers and software over great hardware specification. Hope this help for newbies. I bought Pico 4 and i'm very disapointed. I'm using Quest 2 from one month for PCVR with USB3 cable (ACC, DR2, etc.). I spent a lot of time to find out the best configuration (FPS and Quality) and luckily i found this video! 🙂. Now a lot of YT and internet hype for Pico 4 with Virtual Desktop (aka game changer and so on..) It's a bullshit for me. I've bought Pico 4 few days ago for better FOV, resolution and overall "image quality". Tested everything (WiFi6, USB-C etehernet card, USB3 cable, Streaming Assistant and Virtual Desktop (Godlike on my RTX 4090). Sorry, there is no way to have even close what i have on Quest 2 with OpenXR Toolkit and Open Composite with USB3 cable (I mean FPS and overall image quality not FOV of course). Now I will return my Pico 4, stay with Quest 2 and in the time where I wait for Quest 3 I will try HP Reverb G2 V2 because have also better spec then Q2 but can work same straight way like Q2 (OXRT, OC) without this sh**ty heavy SteamVR which Pico 4 use. Try your configuratiion with Virtual Desktop instead Streaming Assistant and You will see much better quality and performance, yes it's true. But again, for me even VD it's not to close what i've got from OXRT and OC. I wanted to have the same quality and performance on Pico 4, and even better due to the spec, but it's not possible until Pico 4 will not fully natively supports/uses Open XR.

In my case, I deactivated built-in iRacing sharpening. Then I used OXRT CAS instead, and at 80% I get a very crisp image on my G2. Also, I use FFR on quality and narrow, and Turbo mode is a game changer for me. It looks like Turbo mode makes the CPU less bottlenecking. No crashes on iRacing with it. I can't say the same on FS2020. Turbo cause CTD all the time.

What i did actually with ODT; i take horizontal fov to 0.9 and vertical one to 0.4. 0.4 here create a black box from top and down and it seems you wear helmet and more realistic for me. And i can run all racing sims now %50 more with resolution and clarity is great with Quest 3 in 90 Hz. With my 4090 card in 90Hz 1.5 multiplier in Oculus app, 2 pixel per eye in ODT can't explain how beautiful is.

Thanks for your video. Iam poor person and have just an Lenovo WMR and it fix a lot for me. 🤝👍

Thank you for the great information! What are your settings in the OpenXR-Tool for WMR? Is there a best practice here? How should the ingame resolution be? I turned on the "Fix resolution auto" option in AC, is that correct or do I have to enter it manually?

Thank you bruvah

im using both the FSR from the toolkit and the one from ACC and actually im getting very good pref and quality (toolkit FSR at 85%)

Just bought a 7900xt and the current drivers are pants in steam vr. Was pesamistic about this software. But holy cow this literally made acc smooth as butter even with no upscaling. Thanks @hamvr . Game changing i am now racing in 4k. Legend .

found opencomposite because of ACC and switched from FSR_mod. But I mostly play il 2 Sturmovik in VR. IL2 would be really something but I would like to see a benchmark from you with your 4090 and the G2. I'm very happy with how my 3080 fires up my G2, especially with OpenXr 1.2.1, but the VR community of IL2 would be interested in a video about it with the 4090. Your tests are really good.

Thank you so much for this video. Nobody tell me exactly how to do it step by step so i never use it. If you have time, can you make a video how to use AMD FSR 2.0 mod. Thanks brother

Great video. Sorry if you covered this already, what performance overlay are you using? Doesn't look like the one I'm used to with the Oculus debug tool.

Thanks!

Bravuh, wait I need prepare some tea.

Thanks for the video! I heared that the VR Performance Tool is also good for improving VR performance. Which one is better? Should I use OpenXR toolkit or VR Performance Tool?

Thanks for taking the time to make this, didn't really understand what this was... the main thing is how much better it is than using steam vr / oculus software? My assumption is that unless you use foveated rendering there is no performance increase? The in game dlss or fsr I would assume match the open xr toolkit scaling or am I reading it wrong? I just keep seeing titles stating free fps increase but I am wondering if open xr toolkit is simply a way to get more fps by using foveated rendering?

@HamVR , Thanks for such a detailed video. Loved the improvements I got following your instructions :) I'm however, struggling to recenter my view, as the games things I'm positioned slightly offcentered and higher. any idea, how to recenter myself? Steam had this option to recenter, but not sure how to here.

Awesome video. Very informative. I am running a ryzen 5700x and a rtx 3060ti in my pc. Im wanting to buy a meta quest 2 for sim racing but im not sure if my graphics card will handle it. After watching your video i figured you might be the person to ask.

Ams2 runs great between low medium high so getting more frames will be awesome, but the real culprit F1 22 just doesn't really work well, will try this out tomorrow and update with my results.

Thanks for this great video. I just bought a used HP Reverb G2/V2 yesterday and am in the process of setting it up for all my Sim Racing titles (AMS2, rF2, AC/ACC). Are there any specific settings I need to configure or enable in "OpenXR Tools for WMR" settings page, or do I just install it and ensure the installation status says it's installed and active? Thanks so much!

Hi, i can't use opencomposite. Everytime tryng to launch him, gibe ma a error. Or don't donwload the dll file's or don't switch in opencomposite mode

We often use the term "game changer" wrongly. But going from steamVR to OpenXR is more than a game changer, it's downright another world. On Assetto Corsa, GPU performance more than doubles, latency becomes tiny (constant 6ms compared to 17 to 19ms before), which not only allows the graphics to really be pushed to the maximum (with real shadows in 2048*2048 for example) but also to have MUCH more cars (AI) in a race, without ever saturating the graphics card (if it is still powerful at the base), all with 90 FPS constant without the slightest drop. With my 12700KF / 4070Ti / 32GB DDR5 5200 / NVMe 2.0 SSD, after setting the CAS to 70% (and with the magic "turbo" button), I never exceed 80% GPU occupancy, 6ms total latency (CPU + GPU, not just one or the other but both added together!). The new problem becomes the capacity of the CPU to handle all this, when we put more than 30 or 40 cars on it. Although I am still doing very well on Battenbergring with 47 opponents! And it's absolutely magnificent in my HP G2 which is finally used to its true value. OpenXR with Open composite is a real revolution for those who until now used that awful SteamVR.

we need more people like you in the VR community explaining how to configure games and headsets because most of what ive seen was either misleading or outdated also ACC is very poorly optimized game.. using UE4 for the game was a horrible idea

It's very interesting. Performance is still lacking on my PC.

great video thanks I could ask you if you have varjo and would you make a video of iracing and ACC settings and I ask you if varjo works well with openXR and open composit and toolkit? thank you for your time

Hello, Thank you for this excellent video! I use OpenXR toolkit with Quest -2 and flight simulator, which has also an in -game render resolution. For better performance, should I set a low in-game resolution (70% for example) and a high FSR resolution (100%) or the opposite? Thank you very much for your help!

Restart session means enable and disable VR. In MFS its ctrl+tab

A question, is OpenXr Toolkit settings applied to all games or separately within each game? Im getting a reverb 2 any day and will use it for a variety of games, mainly flight sims, some have dlss other does not, hence the settings will be configured very differently depending on application.

Hi @Ham any chance this will get an updated version? I would like a 120HZ vs 90Hz comparison and settings on ACC 1.9.

Thanks ham very helpful Just setup open be and composite with quest 2 Just a question.. how do the openxr resolution settjngs and quest 2 resolution multipliers effect each other ? Don’t want to over sample. Is one overridden or does openxr resolutionsetting effect you frame generation while the oculus multiplier enhance that frame at the headset level? Just not understanding that part. Thanks!

I've used opencomposite for OpenXR and in fact you gain some fps, but you can also notice that the image quality is worst and with some additional artifacts. Even when you shake you head, you can see that the image warps a bit. An example is when you look at a vertical pole, it deforms when you move your head. I have a G2 and tried this on ACC. Turned back to OpenVR.

Thanks for this, very helpful I just need to now if I only need step 1 (windows mixed reality) based on the headset I’m using ? Meaning if I’m using oculus meta quest 2 do I need to get mixed reality in step 1? Thanks

Thanks for the video. This has genuinely transformed ACC for me. Before I found it unusable with my 3080 driving a Quest 2 over link. Question for you… have you run AMS2 with OpenXR Toolkit on the Quest 2? I can’t get this to work, despite ACC working fine. An admin on the Race Department forum says this combo doesn’t work. Is that accurate? Much appreciated for the effort of the video and would be incredibly grateful if you find the time to respond.

So I am confused about a few things. In toolkit what function does the Override Resolution setting have that isn't already handled by the NIS/FSR/CAS setting? In the github pages and other forums it explains that setting the slider in OpenXR for WMR is what renders the game resolution before it is sent to the headset. From there inside toolkit companion you can decide to take that render scale and up or down scale it using either NIS/FSR/CAS or Override Resolution. I don't understand which one should be used and why there are essentially duplicate resolution adjustments. Plus there are redundant settings within each game settings as well. Very confusing

Has the Open Composite changed since you posted this? I download the files from the git link but there's no exe in there!

Thx fpr this Video. Helped me a lot, but whats with openxr for Windows Mixed Reality? i have wmr headset, but how to open it? ive downloadet it from Microsoft store, but cant open it from pc. do i have to open it evrey time from store? or do i only need to download it? And what settings do you have for it?

Ive tried every button configuration to open the openbox toolkit and it wont open? Any help would be brilliant. Thanks. Great video

hi, are you using an engine.ini edit and vrperfkit or just openxr toolkit?

@Ham VR great video, got it working on iRacing! Whats the name of the program for the fps meter that tells you if you are CPU bound? Thanks!

Thank you for this video. I found this video while looking for a solution to the VR stutter (when moving your head only) in F1 22 that so many of us are having issues with... So one question for you, before I go to the extra time of trying the toolkit, is this something that may address that stuttering problem?

Thanks for this great helpfully video......following all the steps, but can't seems to get it to show in my Quest 2

Hello, I do think this is a very good tutorial and explanation for OpenXR. But when I try to open the OpenComposite.exe (the switcher), it says Windows is protecting my PC because it doesn't recognize something when I try to start it. Do I ignore it or do I not launch it at all?

thank you for the tutorial.. have a question, am a DCS player un VR, HP g2, in DCS i have manualy installed the dll files, but in ACC even with the composite program installed it didn't start, for ACC there is a manual way to copy the files?? in the composite window it doesn't show the opened games with staem VR, any clue?? thank you

I have a htc vive pro 2 and set up my first very entry level sim set up running on RTX 4080 32GB . Do these settings apply to my rig as well.i know from watching other game play and my system specs that mine should run a lot better than it is now