VR Config for Maximum Performance in MSFS | Essential VR part 6 | HP Reverb G2 & WMR Headsets 

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This is an incredibly helpful guide, I feel like I understand these settings a lot more clearly now rather that just randomly changing things. I'm getting fantastic performance with my Quest 3/7800x3d/4090. Thank you!

Dear Mark, today I took the day off to watch your VR essentials playlist and try to make my VR work. I have the Reverb G2 already for more then half a year but wasn't really able to get it running so was satisfied with clarity and smoothness. Words can not express enough how happy I am I did this and how I much I thank you for your great channel and the fact you took the effort to make these series. I have now around 30 FPS, buttersmooth, great sharpness and even a cockpit that has the right dimensions. As a former Private Pilot i always found that in VR cockpits are about 80% of the size in real life. Now after increasing the cockpit size to 130% I finally have the feeling to be really there. Again...many thanks ! Take Care ...Ben.

I am still in the refinement stage but i am so grateful that you put this series together. Thank you so much ,as i was so lost. You have my sub brother. God bless

I didn’t used the tool kit for several weeks. Now back and you are in right time with this amazing explanation. Thanks a lot 🙏 It’s really incredible how exactly, slowly and totally understandable you give us all these details. Best of the best 🤩👍

Thank you Mark, after watching your series I finally ordered my Reverb G2 and will take the plunge into VR. Thanks for explaining the topic in an understandable way!!

very informative, pretty much the only remaining channel i´m not constantly skipping whole portions of a video in order to get to the point...

Extremely well done Mark, incredibly detailed, yet understandable. Can’t wait to try out on my RTX2080ti and G2.

Thank you so much Mark! I have watched a few Open XR videos but until your clear explanation I didn’t quite get it. After following your tips in this video, in particular the size and sharpness settings I’ve gone from 29-32fps to 42-45fps in my RTX 3070. Thank you!

Your videos are probably the most informative and educational and this one is no exception. After seeing these videos, I can finally just set these parameters using your recommendations and then forget about trying to improve the image and JUST FLY! Cannot thank you enough.

Great video Mark, congrats. Very clear and good to follow for each and every level of experience.

Thank you for this series Mark, very informative. I always manage to pick up some unknown, to me, tips from your work.

Thank you so much for making this excellent series and for taking the time to explain everything in a way that is easy to understand. Very much appreciated!

Inspite of a relative long vr expérience I am learning a lot with this serie of comprehensive and clear videos. Merci Mark.

Mark your videos are always well done and super informative. Thank you very much!

Mark, these guides are excellent and helped my move into VR enormously, thank you.

Dear Mark, I have been watching your videos for quite a while now and have always not only found them very interesting and easy to follow but I have also learned litterally a ton from your experience. I would like to express my cordial thanks for putting so much effort into these extremely helpful tutorials. Especially this one really made a big difference to my VR performance. THANK YOU VERY MUCH 🙂

As always Mark, excellent stuff. Thanks much!

Well done Mark, great series, star performance.

Once again a no nonsense instructional video ignoring the frenzy of ‘butter smooth’ claims found on YT, you are one of my go to creators for anything MSFS. 👍

this guide helped me a lot to reach nice graphical fidelity and performance balance. thanks a lot!

Thanks for the videos, convinced me to try and tune my VR and use it more. Thanks Marc!

Thanks Mark this has been very helpful... I have just update from a G2 to a Varjo Aero and using same settings you have suggested

Amazing explenation. I've seen few videos on the subject but yours is just wow. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks a ton for these Mark, they were perfectly timed as I got my vr gear less than 2 weeks ago.

Amazing session. Best ever explanation I have seen so far.

Had to save this video for future reference due to the large amount of info. Thanx

Thanks Mark for a clear explanation of this tool.

Thank you Mark for another great and informative video!

Hi Mark, a VERY informative video. Thanks so much for your time. Your delivery is spot on and easy to understand Best regards Dave

Spot on Videos as usual

Great video. Thank you so much Mark.

Just upgraded to a HP G2 from oculus quest 2 so your open XR video is perfect timing and most helpful, thank you!

Amazing series. Thanks for your time and effort which saved me a great deal of time during Reverb setup.

Always pick up a new tip/trick from your vids, thanks Mark!

Mark, this was an excellent series! Thanks!

Well , well you are the man :-) Thanks a lot for your effort and dedication, I am able to run the MSFS now with 40 FPS all on ULRA in New York on the HP Reverb G2 :-) With the 4090 RTX and j9 13900 KS , wihich is watercooled, it runs smooth as silk. I like your style of presentation very much, verey factual and not opinion like. Btw, Duxford is a blast, I was there 2 times during the Flying Legends meetings, by Plane from Switzeerland, but of course we were stuck on ground due to the english weather :-) Keep up the excellent work and thanks a lot!

Video has been out for 32 min and already 116 views. Great video thank you.

Another great video Mark. Thanks!

Many thanks Mark for doubling my frame rate, experience in the sim is so much better.

Thanks for this! It was really helpful :)

To the point and accurate. Thank you sir.

I like your clear and well understandable speech and way of explaining - as a German I can follow you very well - thanks... always like your videos...

Thanks Mark!

Hi Mark, excellent explanation 👍 👏 👌 Thank you and take care.

Thanks!

Great video

Hi Mark, I've followed your VR series and I am having great results. Many thanks. Any thoughts on Mip-Map Bias? Have you ever played with this?

Wow, looks amazing. I stopped flying ms fs some years ago because I got fed up with the cost of keeping up and also the rather clunky interface . Vr looks like a big step up from that. Cost is still an.issue though.

Thank you for this series. Very informative. I am a DCS players, any chanse that you can do something like this for that sim?

Another great video Mark! And what a superb series of VR videos. Much appreciated. I’m wondering which fps tool you use to measure the average fps? It seems to be a nice tool too. Thanks!

Just received my HP Reverb G2 V2 headset I have found it tough to set up... main issue is my computer glasses make everything out of focus and my readers are even worse luckily I found an old pair of glasses and they have given me half a chance to see... I'm in the process of getting prescription lenses made for the G2 and its all happening because of your Tutorials and the help and knowledge you kindly share. Slowly but surely I'm learning to set it up so I can start flying in VR, I'm a retired old guy and been gaming for many years and thought it time to take the plunge and my first practise flight in VR blew my mind [ about 50% set up ] just struggling with the controls so any help would be great. Please keep up the good work and thanks again for your time and effort.

Hi Mark, love your site, the best ever instructional for flight sim, UdaBest!, can you do a short video on how to program your external view and drone to a xbox controller?. After watching your video on camera settings I decided to order a x box controller (wireless) but would love a vid on how to assign it properly. Thanks Mate :)

Slightly off topic but I’d struggled for a long time to get a really sharp image in DCS VR. Using open XR with WMR. In the end I tried upping the pixel density in in WMR from 100% to 150%. Fulling expecting my frame rate to be hammered. Didn’t budge, still getting a solid 45FPS using MR. I left the open XR settings at 100% in the toolkit, no sharpening. The higher pixel count meant I could turn off MSAA in the sim from 2 to off. So, although the perceived wisdom is to set 100% and leave it, sometimes it pays to experiment. I7 10700k processor running at 3.8Ghz and an RTX 4090. Running the frames at 12-17ms. Reverb G2.

Thank you so much for these wonderful videos ! I really appreciate your job. I have buit a "monster" with AMD Ryzen 7800XD, RTX 4090 (overclocked) with a watercooling custom and 64Go DDR6 Ram. 2 NVMe in PCI 5.0 !!! It should work well on MSFS 2020 and Reverb G2.

I appreciate the walkthrough! I'm new-ish to VR, and getting myself and my father set up with G2s. One quick question: when a change is made in the toolkit and it says "restart VR session to apply changes" does that simply mean ctrl+tab out of VR and the ctrl+tab again to re-enter? Or is there a WMR reset required? Etc? Thank you! Edit: Haha! I *just* got to @23:40 when you gave the answer.

Hi Mark, thanks a lot for this extrem helpful video that give me much more confidence in judging what I see in my VR glasses. One question remain for me. Ican see now the fps in VR and in addition to that the bottleneck. Means what is maxed out CPU or GPU. In my case it is the CPU. I'm using a i7-10700K. I would like to now what I can do with CPU and other settings to get more out of it. Do you have any idea? Or maybe a recommendation where to look? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Andreas

Thanks for the video. Seems like OpenXR toolkit kit won’t work with the steam version on MSFS. But not to worry as I have the store bought version too. Reckon it’s time to reinstall. I’ve got a 1080ti and need some more performance while saving for a GPU upgrade.

Do you know what the focal distance is of the G2 V2? I'm trying to get an Rx for that distance.

Thanks for the vids! Q: thinking of VR. Happy to interact with cockpit via mouse (that’s the theory), but how would I use a knee pad for writing & referring to notes during flight, eg new ATIS messages, or reading checklists? Cheers Steve.

Thank you for answering my question the other day, by pointing me to your series. I found a lot of helpful information in it, and it has really helped me tune my VR system. I have one other question if you don't mind. While I'm using VR, the image is still being sent to my monitor simultaneously. How much additional CPU/GPU resources are being wasted on this additional display feed? And, is there a setting or function that removes that additional feed, so those hardware resources can be utilized and directed exclusively at the VR display while it is being used? Also, the version I downloaded for open XR tool kit is version 1.2.3, and the "enable experimental settings" and the presence of Microsoft flight simulator in the box at the bottom are both missing in this version.

I know this an old video but the box for experimental is not on my toolkit menu. Does that not exist anymore or am I missing something?

Hi Mark, i do have a 3060 ti with amd 7600x cpu with the Quest 2. When enabeling openXR with many settings i don't see any improvement in fps. Am I doing something wrong.

Hi Marc. I downloaded the latest OpenXR Toolkit and has some differences from the one in this video. Are you planning in doing an update? My problem is that I have a Reverb G1 and a Reverb G2 but the sharpness of the G1 is quite better than the G2 so I need help in configuration. THanks

Dear Mark, what a intro to VR. Almost returned the headset back to HP as I wasn't convinced (lot of headshaking, hearbeat could have been seen in the screen) and performance wise it wasn't running smooth at all, now it is. Can you please let me know though if you have the time, when I move my head left / right fairly quickly I see the image on the right or left in the lense getting slowly blacked out till i'm still again, is still motion reprojection? I am doing 30 fps / 35 fps. Thanks again you are the hero!! Have a good one.

Great video - very informative and well explained. How do you get the vanishing lines as a background image? Is that a desktop image? If so can you provide a link to the image?

Hi Mark! Many thanks for this whole VR series. It's probably the most clear and pedagogic one available. I'm totally new to VR but after testing a Quest 2 from a friend I had to buy my first VR headset and it is an HP Reverb G2 V2. Now I'm following all your very useful videos to get my system optimized. I have a question about the Foveated Rendering setting, though. I notice that my headset already have quite a blurry image outside the center, even with OpenXR Toolbox disabled, which is quite disappointing. Since I'm new to VR I don't know if this is a configuration, bad eyesight or bad lenses issue or if it's just the way it is with VR headsets on this price range. Looking around on the internet I found many comments saying it's just the way it is. I'm surprised I never heard you mention that. Is this correct? And if it is, isn't this setting only going to make it even worse?

Thank you for your tutorials! Just got into VR and these have been extremely helpful. One question, my gauges are clear and readable but the text on buttons or switches is blurry and i usually smack my head trying to lean in to read them. 😅 is there a way to increase the clarity there? HP reverb G2 rtx 3080 ryzen 7 5800X. Thanks friend!

Hi Mark, I seem to have "lost" the ability to zoom the cockpit using the right mouse button. Been looking for a solution for ages and can't find one. I know that somewhere I've seen a picture of the mouse that shows that focus is with the right mouse button, but I can't for the life of me remember where it is. Thanks in advance.

I tried Open XR but can never get the sound to work with MSFS so I just stick to Oculus Tray Tool. If I could figure out the sound issue with Open XR I would try it more in depth. Thank you7 for the video. The video is very helpful, I think I will give it another go, but I sure wish I could figure out why I lose my sound with OXR.

Thank you very much Mark! Is it usable with the Pimax 8KX?

Question Mark, Should i turn the PC tab settings down in msfs when using VR? Doesn't that use more of the cpu and gpu because of the image it creates on my monitor?

Would you set steamvr render scale to 100% as well and override the resolution per eye in openxr toolkit ?

I tried Virtual desktop first. Then i tried the Oculus quest 2 Link cable and i had this weird stutters and sometimes not quite right movements also blurry screen tearing and wavy lines. Also Oculus home is still sick endoucing laggy... and i am qute used to all kind of weird vr glitches... but that.. oh boy.. ... So i have reverted to Virtual Desktop and i am fliying smoth and details plenty enough for Cessna VFR reading the dials.

Good video. I watched a future video you made on the 4090. I have a 4090, and good system, should I use these openxr tools or not bother?

Great video I’m flying with 3 x 2 k monitors at the moment. When I plug my hp g2 into my computer how many monitors do I leave plugged in the graphics card ?

Hello, nice work thanks, I've switched to FSR and get a hudge sharper image although I've got an Nvidia card

Please Help! I love your videos and i do follow them to the letter, almost, but now i got into troubles with the OpenXR Toolkit...it will not open with CTRL+F2? I checked the manual and run the keyboard tester, but nothing helps. Do i have to be in VR mode in MFS2020 to use it? Can you tell me what i am possible doing wrong?

Hello. Is there any difference between Flight Simulator bought via the MS Store or Flight Simulator bought via Steam when using the OpenXR Development Tools and the OpenXR Toolbox?

Excellent as usual Mark. I am running a low end system with RTX2080, and I configured the system exactly as you suggested, but with somewhat lower settings. Didn't work though. Very jerky and low frame rates. However, just disabling the OpenXr Toolkit, with DLSS on The Sim, the performance improved considerably.. much smoother and frame rates to over 20. So, the question I had in my mind is that whether OpenXR Toolkit can run along with DLSS, it probably was improving the performance a lot pre-DLSS days? Wouldn't you think?

Hello, tell me how to remove the error : ошибка XrResult failure [XR_ERROR_INSTANCE_lOST] oRIGIN: xrCreatelnstance ?

could you recommend a prebuilt gaming pc that can do microsoft flight sim in VR. Im alittle overwelmed with trying to find something on my own. Im a noob in PC gaming with a quest 2 and a budget of about 1,500 u.s. dollars.

Hi were you able to get the pimax 8k working in open xr?

Openxrtoolkit won't start. It won't even show MSFS or any other Openxr game on my PC. It also doesn't show the log. The companion says that it is installed correctly... Any help would be appreciated. I am using Quest 2.

Any experience how this is affected by DLSS being available? Meaning, is there a chance to get better visuals at better (or more steady) FPS with OpenXR Toolkit instead of using DLSS?

Do i need WMR also for my Meta Quest 2 for having OpenXR toolkit?

I really appreciate the work you put into explaining all of these tricks to get more performance out of MSFS in VR, but I have to report that none of it really benefitted me on my new Quest 3. :( While I did see a very slight fps increase when reducing the resolution in the OpenXR Toolkit, it made everything blurry and unreadable as far as cockpit instruments, MFD's, and GPS displays, even with small changes, like 90~95%. Gauge numbering and lettering on the instrument panel became mostly just blobs of white pixels, and increasing the sharpness did absolutely nothing to recover any of it, and I could only just barely read anything if I leaned in really close, nearly hitting my HMD against my flight yoke. All sharpening does is put a light colored fringe around the edges of buildings, trees, and the pixels of some ground textures. Changing the type between NIS and FSR made no difference. (Yes, I made sure to restart the VR session after changes as the Toolkit indicated.) Essentially, all I ended up with was a view that looked just like (or maybe even worse) than my old Odyssey+, which defeats the purpose of getting an HMD with a higher resolution. BTW, I'm running a i7-13700K and RTX 3080 (10GB). On top of all that, I am constantly getting a weird "double image" or maybe like some kind of pseudo motion blurring across the entire VR view when turning the aircraft or moving my head around, and this is regardless of any ASW settings, but also occurs with or without OpenXR Toolkit enabled. The effect ranges from annoying to flat out nauseating and makes MSFS unpleasant to play in VR, although I was hoping OpenXR would somehow give me options to fix it. I've spend countless hours over the last couple of years trying to get MSFS to work in VR on my machine, but I think I'm just going to give up and go back to flat screen mode. My patience is essentially gone now.

Hey Mark, thanks again for another really great video! I am having a problem with micro stutters. I have a very high-end machine with an RTX 3080 TI and I have the XR tool kit installed and I have followed all of your guidance. I can fly through downtown Manhattan and maintain 50 frames per second with all the things maximized; however I still cannot get rid of the micro stutters. For example when I am just taxiing down a taxi way and I look over my right or left shoulder the objects going by me are doing so in a stuttering fashion instead of a smooth fashion. Prior to the last Microsoft flight Sim update I did not have this problem. If you have any thoughts, I would be greatly appreciative!

Mark, Which do you prefer, HP Reverb g2, Vive pro 2 or pimax 8kx?

Hi Mark, I appreciate it if you can show me how to change VR camera settings in cockpit to turn it free style I'm using the velocityone.. Thank you

Hi Mark..I am running a Reverb Headset with a rather low end GPU RTX2060, with DLSS and DX11 and settings somewhat reduced ( based on your general guidance) I get a somewhat acceptable flight. But trying to improve it with OpenXR Toolkit (using your recommendations) the flight gets messed up with jerky movements, although showing a frame rate of around 25-30. So I don't use Toolkit. Anything I could be doing wrong?

After scrolling down with the ctrl +F2 how do you get it to change values ,for instance changing the time count down to NONE

Hi Mark, first off thank you very much for your excellent videos. I've tried every trick in the book including the recommendations you gave in this video to cure my headset stutter in VR problem to no avail. I have an RTX 3080 TI and i7- 12700 and with this setup I should be able to do better. Currently I can get about 50 frames per second in my Quest 2 flying over Barcelona at a low altitude. That would be great if it weren't for this horrendous stutter which I can't get rid of. Would you have any suggestions for me it's too how to fix this? BTW, flying in 2D is perfect. Thanks Matthew

Hi , I would like to understand one thing, I use the sim only with the Reverb G2 vr, I have a rtx4090 + intel 12900k + 64gb ram. I have everything set to ultra and I’m not complaining about the performance, but I would like to improve, because yes I’m not complaining but I would like to have something more about fluidity. all this is accompanied by a 27" full hd monitor. if I had to play with the monitor I know that I would have bottlenecks, but I wanted to understand if they replace the monitor with a 4k one things would improve for virtual reality or if using virtual reality an upgrade on the monitor would not be needed. I searched the forum but didn’t find anything can you please help me understand? so in the end the question is simple: with the machine I have, would buying a 4k monitor help improve virtual reality?

Please add this one: I had one month of stuttering when MSFS windows was in focus while being in VR (wihtout VR no problem). Then after a month of twea found out it was Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows: Turn it off! (Windows logo -> search for Graphics settings) (System 4090/5800x3d and a Vive Pro 2)

Since update 9 I get sick after a few minutes of using my G2 VR headset. Is there a way to completely disable turbulence in VR? Not just removing the wind layer...

someone help me please i bought my hp reverb g2 and i'm having problems playing on msfs in vr mode every time i enter the simulator my vision inside the cockpit keeps going sideways, forwards and backwards by itself without me being doing these movements even already leaves the plane without doing anything, can someone help me to solve this? thank you very much if anyone can help me with this.

what settings would you recommend a 1080?

Can a VR experience be had with the offline game?

Do you keep your nvidia 3d settings at default?