Perhaps placebo effect? I use a 1080 and although my FPS in VR is not hugely high (averaging 25-27), I fly with quite a few people on the newer GPU cards. However, many complain of stuttering and Juddery effects. I’m pretty smooth all the way, no real issues, except if there’s a non optimised add on like ORBX area etc, but generally very smooth. Why is this? Was considering an upgrade but not going to do it as I would want the disappointment.
Using a rift S
32M Ram
i7-7700
1080
2TB SSD
ASW off
I’d love to hear what others think? Settings, and actual specifics that you’ve put in place to keep FPS smooth and rendering high. Share your tips here
I have a 3080 and can’t do MSFS in VR. Too stuttery for me on my G2, even at 70% resolution. I read here a lot that people with 2000 or even 1000 series cards run it smoothly so I think it’s an application or driver issue, so I’m just waiting for it to improve before I can come back. DCS and IL-2 run great for me.
Edit - on monitor, an ultrawide 1440p, performance is great. Just not in VR.
I do a 1080ti at 4K medium and it’s absolutely fine averaging about 40 fps. I’ve hardly ever had dodgy performance. I’ve tried it with a G2 and that seemed tolerable enough too.
If there weren’t all these supply issues and a 3080ti I’d consider upgrading. Since there are and there isn’t then there’s no particular need on my part.
Odd. I have a 3090 running at 100% resolution on a G2, and it is smooth unless I go fly low around a large city. Then I get the occasional hitch. I do run with AA off, since I prefer higher resolution and will put up with the occasional jaggy (which I don’t really notice).
Using latest Nvidia driver. Rest of system consists of 10700KF@5.1GHz, 32MB 3200 memory, 1TB SSD.
My measly 1080 ran OK, smooth after tinkering (everything down but textures to ULTRA, NVidia sharpen), until it didn’t any more (OpenXL install went bad after Windows 2004 update?) and I pinned down the stutters on AUDIO problems (wth).
I have a store MSFS but now run SteamVR as the intermediary and disabled my HP Reverb audio using headphones, and that solved my stutters.
MS bad, Steam good.
There’s so many bugs with this sim and VR currently. I run an RTX 3080 and i7 7700. I have an issue where the first VR flight I have after booting up my system and turning everything on is great. I get 35-40FPS in one of the smaller planes away from photogrammatry cities. I just had a fantasticly smooth flight there up round the French Alps from Courchevel. The performance was exactly as I’d expect from my set up. However I then load in my next flight and its a stuttery mess. I get 15 - 20FPS in the same small plane.
That sort of thing is caused by a bug I think. I know that my RTX 3080 will gladly handle pretty much any graphics setting the sim can throw at it. I know my processor isn’t the greatest so I stay away from the larger aircraft that are big CPU hitters. I know that I can get great performance in VR with the sim, because as I say I’ve seen it with my own eyes, but its just very annoyingly inconsistent.
There’s a combination of issues. The new RTX 3000 series cards are not well optimised with the sim yet and VR in the sim is still very much in its early stages. We’ve not yet had the first VR update yet. People here say that DCS, XPlane and other flights sims took years to get stable VR. Thats why I’m not tearing my hair out and running off spending a fortune upgrading anything, just yet anyway. Its just a bit of a waiting game hoping that things will get worked on by Asobo. In this weeks developer update those guys all said they play it in VR and they’re aware of the issues.
Keep trying to find your optimal settings. It must work with that hardware.
Its an combination of nvidia settings, OpenXR settings and ingame settings so it needs a little attention and patience.
I am now fine in G2-VR with 100% OpenXR, 100% TAA, 200 T-LOD and 100 O-LOD, clouds high and the rest at almost medium, something high and get between 24fps in Jets and 30 fps in small piston aircraft and it is pure pleasure.
And take usual flights. Turning low altitude rounds above an high PG city is not representative.
I have 1080TI i7800k, running on index and have got it running nice with reasonably high settings, using a fixed FPS/steam VR, and after a bit of tweaking it runs way smoother than I would have thought and looks great. I did hack terrain LOD to 4.0 to make it look better. I’m sure my actual fps is terrible but it feels smooth to me and so I’m very happy with it! It was an abomination performance wise when I first started playing though, so defo needs to be dialed in!
Yeah its actually encouraging how good MSFS is at this stage, and makes me think massive GPU/CPU upgrades might not really be needed (though I do plan to get one). Things seem to be happening on the software side of things for example the steam VR update was a massive perfomance upgrade for me.
I was playing DCS in VR four years ago and although people still moan about performance it has improved massively. Don’t think it has much to do with FPS either its just much smoother and with all sorts of little problems ironed out. Will take time though. Biggest problem I have with MSFS right now are the immersion breaking terrain spikes. But good lord over the English Pennines it looks so realistic in VR!
I’m sorry to play devil’s advocate but they’ve also reassured they had a lot of VR expertise in-house already with their hololens projects. It might have unfortunately raised some expectations from the get go.
I’ve upgraded my pc from a 1080 i7 6700k running at 4.5 to a i9 10900k (still at 3.7) and a 3080. Clearly, there is an improvement but not as much as I’d expected. I’ve generally followed SimHanger’s recent settings on YouTube and get a half decent performance. However, I have experienced some erratic issues including blackouts, which I suspect are related to the headset usb driver. Other odd things like the display suddenly flashing back to the WMR studio to the appearance of a Flashlight effect where I can see the room set-up which blocks most of my view. Clearly, this can be frustrating, still, being somewhat stoical by nature, I’m prepared to wait for things to settle down. However, like Covid, this might take longer than expected. In essence, the problem is that there are so many variables involved. Trying to address these must be quite challenging.
Finally, I wonder what % improvement I’d get by overclocking the CPU to 5k?
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. It doesn’t seem to make much difference either way. Initial flight is great - 35FPS subsequent flights around the 20FPS mark. Its odd but I’ve read people here having a similar experience.
There’s a good mod which removes those spikes on the flight sim.to site - works well. Yes Pennines do look lush. Flew there with CIX VFR this week, often doing VFR flights!
