So, I got an Oculus Quest at the first January. I have yet to be able to fly one smooth good game. I have read article after article, and did probably literally hundreds of settings and configuration. Used Steam VR, Used just through Oculus Link app, went through both of them. Used Windows Mixed Reality OpenXR Runtime and the debug tool and the Oculus tool tray. Still disappointment and heart ache. I have even upgraded my PC to I7-10700K , RTX 3070 with 32GB of ram on a Z490 pro A. And still cannot play one single good game. Flickering, tearing lines, shanking view, L
lagging, running slow ect. I have know the Oculus is ok because I use it on War Thunder with no issues at all. Does anyone have a Settings config or app configure I could use to run MSFS with Oculus Q2 the way my system is designed for? Like handed down from god sort of answer…lol. Because I’m about to preform undo stress testing on my equipment
Thanks, Wayne
System :
I7-10700K
RTX 3070
32Gb DDr4 3200
MSI Z940 pro A motherboard
I hope someone can provide a step-by-step guide to match your setup, but I doubt it. There are several guides on this site as you noted. I had the same problem, and my setup is not nearly as nice as yours (I7-7700k, GTX1070) with a Rift S and it took me a LONG time to get something to work without making me want to reach for a barf bag. The problem is that everyone’s rig is SO different and has different programs running and experiences such different results from tweaking that there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
That said, you can do what I did. Drop every setting – and I mean EVERY setting – to low and run it, then slowly increase different settings. I used a spreadsheet to track every change, from the NVIDIA settings to Oculus Tool Tray, to SteamVR, and MSFS itself. Eventually I landed on one that worked, so now I have something I can fall back on while I continue to experiment. And don’t ask for my settings because you can do much better than mine!
I know that isn’t what you wanted to read, but unless someone else here has a crystal ball, I think that’s probably the best you can do.
I think @DestructZero915 is giving you very good advise. I am an ancient manufacturing engineer who learned his lessons painfully over many years and many equipment installations.
Simplify, simplify. Have everything on your desktop closed before you start, no background apps running. Only open applications you are certain are required to run your hardware. For example, I was using SteamVR to drive my Reverb G2 headset. That was a problem. The G2 wants to play with the Windows Mixed Reality Portal. SteamVR is no longer used. I also have Open XR all setup, but I no longer have it open on my taskbar when flying. Its is a time consuming process to identify your particular setup that gives you clean, smooth and sharp flying.
If it makes you feel any better I’ve got an super fast RTX 3080 and a brand new over clocked Ryzen 5 5600X and super fast RAM and my VR experience is all over the place. More often than not its a total mess though. The Quest 2 is a great headset for the price, its a superb all rounder, but at the moment it really does not get on well with FS2020.
Thank you guys for the advice, I thought I was absolutely doing everything wrong lol. Now I see that I’m not alone I’ll you guys advise and try to find a sweet spot. I did however ditch Steam and get the stand alone version and that shaved a lot BS from the VR operations. So looking more positive. And I’ll try to calm my ADD lol. And I also learned the default Oculus resolution is misleading, it actually works better in the higher pixel settings like 1.5 at 80 or 90 Hz.
I just think we’re still a long, long way from realizing the potential for VR and PC gaming in general. I’m actually surprised that the developers cobbled together something despite the reality that it’s so problematic, particularly on the performance front. They must have known that a lot of users would not be happy with the results. Kudos to them for that.
