Although I have a work around, I tried to find root cause on the distortion I see when using SteamVR. Can't figure it out

Hi, thanks for posting this. I too had this problem and really appreciate the answer that the render scale needs to be 65 or above. I only tried going lower after this guy’s video where he says it’s best at 50:

He has some decent tips but this was a real pitfall and I was struggling with the problem for a while until I stumbled upon your post here.