Is there a way to disable VR completely for this game? I’ve tried it a couple of times on my Oculus Rift S, and found the performance to be pretty poor, so I just want to play normally. However, since the VR patch came out several months ago, the game has been literally unplayable.
I know it’s trite to say that, but it really is the case for me. I’ll start playing in normal mode, and then for some reason the Oculus software and Steam VR will randomly launch mid-flight. This changes my sound output to my Rift S, which I am not wearing, so I lose all sound, and it also causes the window focus to change, so I can’t input any controls. If I’m in the middle of a landing, this is pretty catastrophic and frustrating. It happens every minute or two, and it’s at the point that I can’t play at all without interruption.
Since the actual VR is underwhelming and the non-VR experience is being ruined by the presence of a VR mode, is there some way to disable VR for MSFS? Or at least keep VR-related software from launching when not in VR mode?
My only thought is to find the executable file and set it to run with administrator priveleges. Then when it auto launches you will be asked to approve the launch at which time you can say “no”. It might not help if it keeps bugging you every few minutes but it’s just a thought. Good luck.
In a more extreme solution, you could find the executable and zip it. Then trash the original. Then there’s no app available to launch. When you’re done playing you could unzip the app. That’s extreme but if nothing else works then maybe it’s a solution.
They are absolutely no reason the sim to switch in VR randomly and even more strange SteamVR is involved in your Oculus Rift configuration, even if you got the Sim from Steam (like me). Something is wrong in your settings for sure.
First, why SteamVR will kick in? with an Oculus headset it shouldn’t unless you have your registry pointing on SteamVR OpenXR JSON implementation file instead of the Oculus one.
Check this:
Second, You need to check your key bending. I’m not saying it’s this but it could be one key set to another thing and to switch to VR.
Third, proximity sensor of the headset? Weird as even if I trigger mine (Oculus Rift CV1) the Sim don’t switch to VR, just Oculus Home launch in the background, and my fps goes down as Home is displayed at the same time than the sim on my monitor.
And the most important question:
Four : WHY?, WHY did you abandon VR fly sim!?!?!?! you shouldn’t! I can’t fly without VR nowadays!
If you describe your machine possibly we can help you to have good VR sessions? unless you’re really done with VR and MSFS which is fair enough obviously, not really a plug and play experience actually
I tried everything and nothing worked bro. Im really tired of this game, problems and more problems, i dont know even if should i call this a game…is the worst developed game i remember.
Now when i try to change to VR it appears a message saying " bla bla bla , OpenXr something like that, dont remember now…im getting done with this bro sadly…i can play all games without any problems and very well, but in flight simulator is a nightmare. I see no improvements in this game, i just can see issues and more issues patch after patch…im afraid of new updates honestly.
Ahh and just saying im using the BETA in Oculus program
It’s sad I agree… I suggest to disconnect your headset for now when playing on monitor.
But (I can’t stand somebody at the border of the wonderful VR world MSFS offer) the link I provided above is strictly all what you need to get VR working. After, you’ll have to tune obviously and some really good tutorial have been made for all headset around here. I know what I’m talking about as I started last year with my previous old machine, an i7 3770K and GTX1080. You have the chance to have a Rift S which is one of the most plug and play headset for PC VR (I’m jealous, but still adore my CV1).
Anyway, I hope you’ll find a way to avoid this random VR switching, and will get back around when the Sim will be more mature.
I really enjoy your words bro , anyway im still here, but just not playing this game in VR…on my Oculus Rift S … one day i will ehehe…This game needs a lot of work and improvements and OPTIMIZATIONS ;)…
You have a pretty good machine and could expect a good result after tuning VR a little when you’ll be decided to go once again into the rabbit hole I had those periods of disillusion where I didn’t play for weeks after some breaking MSFS update…
Mine is nearly similar with an I7-10700K 32GB and also RTX3070 and my good old Oculus Rift CV1. I can play nearly always at 45fps locked ASW OFF (CTRL+Numpad 2) or ON (CTRL+Numpad 3) depending GPU usage, and with Oculus Supersampling at 1,7, Renderscale 70% it’s crisp.
It’s currently pretty stable, and I hope the next update from Windows, Oculus, NVidia Drivers, MSFS don’t break this smoothness. I only play with “light” plane and that help a lot (no airliner).
I agree the sim need optimization, oh yeah that’s for sure! mainly on CPU side for now, and GPU later, but the last hotfix helped a lot for me and removed micro-stutter I had. The sim still pretty nice even with in game mid/low settings, and I’m nearly all at Ultra on monitor (1920x1080 TV 42inch), but I can’t stand playing flat anymore.
Only time I’ve ever seen that behavior with my Rift S is when there’s something activating the sensor inside the HMD - is there anything that can be doing that? If not, just unplug your headset. The automatic opening of Oculus should only happen because it thinks someone just put on the HMD, so if the HMD isn’t plugged in, this probably won’t happen.
Yep, but the weird thing is also SteamVR which turn ON too and that should never happen on Oculus configuration, unless you intentionally choose to use the OpenXR implementation of SteamVR…that’s weird, and it’s possibly SteamVR which trigger the launch of Oculus Home and the VR mode…
Mmmm checked, not in my case. Nothing happen until I trigger the proximity sensor, unless the Oculus Software have an update for itself or for one of your game in your library and download it in background (that can happen).
One thing I need to check again as it’s a long time I didn’t check is keeping just one sensor instead of my 3 ones plugged. For seated games it work fine and a long time ago I saw I could save few GPU usage % by keeping only the right front one. Not a problem people have with Rift S obviously
you shouldn’t! I can’t fly without VR nowadays! 
, anyway im still here, but just not playing this game in VR…on my Oculus Rift S 
… one day i will ehehe…This game needs a lot of work and improvements and OPTIMIZATIONS ;)…
I had those periods of disillusion where I didn’t play for weeks after some breaking MSFS update…
finally <3