How do I live with the broken toolbar in VR in MSFS2024

User Support Hub Virtual Reality (VR)
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The toolbar is pathetically broken in VR in MSFS 2024, and seems like we will need to live with it for half a year, till May-June when SU2 will supposedly fix it.
This is how I live with the broken tollbar:

  1. I assigned toolbar toogle to a button on my yoke.
  2. I press the button while in VR and I wiggle the 3D VR mouse cursor in the area where the toolbar is expected to appear. If the toolbar will not appear I press the assigned button again and continue wiggling. Usually 1-2 seconds of wiggling is enough.
  3. Sometimes toolbar (and panels) open with distorted proportions. If this happens I press the cog icon (right hand side of the toolbar) and invoke the “Reset settings” function (I’m writing without the sim in front of me, so the name might be slightly different), this function is on the top of the list which opens after the cog icon is clicked.

Inconvenient, but I can live with it. I usually open the toolbar only once at the beginning of the flight, I open the panels I need (Navigraph, AllInOneTablet, GTN750, VSR), place then in the virtual space around me and keep them there. Some panels have assignable buttons allowing hiding them, I use for this 4 trim buttons on the right Hoenycomb yoke handle. I also use OpenKneeboard, which can be configured to appear only when you look at it.

I don’t use EFB, I fly A2A Comanche, separate applications/panels for maps/charts and I don’t need MSFS2024 EFB.

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Sadly…. I dont VR as much as I used too. Because if i start off in VR everything works except efb. When i switch out to view second monitor nothing will work. So i just play regular. Maybe put on VR just for landing.

It sad but that’s how life is now. :frowning:

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For me, I wake up one of my VR controllers, and I aim the pointer at the menu area. This usually makes it appear. Then I wiggle the mouse which gives the VR mouse cursor back the focus, and the menu disappears.

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It has been confirmed it will be than long? :cry:

I’ve been living with it by doing only free flight bush style trips where I don’t have to interact with any system menus.

Seems a shame we have a great world simulation and avionics, but we need to rely on 3rd party airplanes and work around an overall terrible/buggy UI. :cry:

Like they can simulate the planet, but not make a working UI? What is with that?

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I don’t need to live with it, I’ll stick to 2020 until it’s fixed…. Just a shame and a sham that VR is such a low priority.

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