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Did you in this order:
YMMV. Continuing my “What Me Worry?!” philosophy, I upgraded to 461.40 just using the GeForce Experience method with the “Custom Installation” and updating whatever GFE wanted to replace. I have experienced no CTD’s and I’d say if anything the performance might be a little better than with 461.09. I did NOT uninstall and reinstall MSFS 2020 in the Windows Store per MSFSRonS’s suggestion, and no DDU’ing anything.
I’m basically running most of CptLucky8’s G2 recommendations except flying out in the country (Mann Gulch, MT and Machu Picchu, Peru, etc.). With a GA like the Cessna 152, Icon A5, or Zlin Shock Ultra, I can push 100% TAA rendering with 4x4 Texture Supersampling and High Texture Synthesis. I’m doing 100% OXR scaling and turning off Automatic Reprojection. IMHO, whatever little jerkiness I get is more than made up for by the quality of VR scenery. If I try flying something like a TBM 950 over Hong Kong, YIKES! I have to downgrade to 60% TAA or so as CptLucky8 recommends. My reading of the January, 2021 Nvidia security bulletin is that 452.30 doesn’t have the latest security fixes so I’m happy to be on 461.09 or higher.
Maybe things will change but since Asobo says it’s concentrating its VR efforts so far on the HP G1 and G2 and the Samsung Odyssey+ and I don’t run MSFS under Steam, I’m happy with my G2 and willing to see what happens and will save up my pennies for the RTX 5090 (Super!) …
Just to provide a relative idea of where performance is at for me with the above settings, if I go with 60% TAA and everything else the same as above, according to the OXR frame rate display, I get over 33 fps flying around Machu Picchu in the Zlin Shock Ultra, about 29 fps at 70% TAA, about 25 fps at 80% TAA, 20 fps at 100% TAA. Flying the IconA5 around Mann Gulch, MT, the figures for 60%,70%,80%, and 100% TAA are 30, 24, 19, 13 fps, respectively. But the scenery looks great to me in a Reverb G2. I have my rolling cache turned on (I’ve read the opinions on that) and perhaps I get a few extra fps when I turn off the OXR framerate display as I do except for testing comparisons.
My machine is a prebuilt Dell XPS 8930 Special Edition, nothing overclocked by me, i9-9900K, 32 Gb 2666 MHz RAM, RTX 2070S, 1 Tb non-system 970 EVO Plus. HAGAS is off. Win system performance is set to max so it’s running at 4.7 GHz on all cores. To try a different % TAA rendering, I’d hit escape, go to Options, General, Graphics, move the slider, Apply & Save, Go Back, Restart the same spawned-in-the-air .FLT. I was doing a slow bank as I looked down at scenery 1,000 ft away and down or so and traveling at 80 to 100 knots. So higher altitude flights with more distant scenery might be even better.
P.S. Now I’ve decided to take a further framerate hit and am also running on HIGH ambient occlusion only on small, slow-flying GA aircraft out in the countryside, e.g., Cessna 152, Icon A5, Zlin Shock Ultra. I like the enhanced realism in VR. See link below for further discussion about ambient occlusion and its relative cost.
Using DDU to ‘completely’ uninstall graphics drivers caused a no boot of my computer.
I tinkered two (2) days with CMD prompt and partition software tools, through an Win10 install boot USB and from a separate backup vanilla Windows boot partition to repair the Windows partition boot.
I finally decided to ‘ah well’ to restore the partition with a - too old - backup from before my latest Windows Upgrade (a lot of tinkering after the 20H2 upgrade).
In the final backup software I noticed I could as well chose only to restore the ‘system reserved partition’ of the Windows drive, which hold nothing but a boot pointer (I figured that out in 2 days) and to not restore the old Windows partition by a hunch ‘let’s try this and see what happens’.
Voila, boot.
In two days I found DOZENS of mentionings of ‘after DDU I could not boot into my windows drive’, with the usual boot repair ‘advise’, none of which worked in my case. How insane is this.
What is above the Global Rendering Quality = Custom ?
@MSFSRonS If one picks Ultra, High, or whatever as a preset and then changes any graphics setting, the description changes to “Custom” as best as I can recall.
Just wondering what was on top.
Changed a couple of items to get “Custom” to display.
Mine has entries.
@MSFSRonS. Well, if I just go to VR settings in Options, Graphics from 2D Mode, MSFS is very uninformative:
One gets better info by turning on Developer Mode in 2D, going to Ready To Fly, flying then pausing immediately to get rid of the plane info floating window, then switching to VR mode, and Esc’ing to go to Settings Options, General, Graphics. Here’s a screen capture of what I see:
Includes the settings that I previously described in this thread with AO, in addition, now set to HIGH.
Just to show that in 2D mode I have a pretty reasonable PC (although not totally awesome), here’s what the DEV mode FPS info says about my machine running in 2D Mode at default ULTRA settings just sitting in Ready to Fly state at the same place, same screen view, etc.
I’m losing some vertical resolution because I’m running 2D in Windowed Mode with my Taskbar always on.
Forgive my ignorance. I don’t have VR.
Just trying to understand all that you were stating.
No problem! I have VR and it just doubles (or quadruples?!) the number of things I don’t know! 
Congratulations. You’re the only commenter here who knows it’s pointless to talk about video driver experience without naming the type of video card.
457.30 for me. in VR is the only one that works in my 2080TI
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