Steam 1.16 update advanced motion smoothing options

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My 2070 SUPER VR settings and suggestions (Index - SteamVR)

There is a new beta of SteamVR v1.16.1: This includes a new per-app setting that allows overriding the automatic throttling behavior to lock the application to a specified fixed framerate. Most importantly, this allows you to go beyond the automatic limit which stops at 1/3rd rate. I find I needed to drop down to 1/6th framerate @ 120Hz (i.e. running at 20 fps) in order to make a steady framerate due to being cpu bound. If you previously disabled Motion Smoothing, you may want to give it an…

SteamVR 1.16.1 and -Valve INDEX observation

I didn’t talk about the second slider originally because I was concerned it would cause more confusion than help, but let me take a stab now. The TL;DR is that is can be used to stabilize framerate similarly to the Throttling Behavior setting, except for the GPU rather than CPU work. It is important to remember that you are trading off smoothness for added latency, so you want to adjust these values only as much as needed and no more. Added latency shows up in the rubber-banding effect you s…