Hi All I just uploaded my latest tutorial with the aim to help you get set up with VR in MSFS using Quest 2 via Link.
I hope it helps! Check out the other one on there too!
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Your tutorials for VR seem to have the ideal settings for me to follow to get the most stable experience. So many others I’ve tried ended in frustrating disaster lol! I suppose my newly built system is close to yours with i7 10700, rtx 3080 and 32g.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Love your vids! 
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Thanks, best setting I’ve tried so far.
Though I’ve set Default Super Sampling to 1.1 in the tray tool, for better cockpit readability. Setting it to 1.3 looks much better, but then it is a slide show.
Ryzen 3600 auto OCed, 16 GB RAM, EVGA 3080 (undervolted and power limited to 90 %), NVME.
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Everything about VR in the sim so crazy unstable. I had it working wonderfully the other evening. I was getting 35 - 40FPS (RTX 3080 i7 7700) and the whole thing was really smooth and for the first time I was able to enjoy the F-15 at low level breaking the sound barrier. It really was incredible.
Next day I boot up VR in the sim and without changing anything I was back down to 15 - 20FPS and the whole thing was a juddery mess. Fiddling with settings in the tray tool things didn’t do any good whatsoever. There’s just such a bad combination at the moment of the Quest 2 being new, the RTX 3000 series cards being new and VR in the sim being new. You feel like you can go round and round in circles tearing your hair out desperately trying to make everything work but the fact of the matter is its all just so new and nothing is well optimised.
Its so frustrating because I get these little glimpses of how great it is, or at least how great it’ll be one day, when I can just put on my VR headset and enjoy VR in the sim without all the faffing.
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Exactly! I’m experiencing the same issues. One day great, next day it puts me outside the cockpit in front of my plane submerged 3 ft into the tarmac with keyboard frozen. Or a bright transparent bar appears in the bottom 1/4 of my fov.
So I reset everything yesterday exactly as per these PonicFarmer tutorials, and it’s been stable so far (except for a ctd taxiing into CKVR (payware), after flying bugless for an entire hour. Flew today around Calgary with no issues whatsoever.
Keeping my fingers crossed but not holding my breath either. What fresh-hell awaits lol!
Performance-wise, I’ve been fairly consistent with the setup above (35-40 FPS@medium densed scenery, steam gauge A/C).
But this is not to say it is perfect, it could be definitely smoother, particulary when flying low and looking sideways or down under the wings. But that’s not the main issue for me.
I’m having trouble with the relative blurriness of the image and the overall lower resolution, which looks like 720p-1080p at best (on a very very large monitor though:-). I am having hard times reading smaller gauges and GNS panels, spotting airfields and other details in the distance and I guess that longer flights can put quite a strain on my eyes. But VR is new to me, I should have probably expected this.
Tomorrow, I am going to try virtual desktop, to see if the clarity would get better.
The worst thing is knowing that after trying VR in MSFS, I can hardly ever go back to 2D 
It’s such an amazing experience that I have no choice but to keep dealing with these issues and hope that the developers will improve it over time.
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Same same. Just reset it a few times and keep powering down the vr. Sometimes it takes me 5 resets!
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Flying in 2D on your monitor still has its advantages. I love seeing the outside view of the plane and with effects like contrails and other things coming to the sim in the coming months flying with the outside view will become even better. Its also the best way to see the environment and marvel at how great the graphics and weather effects can look.
VR is amazing (when it works) and I agree that its the ultimate way to experience the sense of immersion the sim can give. For me though headset hardware still isn’t there yet. When headsets can give the same really clear image I can get on my 4K monitor and a wider angle of view then I would be ready to ditch playing the sim in 2D. Give it 4 or 5 years I reckon.
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I am so glad, i am not alone, i had a great flight the other day, recorded my settings. Two days later with exact settings a stuttering mess, blurry scenary in distance. As you say you see what it could be like.
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I use a i7 8700k and 3070
I’m getting pretty stable flights now (so far so good).
I’ve simplified my startup procedure which I find now works for me…(i7 10700, rtx3080, 32g)
- I Fresh Reboot Windows PC
- With Quest 2 powered off, I turn it on and enter Settings to enable Oculus, and then…
- Oculus gui should automatically start up on pc.
- I Open Debug (not Tray Tool-I setup my Tray Tool before session with my ideal settings, save, close and forget).
I keep Oculus and Debug open and minimized to task bar. - I Start up FS (if I see the VR option at bottom of Welcome screen (I’m good to go), I can click it or ctr-tab.
- Giant 3D FS menu is large and easy to navigate.
With this exact procedure I don’t seem to be getting all the issues, bugs, slow fps and ctd’s anymore. Yet I don’t trust this finicky game.
But today is another day in the life of MSFS 
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Cheers, useful notes here!
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