HELP: Need Best VR Settings for Hi-End Rig: HELP

[chiliwili69]

On 15/03/2018 at 4:40 AM, GunneryAce said:

I just updated to 3.001 and now when I try campaign everything is very jittery. Is anyone else having the same issues with the campaign play while in VR (oculus rift)?

you can try with running the tests tracks with the new 3.001 release.

Just to be sure that performance in a test flight is as expected.

I have not run the test with the new release, but I will do it this weekend and report.

[GunneryAce]

That's what I'll be doing at some point. Thanks!

[chiliwili69]

Well, the test tracks of the previous version 2.0X doesn´t work in the new version. Probably I will create a new track with version 3.0x

[Clyde_McCloud]

On 9/8/2017 at 3:16 PM, SCG_Fenris_Wolf said:

Hi 

 

You will run into troubles if you do not stick to a few rules we have found out about. Crashes and jittery ahve different causalities, which we will treat here as well.

 

 

Your i7 7700K should run with at least 4.6GHz during IL-2 VR gameplay. Make sure to disable any AVX offset in your BIOS, very important. CPU Load-Line-Calibration must be set to 1 or 2 (fixated!) if you use water-cooling to avoid VRM temp spikes.

Make sure your DDR4 RAM runs at its proper XMP, a speed of at least ~3000 MHz is recommended to not throttle the system.

Before playing, enable "Maximum Performance" in Window's energy settings. Go into advanced settings, disable "Allow selective USB suspend".

After this, go into your "Device Manager", select "USB-Controller", and check out properties of all Generic USB hubs. Some will have a tab on "energy setting". Make sure they all have no check at "allow to suspend device to save energy".

This will treat the camera jittery. If tracking problems persist, consider buying a powered Inateck USB Controller/Card - google for models that fit to the Rift.

 

Use latest Video drivers for 1080ti.

 

Now to your IL-2 settings for your 1080ti:

Preset High. The CPU cannot handle Ultra within 10km of furballs, the fps would hit rock bottom. HDR off. SSAO off. Sharpen off. AA to 0x. Mirror to simple or one step higher. Shadows High. Terrain Detail 4x. Terrain Sharpen on. Target FPS off. Render target 1. Gamma 1.0 to 0.9. Fullscreen off (VR mirror should show as windowed), resolution 1024x768.

 

Find the Oculus Home executable, go to properties, its compatibility tab, enable "always start as administrator". This means you can start IL-2 through Steam without Oculus Home being loaded automatically as well.

 

Now to your SteamVR settings:

Steam SS to 3.2  (this replaces ingame AA and Sharpen!)

Advanced SuperSample Filtering off (removes blur and allows better IDing)

Tracking space: Sit/standing place (smallest).

 

Oculus Tray Tool, in case you use it: Don't, and keep its SS off. Don't use its features like "cpu priority", they reduce fps in IL-2.

 

Ingame, you load into the cockpit, and before or after starting the engine (not during the procedure) you hold CTRL+1(numpad) for a second, or press it multiple times, this disables ASW.

 

Check your fps by pressing backspace during flight. This costs you 1 or 2 fps while the counter is shown. Always fly without HUD, it is a crazy performance eater (speaking 15-25fps). You can set "Objectives/Map" each to a button on your joystick, to turn it on and off during flight.

 

Avoid any shaders like reshade or 3dmigoto vr shader, they cost a lot of fps and make the translational movements of your head jittery.

 

If your movement jitters, go into Oculus Home and redo the sensors setup. Deviating the sensors positions just once will lead to these issues. Bolt them into the wall, or fixate them with velcro.

 

Try this - don't forget anything - there are many reasons for each setting, we have found out over days and weeks of fiddling around in the background. Have fun !

 

Here it is December 28th 2019 and I have a Rift S, i7-6700, GTX 1660 ti, 16gigs of ram and a Samsung 860 Evo SSD and have been messing with my settings in il2 Sturmovik BOS off and on ever since I bought my rift s last August and still have the jittery FPS, and more so now that I tried something with settings recently that did not help.  So while I may not have the i7-7700 or the GTX 1080 ti, I can't help but think a fair amount of the settings tips in your post will have to have a positive affect on my game!

right away I see some things to do different such as not use the Oculus Tray tool, so I am going through all of my settings that apply and making these changes that you recommended.  I have nothing to loose!  I'm tired of just going into a dog fight and watching my frame rates drop from 39/40 to 12 sometimes less!!! 2 friends of mine that got me back into Il2 because of VR both have the cv1 and they get  80 fps or close to it.  Oddly enough there have been a time or two when i made some adjustments to settings and saw my FPS miraculously reach up to 70-80 for a moment or 2 and occassionally flutter around at other fps higher than the regular 39-40  i get.

 

Since I am not in a position to upgrade my CPU and GPU I'm going to give this a shot. I've spent hours looking for settings info but this is the 1 st time I've seen this post and it looks to be very helpful so I'll see what happens!!!!  I'll come back and post how it works out!!  thanks for sharing this info very much!!!

[dburne]

5 minutes ago, Clyde said:

 

Here it is December 28th 2019 and I have a Rift S, i7-6700, GTX 1660 ti, 16gigs of ram and a Samsung 860 Evo SSD and have been messing with my settings in il2 Sturmovik BOS off and on ever since I bought my rift s last August and still have the jittery FPS, and more so now that I tried something with settings recently that did not help.  So while I may not have the i7-7700 or the GTX 1080 ti, I can't help but think a fair amount of the settings tips in your post will have to have a positive affect on my game!

right away I see some things to do different such as not use the Oculus Tray tool, so I am going through all of my settings that apply and making these changes that you recommended.  I have nothing to loose!  I'm tired of just going into a dog fight and watching my frame rates drop from 39/40 to 12 sometimes less!!! 2 friends of mine that got me back into Il2 because of VR both have the cv1 and they get  80 fps or close to it.  Oddly enough there have been a time or two when i made some adjustments to settings and saw my FPS miraculously reach up to 70-80 for a moment or 2 and occassionally flutter around at other fps higher than the regular 39-40  i get.

 

Since I am not in a position to upgrade my CPU and GPU I'm going to give this a shot. I've spent hours looking for settings info but this is the 1 st time I've seen this post and it looks to be very helpful so I'll see what happens!!!!  I'll come back and post how it works out!!  thanks for sharing this info very much!!!

 

You would likely help performance with Rift  by switching from Steam VR to Open Composite for IL-2. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9nxixe/systemwide_installation_for_opencomposite_released/

 

 

[chiliwili69]

3 hours ago, Clyde said:

Here it is December 28th 2019 and I have a Rift S, i7-6700, GTX 1660 ti, 16gigs of ram and a Samsung 860 Evo SSD

 

If I were you I would sell the 6700 and buy a 6700K, so you can benefit from overclock. (I did that going from 4790 to 4790K and gained good fps)

 

Verify that you have activated the Turboboost in your BIOS, so your CPU could at least run at 4.0GHz.

 

You can also run this IL-2 benchmark just to see that your performance is aligned with the "expected" performance in monitor at 1080p:

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/56485-benchmark-for-cpuram-performance-remagen-40024003/

 

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

Thanks, I also recommend going with deburne's and chiliwili's advice. My post was from 2017 when I had a Rift CV1, and much has changed since then - most noteably you want to be using OpenComposite now, and will have different Supersampling values. If you supersample, you should aim at 140% of your native resolution. You need to check your native headset resolution for this, and then adapt your SS accordingly by yourself.

[Clyde_McCloud]

On 12/28/2019 at 6:29 AM, dburne said:

 

You would likely help performance with Rift  by switching from Steam VR to Open Composite for IL-2. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9nxixe/systemwide_installation_for_opencomposite_released/

 

 

Dburne thank you very much I will try this! As well as the advice of the others below who were kind enough to reply!  I apologize for my late reply!

On 12/28/2019 at 9:44 AM, chiliwili69 said:

 

If I were you I would sell the 6700 and buy a 6700K, so you can benefit from overclock. (I did that going from 4790 to 4790K and gained good fps)

 

Verify that you have activated the Turboboost in your BIOS, so your CPU could at least run at 4.0GHz.

 

You can also run this IL-2 benchmark just to see that your performance is aligned with the "expected" performance in monitor at 1080p:

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/56485-benchmark-for-cpuram-performance-remagen-40024003/

 

Thank you Chilliewilli69!  I just may do that, or go to a higher CPU if possible!  Sorry for the delayed reply! 

On 12/28/2019 at 12:23 PM, SCG_Fenris_Wolf said:

Thanks, I also recommend going with deburne's and chiliwili's advice. My post was from 2017 when I had a Rift CV1, and much has changed since then - most noteably you want to be using OpenComposite now, and will have different Supersampling values. If you supersample, you should aim at 140% of your native resolution. You need to check your native headset resolution for this, and then adapt your SS accordingly by yourself.

Thank you very much for your advice SCG_Fenris_Wolf! Again, I must apologize for my late replies!! I dont know how I missed all your help but I greatly appreciate all of you for helping me!

[EMS_Boba_VR]

Hi all! I just come into VR (rift s)and trying different things: dcs that I played few, Star Wars squadrons, il2 46 with vorpX, and the one that seems to be my prefered: BOX !

 

ok so I’ve found hour post, all are very interesting and mostly the fenris advices. But since they are a bit old, and the fact that i’m French and new to all of this, there is thing that i’m not sure of.

 

That’s also why I’m interested by the feedback of Clyde!

 

 

any advice for me?
i just upgraded a little bit my 2012 rig to be able to play VR, by buying a gtx 1070 and installed it on an i5-3570 3,40ghz 4cores, msi motherboard 16Go of DDR3 RAM.

 

The post disrupting thing is that for steamVR settings there is sole I don’t find, maybe they have been renamed, or the SS 3.2 I can’t set cuz I have it in % !
 

Last thing: I have FPSVR from steam and run at 40fps, my goal is online gaming.

Edited December 21, 2020 by EMS_Boba
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