Installing, setup & settings for Oculus Rift S 2020

[puyo3]

I just purchased an Oculus Rift S set, and have been researching online and this forum regarding how to install and set up, and best practices for performance settings, especially to help obtain acceptable performance with less powerful computers. I believe that it would be extremely beneficial to have a current updated easy guide to installing in my case the Oculus rift s, from downloading, to initial setting recommendations in game and using Oculus software, starting with less powerful set ups, followed by a listing of subsequent adjustments prioritized in order of importance, to inch performance up as best as can be achieved. 

 

In addition, I think a separate, fresh post for each VR set currently available would be extremely helpful for anyone entering the VR, novice users, intermediates or  advanced, and ease the amount of forum traffic of many attempting to gather a clear picture of how to proceed, as I understand VR seems to be exploding at the moment. It is very hard to obtain this information, as online tutorials are mainly directed to gaming set up, and forums are cluttered with much outdated or conflicting information. 

 

So if you would, please post below your recommended install, set up,  initial performance settings for Oculus Rift S, then listing carefully prioritized follow up adjustments to the settings to inch up performance, so we can max out the set for our particular hardware. I'm not clear, but there appears to be a Steam based install/run, and an install using the Oculus software for offline flyng (?) Again, much appreciated for a clear explanation of how this works, best methods for either option, or other options.

 

Please be as concise and clear as possible; introduce terms first in their entirety and give their common acronym in following commentary.

 

Much thanks to all responders; again, I believe a separate thread for each VR set out there used with IL-2 would be very useful; those of you concerned might start a similar thread for your VR model.

 

[puyo3]

A previous post above, 'best settings for VR FEB 18TH? '  has pretty much laid out the set up and install for the Oculus Rift S; scroll down about halfway down the page to a posting by Rhino-1938, and the responses there are all that I was hoping for. So anyone with a Rift S, there we are!

 

A pinned 'best practices' for each model of VR unit giving this type of info, and kept updated as time passes, would be extremely helpful for everyone, and save a lot duplication, and be easy to find here on site. MIssing from the answers are a more comprehensive scale of settings, beginning with minimum settings for stressed computers, and listing which settings to adjust in what order so as to creep the performance up to the max possible for a given set up.

 

I wanted to call out the above posting to any Oculus Rift S newcomers such as myself trying to get up to speed quickly, yet having to spend hours of time researching, and still having incomplete, outdated, or just plain wrong answers form the myriad of online voices.

 

...and thank you to the respondents for the info; I understand not posting a second time to this posting, but I do hope someone might take the time to draft such a guide.

 

p3

Edited March 2, 2020 by pugo3
correction