Best Experience Ever! This "new tool" and your explanation and settingS gave a new life to the game. THANK YOU!

I’m really enjoying your videos especially because there is so little commercial aspect and truely they are helpful …. Including the comments and feedback from other users. A big week for us simmers … this toolkit, the new World update (I live in Melbourne so super excited !) and there’s a strong possibility the F35 will finally get fixed once and for all. Keep up the great work and many thanks.

Another great original content buddy, you’re on top of it and the go to channel for these things. Better than anyone I’ve ever watched. Some other steal your stuff. Keep it up buddy!

Thank you very much for the summary of your settings. Very helpful!

Hi, Chris! Just a quick note of thanks for your latest video tutorial on the new OpenXR Tooklit app and updated settings. Just tried it all out in the sim, and am very pleased with the improved visuals and performance. Even ran the FPS monitor and was getting a respectable 41-45 FPS, so probably even better when I turn that off. Appreciate all the time you put into testing and sharing with your fellow simmers! Excelsior!!

@scottmiller7060

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Me, too! Yesterday with the FSB group from Vegas > Grand Canyon > Monument Valley, and just now finished a group flight with Steve Walton's group. Photogrammatry not updating Sydney though; several pilots reported likewise. Cheers!

Can't thank you enough for this COMPLETE VR settings guide. You left nothing out, which I appreciate. I'm running an Intel i9 9900KF (5.0 GHz Turbo) on a Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Ultra motherboard, 32GB RAM and a GeForce RTX 2080ti - very smooth with your settings. Bravo, Sir!

I’m getting 45fps (no motion reprojection) at 88% render scale with a 3090+12900k showing the new hardware really does help. GPU maxed out at 100% when running. The opener toolkit with FSR made a big difference. More of a difference than the NIS scaler from a few weeks ago. Some of my settings for example object level of detail and texture resolution are higher than shown here.

I must say this has been very helpful. 👍 I have an 8700K rig at 4.8 GHz with 32 G RAM, a RTX 3070, and Reverb G2. I also use 2 M.2 NVME SSDs - one for Windows, separate one for the game. I have been struggling to get anything comfortable in VR using WMR with OpenXR Dev Tool and beta NIS Scaler. Either the VR image was nauseating, stuttering, blurry, etc. Just couldn't find any combination of settings that felt right. What gets me is that many of the Videos on YT that focus on MSFS, VR, and G2 have a RTX 3080 or 3090. But I was beginning to think a 3070 just wouldn't cut it for MSFS. After replacing the old NIS scaler with the new OpenXR companion app, I started with all your settings for NVIDIA control panel, OpenXR Dev Tool, Windows Gaming, Windows Graphics, and OpenXR companion app. Since I have a RTX 3070, not your 3080, I took your MSFS in-game settings and backed them off 1 level (Eg. High --> Medium, Ultra-->High, Medium-->Low) and started there. I am now seeing a consistent frame rate of 37+ and a very smooth cockpit experience for the first time EVER. This is life changing! 🥲

@jamessimmons8352

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Indeed. I've been loving the sim since it was released but using a monitor, not VR. The Reverb G2 and RTX 3070 are my Christmas upgrades. VR is uncanny. I can't wait til DLSS and future improvements in the Sim arrive.

Tried your settings and i am getting the best experience ever in FS2020 with my G2 using an i7 10700 with a 3080 ti and 32 gb of ram at 3200 mhz... thank you!

Thanks mate. Good stuff as always. 👍

Great video, Buddy ! Thanks.

Holy moly - thanks for the tip on using FSR. I think its actually a much better image quality to NIS which I'd still been pretty happy using. I'm running 90% scaling, 30% sharpening with FSR on my 3080Ti/5600x. Getting 40-45fps most of the time with a lot of my in game settings higher than your own. Flying in New York I'm getting 30-32fps but still very smooth and looking gorgeous. Good times indeed. Cheers Chris!

My settings were almost the same but then I copied yours and it really made my fps improve quite a lot. It's quite amazing how far FS2020 has come the with fps improvements in their updates and the OpenXR toolkit. Stable 30fps over Tokyo with my G2, NIS at 80% on my humble I9 2080S.

Thank you! You've managed to help me finally realise my hopes of getting decent performance from my upgrade. I'd been disappointed when I bought my new PC as it was no better than my old one in MSFS VR. I've tried other videos, but you've managed to really make a difference. I can't thank you enough! But you get a Subscribe and a 👍from me! 🙂

Thanks dude!

Have been trying different settings myself since yesterday. But not with the fsr. Will try it out immediately. Have a 12700K with a 3080, so very similar system as you. Thanks a lot for your continious help to the community! 🙏🙏😁😁Happy simming! 😁😁😁😁

@captainmegaxenon2042

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS got great fps. 35-45. Depends pn the scenery. No lags, no stutters. Sharp and smooth 😁😁 i turned the buildings, trees and bushes to high instead of medium. Thanks again for using your time on this 🙏🙏😁😁

Thank you! Don

Having played with this more I’m blown away. I dont know what the behind the scenes code is doing but even the sharpening (at least with FSR) is 10x better than the NIS tool. 85% at 100% sharpening is basically like running at full 100% render scale, but with an additional 20-30FPS to play with. amazing. I get crystal visuals at 40-45FPS on my system now.

Looks like I got my G2 at the perfect time. Due to arrive later this week. Judging by this, I should be able to expect a pretty great experience with my setup....3080 and a Ryzen 3700x. Can't wait!

Thanks !!!

Great video and I appreciate the work that you do on VR settings which allow others to get the most immersion possible when flying with MSFS 2020. Can you confirm that you can use the FSR feature with an Nvidia 3080 graphics card since I don't have an AMD card. Thanks.

Great video!!! Thanks for your work. I wonder where I can find the mixed reality settings on my PC. Is that only available when a HP Reverb G2 is present? I have a Quest 2.

This scaler is great although I have to say for me, I really didn't like it much until I did the config sharpening edit tip. With your settings Chris I found it far too shimmery and quite unpleasant but since the config edit it's much improved. I'm now running FSR 90 with sharpen 25 and it looks and runs great.

So I tried doing all of what video recommended! Had major lag with the reverb g2!! Then I upped the terrain detail to level 200, and high textures and what a difference! Very little lag and sim never looked better in VR! My specs are i7, GPU 1660 super, MSI Trident gaming system. Just utilizing the open XR and tool kit with the both 80 percent NSI and 78 percent sharpness, world settings 85.5 and performance anti stutter to 25 percent. Motion reprojection set to automatic in opens xr

Thanks for these couple or videos on the new Open XR toolkit. I find I am consistently in the 40 fps range and when I changed the SIM VR settings as you suggested, I gained a few more in busy areas to 44fps, and less busy areas hitting the 50fps. I found raising the sharpness above 60% gives similar fps, but images although CAN get sharper under certain conditions, the overall effect was not pleasant. So reverted back to 60% sharpness. Also found above 80% Factor is not pleasant either. I also changed the control keys to Ctrl F5/6/7 since Ctrl 1 opens my Windows menus in VR. Finally I found motion re-projection nauseating for me, so i never turn it on.

@peterayache1886

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS I did extensive testing today in VR across different old discovery flights as well as today's update new discovery flights, the Reverb G2 and the open XR Toolkit performance has been consistently solid across over 20 flights. Really pleased with the results.

Can you do as well best settings for Quest 2 at the moment after this all new updates and tools ?

why enable vsync? i have only ever heard that vsync is detrimental in vr.

So I was fiddling with my settings and made a few interesting finds. I run W11, Ryzen 5900X, RTX3090 and Reverb G2. Even with the new OpenXR tools, I was getting stutters, regardless of a steady 32FPS. I tried various things (took me a while) but ultimately, resetting the Nvidia control panel parameters to default made the stutters disappear. Not sure what was causing it, but something definitely was. In addition, I enabled HAGS back on and boy oh boy what a result now. Incredible clarity (OpenXR FSR 90/60) and so smooth it feels like I'm going at twice the speed. I was able to bump in game settings to 220 / 120 and terrain, buildings, trees, clouds all on ULTRA. Steady 31fps even in NYC. Hope this might help people with similar specs. I'm going back for more :)

Nice job! Your settings worked great with my RTX 3070 card! A little shimmer but not bad. The new crispness with smooth performance is a super balance! Thanks!

@johnkeegan6646

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS I took some screen shots (.DDS) but could not open them. Any suggestions?

@johnkeegan6646

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS will you bump out question up to him please? My congrats to him for the Tool Kit!

@johnkeegan6646

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS will try it. Thanks!

I'm about to go for a flight and try the AMD updated openxr toolkit and thought I'd take a quick look at your settings. I'm making a couple adjustments based from your suggestions and have 2 comments for you. 1: regarding the shimmering you mentioned, I found if I turn off sharpening (set to 0) in the VR section of the UserCfg.opt file then I eliminate the shimmering problem, and 2: did you ever notice the white outline around trees when you view trees with water behind them? I found if I turn off raymarched reflections in the settings that it eliminates that issue. Anyway, thanks and good luck.

@poolhallshark

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Have turned off sharpening now. Will check it out. Thanks !

@Mayhem6633

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS No, I don't change it to read only. There's nothing in the game settings regarding sharpness so there's nothing that will change it back. I will double-check the change after major sim updates like we'll have today though. Who knows what those will change.

@poolhallshark

2 жыл бұрын

Worked perfectly❤️ Thanks👍💯🇸🇯

Hi, Pie in the sky, I have the reverb g2. Its good, everything is good. But I want a bit more clearity on the buttons inside the airplane. Would be great if I could se FLC, ALT, VS, NAV, VNAV perfectly.. I can read the things on the G1000 screen easy, but I would like to have better clearity for the buttons aroond. Used your settings, but what setting would do the most to clearity? Thanks

Thank you for this great video! Could you also share your traffic settings? As those are also specific vr settings. Thx!

@pejeickx9562

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Thank you!

Biggest FPS killer is preview mode ON in the mixed reality portal window.

no VR mode in varjo aero hmd untill I switch on "open VR" also do we need to turn off the power to the headet and the base when pc is off? i notice they are staying.

Thanks! Would love to see a video about using the OpenXR Toolkit with the Quest 2, or really any Oculus setup.

@user-wg2ez7xt1b

2 жыл бұрын

yes

@martindescoteaux9288

2 жыл бұрын

YES!!!!PLEASE

@fabioseverini4661

2 жыл бұрын

Yes please!

@michaelfazakas2355

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all these great videos, I use you as my starting point for all my vr settings. Would really appreciate a Quest 2 video. Thank you again.

Great tips like aways! Are you still using high graphics setting on the PC side to get better performance like before?

@haiacninc

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS yes please that would be great! Thanks!

Are you planning to make a similar video for Quest 2 using link cable. With this new NIS scaler?

@Selgerforbundet

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Thank. One Quick question. If using Ocolus Quest 2 and this new NIS software. I do not have to go through SteamVR. I Can use it directly with Ocolus software and Link cable i assume. Thanks for your good videos by the way.

Is this better performance / visual wise than the desktop NIS scaler tool? I tried this but it would not open in vr, the prompt appeared but pressing ctrl + whatever button it said did nothing.

Thanks so much for this. I have a very similar PC to you with the fastest of everything and I'm now using your settings with the latest Nvidia driver and the same settings in the NISscaler. My FPS is over 50...BUT...I'm getting stuttering that wasn't there before which has really ruined the flying experience. I have tried turning of the NISscaler, going with default settings in VA in the game...and the stuttering persists. Any suggestions?

@TrentDyrsmid

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Updated the driver two days ago. What is HAGS? Community folder is full of the same mods I had prior to the latest world update and driver update. I will try removing them and see if that fixes it.

@TrentDyrsmid

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS so I’ve rolled back the nvidia driver, turned off HAG in the browser and no success. Zero lag in pancake mode, but VR still not as good as it was.

@TrentDyrsmid

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS so after about an hour of troubleshooting including restore points and emptying the community folder and rolling back the Nvidia driver and then going to the latest version of the Nvidia driver and then moving forward to the latest restore point it turned out to be the VR prop mod in my community folder.

Hi Pie, have a question, do you run your FS2020 in DX11 or DX12 mode?

@madigorfkgoogle9349

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS thank you for the answer, here is one more question: Do you have some other sim, i.e. IL-2 Battle of X?

Why threaded optimization off?

Hi PITST, Thank you for this video. I have a HP Reverb G2, 3070ti, Ryzen 7 5800x, 32gb, B550-f Mobo. I have just come over from XP11. My VR flight were fine. When I setup a VR flight in MSFS it's unflyable. I've been told not to use SteamVR and to use OpenXR. I have set everything up with OpenXR but when I launch MSFS how do I know that I'm connected to OpenXR? Please can you confirm how you actually launch MSFS VR from the start. What are your steps? Many thanks C. Davis

@countdavis

Жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Ok I will check out your channel later. Thanks

@countdavis

Жыл бұрын

I have just subscribed to your channel 😉

Does the open xr companion tool install with the open xr app or is it a separate install, thanks

@paulsleighty

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS ok, thanks. Something must be wrong with my installation as I can't get the pop up box in the sim.

Thanks. Will this work with the Quest 2 ?

@FATtoFITvideos

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Thanks!

@jickmagger7323

2 жыл бұрын

Would very much appreciate that too!

Set Negative LOD Bias to "CLAMP". It reduces shimmering.

@MCP2002

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Nvidia Control Panel. Towards the bottom half. You have it currently set to "Allow". Hope this helps!

@MCP2002

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS No problem! Other things that can affect shimmering or "swimming" textures are Sharpening (like in OpenXR) and Anisotropic Filtering (in the Nvidia CP). Shimmering is the one thing that drives me nuts. Lol

best settings for msfs and reverb g2

Do I need OpenXR Developer Tools?

I'm not seeing how to display the toolkit menu. Need a little help.

@longbowdt

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS thank you. I'd already tried that. I must have installed it wrong. I'll uninstall it then reinstall it.

Again, we have the same system, yet these exact settings wreak-havoc on mine, causing those darn jaggies in my G2. For me, “clamp” Negative LOD Bias, Vertical sync “fast” and VR Prerendered frames “1” makes the difference between stutters, jaggies and low fps, to a relatively smooth experience. If i lower my settings in game (100/100 etc…), I just get same issues with a blurrier view. It consistently baffles me. Same model car shouldn’t get vastly different performance. And I don’t seem to experience a very noticeable difference with this mod :(

@kennykanada

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Hey Chris, so after so many recommendations and tweaks, things got just horrific, so I reset everything to factory and then set up everything exactly as you suggest here. And its smooth and no jaggies (test flights from Palm Beach Exec around area in Baron). But I know if I head further south to MIA the jaggies will start. I’ve given up on flying anywhere near NYC. Can’t wait until DX12/DLSS utilizing more cores, will free up my cpu.

@kennykanada

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Thx Chris! But as usual, it was great for first 1/2hr, then whamo, horrible judders and jaggies in headset as I approached Phoenix area. After one year of this, Im at a point where I find it very hard to believe that ANYONE with similar specs (or any system) is not getting this issue. Perhaps my cpu, gpu and motherboard are defective and have all coincidentally broke or flawed? Short of that, I QUIT this most ridiculous and broken game by Microsoft. Shame 😢

what is your average FPS with these settings and your 3080?

@Eric-np3ve

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS thanks! Yes it depents on locaion, aircraft, weather ... I'm asking because I think about to upgrade to a 3080 or 3080TI - at the moment I'm using a 2070S and fly around to 22-27 FPS with small GA aircrafts and not high dense locations. 100 OXR 100 TAA 70 FSR 60% Sharpenes Reverb G2 I noticed, that a huge impact are the quality of the clouds. At least 4-6 FPS difference betweeen med and high cloud settings

@Eric-np3ve

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS what I like to achieve - 100 in OXR, TAA and maybee FSR (if the tool is still needed) to enjoy the full pride of the G2 - I dont need the maximum details everywhere, but 100 all with the 2070Super, results in 3 FPS ;-)

It's clear from your screen recording at the beginning and of the video that you suffer from the shimmer bug. The autogen buildings in the distance are shimmering like crazy, and in actual VR it must look a whole lot worse still. Why do you video guys never talk about this issue? it was never anywhere near as this bad before SU5. Does it not bother you at all? If I had the platform like you, VRflightsimguy and others I'd make fixing shimmering the number one priority. We need more awareness of this issue so Asobo finally does something about it. Does the shimmering, especially of autogen buildings and trees at mid-distance and in broad daylight, not bother you at all? It used to be so much better. I find it highly immersion breaking and just very ugly to look at.

@kevinbrook7033

2 жыл бұрын

Like you I've hated the shimmering for a long time and even created a bug fix request on the forum. It's primarily caused by shadows from trees and buildings having a different brightness between the right and left eye. Flying directly over buildings and trees, it looks like a strange stereoscopic effect whilst from a distance trees and buildings will shimmer. You can test it by closing your right eye and a lot of the shadow shimmer will disappear. It's bugged more since about Sim update 5 I think. I initally hated this scaler as it makes the shimmering worse, indeed using Chris' settings I find it really shimmery and ugly. However editing sharpening to 0 in the config file has really improved it. I'm now running FSR 90 and sharpening 25 in the OpenXR toolkit and I have less shimmer than I have ever had before, and can see more detail than before. I'd definitely recommend editing your config file.

@Ben-kw8bo

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS oh ok. So you only have tolerable shimmering in VR thrn i guess, lm jealous!

@Ben-kw8bo

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinbrook7033 yeah my postprocessing sharpen is always on 0, it helps a bit but not too much. I agree that the new FSR upscaling in the OXR Toolkit is much better than NIS, but even with a 3080, putting it to 90 reduces my fps below 40,which i dont like, and it still shimmers a lot. Sharpen 25 is good though, agree.

@Ben-kw8bo

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinbrook7033 are you sure its just shadows causing this? What seems to shimmer worst for me is the rooftops of autogen buildings, where i wouldnt really expect a shadow to be

@kevinbrook7033

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ben-kw8bo No, there are lots of things causing shimmer, the shadows are just one example. I have to say though since changing my sharpen to 0 in the config file and using the scale with FSR 90 sharpening 25 my experience has improved dramatically. The ugly all over screen smearing has gone, my only shimmer now is on certain buildings/fences/masts which is visible in 2D mode as well and the tree/building shadows which are still present. The rest of the shimmer has gone though and for the first time I'd say it looks really good. I've got a 3090 but I cap my FPS at 32 and it feels very smooth. I'd say for the first time the sim now runs well enough that I don't feel I need either a headset or GPU upgrade.

hey buddy this is richard palmisano someone hacked my gmail account so now i have no way of getting into my youtube channel. i have the same computer set up as you so i subbed with this new account i had to make.

@richardpalmisano9349

2 жыл бұрын

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS I was wondering if you was going to remember who I was my channel still there with all my videos but I have no access to it so if you wasn’t sure who I was you can go to the channel and see my photo picture with my son the channel is my name Richard Palmisano And I guess you remember who I am I follow you all the time