Just found out this: I use ASUS GPU Tweak II and if you use the "Gaming Booster" tab, that turns off Nvidia Display and disables the Nvidia Overlay/Ansel which may have been causing additional latency.
Btw, setting ultra low latency to ultra can be counter productive if the GPU isn't being utilized fully by the title you're playing, it's better to adjust it on a per game basis with it set to ultra for games that hit the GPU hard
basically it helps to prevent latency from frames queueing, but if there is no frames queueing because your GPU can start doing all the work right away it can increase latency
“Automatically adjust bitrate” should stay CHECKED btw. It’s only useful to uncheck it if you are using a cloud computer and the bandwidth measurement isn’t accurate. The defaults will be the best settings for the majority of people. Start with those. Cheers!
I had been looking for this exact kind of breakdown and experimentation. I appreciate you taking the time to not only test these, but explain it in a video. Appreciate it!
I've been messing around with all of these settings, but I never would have thought to change the VR Graphics setting down to medium instead of high. It made a big difference in performance and I can barely see the difference. I mostly play iRacing in VR and your tips helped me get smoother performance which means faster laps!
@@SupremeKaiZamasu laggy in what way? Low framerates and choppy performance or delayed inputs? The first problem needs a better graphics card and the second needs you to set up your router like Mac's.
@@danmiglin840 idk I have seen people use rift and have perfect gameplay I think it’s just more preformance heavy because of compression tho I will get a 3070 as soon as they are back in stock
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! This took me from almost giving up on no man's sky VR completely to getting in trouble with my wife for being in headset too long lol. Definitely subscribed and will remember to come here if I have any other issues.
Me and my roommate play VRC a lot had difficulty with laggy past times after watching this was very useful now our VR chat is not doing laggy frame by second hurting our eyes. Much appreciated!
Thanks, through your tips and closer router placement I was able to get better latency. I also enabled the higher latency mode and got rid off 99% of tiny stutters and perfect tracking at around 32-35 ms latency
In the streaming tab in virtual desktop, on the right hand side is a tab called "high latency mode". If you tick this box, it will reduce stuttering but will increase latency.
Thank you! I have found that having a cord strapped to my face was annoying for blade and sorcery so I looked into virtual desktop stuff and found this video. Helpful 👍
In my 6800xt (AMD GPU) choosing HEVC lowered overall latency by around 5 ms. I am getting 28-30 ms of total latency in Pistol Whip. It feels just like the native quest 2, it just looks better
Thanks for the vid - i followed your tips to the letter and and getting around 31ms latency with solid performance ( all white numbers ) - I saw no increase with "high latency mode" but about a 12ms increase with "video buffering" on - i may leave that one one cause i did see a noticeable difference in gameplay, just felt smoother - thanks again
I used to have VERY low fps that was as a high of 24fps, but after I found out that I could change the settings I changed all of that, and I also got a graphics card before I changed the settings so that helped alot. Thanks for the great quide!
thank you for this video, love that you did the comparisons and went in-depth with each setting, you actually helped me fix an audio desync issue, that was driving me a bit crazy lol. Thank you very much!
Thanks for the VR content 👌 I’m new to oculus quest 2 and I purchased it for use with X-Plane 11. Thanks for the tips. I’m going to continue tinkering with the settings today!
The reason that 90hz causes higher latency is because it's more data being compressed, pumped into your headset, and being decompressed. More frames, more data. Using 90hz for streaming data to your headset is not a good idea because your reaching the maximum capacity of most commercial routers. This also depends on resolution as well, of course. The higher the resolution, the higher the frame rate, the higher the latency.
If you have an AMD GPU, HEVC (H.265) encoding will give you much better performance and lower latency than H.264, at least that's what I experience on my PC.
Man thank you so very much! I was looking for a video like that since last week, it is of great help, especially because I was experiencing some issues with BoneWorks on the Quest2, while I wasn`t on the Quest 1.
I have a Intel 10700k and a RTX 3080 and after spending a day fine tuning my settings I landed on nearly the same exact settings as this video. If I set my bitrate any higher I get small fps drops when moving my head quickly. Solid video, I would say that your setting are about the highest anyone would want to go and have smooth experience.
I'd love an RTX 3080 but my 2080ti seems to cope okay, its overclocked and the cooling fans suck in small birds and mammals so I might wait a generation before diving in
Thanks mate, that's what I'm here for. Just got my elite battery strap delivered over the weekend, appeals to my tidy freak OCD and at least 7 hours of Pop1 action on one charge too 🙂
@@MacInVR haha get a review up once you've used it for a while, I think a lot of people are on the fence to get it or not :) enjoy your longer sessions man
I am so gratefull. Why? I,m no pc nerd, dont know nothing important. I love to game, got gaming pc. Got quest, quest 2 ...... but amd chip so no pc link. Saw a big mountain with connecting to virt desktop with the extra download from side quest, just not my thing. Finally quest supported by oculus who also see this system will be the golden duck and allow streaming for quest 2. I thought ok, will my long desired wish come true? 1 gaming pc check (amd chip? We will see). 2 high speed internet check. 3 asus advised wifirouter check! After installing my heart broke started one of my deepest wishes and tried to play stormland, i almost puked, unplayable. I wanted to play the real vr games that i see being played, by BMF, wolf in vr etc etc then i saw your vid, never seen u before, but you saved my (vr) life. Clear step by step, i almost cried again, stormland is fantastic. Next echo one, hl alyx, call of duty etc etc. Really big thanx
Thanks for the video. I think you missed the point of the "Automatically adjust bitrate" setting. It's there to determine the best bitrate for you. Whether it's on or off you'll only see a difference if you're actually comparing two different bitrates. At least, that's my understanding.
Same specs for pc and I am so used to cranking everything makes me sad I have to settle now haha. Can't upgrade until stocks settle. Also I purchased the Asus rt-ax82u and it is very stable.
@@MacInVR is it not worth it then having a link cable then? I get 150 mbits at best on Virtual desktop.I have 8750 H processor, 16 gb ram, 256 ssd, and 1 terabyte drive. I have 5 ghz set up. I get choppy frames after a few hrs, and some games wont load . Star wars squadrons and doom V fr for instance.I may have skipped setting up developer mode login as some game work without it, is that it?
Automaticly adjust bitrate only sets a cap of your maximum bitrate. After that you cant set above maximum negotiated setting of your bandwith. On my ax1500 sometimes it sets 120mbps sometimes 110mbps. turning it off you can force to use 150 mbps always
Will a router help ..I seem to be lagging . I have a3070 and when using link it's perfect but vd I have issues ..I have a 5 ghz dedicated channel and I used all these settings ..is the router the final piece of the puzzle
@@johnsblendorio6568 one thing that ended up being the biggest deal for me even with a good router, right next to my play space was making sure that you don’t have interference on surrounding channels either. You may have already done this, but in case you haven’t you can see in this chart what I mean: metis.fi/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/5GHz.png Depending on your channel width that is set you can see which other channels overlap and can double check networks around you to see if it’s mostly clear. If you do have overlapping sometimes a smaller channel width can help reduce interference even though your get less throughput. If you know you don’t have any interference though then it may be your router or distance from router. I would also make sure you try turning down graphics settings on your game to low when testing to make sure it’s network related.
One other thing is this is assuming that you are only using the router for your quest. If you have other devices connected to the same 5ghz router then they may also cause interference and I would turn them all off while testing.
the VR graphics options are dependent on your pc, so if you have a beefy pc choose high and if you have a low end pc choose low or the new "potato" mode
Dude in HL Alyx you should have moved your hand/weapon from side to side repeatedly to see if you get micro stutters or if it stays smooth and then you will see that EL and VB make a difference.
I push my settings quite a bit higher with better/same results, so I think you're being a bit conservative. In my case, auto codec (usually goes with H.264), auto bitrate on, resolution high (1.5x supersampling in Steam), 90 FPS, 96 Mbps bitrate, sliced encoding enabled. I hover around 30 ms for the most part on an i7 8700k, RTX 3090, and ASUS Rapture AX11000 router.
It's in settings/video, you can have global SS (which sets super sampling across ALL games) and also individual SS per game. Personally, I set global SS to 100% then fiddle with SS on a per game basis.
My Quest 2 comes in less than 10 days so here I am studying up on all the best settings 😂 Thanks a ton! I'm cheap and bought a third party cable but depending on how reliable it ends up being I may prefer virtual desktop lmao
THIS VIDEO! Thank you so much you saved me hours and a few hundred $$$, was able to get butter smooth on my AC Google Mesh network. Subscribed and liked!
A mesh network will introduce latency because it has to send the data from one node to another as well as encode and decode it. How much? I don’t know. You’re better off with a decent router.
I get very similar latency numbers using: Encoder: HEVC, Bitrate: 100 Mpbs FPS: 90 (less than that gives me motion sickness) Render Resolution: Medium-High (You need to go to Steam VR and set it to 2740px wide - Medium is around 2500px, High is around 3000px) To reduce latency or stutters on specific games, I need to lower the resolution (In blade and Sorcery I have to go with 2300x2400, something like that). This is what i settled on my 6800XT, which is quite more powerful than your RTX2070 though. However, Im sure I could severely decrease latency further by dropping the bitrate if I was using a 3080 or a 3070 because Nvidia's encoding has much better quality.
5:10 I might add to this if your on an AMD radeon card make sure you only pick HEVC if you're on a Nvidia card pick H.264. It makes it easy to choose the codec
Tanks a lot. I spent hours trying to optimize my settings for Half Life Alyx. My problem is I really really want to keep VR graphics at high to take advantage of the full Quest 2 resolution. Maybe I am too greedy with only Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 2070 lol. I ll try your settings but I might reduce the bitrate and keep fps at 72.
Just picked up Quest 3 and VD October 10th. Using Asus RT-AXE7800 Wifi 6 / RTX3080. Playing pcvr games is very good. The wifi is certainly helping. Although I find it strange why the actual wifi 6 SSID takes a while to appear sometimes. ANyway, games run really well compared to my OG Vive. Using 264/High and games run nice and smooth although strangely I am seeing certain words in text moving when I turn my head left to right and back. Not all text does this. Just a few words in paragraphs. Can't suss out if this is a latency issue or not. I havent checked because tbh I am still learning. This is only my 2nd headset in 6 years. What do you think? do other people see this text distortion happening? I dont think its an issue with lag because the game runs super good. As near as damn it to the vive on cable.
Regarding the hevc (nice but more latency)vs 264(horribly ugly but better latecy) codecs, it depends on which card you use (amd or nvidia). I was on amd until recently and i learned that amd decodes the ugly 264 even slower than hevc, so i learned to use hevc. And now i did a little upgrade from rx 570 to gtx 1070, and altough i could now achieve a better latency with 264, i will certainly go for hevc, because the 264 is really ugly, and the difference of 10 ms is certainly worth it..
Hi, i have tested airlink and found that it works better than vd. All games like, Raw Data, Robinson, Gunjack, Defector, a Tech Cybernetic, and killing Floor Incursion. these all showed the Vive controllers in VD and were unplayable. now everything works and they just show the oculus controllers. A game: Archangel hellfire did not work at all with VD, now with airlink this game works flawlessly.
Thanks for the help man! It did help me a little bit but I don't blame you since I have a Nvidia geforce gtx 1050 ti graphic card, I will upgrade later in the year.
I have finally reached smooth gameplay on the Quest 2 via Virtual Desktop. I had it locked down on the 1, but couldn't find the right combo for 2. You did. I appreciate it, and I appreciate the way you presented it. Good job, and keep up the good work! Big thanks for the help.
Just found out this: I use ASUS GPU Tweak II and if you use the "Gaming Booster" tab, that turns off Nvidia Display and disables the Nvidia Overlay/Ansel which may have been causing additional latency.
In my ASUS GPU Tweak, I have a "Gaming Mode" tab, but not a "Gaming Booster" tab. Same thing?
Bottom middle of GPU Tweak II, there is a grey button says "gaming booster" with a little lightning sign?
Btw, setting ultra low latency to ultra can be counter productive if the GPU isn't being utilized fully by the title you're playing, it's better to adjust it on a per game basis with it set to ultra for games that hit the GPU hard
basically it helps to prevent latency from frames queueing, but if there is no frames queueing because your GPU can start doing all the work right away it can increase latency
Thanks for the tip 👍
1- H.264
2- automatic bit rate off.
3- graphic medium
4- frame to 80
5- bit rate 55
6- sliced encoding On, extra latency and video buffering off
Thanks!
Thanks. 😀
Thanks
If you're using his specs. Dial them according to your setup like he said.
Thanks
The way you present always takes me back to the mid 90's as a kid watching Blue Peter or Art Attack... the pauses... love it :D
Yeah I agree! Makes me want to watch Games Master
“Automatically adjust bitrate” should stay CHECKED btw. It’s only useful to uncheck it if you are using a cloud computer and the bandwidth measurement isn’t accurate. The defaults will be the best settings for the majority of people. Start with those. Cheers!
the man himself!
@@unlustig1 ?
@@NippyNep its the legend that made virtual desktop
Guy Godin is the Virtual Desktop app developer 😀
ill try it thanks I like when devs say whats best more reliable as they made it
I had been looking for this exact kind of breakdown and experimentation. I appreciate you taking the time to not only test these, but explain it in a video. Appreciate it!
I've been messing around with all of these settings, but I never would have thought to change the VR Graphics setting down to medium instead of high. It made a big difference in performance and I can barely see the difference. I mostly play iRacing in VR and your tips helped me get smoother performance which means faster laps!
Glad I could help mate 🙂
I have a 1650 super and virtual desktop is super laggy do you know how to fix
@@SupremeKaiZamasu laggy in what way? Low framerates and choppy performance or delayed inputs? The first problem needs a better graphics card and the second needs you to set up your router like Mac's.
@@danmiglin840 idk I have seen people use rift and have perfect gameplay I think it’s just more preformance heavy because of compression tho I will get a 3070 as soon as they are back in stock
And it’s very choppy
just subbed whilst in VR sorting my settings/watching your video. The future is now. Thanks man!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! This took me from almost giving up on no man's sky VR completely to getting in trouble with my wife for being in headset too long lol. Definitely subscribed and will remember to come here if I have any other issues.
Thanks mate 😊
these setup setting take a lot of time to check and testing
i really appreciated bro
thank you so much for sharing your setting
i subscribed
Me and my roommate play VRC a lot had difficulty with laggy past times after watching this was very useful now our VR chat is not doing laggy frame by second hurting our eyes. Much appreciated!
Cheers mate 👍
Thanks, through your tips and closer router placement I was able to get better latency. I also enabled the higher latency mode and got rid off 99% of tiny stutters and perfect tracking at around 32-35 ms latency
''I also enabled the higher latency mode'' what mode is that? I also have stuttering in some games and would like to fix it. Thanks!
In the streaming tab in virtual desktop, on the right hand side is a tab called "high latency mode". If you tick this box, it will reduce stuttering but will increase latency.
@@MacInVR yes, that's the option I enabled
@@MacInVR thank you very much, i will try it.
Thank you! I have found that having a cord strapped to my face was annoying for blade and sorcery so I looked into virtual desktop stuff and found this video. Helpful 👍
one of the best tutorials i‘ve seen, perfectly explained and exactly what i needed! thanks!
Glad I could help you 😊
Thanks! You helped me get my latency locked down to 31ms, which makes a huge difference in Beat Saber.
In my 6800xt (AMD GPU) choosing HEVC lowered overall latency by around 5 ms. I am getting 28-30 ms of total latency in Pistol Whip. It feels just like the native quest 2, it just looks better
Recently I changed my wireless settings and messed up my latency. Watching this video got me back to 32 ms, thanks.
This is awesome. This is the best VD settings video and absolutely what I needed. Thanks for being so thorough; you connected a few dots for me.
Thanks for the vid - i followed your tips to the letter and and getting around 31ms latency with solid performance ( all white numbers ) - I saw no increase with "high latency mode" but about a 12ms increase with "video buffering" on - i may leave that one one cause i did see a noticeable difference in gameplay, just felt smoother - thanks again
I used to have VERY low fps that was as a high of 24fps, but after I found out that I could change the settings I changed all of that, and I also got a graphics card before I changed the settings so that helped alot. Thanks for the great quide!
Used this video as reference and it helped make Beat Saber bearable. Low 30ish latency and now I can play Beat Saber on Expert :)
thank you for this video, love that you did the comparisons and went in-depth with each setting, you actually helped me fix an audio desync issue, that was driving me a bit crazy lol. Thank you very much!
"There she is" lol. Great video, pal. I'm looking forward to checking my settings against your own and experimenting.
I might do a community post where people submit there setups, good idea 💡
@@MacInVR Yes do that !
Well made, thank you.
I am a 71'er, greetings from Germany.
I really want your t-shirt, it was the year my wife was born. She would live it!
i love your voice i could listen to you talk all the time
Thanks mate 🙂
Thanks for the VR content 👌 I’m new to oculus quest 2 and I purchased it for use with X-Plane 11. Thanks for the tips. I’m going to continue tinkering with the settings today!
Thanks changing the codec helped I had it on automatic
My pleasure 😀
This actually worked thanks
These were the golden settings for me too. Thanks Mac!
I like this guy. Hope his channel blows up.
Thanks, appreciate the support 😀
Amazing video brother, you just got a life long subscriber! Thank you for the tips. I will be getting a 3060ti 12 gb vram and post here after testing.
@VitalV2
Thanks mate, video has been updated here:
th-cam.com/video/7gtH85efDOI/w-d-xo.html
Thanks!
I'm finally reaching 90fps
Very helpful video.
Love the in-depth\side by side comparisons + your opinion
Thanks mate, appreciate you taking time to comment 🙂
I have an old GTX 1060 and that trick made me able to use Oculus Link! Thanks!
Nice! 😀
The reason that 90hz causes higher latency is because it's more data being compressed, pumped into your headset, and being decompressed. More frames, more data. Using 90hz for streaming data to your headset is not a good idea because your reaching the maximum capacity of most commercial routers.
This also depends on resolution as well, of course. The higher the resolution, the higher the frame rate, the higher the latency.
Your settings worked perfect on my pc! Thank you so much sir!!!! You fixed my choppyness
Glad I could help you 😊
You better never stop making videos he one of the best VR TH-camrs out there don’t forget that
If you have an AMD GPU, HEVC (H.265) encoding will give you much better performance and lower latency than H.264, at least that's what I experience on my PC.
i like how his mic makes it look like he has an exclamation mark on his neck!
Man thank you so very much! I was looking for a video like that since last week, it is of great help, especially because I was experiencing some issues with BoneWorks on the Quest2, while I wasn`t on the Quest 1.
I have a Intel 10700k and a RTX 3080 and after spending a day fine tuning my settings I landed on nearly the same exact settings as this video. If I set my bitrate any higher I get small fps drops when moving my head quickly. Solid video, I would say that your setting are about the highest anyone would want to go and have smooth experience.
I'd love an RTX 3080 but my 2080ti seems to cope okay, its overclocked and the cooling fans suck in small birds and mammals so I might wait a generation before diving in
thank you so much, this video helped me ALOT!!!
Unreal Mac, seriously good channel and has got me up and running Wirelessly now, even though it is nice to have the link cable for battery purposes :)
Thanks mate, that's what I'm here for. Just got my elite battery strap delivered over the weekend, appeals to my tidy freak OCD and at least 7 hours of Pop1 action on one charge too 🙂
@@MacInVR haha get a review up once you've used it for a while, I think a lot of people are on the fence to get it or not :) enjoy your longer sessions man
great video, I appreciate all the testing you did!
I am so gratefull. Why? I,m no pc nerd, dont know nothing important. I love to game, got gaming pc. Got quest, quest 2 ...... but amd chip so no pc link. Saw a big mountain with connecting to virt desktop with the extra download from side quest, just not my thing. Finally quest supported by oculus who also see this system will be the golden duck and allow streaming for quest 2. I thought ok, will my long desired wish come true? 1 gaming pc check (amd chip? We will see). 2 high speed internet check. 3 asus advised wifirouter check! After installing my heart broke started one of my deepest wishes and tried to play stormland, i almost puked, unplayable. I wanted to play the real vr games that i see being played, by BMF, wolf in vr etc etc then i saw your vid, never seen u before, but you saved my (vr) life. Clear step by step, i almost cried again, stormland is fantastic. Next echo one, hl alyx, call of duty etc etc. Really big thanx
Mate, great post, so glad I could help 😊 😀
Bout time Mac 😏 bloody brilliant video, been looking forward to this one!!
Thanks to this tutorial Im now getting a clean 31ms avg using these settings. Kudos to Mister Rootah
Thanks for the video. I think you missed the point of the "Automatically adjust bitrate" setting. It's there to determine the best bitrate for you. Whether it's on or off you'll only see a difference if you're actually comparing two different bitrates. At least, that's my understanding.
what should I use GTX 1660 SUPER, AMD Ryzen 5 36006-Core Processor and 19.95 GB of ram
Good Video! Thanks for all the effort. I like to see your channel growing!
Heads up to anyone with an RX580 GPU, it doesn't like Sliced Encoding. Turn it off if you see twitches \ flickers in an eye.
Thanks for the tip
Said the actress to the vicar 😂
Same specs for pc and I am so used to cranking everything makes me sad I have to settle now haha. Can't upgrade until stocks settle. Also I purchased the Asus rt-ax82u and it is very stable.
"Final step..."
Me - "Final step, 51... wait... what happened to 6 through 50??!?!?!?!?!!?" O.o
😂😂😂
You da man, you should have more subscribers, I’ll post this to Reddit.
Thanks mate, appreciate that 😁
@@MacInVR Done 👍
@@MacInVR is it not worth it then having a link cable then? I get 150 mbits at best on Virtual desktop.I have 8750 H processor, 16 gb ram, 256 ssd, and 1 terabyte drive. I have 5 ghz set up. I get choppy frames after a few hrs, and some games wont load . Star wars squadrons and doom V fr for instance.I may have skipped setting up developer mode login as some game work without it, is that it?
@@snapdragon9300 gpu?
@@flyingbanana2436 they have been lost to the choppy void, they shall take centuries, even millennia to return from the prison that they have entered
Thanks for a solid scientific process.
Automaticly adjust bitrate only sets a cap of your maximum bitrate. After that you cant set above maximum negotiated setting of your bandwith. On my ax1500 sometimes it sets 120mbps sometimes 110mbps. turning it off you can force to use 150 mbps always
Thanks for the clarification mate good job 😄
Will a router help ..I seem to be lagging . I have a3070 and when using link it's perfect but vd I have issues ..I have a 5 ghz dedicated channel and I used all these settings ..is the router the final piece of the puzzle
How far is your router from your Quest? Mine is literally say right next to my playspace
@@johnsblendorio6568 one thing that ended up being the biggest deal for me even with a good router, right next to my play space was making sure that you don’t have interference on surrounding channels either. You may have already done this, but in case you haven’t you can see in this chart what I mean: metis.fi/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/5GHz.png
Depending on your channel width that is set you can see which other channels overlap and can double check networks around you to see if it’s mostly clear. If you do have overlapping sometimes a smaller channel width can help reduce interference even though your get less throughput.
If you know you don’t have any interference though then it may be your router or distance from router. I would also make sure you try turning down graphics settings on your game to low when testing to make sure it’s network related.
One other thing is this is assuming that you are only using the router for your quest. If you have other devices connected to the same 5ghz router then they may also cause interference and I would turn them all off while testing.
Thanks dude
Gotta try these settings out
On my quest 2019
Very informative and well explained. Thanks for the effort :)
Do you notice less compression artefacts or visual differences between higher bitrates etc? Is it worth the latency hit for visual improvement?
Its the main problem, more bitrate equals more latency
the VR graphics options are dependent on your pc, so if you have a beefy pc choose high and if you have a low end pc choose low or the new "potato" mode
Very good vid mate
Dude in HL Alyx you should have moved your hand/weapon from side to side repeatedly to see if you get micro stutters or if it stays smooth and then you will see that EL and VB make a difference.
Great content man got my sub 👏 👌🏼 👍🏼
Cheers mate, appreciate the support 👍
get your motherfucking like internet man. You just made my VR experience so much better, thanks!
😎😎😎
Thanks Mac. Very useful video.
I push my settings quite a bit higher with better/same results, so I think you're being a bit conservative. In my case, auto codec (usually goes with H.264), auto bitrate on, resolution high (1.5x supersampling in Steam), 90 FPS, 96 Mbps bitrate, sliced encoding enabled. I hover around 30 ms for the most part on an i7 8700k, RTX 3090, and ASUS Rapture AX11000 router.
JEALOUS!! That is a nice setup you have there 😳😄
Where do you find the super sampling setting in steam? I think this maybe the answer to my problems
It's in settings/video, you can have global SS (which sets super sampling across ALL games) and also individual SS per game. Personally, I set global SS to 100% then fiddle with SS on a per game basis.
Your amazing, thank you for the oculus casting tip i've been looking for that.
This is the best vr channel on TH-cam
Thanks mate 👍
Great video, thank you! And greetings from Russia!:)
Its nice to see your video
My Quest 2 comes in less than 10 days so here I am studying up on all the best settings 😂 Thanks a ton!
I'm cheap and bought a third party cable but depending on how reliable it ends up being I may prefer virtual desktop lmao
If your PC can handle VR the virtual desktop app is incredible, wireless PC VR is the future
It's 1.18.4 now, 10 days later! ok, now to continue watching!! lol
THANK YOU
THIS VIDEO! Thank you so much you saved me hours and a few hundred $$$, was able to get butter smooth on my AC Google Mesh network. Subscribed and liked!
A mesh network will introduce latency because it has to send the data from one node to another as well as encode and decode it. How much? I don’t know. You’re better off with a decent router.
Thanks for the info quite helpful.
I get very similar latency numbers using:
Encoder: HEVC,
Bitrate: 100 Mpbs
FPS: 90 (less than that gives me motion sickness)
Render Resolution: Medium-High
(You need to go to Steam VR and set it to 2740px wide - Medium is around 2500px, High is around 3000px)
To reduce latency or stutters on specific games, I need to lower the resolution (In blade and Sorcery I have to go with 2300x2400, something like that).
This is what i settled on my 6800XT, which is quite more powerful than your RTX2070 though.
However, Im sure I could severely decrease latency further by dropping the bitrate if I was using a 3080 or a 3070 because Nvidia's encoding has much better quality.
Tysm for the help my guyyy
5:10 I might add to this if your on an AMD radeon card make sure you only pick HEVC if you're on a Nvidia card pick H.264. It makes it easy to choose the codec
Thanks for the tip mate 😀
What type of router are you using? Are you using a 5Ghz signal or wifi 6?
5ghz on a wifi6 router, mine is a TP-LINK Archer AX10. Fairly cheap bit does the job well 😀
Tanks a lot. I spent hours trying to optimize my settings for Half Life Alyx. My problem is I really really want to keep VR graphics at high to take advantage of the full Quest 2 resolution. Maybe I am too greedy with only Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 2070 lol. I ll try your settings but I might reduce the bitrate and keep fps at 72.
Thanks for this video!
Nice video man! Subbed ;)
Very useful. Thanks.
this helped a ton man thanks!
Again great video! Gonna go and use these settings to see :)
Just picked up Quest 3 and VD October 10th. Using Asus RT-AXE7800 Wifi 6 / RTX3080. Playing pcvr games is very good. The wifi is certainly helping. Although I find it strange why the actual wifi 6 SSID takes a while to appear sometimes. ANyway, games run really well compared to my OG Vive. Using 264/High and games run nice and smooth although strangely I am seeing certain words in text moving when I turn my head left to right and back. Not all text does this. Just a few words in paragraphs. Can't suss out if this is a latency issue or not. I havent checked because tbh I am still learning. This is only my 2nd headset in 6 years. What do you think? do other people see this text distortion happening? I dont think its an issue with lag because the game runs super good. As near as damn it to the vive on cable.
I've been really busy with other stuff but will be running my Q3 using VD for PCVR next week 😉
Thanks Mac. This is super helpful
Great work!
Regarding the hevc (nice but more latency)vs 264(horribly ugly but better latecy) codecs, it depends on which card you use (amd or nvidia).
I was on amd until recently and i learned that amd decodes the ugly 264 even slower than hevc, so i learned to use hevc. And now i did a little upgrade from rx 570 to gtx 1070, and altough i could now achieve a better latency with 264, i will certainly go for hevc, because the 264 is really ugly, and the difference of 10 ms is certainly worth it..
Thanks for the info 👍
Thanks for the starter tips.
Hi,
i have tested airlink and found that it works better than vd.
All games like, Raw Data, Robinson, Gunjack, Defector, a Tech Cybernetic, and killing Floor Incursion. these all showed the Vive controllers in VD and were unplayable. now everything works and they just show the oculus controllers.
A game: Archangel hellfire did not work at all with VD, now with airlink this game works flawlessly.
Cool, thanks for the info 😎
Is there a way to remove the HUD while using Virtual Desktop. Don't see an option for it. Definitely ruins immersion.
Do you have the performance overlay tab checked ✔ in the streaming tab? Un-check it
Thanks for the great tips Mac. Cheers.
Cheers Ron 😁
Does lowering fps in virtual desktop help with game latency?
Thanks for the help man! It did help me a little bit but I don't blame you since I have a Nvidia geforce gtx 1050 ti graphic card, I will upgrade later in the year.
Yeah...probably anything 2080ti and above would work great 👍
Thanks for suggesting, can a 1650 work?
No..that card is borderline same as the GTX 1050. Like I said, any modern VR title will run well on a RTX 20 series card or above
Alright, thanks for your help, I appreciate it!
Keep having issues with steam virtual desktop? Should I delete and just use oculus virtual desktop?
When I try to connect to a PC, it says “Connecting” then “Establishing Connection” then stops and doesn’t connect. Do you know any fix to this?
Checl out the virtual desktop faq here:
www.vrdesktop.net/
Or jump onto my discord and check out the Vd Helpline and FAQ
Like the opening!
the ultimate guide of low latency VD setup that im looking for! thank youuuuuuu!!
I have finally reached smooth gameplay on the Quest 2 via Virtual Desktop. I had it locked down on the 1, but couldn't find the right combo for 2. You did. I appreciate it, and I appreciate the way you presented it. Good job, and keep up the good work! Big thanks for the help.
Thanks mate, really glad I could help you 😊
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