Quest 3 - Link Cable Settings Guide For High Quality Wired VR

This VR Quality Settings Guide will help you get great image quality from the Meta Quest 3 using a link cable such as the the INIU Link Cable all with the advantage of having the headset charge as you play and getting great quality especially for racing and flight simulators.
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[@GamerMuscleVideos]

Hopefully this saves people some time and gives a good start point for those of you that want to use a link cable with the Quest 3 and have some great settings right away :) We also have a video specifically for Assetto Corsa Here - Soon :P Quest 3 - amzn.to/3S99MA6 Link Cable That charges - amzn.to/3Hxcudy

[@enjoyvride]

finally after the fight :D

[@richardirv]

Thanks for all the effort put in testing this stuff. I've also spent many hours trying to stabilise AC with my Quest 3, finally finding out last week that many of my issues were simply the Pure Grass plugin. Disabling fixed pretty much everything. Regarding the link cable, I have just ordered the INNU after trying the Syntech version which didn't work with the standard Quest 3 charger plugged in, so after ordering a Ugreen 65w usb-c charger and 65w cable I was confident it would finally work, but no... It still slowly discharges. So I am now pinned to this cable and I really hope it does work and hold charge.

[@itstunatime7127]

did this cable fix your issues? @@richardirv

[@GTE_Ams442]

X2 @richardirv i am buying my quest 3 and probably this cable in 2 days

[@fireprooofwalnuts]

it will not let me turn off asynchr space warp off

[@Munch1966]

Really good video and thanks for posting GM!! I have a Quest Pro and thought I’d try out these settings. Happy to report they’ve worked a treat and I’m now enjoying seamless 90hz performance in ACC. I had to tweak in-game video settings slightly to find the balance but it now looks and runs extremely well with around 25% headroom. Tried on AMS2 on the Le Mans circuit with the fast LMDh cars and runs as smooth as butter with a mix of weather conditions and night driving. It does look less over sharpened and more natural and I can now see the benefits of running 90hz. (4090 & 58003dx). Thanks again, top job!

[@bobskimaxx]

A genuine setup review. Some settings I've found out myself, and some that have been greatly appreciated. My type of review....honest by experimenting. 👍

[@yv2611]

Even though you may not get as many views. Those who have VR really appreciate this series of video. Thank you.

[@Qwuiplash]

Thank you so much, i thought i was doomed to poor link cable quality and performance before watching this, my quest always looked better with VD but the latency can be disgusting on the weekend. This is a savior for playing VR with everyone on the WiFi!

[@tomc1380]

This a vey good guide on how to use Link imho. Thanks for sharing this mate. This should get most people good results and afterwards they can fine tune things to their liking. The only thing I'd like to add is that it's important to run the oculus desktop app device settings usb speed test. You should get at least 2.2Gbps (preferably at least 2.4Gbps). If you cannot get this you may want to try a different usb3 port and/or cable. I have slightly different Link settings but this is probably more of a personal preference thing. The main thing is that I think that yours are a good place for newbies to start off with. Thanks again mate and best cheers from Australia.

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

2.2Gbps is 275 MBps which is almost 3x 900 Mbps. So in theory a cable and USB port of slower speed , even 1Gbps should work perfectly fine. What's more important is that the port is USB 3 and the power settings are right. Be interesting if someone has done actual direct testing of data rates , specific ports and cables of different data rates. In the past with oculus stuff the biggest issue was due to specific USB ports / USB bus / USB power Tomthe point some USB cards / busses didn't work even though they should have been fine. What I noticed is lots of people repeating x cable speed is needed x bit rate is needed y is better as it's faster or x should categorically be done. But all they are doing is just repeating best case scenarios that are often well beyond what is needed for things to be perfectly fine. For example the iniu link cable I use is half the bandwidth of the official link cable , but it doesn't matter as half the bandwidth is still way over what is needed.

[@tomc1380]

@@GamerMuscleVideos Sorry but the point I'm trying to make is that people should run the Oculus desktop app usb speed test and make sure it's at least in the 2.0-2.4Gbps range. Otherwise, you won't get good results with Link imho. If you are getting good results with Link I'm pretty sure you'll find that you're in this range, or maybe a bit better.

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

​I got you , I just think it would be interesting to know what the actual limit is and if that's from data rate or just USB compatibility. I don't think there is a way to throttle USB data rate on PC ports to test. ​@@tomc1380

[@tomc1380]

@@GamerMuscleVideos Ya, numbers are not always very useful anyway. At the end of the day, loke I think you've already said, your eyes will tell what's best. Why I recommend the oculus desktop app device usb speed test is because I've often found it useful. I think that Oculus/Meta did put this in for a reason, lol!

[@RickR69]

Any updates to the settings for the newer 120hz mode? Great video thank you!

[@franmi00]

Thank you kind sir! This makes everything so much clearer and crispier! Night and day difference. Before I was only changing the steamVR render resolution. And even with 400% it was not that clear as it is now with these settings. Now I have in steamVR just automatic resolution selected. So it should be 100% and that 4864 x 2592 in oculus app. fpsVR actually shows ingame 3000x3232 and global steam res settings to 150%. Numbers all over the place but it is stable and looks amazing! Game I tested was Half Life Alyx on ULTRA preset. Setup is GPU 7900 XTX Sapphire Nitro+, cpu 7800 x3d, 32 gb 6000 mhz ram, oculus quest 3.

[@Anequit]

we have literally the exact same specs lol

[@franmi00]

@@Anequit Nice, how are you enjoying yours?

[@Anequit]

@@franmi00 it's working great 👍

[@IrishShea]

My Brother also has the exact same system :L he'll be pleased with your results.

[@SingleRacerSVR]

Thankyou GM, for taking the time to do this, as I finally feel like I have something substantial to replace my aging original RIFT with a good start as to the correct settings to use out of the box. On a side note - really like those white "more information" boxes your using in your editor, as to me they look very professional compared to the horribly amateur graphs I see on some other Channels. These "HOW TO GUIDES" can often be some of the best viewed video's - so maybe after half a dozen Q3 updates, you could revisit this in a the next year or so, to further expand on any improvements that you've found, specifically for Sim Racing & Flight Sims?

[@jellowiggler]

Traditionally (on the Q2) the encoding bit rate was set to max 288, this is the bit rate where Oculus couldn't see a good performance to quality improvement. 300 is great. In motion you will likely not be able to see difference above that. Above 300 you are just adding latency and work with little benefit. I think default on the cable is 250. The theoretical max on USB cable is 5Gbps. Usually this measures at 2400-2700bmps. All of the video plus control and camera traffic, etc needs to fit in that limit. So it should be pretty easy to have lots of head room.

[@carlgray6764]

Thanks for doing this GM ! ... i use the cable all the time and its good to get some settings to use the Q3 to better effect. meta should have done this sort of guide instead of causing much frustration with the whole VR experience. i nearly returned the headset with all the faffing about trying to get it to connect ... a tip from me is make sure your internet is set to private [mine for some reason was set to public ... and would not connect to the quest 3]

[@T6Ber62]

I have a headache now but thanks for your knowledge dude. You really know your shite. I'm just fumbling through my first week with Q3. Thanks a lot.

[@TheVirtualFuture-By-WB]

Thanks for posting this.. Following.. We need more Config description and "Best" settings video.. Needs to be updated since this is a non stop moving target as drivers, software improvements happen

[@ericheick7044]

You are the man for this. Like others said, this wont be a huge video, but I thank you! Subbed.

[@fortheluvofthegame_]

yeah, me too!

[@jonnylaris]

Dude where is your 120hz option?!

[@gillessamoey3567]

Changing the FOV gives more immersion for me because it is like wearing a helmet. And with my RTX 2060 i needed to do it because without i had performance issues.

[@sebo2627]

I used the 0.5 FOV vertical on ACC, it looks almost like a crash helmet... but 2x the fps, with same setting and quality

[@AdeptuS.AnonyMouS]

I constantly switch between VD and Oculus software... Some games look / work better than others in VD I dislike how varied things are in VR. Ive been running most these settings for awhile but my PC wont do 900mbps - 12600k your CPU must have more lanes dedicated to the USB side of things.. I have the same accessories as you too nice picks! Supper comfortable.

[@malarski22]

Thanks!!! It helped me alot!! MQ 3 , Ryzen 5 5600x 4070 ti Super & Beam NG

[@willgevo]

You didn't mention the performance boost with VDXR on Virtual Desktop, which can make a huge difference in smoothness on titles that support OpenXR.

[@gfoyle6571]

The point with limiting the FOV is to limit the vertical fov only. Yes, you get letterbox, but you don't need a lot of FOV vertically in car sims for anything. I at least don't need to see my fake virtual skinny legs (if I really want to, I can just look down more). Even with low as 0.3 it's still similar vertical fov as with ultrawide and you can image you have helmet where the vertical fov is limited quite a lot. Initially it didn't look that great, but after a while, I couldn't even notice it. As for horizontal fov, I don't really limit that much at all. In AMS2 at least, you need like 30-40% headroom (in the performance overlay of the oculus debug tool) to avoid getting fps problems in night/rain conditions with many cars behind you with headlights. Naturally the game graphic settings affect that as well as well as you PC (I have pretty similar computer as GM has). Only way I was really to achieve smooth performance in all conditions, was to limit the vertical fov a lot. At least in AMS2, lowering the graphical settings didn't help enough to make nearly as big impact.

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

Yah I can see how that can still work , might be a good option for some people with sims for sure.

[@obscured021]

You need 1.5x the native res to account for lenses distortion on the quest 3, the reason 1.3 looks good is the pancake lenses have less distortion than Fresnel. For me virtual desktop set to God mode using AV1 at 150 mbs gives the best combo of picture quality and latency. about 37-39 in most games, the exception is ACC it looks better over airlink or the link cable, and I don't know why?

[@metetaha2013]

Hello, i was wondering if you could do an updated video towards meta quest 3. I also got myself meta quest 3 few weeks ago and using it with steamvr and meta quest app together with linked cable. Ive got a 3060ti and i5 13400f with 2x16gb ddr4 ram and i was wondering if these specs would be good enough for iracing vr racing + streaming on twitch? I have no idea how to properly setup the steamvr settings nor the meta quest settings such as hz and resolution or in game settings or the debug tool with today's quest 3 updates.. I think you got iracing from the site rightaway so you may not have any idea with steamvr but i wanted to ask anyway. Ive tried other vr supported racing games/sims but it seemed like i am either losing so much fps even on lowest settings or im using the wrong graphics settings i have no idea. It just goes around 1-2 fps sometimes. I dont want to feel like i wasted my money on getting the quest 3 so i need help pls

[@angryginger791]

Even though you are a loathsome iRacist (that's a person who hates iRacing, not an "internet" racist, just to be clear 😋) I have to thank you for this and all of the other Quest 3 videos you've done recently. I've been waiting to upgrade from my Rift S, and your infectious excitement for the Q3 convinced me to pull the trigger. Delivery in 2 days!

[@ZachNohKap]

Does this work just as well for the Quest 2?

[@dirkhartlage]

When I set the visible HUD to Performance and Performance HUD to Oculus Link Detail, I could see latency increases when I increased the bitrate over certain numbers. H.265 seems to have this later than H.264. I ended up just staying at H.264 at 500. H.265 was stable at 600 as well, but I felt this one still looked better, but not really sure.

[@michalpetrilak3976]

You observed it correctly, if H265 is set, the latency will increase, which is not good. Encoding to H265 and decoding will take more time and cause the process to slow down. H264 works smoother.

[@mickaelsflow6774]

Brilliant! Love the focus on VR for a bit 'round these here parts! Though it's fair to say that applies for High-End PC. I do want to know how you'd change those on lower end PC...

[@bigchild3147]

I am using the Meta Quest 3 with a link cable for simracing games on Steam (AMD GPU). Right now, I do not want to use the OpenXRtool kit and OpenComposite. In most games, I have the option to start in Steam VR or oculus mode. I am uncertain which one is better performance wise. Even when I get the message in oculus mode your HMD is not supported. Is this still better? If so, should the game be started within the Meta environment or in Steam itself? Does anyone have a recommendation and maybe an explanation why? Thank you very much in advance.

[@linzkirk]

After Days go testing when I got Quest 3 I came to the same conclusions. Although I go for 1.4 @ 80hz. I agree with you about the user experience of this setup is utter dogshite from meta. Most average users are probably not even aware of the ODT. Be nice to see a vid of setup in the sims AC, iRacing, AMS2 and the runs in VR like some one who just had both feet amputated that is ACC. Personally i'm quite new to iRacing (2 weeks in) and I think its amazing in VR, probably the best of the lot.

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

just uploading AC setting video ! lol these videos wont get many views but should help people :)

[@linzkirk]

@@GamerMuscleVideos watching it now

[@gustavoehler]

Thank you for the video!!What are your pc specs? I have a 4070 ti super but havent found the ideal settings yet. On iracing the screen keeps flashing

[@nydaarius6845]

i have tried all possible settings. but i cannot get a better latency compared to VD. i tweaked my router setup and VD for a very long time and i have not much artifacting and my latency is 30ish. no matter what i do with the cable (yes. i HAVE a high quality cable. i even have 8 differnt brands and types) i still cannot get below 40. for competitive games and beatsaber this already sucks. but no reason to use a cable for me, since VD works better for some reason. and btw: charging while using it as a link cable doesn't work for me either. it just doesn't charge.

[@dorsmap]

Does this not work for Quest 2? I set everything and choose to enable the performance overlay then I launch a game over link cable and no performance overlay shows while playing so I can only assume no setting changes took affect.

[@eyre73]

if your speed from the pc to the headset is 2.5Gps you can set the Encode bitrate Mbps to 2000Mbps which is 2Gbps that will still leave 500 Mbps room for extra data.

[@K11...]

The limit is in the XR2 chip's ability to decode the bitstream. If it is too high it can't keep up.

[@eyre73]

@@K11... i put mine to 2000 and ive not had any problems with a 5gps link cable no stutter.

[@TiemeHv]

@@eyre73pc specs?

[@eyre73]

@@TiemeHv i have an i713700kf with a 4070

[@eyre73]

oh and 32gb of ram

[@toshymod]

Does your cable you linked in the description give any bad latency when you use these settings?

[@sosnz]

Hi, can you tell me why when I set mine to 4864 x 2592 it says it is 1.5x but when you do it yours says it is 1.3x? Also I only have one 90hz toggle and you have two? Mine is only a couple of days old and I also have a 120hz option so perhaps the software or firmware has changed. Thanks and great video

[@dathyr1]

Thanks for all your videos on setups for the Quest 3. You may have talked about this but haven't found it in videos I have watched. With running with the link cable - is there any need to get the Quest 3 with 512 GB of storage? Most of my games are STEAM PC racing type games. I see your link on amazon points to the 128 GB version of Quest 3. Right now I have the Oculus Rift S as my VR headset which connects to my RTX-3080TI graphics card. I know the link cable connects via USB. Thank you for the video.

[@ipadize]

if you only play PCVR -> 128Gb if you plan on playing many games on the Quest itself -> 512Gb

[@Karol-g9d]

h264 vs h265 ? Was done years ago . H265 is better by a huge margin

[@HACKA33]

If only I could use a cable. I´ve bought one here super well recommended in my country but no luck, the oculus app won´t recognize it.

[@Danny1024DM]

Can someone answer this? Why isn't the 120hz option there? I ordered mine and I expected to have that.

[@Int3x0r]

Thank you!

[@lucasomeister2823]

Is 900 wired vs 500 wireless big difference ? Cant see difference between 400 vs 500 wireless.thx

[@seangus01]

Some of my settings seem to reset when I reconnect my headset. Anyway to keep them static?

[@73roen]

Great content, thx!👍

[@dims4627]

Love the intro :D

[@speedvr829]

Yo Set distortion curv to low. Off ya go.

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

ah forgot about that :(

[@joe-5D]

In pcvr im getting these hard blurred edges of squares in my field of view when i turn my head. Do you know what setting could be responsible for that ? My GPU is well good enough to handle pcvr in theory.

[@peppetheking7]

Is it possible to have vr settings to put on nvidia control panel please?

[@blePLOL]

whenever i play pcvr with my quest, i get a weird white outline around everything and it looks really bad. If anyone knows a fix, please let me know :D

[@bastiankaminski6544]

Are This settings also good for normal Games like half life Alyx?

[@Space-O-2001]

I'm pretty sure I've got a 120Hz option. Also it feels like heiracy to go wireless and then whack a cable in😂 Also I'm running a 6e WiFi connection in the same room...cable still better?

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

If you have a great wifi router and it works fine then might as well just use wirless , only advantage of cable at that point is charging at same time

[@Space-O-2001]

@@GamerMuscleVideos I've just seen you latest video and you've missed out the Kiwi Design head strap with battery which can be bought direct for £46. The relevance is I get over 3 hours of play so not really an issue .

[@taxi615]

How is the quest 3 with sickness?

[@theakira05]

Used all of the same settings and have everything set up perfectly with the same cable, but it doesn't seem to be working out, with the audio cutting out a ton and frames being dropped, no matter the render resolution or hertz, any recommendations to fix it?

[@ViRT1ST]

Lower Encoding Bitrate to 500 mbps.

[@theakira05]

@@ViRT1ST Yep, I did 480, just based off my testing, did some research on USB 3 maximum bandwidth

[@andre23350]

But the debug Tool will not save the settings… you need to repeat this steps every time

[@Mcw32]

Do you think a gaming laptop with a 4060 and I7 is powerful enough run ACC on the Quest 3 at 72 HZ?

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

Probably not , but might work on absolute lowest settings and lower resolution but will look awful. AC1 would be better option.

[@Mcw32]

@@GamerMuscleVideos thanks for the quick reply. You rock.

[@JasperF12]

Would these settings help with Quest 2? Still find it a bit blurry

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

Yah should do , though you won't need as high rez due to quest 2 being 1920x1800 each eye as apposed to 2064x2028. Also quest 2 lenses are not as clear.

[@TheLostKhymera]

What link cable are you using with your quest 3?

[@LonzoLa]

Check the description

[@TheLostKhymera]

@@LonzoLa bet

[@bobwindy903]

900 - For those that need to copy and paste

[@baccattack]

All that and you neglected to mention latency once! What is it with your settings? Presumably the choice of codec and bit rate will play a large part in this?

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

Latency will mostly be defined by the Hz of the headset when running with a cable (assuming the game easily is hitting the fps with some overheads) , in theory h264 should have less latency than h265 but as I said in the video this is likely negligible due to how the video is rendered on the GPU. There could be a lot of nit picking but its not really that relevant with a cabled connection to the headset and changes in bit rates , encoder settings did not have a noticeable impact in my testing. There will likely be a lot more complex latency issues when using Wifi / VR Desktop due to network equipment and distance from router and the complexities of sending so much data over wifi.

[@Steelninja77]

There's a connection order for that link cable. It should be written on the charging block bit. If you plug it in in the right order the charging doesn't lose battery percentage as you play it stays charged. I only noticed it today as mine was running the battery down even plugged in to the charger. But i plugged it in in the right order. plug the power lead in then plug the link cable into headset and finally plug the other end into your PC and it will stay charged.

[@DaveAndreason]

Thank you!

[@danfry909]

This is pure gold GM, thank you for doing all this leg work.

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

Need to do some situps now

[@Stu_Murph]

My Quest 3 should be here in Tuesday. Recently bought a PC for sim racing, looking forward to trying iRacing in VR

[@Username-lg5sz]

C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-diagnostics

[@andreasotto1977]

Let's all praise GM for providing useful help for the existing software solution and the usage of a cable with charging properties in a stationary environment, instead of chiming in with the VD fanboi choir trying to lure us all in a rabbit hole's maze of spending extra money on 3rd party software and finding THE holy grail of WiFi router setup that will actually work. 🙂

[@kondor99999]

Agreed. WiFi is nowhere near ready to handle the bandwidth needed for VR in particular. And Physics means it likely never will be. The higher the bandwidth, the higher the frequency needed, which eventually comes to resemble the characteristics of visible light. Already, the VD zealots are demanding a 15 foot line-of-sight to the very latest dedicated router. At some point, you have to say “Why not just use a cable then?”

[@kristianjorg418]

Great summary of all the crucial settings. Even though I have a reasonably good understanding of all you say already, the summary really ties all together well. Highly appreciated!

[@Thezuule1]

You can run the FOV multiplier at 0.85 and not see the edges while gaining a few FPS by rendering a smaller window. Could on the Quest 2 anyway.

[@rontaumelscheibe]

Thanks man! Having the best performance since using the Quest 3 (6 month now)

[@TheOriginalCoda]

Just one thing about copy/pasting the bitrate into notepad... not necessary. You can type into one of the other numeric fields then copy that. Ok, it only saved you 3.52 seconds, but hey.

[@datavortex]

Thanks! Very helpful. I will note here that when I pushed the encoding bitrate to 900, I got audio stuttering and choppiness on Beat Saber until I knocked it back to 500. Video never missed a beat though. ASUS Strix RTX 4090, AMD 7950X3D, ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme.

[@Vogelaufmzaun]

I read High Quality Settings in the thumbnail and then read "Quake 3" not Quest 3. Had me excited there for a moment.

[@1SaG]

If it's anything like it was on my old Rift-S, you very much want to disable asynchronous spacewarp in flightsims. In Il-2 it will cause all sorts of weirdness whenever it kicks in - in my case it made planes' wings look like they were flapping. Also: I'm not sure I'd take resolution over refresh-rate. I tried both options on my Reverb G2, meaning: 1. 60 Hz with full resolution and in-game details cranked up to nearly maximum, and 2. 90 Hz with reduced resolution (~80 to 85%, but no FSR/NIS) and very conservative in-game settings. Of course: 60Hz and native res is/was almost a joke, even to the 4070 I used until recently. No drops in FPS whatsoever at that setting. But: Anytime I tried 60 Hz, I always reverted back to 90 Hz with reduced res/graphics-settings very quickly. While you can make the game look a lot better "on paper" at a lower refresh-rate, the sensation of immersion just isn't as good as on 90 Hz. For me it was like 60 Hz felt like I was looking at a simulation while 90 Hz felt like I was actually sitting inside the cockpit. Well worth the reduction in pixels and eye-candy, IMO. I would also highly recommend *not* using SteamVR but to go OpenComposite/OpenXR instead - especially if you're not blessed with a 4090 as SteamVR is a bit of a performance hog.

[@BillyCowin-nx4gi]

Thank you!

[@PeterDenTV]

I have an RTX3080OC and a Ryzen 7 5800x3d, those settings are also perfect for Quest 2, especially those in the Oculus Debug Tool, definitely a game changer, it removes all the blurriness with no hit on the performance at all. 1.3x resolution and 90hz in the headset settings and you'll also find that it's on par with HDMI/DP connected devices.

[@StankyBud93]

@PeterDenTV ok iv got quest 2 7800x3d with 7800xt (4070 equivilent) so I'm gonna do exactly that. I'm already happy with the picture mostly but if this improves it then awesome

[@chrisc3825]

Thanks GM. As an aging middle-aged man, I don't have time to experiment with this kind of stuff anymore.

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

I don't have time either but I also have no life and hate myself !

[@davidesterza6971]

I strongly suggest not to set the bitrate above 500mbps, because this causes stuttering of the audio and above all there is no need to set it above 500.

[@davewoodhams5768]

awesome job again!! I was wondering if when you have 3 monitors, and you have a ReverbG2 VR, should I unplug my monitors to use the VR headset? The picture is on both. I have a 4th monitor above my trips, I could use that one for game starting. Should I unplug my three monitors to plug in my VR basically. thanks

[@Joe2328]

I only have quest 2 but find lowering the fov multiplier to 0.8 (vertical) and about 0.4 (horizontal) - similar to helmet cam view (realism!) means you can push lots of other settings higher as it is only rendering about a third of the area - most of what you are missing is the roof liner of your car and your legs, so not a big deal really - personally prefer to see nothing and save resources than have horrible ffr making most of the screen look terrible. The pixels per display pixel override setting as high as your computer can handle (1.2 -1.6?) makes big difference to quality as well.

[@TheButterAnvil]

You misspelled, you're *expecting pedant comments 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TerryRed]

I love my Q3 and still prefer VD for wireless VR gaming. However... Link has come a long way in quality and stability (especially Air Link). I still just use a cheap 15 ft Link cable and run all my stuff at 90Hz and max resolution of 1.7 for the Quest 3. I just wish we didn't need to run Debug Tool to apply these settings, and Oculus Tray Tool hasnt been updated for a long time. My new PC is now i5 13600KF and RTX 4070 Ti Super, and everything looks fantastic with VD and with Air Link and Link cable. I find that Link Cable is still the most stable for things like racing games and works great with my virtual pinball games that I create and play in VR. www.youtube.com/@TerryRed/videos

[@chiccoka]

I have an issue with the cable connection. When I’m not air connected but cable I only see the left side working for me. Any1 experienced this?

[@q2wert34]

Do you have any experience with Virtual Desktop? Do you know the difference between the link cable and the Virtual Desktop in terms of quality?

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

Not tried VD recently to compare , the link cable settings in this video basically get you maxed out quality from the HMD or very close to it if that makes sense. I think racing sims are particularly demanding for bit rates / encoding due to the details changing on screen quickly , especially compared to flight or fps games so link cable will probably always be best overall option. VD probably gives totally fine results though i can't really fully test VD as i don't have a brand new router and its also in another room from my simrig. Steam link and other stuff already worked quite well mind you with my current router playing room scale VR in that other room so im sure VD is even better.

[@StoredBart]

God's work GM, thank you. Looking forward to your CM AC settings video. I have the same link cable as you, the same CPU, a 3080 and with what I considered low CM AC settings I'm getting what I believe are big CPU related stutters in every AC test I've tried and I feel like I'm going mad. So, I look forward to your CM AC settings to replicate them and hopefully validate that I am not in fact going mad.

[@PCPAyLOAD]

Excellent video! You could have gone on for another 10 minutes, and I would have watched. I completely forgot about that hidden debug file in the install folder. This is the first thing I'm doing when I get home from work today. Thanks!

[@PlanetGamz]

My PC Specs: 7800xt, 5600x, 64gb ram. what settings would you suggest for me especially for render resolution & 90 or 120hz & whatever else is important

[@cberns4]

Have you tried adjusting Encode Resolution Width. The max for quest 3 is 4128 (1:1). But I would start with 700-900 (copy/paste) and see if you notice any change in resolution. You should notice improvement. Encode resolution width is output resolution. It's the resolution of image that is actually output to the display. I believe the quest 2 max was 3664 (I probably haven't changed mine since upgrading to Quest 3). Give it a try and let me know your thoughts

[@freekshow]

So thats with a 5800x3d and 3080ti? PC specs are not in the descr

[@WdotDynamite]

No matter what I do I can’t seem to get the fov tangent multiplier to actually work. I was trying to mess around and get a “helmet effect” which in turn was hoping to gain some headroom, I can’t ever get the settings to take effect. I’ve ran as admin, I’ve put settings in and hit “restart oculus service” nothing seems to work

[@WdotDynamite]

Also do you have a specific quest 3 iracing settings video?

[@JesusGonzalezPR]

After this video and have my Quest 3 as supposed to, cant go back to monitors. Thanks mate !

[@krzysztofkubus937]

Check quest link 120 hz mode Now 😅

[@thomasthemarstrain2141]

How do I change it to 120hz? What are minimum PC specs you recommend for that?

[@TheOriginalCoda]

The USB test in the Meta/Oculus desktop app will tell you what bitrate your current cable+USB port can do. If you get less than 2.6 Gbp/s on your cable test, it's most likely your USB port.

[@TheOriginalCoda]

@xav-kf1rr Oui

[@easybreeze1]

The tangent multiplier reduction is gold, there is so much performance available reducing this. I can't see any difference with 0.9 horizontal, for vertical I go down to 0.75, all I see is a small border on the bottom but quickly forget, for me vertical is not important, like viewing on a super ultrawide vs a bigger 16.9 display. For the performance headroom you on the table people need to at least try.

[@tabs1913]

GM being useful? Is this part of a New Year's resolution?

[@GamerMuscleVideos]

Videos I make that actually help people get worse views , so im better off being of no value as that makes more value.

[@tabs1913]

Selfless too. What a guy.@@GamerMuscleVideos

[@Sheldor_AFK]

Thank you for the video. Just one question. After applying these settings do I just escape out of debug tool? Or is there a way to save then exit?

[@livep2166]

The only thing I'd like to add is if you go back to airlink for other games etc. It was very necessary for me to set the encoding back to 0 Mpbs, because I was getting lots of warping. But for link cable, very much agree with your debug settings.

[@thegaminggemini317]

Does the link cable get rid of the muddy compressed visuals?

[@knivesout33]

7 months later. Is this video still valid?

[@DjankoDK]

How do you save the settings in Oculus Debug Tool...??

[@Hellknight27]

*Holding breath under water* VD with a high-end router close by master race checking in

[@Wilayaat]

No doubt a great product but absolute nigtmare trying to get it work. I've got a 4090, 64GB RAM, top end Intel CPU, Quest 3. Spent hours trying to run it, many more hours with VD suppport on their Discord. Changed router, router config, disabled AV, removed GEForce. no luck. WIll try standing on one foot whilst whistling the national anthem tonight, maybe that will do it.

[@Hellknight27]

@@Wilayaat Wow, never heard of anyone having trouble like that before! This is the third VR headset I have bought it for over the last several years and have had different PC and router configurations throughout that with no major issues. And I use additional firewall hardware and software.

[@Wilayaat]

​​@@Hellknight27- I must be jinxed, it's been a constant string of trying different things to somehow get it to register a button click!!! WiFi Analyser to trouble shoot network interference should not have to be considered but that's the stage I've reached...

[@TheGheddon]

I think Meta have been listening, all of my settings, apart from the codec, are already set correctly.

[@captteemo9133]

Perfect, thank you so much! :)