MSFS | OPENXR TOOLKIT UPDATE | BEST VR SETTINGS

[@kennykanada]

Fantastic! The new appearance settings are a complete game-changer in VR! Thank you 🙏

[@FlightSims]

Great update! Really like the new Appearance settings. Also doing away with the menu disappearing is a big relief for this old flyer 😵‍💫 The eye tracking capabilities are super! Hopefully I’ll have two eyes after some (more than likely) surgery I may need on the port side of my “Augen noggin“. Anyway, thanks for your update and thanks to the developer for his creation (sorry, forgot your name atm). Tschüss 👋

[@sunoiler]

The Night mode is so Great - deep Black - amazing - the Tool is getting better and better - Thank you Chris and a big thx to mbucchia

[@mbucchia]

CptLucky did all the magic for those sunglasses and all the image control settings!

[@donc9751]

Great info! Can't wait to try out these updated settings! Thank you for staying on top of these!!!

[@HereGoesNothingFB]

Just about to jump into the VR experience, thank you for the videos! Been a HUGE help

[@billbaggins1688]

Your videos have really helped this new to VR gamer.

[@Harryguitar58]

Thank you Chris. Very helpful update video. Great job from the developers 😀

[@wayneperry6212]

Thanks for putting the time in your videos are great.

[@simflightpro]

Love this update! Thanks Chris!

[@jamiesalmonsculpture8599]

Great stuff. Is there any way you can now reach out to Varjo, and find out whether they will be able to implement motion reprojection for the Aero? They’ve been saying its coming since the Aero came out, but still nothing. They’ve already apparently hinted that the local dimming feature they were supposed to also implement (to improve black levels) possibly may not happen. Not sure sure why. Must be some technical issues? Is the same going to be true for the reprojection? I’m starting to wonder. I know you don’t like reprojection, but a lot do, and for me it`s a deal breaker whether or not I ever get an Aero. Cheers mate!

[@jayeffaar]

@PIE IN THE SKY TOURS - Thanks a lot for the settings suggestions. I run a Varjo Aero on an i7 11700K with RTX 3080 gfx, which is close enough to what you use that your settings mostly work for me. One small change that makes a visible difference for me is pushing Anisotropic filtering all the way up to 16, which really helps seeing runway markings and other details from the ground on tiny low-detail back-country airstrips.

[@CesarSanchezQuiros]

Are you using steamvr? If not how can we know steamvr sliders hasn't interference ? Are you using airlink cable when using quest 2, or cable?

[@Tyrell63]

Great Video, thank you. Yes, its easy to follow your suggestions with the pause button :-). The ONLY thing I also can't remember (cause Im using this too seldom) is how to enter the openXR Tool menu in the headset. But I know you have this in your 1st video of this :-). So I can check it there.......will do this after work today. So I can checkout the new settings ASAP

[@stevesanacore7459]

I really appreciate your videos! Very generous of you to take the time to help the needy… I just can’t get past the ridiculous control interface on the openXR tool kit. Having to use the unintuitive combinations of keys with a head set on is just too challenging for me. Maybe I’m not understanding the proper method of using it… Any hints would be appreciated.

[@mbucchia]

You can change the key combinations from the desktop Companion app.

[@stevesanacore7459]

Rift S, I’ll give it a try and see if I can coordinate the keystrokes

[@toose70]

I’m new at VR and appreciate your videos. I’ve got a Meta Quest 2 and have a couple of questions. 1. How do I access the openXr tool kit developer mode? 2. I cannot see the OpenXr toolkit menu after pressing CTRL F2. I can see the countdown menu for it but cannot get the menu to appear?

[@macbec3021]

Great video, very useful And thanks to give us time to take note or pics of yours suggested settings 👏🏻👏🏻

[@macbec3021]

Hi, I did the changes on my settings as you suggested. I certainly did something wrong. The menus are now very small and shriked on all menus in the tool bar. Can you help me to correct this bug ? thanks in advance.My config is identical to your

[@Harryguitar58]

Hi Chris, thanks again for this video. I´ve another question : what settings do you prefer in 2D mode in FS2020? Is is right to lower them (all to low) to get better performance in VR?

[@Harryguitar58]

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS please ☺️

[@mikesmith4926]

I'm getting a smoother view with my G2 in motion with pre-rendered frames at 4, give it a try. I use motion reprojection but it may help without it too. You should also try Size at 85-90 and Sharpe at 100, I am loving these settings for the past month (must use FSR).

[@vwkrebs]

Do you have any recommendations for the Quest3 . I use my Quest 3 mostly for iRacing . Great video . Thanks

[@ianhartland2541]

The Open XR Toolkit would be OK if it worked for my Quest 2? The settings panel will not open?

[@JustTheMovies]

Love the mesmerizing intro!

[@m.y78]

Hey What would be the best VR settings for these specs Graphics: AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS with Radeon Graphics RAM: 16GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 With Max-Q Design Like it runs smooth but the image is not quite clear

[@youtubemoro6698]

In the performance don't have all these settings, just a few. How can I enable them?

[@Rahul-zl8xj]

The post processing sliders appear to not be working as before :(. The sunglasses do, but somehow, the other settings such as contrast does not affect what i see on the display. I am using the Quest 2 btw

[@HeliSimDriver]

Excellent video 👍 Just one question…I have a hard time seeing any differences when adjusting the appearance. It all looks the same to me, so I don’t know if it’s just my eyes or whether I am missing something somewhere. Do you really see a difference in the brightness when changing the brightness to 48 instead of 50? Thanks.

[@NowIsGold]

Thanks very much for your advice and findings! One question: for the Varjo Aero Base setup Resolution Quality, I read "Foveated 35 PPD (1076x1076 1660x1420) for the default High setting. This differs from your "Stereo 27 PPD" setting. I don't understand why. I have software version: '3.5.1.7' and Firmware version: '0.17.0.462'.

[@Marcin79W]

Is locking FPS not available anymore? Previously I could set it for 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 of the VR headset refresh rate.

[@mbucchia]

It's moved to the System Tab and only when you explicitly turn on Motion Reprojection though that same Tab.

[@Marcin79W]

@@mbucchia Thank you! Much appreciated. Open XR is a life saver when it comes to FPS.

[@benson0078]

Hi do you change the appearance tab settings per the start of your video for the aero or leave them as is? It wasn’t clear to me

[@benson0078]

Hi I was meaning in this video at 1:17 you mention the appearance tab for the G2, is this the same as for the Varjo? As at end for the Varjo settings you don’t mention appearance tap in XR

[@benson0078]

Thanks for your patience with me mate love your stuff - but again sorry to ask but at 7:03 there’s nothing about the appearance tab for aero, just performance. I suppose asking another way, is the appearance tab you talk about for the g2 the same as for the aero? Thanks again

[@rpseara]

Hi my Oculus Quest2 is not working with MSFS2020, the SIm just crashes when I click to activate the VR the Event Viewer from Windows says that XR_APILAYER_NOVENDOR_toolkit.dll, is the responsible to the Sim crash.. What is wrong?

[@depilot]

Oculus Quest user > Im geting two blue lines when i switch into VR. I tried different settings, however the only option that removed them was when i uninstalled OXR tool kitt. Any suggestions?

[@justaguydoinstuff]

So how much does the foveated rendering help with frame rates in the Aero? How does it look? Does it work well?

[@justaguydoinstuff]

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Thanks! How much did your frame rate improve with it turned on would you say?

[@mbucchia]

@@justaguydoinstuff I don't know if you've been using the Fixed Foveated rendering (FFR) option before. Turning on this feature is what gives you the performance boost. People report up to 25% boost (thought it really depends on your CPU and GPU). Without eye tracking, the down-side is that you can observe pixelation near the edges of the screen. In this new version, thanks to the eye tracking, you should not be able to see the pixelation while keeping the same performance boost as before.

[@stephenmckinnell7791]

I have successfully downloaded the XR Toolkit, but I’m struggling to actually open the ‘menu’. It’s probably a stupid question - until you know how. “Once installed, please run the desired OpenXR application and use CTRL+F2 to open the configuration menu:…” Where do you actually go to run the app? I’ve found it in ‘downloads’ and have the Companion App on desktop, the green confirms it’s loaded. There are so many small ‘problems’ like this to overcome, I feel like an idiot! 😵‍💫 Thanks in anticipation.

[@stephenmckinnell7791]

Thanks, I’d never have found it! 🙏

[@1970cgb]

will this work with the CV1 ? or do i use Oculus tray tool ?

[@rawdmon]

I've found that after getting the foveated rendering enabled via OpenXR Toolkit, if you then enable DLSS in Quality mode in MSFS and set AMD FidelityFX Sharpening to 200 you get much smoother rendering with virtually no loss of visual fidelity. It also allowed me to crank up a lot of the other settings and get things looking much nicer while still having smooth performance. I have an i9-9900k and a 3090ti. Here are my settings that I've been using in MSFS... Anti-Aliasing: NVIDIA DLSS NVIDIA DLSS: Quality AMD FidelityFX Sharpening: 200 Reprojection Mode: Off World Scale: 100 Terrain Level of Detail: 105 Off Screen Terrain Pre-Caching: Ultra Terrain Vector Data: Ultra Buildings: High Trees: High Grass and Bushes: Low Objects Level of Detail: 100 Volumetric Clouds: High Texture Resolution: Ultra Anisotropic Filtering: 16x Texture Supersampling: 8x8 Texture Synthesis: Ultra Water Waves: Medium Shadow Maps: 768 Terrain Shadows: 512 Contact Shadows: High Windshield Effects: High Ambient Occlusion: Ultra Cubemap Reflections: 256 Raymarched Reflections: High Light Shafts: Ultra Bloom: On Glass Cockpit Refresh Rate: High Once you get these settings dialed in well for yourself I highly recommend going to your MSFS folder and editing the UserCfg.opt file. Find the PostProcess section under the GraphicsVR section and change Sharpen from 1 to 0. This will fix that horrible shimmer that you get on the trees in VR by default. Next save the file and then right click on it, go to properties, click Read-only under the Attributes section at the bottom then click Apply. That will keep MSFS from messing with the Sharpen setting, though note that if you need to permanently modify any settings in MSFS you'll need to disable the read-only flag on this file beforehand. Note that after enabling these I played with the Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation, settings under the Appearance section in OpenXR Toolkit until I had things looking as realistic as possible. I found that once I had cranked Light Shafts to Ultra enabling Bloom was required to really round out the lighting effect and provide a realistic level of depth. Once those effects were active I found that I needed to adjust those Appearance settings in OpenXR Toolkit to get the lighting at the right levels. Obviously not everyone has an i9 processor or a 3090ti but even if you don't you can still benefit by enabling DLSS and tweaking your settings until you get it as good as you can get it. Hope this helps someone out. In terms of the OpenXR Toolkit appearance settings, this is what I've settled on so far though I still need to do a bit of very fine tuning but it's mostly there... Sun Glasses: Off Contrast: 48.3 Brightness: 43.9 Exposure: 48 Saturation: 50 Vibrance: 0.2 Highlights: 0 Shadows: 0.4

[@longbowdt]

I've noticed the Tool kit comes in different flavors. For instance on my version I don't see "vibrance" as an option. I have a G2. I'm sure I'm current with OpenXr and with the Tool kit. ???

[@longbowdt]

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS Yes, that is done. Red. Blue. Green. Brightness. Contrast, etc. But not Vibrance. Maybe I have the Americanized version? :)

[@mbucchia]

@@longbowdt sounds like an old version, are you sure you are running version 1.1? The top of the menu has a version number.

[@longbowdt]

@@mbucchia well brush my teeth and call me Smiley! I was one version behind. I'm up to date now. Vibrance is there. The update had gotten by me. All good now.

[@CesarSanchezQuiros]

Do you launch the game in vr or 2d and switching?

[@willbennett1359]

When is this tool kit update released? I pressed update on the app and I still have the same menu as before?

[@mbucchia]

Not sure what you mean "press update on the app". You have to download the installer manually from the website and run it.

[@willbennett1359]

On the app interface it says check for newer version and installed the latest. But inside the vr headset I have no sun glasses mode ect.... It's the same as before

[@mbucchia]

@@willbennett1359 what version is displayed at the top of the VR menu? Have you turned Post processing On?

[@willbennett1359]

It says g.a 1.1

[@willbennett1359]

Thanks for replying buddy

[@martingreen7737]

Please confirm that you are using the FSR option for Reverb G2.

[@eranelkin]

till now my best experience was working with virtual desktop and not with the link cable, if there are big differences with smoothness and performance please explain.

[@eranelkin]

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS I tried your settings, I have 3070ti, I still see very lagy motion, especially when looking down and to the sides. I am getting around 35 FPS. I reduce settings and still not smooth as I experience in VD. Do you have more insights for me? Tnx and keep your amazing work. 👏

[@eranelkin]

if I am playing it with virtual desktop than NO, just if I am on the link cable. but as I explained it looks bad on my link cable. another issue that is very confusing is understanding the correlation between different params (ex. render resolution in the oculus app, you choose 90 Mhz with 1.1, and the size percent in the openXR toolkit, you are running it on 110% with resolution of 1804x1818). I mean if I have not close to a smooth performance, I need to reduce something, what would you start to reduce from? is it from the oculus app resolutions, or maybe from toolkit params or from the MSFS settings (like render or other param). confusing... I wish someone will have a tutorial about how to configure quest 2 (or other VR set) right. what is the starting point and what are the next steps to try in order to get the best performance with our personal equipments. tnx again and if you have this kind of information I am sure it will help bunch of pc pilots.

[@stevealterman9287]

Valve Index. > Your videos are so incredibly helpful and very clear information. I certainly appreciate that you can't show settings for every headset out there, but do you, or anyone else have any ideas for what settings may be best for the Valve Index (what headset you mentioned might be closest to it). I am running an Nvidia RTX 3080 on a I9 10850. Thanks

[@adsilite]

thank you Sir!

[@Hyestar]

Are ou still using this? There was another utility I had but it wasnt this that really sharpened up the image in vr but with the new update it was causing stutters....It was openXR or somthing.....cant remember

[@simpedros4766]

I’ve got near identical specs but even though getting 38-40 fps it’s very jerky on my g2. Odd. What’s your performance like on the landing challenge with the a320 in honduras I think it is.

[@simpedros4766]

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS thanks. Will give it a go

[@jeedmodorn5494]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

[@theveryshinyone]

Great video as always. Thanks.

[@Scoobydcs]

i cant see foveated rendering settings in my g2 in dcs. is it gone or am i missing something?

[@jointherevolution5577]

Does the eye tracking work automatically with the Aero or do you have to turn it on in Varjo base?

[@MrDelvey]

Kind of FPS are you getting with the Quest 2?

[@MrDelvey]

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS thanks I am running a 3090, 5600x and Quest 2 and find ramping the resolution up helps with the FPS, as I become less CPU limited. At lower resolutions my CPU is maxxing out but my GPU is at 50-70%. Anyway to remove pixelated clouds?

[@movimaster]

Wich aircraft did you use in the video?

[@sebastiankallenbach1967]

How you can take Bypass Proxi off?? When i do this the picture is totally Black Meta quest 2

[@hpathe]

My setup is a Ryzen 5600X with an RTX360 and Oculus Quest 2 via Link cable. Can run all in Ultra settings in 2D but for my life I can't figure how to make my instruments readable in VR. Everything looks blurry. I followed all your guides, copy your settings and no luck.

[@VBHB83]

Hey thanks got my VR smooth over 44fps with GA aircraft. The FBW320 sits just on 30fps but I only have a 3070 and running an overclocked i5 9600k. I'll only use VR for GA aircraft.

[@SX_Flight]

Great location to fly ... I live not far from Bussellton ;-)

[@bradhaines5711]

I downloaded the OpenXR Toolkit and it looks nothing like yours. i cant seem to find the same program that you have.

[@ArtanisPolskiPilot]

is it works with Oculus RIFT S ?

[@richardPalmisano]

Hello my friend do I have to uninstall the open XR tool kit or do I click on the see updates tab

[@mbucchia]

Either way works! You can install on top of your current version.

[@richardPalmisano]

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS ok what beta # and hotfix 3 are you using becuase the one i downloaded is not showing the horrizontal scale, horrizontal offset, and verticle offset and i dont have the sunglasse option in appearance

[@richardPalmisano]

@@mbucchia i downloaded the xrtoolkit but not sure i have the right one becuase i dont see the sun glasses option or eye tracking option can you tell me which version to get thanks

[@richardPalmisano]

@@PIEINTHESKYTOURS not sure what you mean buddy by setting the menus

[@jaycaballero4247]

Hi, I follow your recommendation & settings. The immersion that I have now I had never experienced in 14 months that I've been using VR. (G2) however my graphic card is a power color red devil rx 6900 xt . The results are Super, couldn't done it without your help. My respect: Jay KROA

[@HighAspect]

can you include your post processing settings in the description ?

[@_Arthur-]

It would be really nice if this toolkit will work on other sims, like Automobilista 2, too.

[@xaviernicolas7218]

I think it’s never going to be the case as ams2 uses open Vr… talking to one of the open X-r guys and he was saying that the open vr tech is very basic… are you using the open vr perf Kit? Essentially the same except it doesn’t have dynamic foveated rendering… still great perfect gains…

[@_Arthur-]

@@xaviernicolas7218 i read the mod isn't working yet with AMS2. I hope a future update will

[@peteradam2323]

Hope we get a tab to show cpu and gpu stats to help with tuning settings.

[@mbucchia]

Hey, there is nothing new on that front. There is already a way to display the app CPU and app GPU time via the Overlay (renamed from Detailed to Avanced in this new version). Not sure what more stats you need?

[@buikhan]

@@mbucchia thanks for your app. It’s a game changer for my G-2. Best app ever.

[@FlightSims]

@@mbucchia developers mode shows it I believe. Oh! And thanks for your work. It’s super excellent! 🏆🥇

[@xaviernicolas7218]

Thanks for the video…. My default for the varjo is 35 ppd

[@kindpanda1075]

Openxrtoolkit won't start. It won't even show MSFS or any other Openxr game on my PC. It also doesn't show the log.

[@goranthunberg4877]

Openxr toolkit doesn't work for me anymore. After update. The graphic is really bad. If I disable toolkit it runs pretty well. And when enable it it goes all bad. Don't now why. All works good before.

[@MrPuddinJones]

i really need to upgrade me original HTC Vive, the low resolution really kills the enjoyment of flight sim VR.

[@Bush_Fam]

I used to be able to bring it up now i hit control F2 and nothing.

[@user-zt1er1uj6i]

Same here, Nothing changed my side. I have never been able to get the menu since the original.

[@Bush_Fam]

Nevrmind it showed up. that was weird but I only have a few options in the first setting compare to the video with many. IDK if it a quest 2 only thing

[@gerrypalmer6712]

Are you launching it from inside the headset?

[@user-zt1er1uj6i]

@@gerrypalmer6712 yes just like I used to do in original.

[@mdg553]

Hi! Plz, need all setting’s, MFSF, nVidia and XRtools!)

[@FlightSims]

Late to the show! Gonnna start from beginning 😉

[@tomc1380]

Is any of this this useful for the Quest 2? Thanks.

[@TeamSethRules]

Have Quest 2. No matter what settings I have now it is washed out and very bright. Cant even make out any lines on a runway because it is white. Colours are just terrible now. Within the coackpit is fantastic but outside looks garbage. Giving up on VR now, just cant get it happening.

[@chiareu7912]

It's still unplayable in VR on older systems. Pixelated stutterfest with fps dropping under 20. I will stick to DCS and IL2 since those actually run smooth with high enough details on my machine. Heck I even play DCS multiplayer with stable framerate and smooth movement. Spec: i7-4790k GTX 1070 -8 GB/ 32Gb RAM If you run an older system do yourself a favor and skip the frustrating piece of sh*t that is Microsoft Download Simulator.

[@trombanosares3057]

You can do the same with Nvidia filters...

[@Harryguitar58]

Hi Chris, thanks again for this video. I´ve another question : what settings do you prefer in 2D mode in FS2020? Is is right to lower them (all to low) to get better performance in VR?