WRC VR Beta | Was it WORTH THE WAIT? (Pimax Crystal)

EA Sports WRC has released perhaps the most eagerly awaited update: Version 1.8 introduces VR in beta form, while also implementing numerous small fixes and adjustments.

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[Jan-]

With 50 fps on average not even the biggest Vignette will safe you from feeling sick :D that is not acceptable, not even in a beta. Stable 90fps or more are needed for most people. thanks for testing and putting your health at risk haha

[Schniebel]

Every racing game needs VR support. Its not even hard to do anymore.

[guardsredgaming]

Definetly going to give it a try on EA Pass... need to take a break from Assetto Corsa. Thanks for covering this. Made me confident in wanting to try it. GG

[GregzVR]

I've got it working pretty nicely on my Quest 2 / 4070 setup. I'm just actively searching for a little more sharpness ahead of me, out of the car.

[tdhitchins]

Tried this is vr already using the unreal injector and it did help my driving but it clearly wasn’t native vr. Hopefully this’ll sort out that hole, or soon anyway (once out of beta). Looking forward to testing this

[Games-dymk]

Chew mint gum while driving in VR! It massively reduces motion sickness.
As soon as the gum starts to lose its flavour, swap out for a fresh stick!

[Leynad]

First the graphics were horrible, but after setting up higher AA, anistropic filtering and activating DLSS it got quite better. Very annoying that I have to change the audio-source in Windows to my Quest 3 and need the motion-controllers for some menu-stuff despite the mouse works, but it's invisible.

[CSOCSO]

Hey. Do you have any issues with brightness? I am also on Crystal and I have no issues with other games but WRC has an issue where most details are blown out. Way too bright. If I lower the brightness in the game everything turns super dark but some details are still kinda bright.

[Shinobi]

How do I make it VR? I’m using a steam HMD (dpvr E4) and I don’t receive an option to enable VR after launching.

[viperxracing]

Such a shame it’s nots coming to PSVR2 😭😭😭😭. For GT7 it’s a game changer 🤔

[ElShotte]

Try lowering your AA setting. I noticed that even dropping the AA from like Epic to High gave me back a LOT of FPS. The game is essentially rendering for 2 screens (each eye) in VR which I am sure you know, so aliasing will be harder to notice anyway.

[arride]

How did you make it works? A lot people with Pimax Crystal and Varjo Aero doesnt make it works even disable openxr.

[elishmittywerminghanjensen]

Can confirm, works in Bigscreen Beyond via SteamVR

[thyseus]

Small adjustment: if you only want to play in VR:
wait until BETA badge is away, *then* buy and refund if it does not work as you expect.
The BETA badge is there for a reason.

[djentleman]

For me (Quest 3) it was very jittery when moving head until I tried Link with Cable. VD and Airlink had shaking objects when moving head a little. 2 days to figure out cable was the solution. But it's still not as smooth when comparing with Dirt Rally 2 on the same system, especially playing Dirt 2 after WRC. Both 90hz and according to Performance monitor stable 90fps.

[HowlerBikeVlogs]

the nr1 thing i missed when jumping into vr in wrc is that you dont get a cursos pointer... very stupid to be forced to use the keyboard to navigate the menus. other than that, yes the visuals are a bit blurry or jagged at the edges at times but all in all good fun tho, now i only need LMU to do the same and come out with VR and i'll be set.

[bazstevens]

Hi. How on earth did you get this going with Crystal? I’ve tried absolutely everything since 1.8 dropped and not once have I seen the option to use VR in-game.
I’m using oepnXR with DCS, MSFS2020, AMS2 & Dirt Rally 2.0 with no problems at all so OpenComposite, PimaxXR etc is already setup and running.
I’ve tried disabling openXR toolkit but nothing happens.
If I leave the PimaxXR on the Pimax runtime, WRC on Steam will not even launch full-stop.
If I change the runtime over to SteamVR then it’ll launch but ingame I ‘never’ get an option to use VR. I’ve tried with different runtimes in OpenComposite but nothing works.
Is there something we’re all missing as there’s so many Crystal users like myself that just haven’t been able to get it going in VR.

[Max.]

Sim racing came to the point where people said the graphics look actually realistic just for vr to come along and ruin the graphics again.

Imagine the image quality and performance from a monitor inside a vr headset. That woukd be dope.

[jondavis]

I wish they would add VR technology to xbox

[gaminginstilllife]

I noticed I have to be running at least 60 in this game with my pimax Crystal Light