OpenXR Toolkit - Setup Guide - FREE VR Performance Boost in ACC, AMS2, iRacing, F122 and MORE!

OpenXR Toolkit setup and settings guide for improving the VR performance in games such as ACC, AMS2, F122, iRacing, Dirt Rally 2, Project Cars 2, Rfactor2, MSFS, DCS and more. Tested on Intel 12900k 32GB and RTX4090 Reverb G2 and Quest 2. Note OpenXR Tools for WMR is only required for WMR headsets such as the Reverb G2 and is not required for Meta Quest headsets.

0:00 Intro
0:22 What is OpenXR Toolkit
2:51 What is OpenComposite
5:09 How to Setup
8:28 OpenXR Toolkit Settings
12:57 Demo - ACC on Quest 2
15:26 Demo - ACC on Reverb G2
16:36 Demo - AMS2 on Reverb G2
17:57 Outro

#vr #acc #rtx4090

[ryans]

Thank you for taking the time to explain what it is doing. People a lot of times tell you but I was always unable to grasp the concept. Now with the visual diagram explaining the processing and the overhead cost I now get what it is doing. Really appreciate you taking the time!

[simonjohnade]

You are an absolute legend for doing this !! I cannot wait to go through this. 😉😎 I have tried following the online help with OpenXR tools and OpenComposite and failed. But you have shown a few things I misunderstood. Again Legend!!
Many thanks. 👍

[markchurch]

Thank you for vid mate. Rtx 3060 never seen dirt rally 2.0 run so good. Saved me a few bucks, was going to invest in a 40 series. No need now. Thanks mate.

[speedypixels]

Cheers Ham, your video was just the ticket to get f1 22 working in VR for me, and makes the game look good and playable with your clear instructions. For me with a 3070, keeping it at 72Hz and up the scaling to 115% NIS and med/high graphics, it looks pretty decent. You sir, are a legend :)

[davidwaVR]

I don't know if you messed around with your control panel for your Nvidia card but I would recommend setting one profile for each of the games and turn off any of the control panel features. Make sure they're off or Auto for everything you can also set the graphics to Quality and keep the trilinear optimization on which helps with the FSR or NIS settings for eliminating issues with some artifacting on distant objects. Make sure that if you have any smoothing in the game turn it to zero if you're using VR this will also greatly improve your GPU CPU bottleneck.

[robblevins]

You basically need a degree in software engineering to play in VR got it 👍

[simracingjunky]

Thanks for another great video. I got my 4090 last week and I have to say I am impressed. I just wish that they would improve the VR in ACC.

[neelakiller]

I really wish I'd seen this video when I began using my G2 a month ago. Hell, even yesterday when I finally moved to OpenXR after reading some other things. Nicely done, and I'll be sure to refer others to this vid in the future.

[siekoch]

Thank You. You are my master! This is the best what we can have for PCVR. Here is my short story about what can do good developers and software over great hardware specification. Hope this help for newbies. I bought Pico 4 and i'm very disapointed. I'm using Quest 2 from one month for PCVR with USB3 cable (ACC, DR2, etc.). I spent a lot of time to find out the best configuration (FPS and Quality) and luckily i found this video! 🙂. Now a lot of YT and internet hype for Pico 4 with Virtual Desktop (aka game changer and so on..) It's a bullshit for me. I've bought Pico 4 few days ago for better FOV, resolution and overall "image quality". Tested everything (WiFi6, USB-C etehernet card, USB3 cable, Streaming Assistant and Virtual Desktop (Godlike on my RTX 4090). Sorry, there is no way to have even close what i have on Quest 2 with OpenXR Toolkit and Open Composite with USB3 cable (I mean FPS and overall image quality not FOV of course). Now I will return my Pico 4, stay with Quest 2 and in the time where I wait for Quest 3 I will try HP Reverb G2 V2 because have also better spec then Q2 but can work same straight way like Q2 (OXRT, OC) without this sh**ty heavy SteamVR which Pico 4 use. Try your configuratiion with Virtual Desktop instead Streaming Assistant and You will see much better quality and performance, yes it's true. But again, for me even VD it's not to close what i've got from OXRT and OC. I wanted to have the same quality and performance on Pico 4, and even better due to the spec, but it's not possible until Pico 4 will not fully natively supports/uses Open XR.

[rti]

Brilliant, thanks for this. Im running a 4090 and a 4.9ghz 5800x and was really struggling with AMS2 at night and ACC in general (reverb g2, full res). With this Ive got a much better gpu performance across the board and it points me to CPU issues far more reliably than FPSVR does (i.e i still have ACC issues, but its on the cpu side/ai races) Still amazing im having to tweek settings on a 4090 tho to get a constant 90fps.

[Popesta]

Thankyou so much! i tried all weekend to improve performance with my new reverb G2. I tried over 20 different sollutions. Had all of the suggestions i found online all written down as i was about to rma my headset. My reverb G1 outperformed it and nothing i tried helped. I came across this and thought i'll give it one last try and boom now she performs beautifully! Great work mate Subscribed!

[phenrysmueller]

The 4090 was a good upgrade for vr gamer but this tool is a HUGH STEP FORWARD ! specialy in ACC.

Now i play WITHOUT DLSS +KTAA + most settings on EPIC (vegetaion and postprocessing [depth of field / motion blur] are on LOW), have a much clearer view in the G2 and stable 90 fps.
The new, better mirror view is a massiv immersion plus.

That forward circle and upscaling stuff is not necessary. ACC and XRtoolkit run`s smooth without that options on a i9 12900k / 32 GB DDR5 and the 4090! My appGPU "score" is most 6, 1 ms. CPU bound is 0.5 IF it`s showing. VRAM use is most 11 GB.

Thank u a lot HAM !!!

[dcarcopo]

😂basically. Thanks for the video. Helped out a lot! Vr and moving sims is about the most complicated nerve racking frustrating thing I’ve ever undertaken.

[KiLDELTA]

I know this is an old video but THANK YOU SO MUCH! Finally I no longer have stutters and now have stable frames... I am new to Sim racing with VR and this saved me from spending money to buy a new CPU/GPU. This worked with Pico 4 as well using Virtual desktop VDXR

[FLYINhawaiian]

Wow the DLSS in my game was enabled on my game because the other youtubers set up guide didn't explain that part. Thank you my friend, solid and very informative video!!

[deesee]

thank you for educating me on VR, I got a Meta Quest 3 using cable mode and was wondering why everything outside of the sweet spot are blurry. I just tried running my sim racing games using OpenXR, omg, what a difference. Thank you for teaching me something new.

[stevenmilburn]

Thank you, this has explained so much with clarity, excellent side by side examples, entertaining manner and all round well crafted presentation. Perfect for someone who would like to get the best from what their budget allows. New to your channel now subscribed, brilliant 👍

[toweleeielite]

nice one for this mate, just got it working on DCS world with excellent results!! great video :)

[hanshix]

Very cool, thanks! I'll make sure to check back once my G2 gets here. For now, I'm sticking with the Quest 2.

[WillyBootleg]

This is a great instructional, very much appreciated. I've seen another similar instance of an altered dll and config file that attempts to utilize FSR or CAS for VR and some non-VR games as well, but it's much more difficult to configure since any edits must be done in the config file with the game closed. Either way, Open Composite and the OpenXR toolkit are far better developed tools for doing this and I'm glad I found this video. Thanks for your hard work!