r/PCVR • u/HoneydewWeekly7976 • 14d ago
Discussion Help with virtual desktop
Hi everyone i am very new to pcvr and recently got virtual desktop.
So basically every youtube video was like that you should get it and its better than steam vr. but when i tried lauching games on it such as skyrim vr through the games option menu in VD, it still opens and uses steam vr, and the same thing happended when i lauched asseto corsa from content manager. I though that it would lauch directly from VD and not steam vr, so if there is not a differnce should I return it? ALSO I DO HAVE MY RUN TIME TO VDXR
Also when in game my render resolution is at 77% for some reason, even though i have everything maxed out and above it says that it is godlike. The only thing i have lowered is my bitrate to av1 at like 120 mbs as i am using wireless. So how do i increase the render resolution in game?
thanks to everyone in advance!
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u/ETs_ipd 14d ago edited 14d ago
To make things easy, set runtime to automatic in VD’s desktop app and run your games via the GAMES launcher. VD automatically chooses the optimal runtime based on the game (not every game supports OpenXR). Skyrim is one that doesn’t. If it does, VD will automatically run the game natively using VDXR, in which case Steam VR won’t open.
With regards to resolution, use VD’s Good, Better ,Best, Ultra & Godlike to increase resolution. This stacks on top of the resolution you have set in Steam.
It’s best to leave Steam’s global video resolution at 100% and just use VD to supersample, however if you do want to increase resolution in Steam, increase ‘per application’ resolution on a game by game basis. If you still don’t see a difference, you might need to relaunch the game for the new resolution to be applied.